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  1. Allow each reviewer to approve line items. There are now three people that can be assigned to a workpaper but they all share the same 'status dropdown'.

    We need to be able to see the preparer, reviewer and final review separately.

    14 votes

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  2. In the old workpapers, you had the ability to generate the income tax journal to post to the Xero file. It would be very useful to have this option again in the new workpapers.

    24 votes

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    Hi Bradley and others that have supported this idea. You may have seen we have made a recent update to allow journals to be posted from individual workpapers.

    It'd be great to check in with you here and see if this change meets the needs you have in this idea? We welcome your feedback

  3. If the purpose of new work paper is for seamless compliance, should it not have the following features:

    1. Chattel Mortgage Loans

    All these features are available in the old/classic work paper.

    21 votes

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    Hey everyone as you can see we have split the original Idea up into seperate ideas including:

    (New Workpapers - Payroll tax feature)

    (New Workpapers - Dividends. 7A Loans feature)

    And I have also added your votes to the following similar established Ideas:

    (Workpapers - Ability to change the terms in the Borrowing Costs/Amortisation)

    (Workpaper | Fringe Benefits - Motor Vehicle private use)

    This is so we can monitor interest for each of the features. The Product team will be reviewing these ideas and we will post any updates on these here. Again thanks for your feedback.

  4. I would like a supporting balance column for each workpaper so we can enter manually the balance from the supporting document so we can see immediately the variance to the CY balance if any.

    10 votes

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    Thanks for the feedback here, team. We appreciate hearing the features that you'd like to see developed in new Workpapers to support you use of this product.

    This is a feature we're keeping a close watch on interest in and I'll be sure to share if there are any updates.

  5. Would like to see this feature in the New Workpapers.

    17 votes

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    Thanks for the feedback on the New Xero Workpapers, we appreciate the time taken to add your thoughts and votes on the new experience. We have moved this to Gaining Support and the Product team will review the comments and votes here. We will update the Idea when there are any updates or changes.

  6. Can we please have compliance workpapers for Loans and Hire purchases.

    11 votes

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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  7. Need the loan workpapers to be able to reconcile the loans - opening/closing balances, payments, interest, drawdowns/repayments etc - no ability to do this at all in the new workpapers

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  8. The franking credits workpaper is very handy but is almost pointless when preparing the tax return as you need to go back to the source documents to obtain the dates of payment. When ideally prefilling from the Tax Office, having the dates come through or being able to add the dates manually will assist with compiling the tax return.

    18 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your thoughts on adding dates to the Franking Credits workpaper.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  9. Whilst the 'Updated' yellow tag on the Workpaper and specific account is useful, it would be an improvement to also show the difference between the approved workpaper and the new updated account balance after the balances have been refreshed. It will make it very simple to identify the updates needed for the workpaper.

    14 votes

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    Hi Chris, thanks for sharing your thoughts on workpaper variance displays. It’s helpful to understand how seeing the difference between approved workpapers and updated account balances could support your workflow.

    The community team has reviewed your idea and moved it into Gaining support, so it’s now open for votes and comments. If you’re able to add a bit more detail about your use case, it may help others understand the value and give the product team clearer context.

    We’ll let you know if anything changes as the idea progresses.

  10. Is there any plan to do a workpaper pack for individual tax returns, linking to the tax return?

    13 votes

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    Hi Chris, apologies as returning to your idea here and checking in with our product team I can confirm it is not currently possible to create Workpaper packs for individuals unless they have a Xero subscription.

    This is something our team intend to look into longer term, and I'll be keep you updated of any progress surrounding this here. Thanks

  11. Livestock Workpapers

    Would love to see a Livestock Workpaper please

    9 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  12. Workpapers by default calculates negative tax when there is a loss. This is wrong.

    14 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  13. After I paste the URL on the Attach URL screen, I want to click Enter.

    My hands are on the keyboard. I don't want to have to move them to the mouse.

    In original Workpapers if I pasted URL, tab Type the title and clicked Enter, it would Add link.

    8 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

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  14. The prepayment workpaper should have the facility to calculate the amount to amortise which was there in previous Xero Workpapers.

    18 votes

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    Hey thanks for raising this Idea with us regarding amortisation options in the New Workpapers calculator. We have reviewed this and moved it to Gaining Support, this means that others can vote and comment on this Idea. We will be watching the progress of this Idea and any updates will be posted here. Thanks again we appreciate your feedback on the New Workpapers.

  15. Automatic ATO BAS data extraction.

    Will Xero be building the GST workpaper by extracting ATO BAS/IAS lodgments into the workpaper. Building the GST reconciliation manually with lodged data is time consuming. The data is there on the Portal, surely it can be dragged into the GST reconciliation workpaper automatically. This would save sooo much time. I know of firms investing heavily into robotics to solve this problem.

    13 votes

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    Thanks for your idea on BAS workpapers being something you would like to see in our future roadmap! Your suggestion is gaining support and aligns with our focus on continuous development. We appreciate feedback and ideas like yours help us shape improvements that benefit both our teams and customers. Please keep sharing your feedback and encourage others to add their support!

  16. Ability to link to other entity workpapers for the purposes of Inter Entity Loan Reconciliation

    9 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

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  17. When a document is uploaded then removed from a workpaper, it stays in the background when "Attach document" is selected. We need to be able to delete these if it was added by mistake or outdated.

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

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  18. Our firm uses the snipping tool to snip in the source documents/balances. It would be fantastic if you could copy and paste into the new workpapers (without having to save and upload).

    6 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  19. Will there be the ability to send out a questionnaire of all the items needed and answers to questions that the client then submits back to signal the start of the annual reports, like there currently is with the old workpapers? This is important so we can keep it all, including their responses within the workpapers rather then having to do a manual checklist to send to them.

    Also, the ability to send this process in bulk to many clients with the same balance date is a must to be efficient with time - it used to be available in…

    7 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

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  20. Preparers cannot flag status per account — status applies to the whole category. While notes can be added per account, it’s not easy to see which are ready for review and which ones are with queries.

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    Hey April, thanks for raising this idea as well, your continued commitment to bringing these points to us are always appreciated. This will be assessed by our product team. 🕵️

    Once they've reviewed the idea we'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.

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