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  1. It would be great when you have multiple entities in Xero to be able to have a consol which allows high level options across the group. i.e. Shows the companies - locked/unlocked for a specific month. Rather than me having to go into each entity and lock at month end, I would like to go to a single page and select all my entities and a date an lock for that date. Likewise for FX rates in the group - 1 page with the FX rates for the group, this would help eliminate the variances that occur on entering for…

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    Thanks for sharing this. We understand the ask to bulk update Lock Dates across multiple organisations.

    As this post contains multiple ideas, I've made changes so we can continue tracking the Bulk Lock Date update feature here.

    If the other suggestion is important to your workflow, please raise it as separate ideas so we can track the feedback on each one.

  2. Dual Login option for Partners

    Under user drop down have another profile for partners and BAS Agents to use in client Xero accounts that do not have BAS Agent details attached.

    This will allow agents to view client BAS for clients they are not the BAS agent for.

    Currently BAS agents cannot see BAS for clients that have connected to ATO directly with their business credentials.

    This would replace the current work around of adding another user with different email for the Partner to assist clients with BAS settings etc.

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    Appreciate you raising this, Renee.

    We understand the ask for dual login feature where BAS agents/partners can switch to a profile without agent credentials.

    As a clarification, clients can connect their Xero organisation to the ATO as business users, after which BAS agents and partners with the appropriate access can view the client's BAS from within the organisation. A separate client login isn't required for this workflow.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. Add your vote if a dual login option could help with other account management needs and let us know more about your use case.

  3. Currently, you can't change your profile picture in Xero Central - which is bizarre, because you can change it in the "My Xero" profile.

    Therefore, in the spirit of "one ledger", surely profile pictures entered manually in My Xero profile should sync your Xero Central profile.

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    Thanks for sharing this suggestion, Hayley. We understand the request for more control over your profile picture in Xero Central, including the option to sync your Xero profile picture or remove it and return to the default avatar.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your experience, add your vote and let us know how you'd like your profile picture to work.

  4. It would be great if the search option would allow you to click an "add new contact" option if the contact you searched for was not found to smoothly link including the name you input into the appropriate field, without having to go out of search and start from scratch.

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    Appreciate your feedback and how you'd find being able to create and autofill a new contact based on search terms could save you time, Georgina.

    We'll start getting a sense of the wider interest from the community in this idea. If there are any updates for this I'll let you know here.

  5. Search or filter within this product ideas tool for items already voted on.

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    Appreciate the feedback on how we could improve these forums for your use, Vince. It'd be great to get more understanding of how being able to filter by vote would help you.

    Right now, form within a forum or category there are a few sort options including Hot ideas, Top or New.

    Top will sort all ideas within that forum or category by most to least amount of votes. Appreciate, there is no way to do this from search atm though.

    If you can share any further details of why this would be helpful we'd love to hear it. Thanks

  6. Advisor role should be higher authority than standard, ie to be able to override locked period transaction without opening the period. Able to build new/custom report, submit BAS.

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    Hi Dina, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand why having the Advisor role provide broader capabilities than the Standard role could be valuable for practices managing client files and completing higher-level accounting tasks.

    Currently, some actions still require additional steps outside of the Advisor role, such as making adjustments to locked periods, creating custom reports, or completing certain compliance-related tasks. Having these capabilities available within the Advisor role could help reduce unnecessary workflow interruptions and better reflect the level of access expected from an Advisor user.

    We appreciate the examples shared around how this impacts day-to-day practice workflows. I’ve updated the status of this post to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking feedback and gathering more votes. 


  7. Make Xero a Progressive Web App (PWA)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app
    Gusto offers this
    and many Google apps also
    nice feature

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    Hi Douglas, appreciate you sharing how Xero could be a more powerful tool for you. We understand that a Progressive Web App (PWA) experience could be useful for those looking for a more app-like desktop workflow with quicker access and a dedicated workspace.

    Xero is currently designed to run through your web browser, alongside our mobile apps, and a full PWA version is not currently on our roadmap. In the meantime, you can create a desktop shortcut using Chrome or Edge to open Xero in its own window, which can help keep your workflow separate from other browser tabs.

    I’ve updated this post to Gaining Support as we are keen to continue tracking feedback and gather more insight from the community on how this would support their workflows.

  8. Find and Recode should not be able to change tax type without fair warnings in Sales Invoices.

    This is a risky feature to be used without warning. I have noticed that it doesn't change the sales invoice, which it shouldn't. But surprise was it could change any invoices selected no matter if those were already issued/ paid/ closed etc.

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    Appreciate the added detail, Ankit. Understand how an extra warning and drawing attention to the impact a change could make may help some users.

    I've slightly edited the title of your idea and we'll get a sense from the wider community here that'd find this helpful (feel free to share with your own client too!)

    It's not something we have planned at present, but will update you here if any are made. 🙂

  9. I am a Xero user (not Practice Hub/XeroHQ) with user access to 33 Xero files. Each day I need to go into each individual Xero file if I want to check what Bills are coming due or outstanding sales invoices. Would it be possible to improve the My Xero screen which shows all the Xero files I have access to to be more like a dashboard showing what is outstanding/due and what tasks are needed across all Xero files. Thanks :)

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    Hi Jessica, thanks for bringing this idea to our attention. We understand that a single view showing key items like outstanding invoices, upcoming bills, and unreconciled transactions across all your organisations could make it easier to prioritise work and keep on top of daily tasks without switching organisations.

    We’ve updated the idea to Gaining Support while we continue tracking the interest and feedback shared here.

