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Refreshing the data causing more work
We need the ability to be able to see which accounts have changed when we refresh the data as the work flow at the moment makes it more cumbersome for example:
- preparer drafts manual journals > marks as ready for review
- reviewer reviews and says everything looks good ok to post manual journals
- preparer posts manual journals and updates the status of everything to ready to review as they go and then when they refresh everything goes back to rework required
1 voteThanks 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.
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Workpapers - Display variance amount for updated account balances
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.
1 voteHi 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.
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New Workpapers - Send Client Queries
We need to be able to send the Client Queries to a client.
The old Xero Workpapers allowed us to send a notification to a client's email, and the client would answer the queries and upload their documents which would be automatically imported into the old Xero Workpapers.
3 votesHi 👋 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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Workpapers - Ability to Rollover manual journals
It would be extremely useful to be able to roll over manual journals in draft within the workpapers pack. We have a number of situations where this would be very handy: recording FBT contributions, recording dividends, recording income tax expense, recording trust and partnership distributions. Just having the journal in draft to potentially use would save a lot of time when you have multiple lines to setup.
1 voteHi Bradley, our product team have reviewed your idea and while this isn't in the immediate pipeline we'd like to look into this deeper in the new year.
I'll let you know when there are updates to share for you here.
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Workpapers - Create income tax journal from within Tax reconciliation
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.
3 votesHi 👋 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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Workpapers - Option to delete Manual Journal
The system currently does not display who posted the journal in either XWP or Xero (specific user).
Updates made to journals in Xero are not reflected in the XWP Manual Journal Summary.
Additionally, XWP only allows journals to be voided—there is no option to delete them.
2 votesHi April, I've just split this from your original idea here so we can gauge interest in being able to delete a Manual Journal separately.
Currently it's possible to Delete a Manual Journal while its in Draft, but like you noted can only be Voided once posted.
We'd like to get a better view of the interest in this from your idea here, and I'll let you know if there are any updates. Thanks!
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Workpapers - Link notes to mulitple accounts
We would like to have the ability to link a note to multiple accounts, including different account types (eg liability and expense).
9 votesHi team, we have split this idea from the original raised across here.
Our teams are watching the interest for changes in Workpapers through the forum here, and I'll make sure to let you know if any plans are made for this.
For now, we'd like to continue to track the interest in this. Thanks
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Franking Credits Workpapers - Ability to add dates
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.
2 votesHi 👋 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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Income tax workpaper - Line for prior year tax paid
The income tax workpaper has the balance sheet workpaper. Unfortunately, you have to add an 'other adjustment' to record the prior year tax payment. It would be very helpful to have at least one line called 'prior year tax paid'.
2 votesHi 👋 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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ATO Account/s link for reconciliation purposes
Have an ATO account link to be able to reconcile the Xero account for the ATO Activity Acount and respective ATO Income Tax Account - and if relevant FBT account, etc.
13 votesHi 👋 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 🙂
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Workpapers - Option to add work papers to other workflows.
Consider adding workpapers for Inter-Entity Loan, Wages, Div 7A, TPAR, Super Payable, BAS, and GST to provide a more comprehensive set of templates for common compliance and review areas.
25 votesThanks for raising this idea for us April, you continued contribution is greatly appreciated. This idea has been merged with another very similar idea from the New Workpapers beta forum so we can gauge correctly how this functionality would benefit. 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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Workpapers - Manual Journal show full history of edits
The system currently does not display who posted the journal in either XWP or Xero (specific user).
Updates made to journals in Xero are not reflected in the XWP Manual Journal Summary.
Additionally, XWP only allows journals to be voided—there is no option to delete them.
4 votesThanks for your feedback around this functionality in the new Workpapers experience, we really appreciate the time taken to add your thoughts. Your idea is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️
Once they've reviewed the idea we'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.
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Working Trial Balance - Adjust order
To improve clarity and usability, please consider reorganizing the layout in the following order: Assets → Liabilities → Equity → Revenue → Expenses.
In addition, including a Net Profit/(Loss) summary at the bottom—or displaying Current Year Earnings within the Equity section—would provide users with a clearer financial overview.
2 votesThanks for your continued support and feedback of the new Workpapers experience. We rely on your feedback to ensure we build the best product for our customers. 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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Xero Workpapers - Quick Access Dropdown for All Accounts
Consider enabling account-level access via a dropdown menu to improve usability, instead of having users open each individual code category.
3 votesWe appreciate you sharing your idea and letting us know what changes are most important to you.
We've completed our review, and now it's time for the community to show its support!
Please share your idea with colleagues who might find it useful and encourage them to vote. Community members can also add comments to expand on how your idea would improve their experience using Xero.
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New Workpapers - Export to a ZIP file
The export produces a single PDF. It would be preferable if the export could instead provide a ZIP file containing the individual documents.
3 votesHi April, thanks for bringing this idea to our attention. Again your contributions are greatly appreciated in this process. Your idea is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️ We'll share the outcome and update everyone, here, once they've reviewed the idea.
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Workpapers - Limit in File size attachment
Encountered an error saving large files (e.g. Deeds) – limit appears to be 21MB per file.
1 voteThanks for bringing this to our attention April, again your feedback is incredibly helpful when assessing our users experience. This is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️ We'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.
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Workpapers - Status per Account for reveiw
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.
1 voteHey 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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Prepayment Workpaper - Amortisation calculation
The prepayment workpaper should have the facility to calculate the amount to amortise which was there in previous Xero Workpapers.
2 votesHey 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.
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Working Trial Balance - Hotlinks to Xero reports
Can we have a "Xero Hotlink" next to each account (similar to old Wp's) - The reason why is that the reviewer does not want to spend much time reviewing, this would help speed the process & for Processors we can see what is within the account, not just the "adjustment"
16 votesHi team, appreciate the interest in links and hotlinks for workpapers. This idea has been split from the original so that we can track interest in hotlinks specifically through this idea and share any updates.
This is currently a feature that our product team are considering and we will move the idea to In discovery. We will share any further news of this, here.
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Workpapers | Income Tax - Reduce column width in L
A little UI matter, I know the column widths will scale depending on the window size; however, when I go into the Income Tax workpaper, the spacing seems quite wide even in a smaller split-screen window. It would be nice if the column widths were narrower
6 votesAppreciate the feedback, Adam. Our product team are staying close to the feedback we're receiving on the new workpapers solution so I'll keep you updated hear if there is any change planned. For now we'll get a sense of others in community that support this too. Thanks
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