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  1. I would love for the Watched Accounts box from the website dashboard to show up on my phone app dashboard. Sometimes I just need to see a bank balance or expense balance while traveling. Currently have to go to online website to see those watched accounts on my dashboard. Would be super cool to have them on phone app dashboard as well.

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    8 comments  ·  Navigation  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for your feedback on the Xero Accounting mobile app dashboard.

    We can see how having more options to customise the widgets on your dashboard would help you tailor the app to what matters most for your business when you're on the go.

    We've reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining Support so other community members can vote on it and share how more widget flexibility would improve their experience too.

    If this is something you'd find valuable, feel free to share the idea with others who may want to add their support and comments as well 🌟.

  2. To have notes in the Xero Dashboard.

    Purpose: Users within the Xero org can leave the notes and easily remind one another.

    201 votes

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  3. Even though the above feature in XERO has great potential for add on value services to clients, example, 90 days cash flow projections, I am very surprised that no one asked, why cant we produce a report in PDF or Excel??? Isn't this an essential part of a report?

    85 votes

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    Thank you all for your engagement with this idea to enable export options for the Short-Term Cash Flow projection in Xero Analytics Plus. We recognise that the STCF report is a useful tool for many of you and that exporting would allow you to share this report which is important in a number of different scenarios.

    It is worth noting that for users accessing Xero Analytics powered by Syft, the cash flow report can be exported in a variety of formats. If you haven’t checked this out yet, you can find more information here - Xero Analytics powered by Syft

    After carefully reviewing the current development roadmap, we have determined that this request will not be addressed in the immediate future. Therefore, we are changing the status of this idea to Not in the pipeline. However, the idea will remain open for votes so we can continue to monitor community…

  4. Allow Xero users permission to authorise employee timesheets. At the moment only the payroll administrator or specific employee has the ability to do this. Payroll permissions under settings/users should be expanded to be more granular, with an option to allow users permission to authorise timesheets. Alternatively, under the employee details in Payroll, an option to select authorised Xero users whom may sign off timesheets for that user.

    61 votes

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    Thanks for supporting and sharing your needs in limiting access to payroll while enabling those that need to process Timesheets.

    We’re currently developing more granular payroll permissions for timesheets so you'll be able to give access to timesheets without full access to Payroll. We’ll share more information as these permissions roll out.

  5. It would be really helpful if there was a way of adding a description/note to conversion balances. For example, if a creditor balance relates to a specific loan, it would be useful to be able to note this somewhere. Currently, reports only show 'conversion balance' as the description for the transaction and it isn't possible to add a description to the conversion journal. It makes it difficult to keep track of historic debtors and creditors and this information needs to be kept elsewhere, duplicating work.

    7 votes

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  6. The mobile app currently does not ask you to confirm your password when you setup a pin for your account. If you were to miss-enter your pin, which is easy to do, you essentially immediately lock yourself out of your account. The system should ask for a pin, then ask you to confirm the pin before finalising it, allowing you to go back a step if you enter in the wrong pin.

    3 votes

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    Hi team, appreciate the idea here and how a confirmation via pin re-entry or password would help when setting up a authentication for the Xero Accounting app on your mobile device.

    Though we don't have any immediate plans around this we'll continue to keep a watchful eye on the interest for this here. In the meantime, if you do happen to set up your pin incorrectly i's possible to uninstall and then reinstall the app to login with your full credentials and reset up your pin.

  7. With the recent changes to MFA dropping the remember devices from 30 days to 24 hours, the MFA prompt is now far more often (which is of course more secure) however it does slow down login.

    Could you please look at updating the MFA configuration to allow push notifications to the mobile authentication app, or better still the number match, which is far more secure. Examples from Microsoft is below, but the priciple would apply in most major platforms.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/how-to-mfa-number-match

    This would improve the user experiance over the token, but also improve the security overall.

    Thanks
    Dave

    36 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.


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


    In the meantime, you might like to use Xero's own authenticator app, Xero Verify, which does support push notifications when you log in.

  8. Ability to use other languages (apart from english) in Xero.

    Purpose: To make Xero can be more user friendly to people who speak and use other languages.

    143 votes

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  9. Ability to give payroll admins only permission to staff.

    Purpose: To make the staff have fully access to Payroll but not other parts of Xero.

    140 votes

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    Thanks for continuing to explain how the current all or nothing Payroll Admin access affects your teams. We’re now developing more granular payroll permissions, starting with separate View, Edit and Approve Timesheets access so timesheet tasks can be delegated without exposing the wider payroll area.

    While the current work is focused on Timesheets access directly we recognise there are other sensitive areas within payroll that you'd like more incremental access to and we'll continue to consider these as our development of permissions evolves.

    I'll come back to share when these Timesheets options are live!