  10. It would be helpful to us if we could enter a bill into Xero, submit it, and then have the option to copy all the line details of that bill to an invoice, using the Sell Price in Products and Services (if they exist as items in the catalogue).

    Some of our customer transactions are literal 'we buy in, add mark-up, and sell on' and we currently have to enter both a bill and a separate invoice to achieve this. Being able to take a bill and copy it to a draft invoice, ready for adjustments, would be very useful…

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

    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.

  11. The Organisation settings page should have collapsible headings, similar to the Reports page, for clear, concise, and faster access to settings.

    Currently, the new look of the organisation settings page is a large step backwards. It is difficult to quickly find and select a setting area that is not part of the shortcut menu options in the new look homepage/menu rollout.

    The current organisation settings page is an exercise in excessive scrolling abilities to find the setting you need to access quickly.

    The old (clunky-looking) Basic Settings listing and the Advanced Settings listings were a faster and better layout to…

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    Thanks for sharing your idea for improving the settings page in Xero, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    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.

  12. Please remove the latest update on Xero: when you copy an invoice it automatically opens a new tab on my laptop. I have more than 20 invoices to post everyday, I do not wish to have 20 tabs on my screen in the end. Not every update is a good update. When you don't have a better update, it's better to just maintain it.

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    Hi Patricia, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We'll move this idea to gain more support from the community. We'll monitor this space for more traction. Cheers

  13. I love the way the various areas have been split now (Home Sales Purchases Payroll etc)

    I would prefer that reports relating to each of those sections, be stored in their menus. IN the Reporting menu, I have 10 varying reports which make it a long menu path. If they were in their individual menus (e.g. Aged Receivables Summary in Sales menu; Aged Payables Summary in Purchase, all Payroll related reports in Payroll) it would be easier to find and more logical. You could have more reports visible as well in each Menu.

    If this is not possible, can we…

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    Great to hear you like the new layout of the navigation, Jason.

    Appreciate how further customisation of reports and possible nesting under the relevant menu drop downs could be useful. We'll get a gauge of the interest in this from others in the community here.

    This isn't something we have plans for atm, but will share if this gets picked up at all.

  14. I have seen the new Xero update, and the search bar has changed (only looks and complaints)
    1. The search bar stays open, so you manually have to close it, which is slightly annoying.
    2. Your search stays in the bar when it is closed. So when you open the bar again to search for something else, you have to delete the original search. If it has been a while since you last searched, you forget, and it can be so frustrating.

    If the search bar were fixed (actually finding things I were searching for), I wouldn't mind. But this…

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    Interesting to get your feedback on this, Jodie-May. It'll be good to get a sense of the wider community appetite in this too. Our teams are paying close attention to the feedback on the new experience and I'll share if there are any updates for you here. Thanks

  15. Multiple bank account with similar currency but to apply individual exchange rates for accounts with the same currency.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about the option to hold a separate exchange rate against bank accounts in the same currency.

    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!

  16. Right now, the dashboard shows "Loading your transactions" for bank accounts far too often and for far too long. The dashboard should always show the current state of the user's accounts, not what is essentially an indeterminate progress bar. It would be more user-friendly to remove the message entirely because it doesn't give users any actionable information. If new transactions come in while the user is doing things, simply update the dashboard to indicate that there are new transactions to reconcile, even if the user just finished reconciling what was there before.

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    Hi Adam, thanks for sharing how we could improve your experience when working in Xero.

    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!

  17. Is there a way that we could see the names of opened Tabs so that we could see the name of what we are working on such as Balance Sheet instead of seeing Xero | Balance Sheet. When we open HST/HST returns, it shows GST/HST Returns which is great.
    We know we are with in Xero. If Xero has to show up, it could be added to the end of the Tab heading. This way, opened Tabs would be a breeze to drag in alphabetical order. This would also facilitate working with Workona resources to put Tabs in alphabetical order.

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    Thank you for sharing your idea and highlighting the changes that are most important to you.

    We have reviewed your suggestion, and it is now available for community review and support. Please share it with your colleagues who would benefit so they can add their vote and detailed comments on how this improvement would enhance their experience with Xero.

  18. Hi, on the mobile app, it would be really helpful, if when reconciling bank entries, when xero comes uip with its "suggestion", that is also displays the VAT line. Saves having to go into the suggeestion edit and check VAT is applied correclty

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    Hi Ray, we understand how helpful it'd be to see the VAT/tax line directly on the automated reconciliation suggestion in the Xero Accounting mobile app. Currently, the mobile reconciliation suggestion card doesn’t show the tax line, which means extra taps and added steps.

    This idea is now in the Gaining Support stage. Your votes and comments help us understand how important this feature is to the wider Xero community and guide our product team’s priorities.

  19. Move "jax" and the new "Apps" icons into the Company Drop Down on the right hand side so they don't clutter our tool bar and you can go in there and chose to activate them or not.
    Give us some choice please - I'm not loving having the search icon so far over now, as it has to make space for these 2, which I will not be using.
    p.s. I did sign up for the Beta of jax and the first answer was wrong...

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    Hi Rachel, to give another update here we are continuing to keep a close eye on JAX related idea sin the forums here, however at this time we still don't have any plans to change the positioning of the change icon in the navigation.

    Make sure to share this idea if you have colleagues that would like to see this change too, for now we'll continue to get a sense of support in this here.

  20. It would be nice to be able to give access to the History and Notes to Standard users. Right now it's only visible for Advisors while I believe this is a feature that could be useful to Standard users as well.

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