Skip to content

New Xero Workpapers

Welcome to the new Xero Workpapers forum! This is the place for partners to share their experience and feedback.
Your insights are essential for shaping the future of this solution. When submitting your ideas, please be as detailed as possible and always include your region. Tell us specifically what impact your suggestion would have on your practice and how it would improve your workflow.

New Xero Workpapers

Categories

103 results found

  1. 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.

    10 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Thanks 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.

  2. 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.

    4 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi team, we wanted to share that we have released some recent changes to the layout for the Working trial balance view Trial balance (grouped) and the additional views Trial balance (ungrouped), Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss.

    We'd love to hear if these updates have helped achieve your needs in the ordering mentioned within this idea. Thanks!

  3. Consider enabling account-level access via a dropdown menu to improve usability, instead of having users open each individual code category.

    8 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We 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.

  4. The export produces a single PDF. It would be preferable if the export could instead provide a ZIP file containing the individual documents.

    11 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi 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.

  5. Encountered an error saving large files (e.g. Deeds) – limit appears to be 21MB per file.

    3 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Thanks 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.

  6. 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.

    17 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    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.

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

    24 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    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.

  8. 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

    11 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Appreciate 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

  9. When preparing monthly or quarterly workpapers, we would like to be able to select the comparison period as last month, quarter or end of last financial year. Not just the same period last year.

    10 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi Susan, great to hear your feedback on the comparison periods in Workpapers here.

    As we continue to develop this new product we're keeping a keen eye on the interest ideas in this forum are building and I'll let you know if there are any changes planned for this, here.

  10. Can the spreadsheet have more formatting options - like borders so that you can have a top and bottom border on a total cell? Bold type?

    Also, it needs more functionality like being able to select the range of cells to sum =sum(select cells using mouse) instead of manually typing in the range.

    When you copy and paste from Excel formatting is lost and you cannot add additional lines past where the data pastes if past row 20 (The data itself can paste to additional rows). If data goes to row 19, you cannot insert additional lines past 20 either.

    19 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi community, appreciate the desire for more formatting in new Workpapers and this is something our product team would like to explore more but with a few other items in the pipeline atm isn't road mapped just yet.

    We'll continue to gauge the interest in this idea and as soon as there are updates I'll share with you all, here.

  11. The Status options (Completed, ready for review etc. ) apply to the whole workpaper, for example Current Liabilities. Is it possible to apply a status to each individual account within that workpaper, ie so that as you are reviewing you can mark each account as completed or rework required as you go, instead of the status applying all accounts within that workpaper.

    66 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Thank you for the feedback on the new Workpapers experience. We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. We really appreciate the time taken and the input of our customers and encourage you to share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too! This is invaluable to our Product team. Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  12. Can other quality assurance requirements be included as part of the standard workpapers - for example independence sign off ?
    This will save us having to address this separately or add it in ourselves in workpaper packs etc

    10 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We're grateful for your feedback on the new Workpapers, Stacey. It's really good to get an understanding of improvements that w0oulkd be most useful.

    For now, we'll get a sense of the interest from others using this product here and I'll share if there are any updates.

  13. Manual journals have to be saved as a draft first. Then they need to be edited to be posted. This is an unnecessary step. Or if it is required, it should be role based.

    17 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We appreciate the support this idea is receiving and will continue to monitor feedback this receives for consideration in future planning.

    I'll make sure to share if there's any progress for you all here.

  14. Instead of having to go back to the main overview and then select the workpaper, it would be good to be able to have a drop down to select a workpaper as well as the forward and back buttons.

    73 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi team, atm we're considering improvements to enable you to navigate between workpapers without needing to go back to the workpaper list.

    I'll be sure to keep you updated of progress around this, here. Thanks

  15. Within a specific workpaper we have the ability to add a note and select the account code that the note applies to. Can we add the account name in there as well?

    53 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Thanks for the feedback about our new Workpapers solution! We have a close eye on this feedback as the team continue to develop this product.

    We'll keep an eye on the interest for this here, and I'll be sure to share if there is any progress.

  16. Currently we can refresh workpapers from the workpapers, working trial balance, manual journals and settings screen, but when we open a specific workpaper that button is no longer available. Can we have this when working in a specific workpaper. This will save us having to click back when we are making adjustments

    40 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi everyone, we appreciate the support this idea is gaining, and understand the use in being able to refresh individual workpapers.

    This is something we have intentions of developing out but don't have a timeframe on this just yet. I'll be sure to update you here as soon as there's progress. 🙂

  17. Is a GST workpaper being developed or would there be one similar to the GST workpaper in exisiting workpapers? We are onboarding staff to old workpapers so having similar or improved workpapers would be useful.

    105 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi team, we appreciate your feedback as you get stuck in to trying our our new Workpapers. Our team have been monitoring feedback closely and I'd like to share that we're in the process of developing a GST Workpaper in our new solution. We'll be back to share once it's released. 😊

  18. When working in the manual journals, you receive a message that the journal is out of balance. It would be great if this message also advised the amount of the out of balance.

    11 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Thanks for sharing your feedback, Bradley. Our product team are watching the feedback for new Workpapers here closely.

    We'll keep a keen eye on the interest for this and let you know if there are any updates.

  19. Is there a way that we could create a group or a link to all groups within workpapers

    14 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Thanks for sharing your idea, Michaella! It's great to hear what improvements would help in new Workpapers.

    We'd like to gauge the interest from others in this here and I'll let you know if any plans are made for groups.

  20. Can we have a spot that we look at all workpapers, instead of having to click into each, this is something that reviewers find frustrating & creates a barrier for older partners (less tech inclined) - like the old ones "Analytical Review", if you don't add a link on "Working Trial Balance",

    This is if we cannot have the links in the "Working trial Balance"

    9 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)

    Hi team, thanks for your inputs here. This is an idea that our product team are exploring and considering how they improve the collaboration. For now we'll shift into discovery and I'll share when there is more news around this.

  • Don't see your idea?