  10. I would like to recommend that standard access users be able to access a very handy "uncoded statement transaction report" that at this point is only available to the advisers role (usually accountants). I am told for advisers it appears on the front page of bank reconciliation. If it wasn't for chatting to an accountant one day about typing out lists to my clients I wouldn't know about it. I guess you don't know what you don't know. This is an extremely helpful tool when trying to send lists to bookkeeping clients / business partners or employee's when you are…

    30 votes

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  11. It should be possible to suspend users without deleting them. This should cut off all accesses but should preserve the account /username itself. This is a basic functionality of user access control which is surprisingly absent from Xero. This preserves the user ID incase someone suddenly leaves the company or is suspended from duties for whichever reason.

    36 votes

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  12. Please adjust the Leave Authorisers in Xero Me to be the employees in the business with Payroll Admin &/or the Authority to Approve Leave.
    Currently all user with PAyroll Admin are available for selection - which includes ALL advisors.
    As an accountant - we are having to revoke our access to a client's payroll to ensure that the staff in the client's business cannot select the accountant's staff members to approve their leave.

    36 votes

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    Thanks for your patience; it’s been a little while since you first raised this idea. I wanted to point you toward a similar request regarding granular payroll permissions: [Permissions: Payroll - Payroll admin limited access].

    It’s clear that having precise control over who can access specific payroll areas would significantly improve how you manage timesheets and leave approvals.

    To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comment section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  13. Ability to have more flexible permission in Xero Payroll, especially for read only Payroll reports and to give other users permission to approve/decline leave requests.

    Purpose: To have more options and flexibility in assigning users to Xero Payroll.

    151 votes

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    Hi Community! Thanks for your active and on-going participation in this idea. The volume of comments and votes highlights how important more granular user permissions are for managing your payroll processes effectively.

    Improving user permissions and providing greater control over sensitive data is a key area of focus for us. While we have no specific feature to announce today, your feedback is critical in shaping the future of this part of Xero.

    Because of the clear need you've all highlighted and our desire to investigate this further, we're moving this idea's status to In Discovery.

    During the discovery phase, our product team will be digging deeper into the core problems you’ve raised.

    We appreciate your patience as we explore this. We'll be sure to update this thread when we have more to share. Thank you again for helping us understand what matters most to you.

  14. User role - Limit access to user based on year of transactions. I.e. can only view transactions from 2023 onwards.

    7 votes

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  15. One day I added a foreign currency because I needed the rate for a single transaction, but now all of the detail reports show three foreign exchange columns checked all the time, when I don't need them and don't want them. There is no way to turn off foreign exchange organization wide, nor to get rid of the columns. I am aware that I can make custom reports for account transactions, but the fact is that I use right click to open the account detail in a new tab from an existing report such as a balance sheet or income…

    24 votes

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  16. I understand the ATO requires you to enter 2FA daily, but that doesn't mean the tickbox should uncheck itself every day.

    If I tick trust this device on Monday and login using 2FA, I can then login without 2FA for 24 hours.

    After that 24 hours, I need to login using 2FA again AND I have to tick the trust this device box again to get another 24 hour reprieve.

    Let us tick the box or another box that will remember our choice ongoing. So each day I only have to login using 2FA again but my choice to trust…

    25 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea about remembering the 'Trust this device' checkbox if you previously ticked it.


    We've reviewed this 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 votes and comments too!

  17. Changing MFA devices for Xero Verify brings over your accounts but on the Xero Identity Account page, when you attempt to change the device it makes you re-set up the account / code in Xero Verify. Would love to just have a 'change linked device' with a drop down of devices that have Verify attached to the account.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We're keeping an eye on the support for this idea through the forums here, so make sure to share with any colleagues that would find this useful too.

  18. Ability to return to the previous screen after the user edited a transaction.

    Purpose: To make users easily continue working on the previous page rather than having to navigate from the different page again.

    121 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for all your support and feedback of how changes in navigation could help your use of Xero. While not across all areas of the product there are some updates in Bills that we wanted to share and may help the needs of some in the idea here.

    We've launched Bills quick view where there's now an eye icon within the line of the bills list. From here you'll find more ease in viewing, and more recently being able to edit bills from this view without having to leave the list, meaning you can simply make adjustments and move from one bill to the next.

    We'll continue to explore and develop solutions like this to help our customers get more out of Xero on the go. I'll keep you informed of other updates that could enhance your experience, here.

  19. For internal control reasons the 'invoice settings' section should be only accessible for certain access types. Anyone with Xero access (excl read only) can go and adjust the bank account manually entered on the invoices sent to customers.

    It would be great to have this locked the same way bank account admin is for supplier payments.

    41 votes

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  20. It would be useful if it were possible to restrict the posting of journal entries to specific users.

    29 votes

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate wanting more control of which users have access to manual journals.

    As you may have seen we've recently released new reporting permissions so you can grant access to Sales Reports or Purchase Reports only, without opening the full Reporting Centre.

    At this stage we don't have plans for developing an incremental permission for Manual Journals, however we're continuing to keep a close eye on ideas in the these forums as our permissions journey evolves. I'll be sure to update if there's any news.

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