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  1. Allow 2 categories of Cash Out since i am a sole trader and my drawings are included in cash out so the widget is useless if i cant either exclude drawings or split cash out between Busienss Cash Out and Owner Drawings Cash out. Just keep the Cash out bar but split into two colours so that you can see Cash out Business and Cash out Drawings.

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    Appreciate you sharing the need in this split of the cash in and out widget here. We're tracking the ideas we receive on the homepage closely and I'll be sure to share if there are any updates planned for this, here.

  2. I love that there is an easy to see red link to overdue invoices on the homepage, but could this also be added to the Invoices page? I keep going through extra clicks because I click into my overdue invoices to deal with them, select an invoice, and then have the 'back to invoices' link but if I click this there is then no option to select only overdue invoices to view. Also it would be great when viewing all invoices to have some easy way (maybe an '!' symbol or similar so it's colour-blind friendly) to identify which ones…

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    Hi Laura, thanks for putting this forward.

    Having a quicker way to access overdue invoices would certainly make daily credit control more efficient and help you stay on top of cash flow.

    In the meantime, you can select the “Overdue” section within the Invoices owed to you widget on the dashboard to jump straight to those invoices. If you open an invoice from that list, using your browser’s back arrow will return you to the same overdue view. Another option is to open invoices in a new tab so the overdue list remains open in the original tab.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can capture interest and share with the product team how useful a dedicated shortcut would be.

  3. Watched Clients/suppliers widget

    Summarise the invoices and Bills for a given contact
    It would be nice to have an overview of specific (perhaps problematic) clients.
    It would be good to be able to see at a glance:
    - average payment timeframe (i.e. usually 5 days late etc.)
    - current credit/debt value
    - scheduled invoices/bills

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    Hi everyone, I can see how having a watchlist for key customers or suppliers would be really useful. Whether it’s keeping an eye on a major account’s balance or making sure a supplier hasn’t overbilled you, having those names front and center would save a lot of manual searching.

    Right now, important accounts can sometimes slip through the cracks, since you have to remember to check on them individually. A dedicated watchlist would mean Xero could flag the status of these contacts the moment you log in, helping you stay on top of your business relationships.

    For now, you can use the Account Watchlist to track overall categories, and for individual contacts, you can bookmark their Activity page in your browser. This lets you jump directly to their transactions and balances with a single click, saving time navigating through multiple screens.

    I’ve updated this idea to Gaining Support so our…

  4. Provide a widget where you can drop any bill, expense or invoice, right on the homepage for Xero to analyse.

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    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.

  5. I’d like to propose a “view-only” feature that would be fully GDPR-compliant and suitable for organisations that manage sensitive financial information—such as block management companies handling residents’ funds.

    The idea is to allow every shareholder or resident to view the accounts and understand where money is being spent, while ensuring that all personal data is hidden. For example, where an individual apartment appears in the ledger, identifying information would be removed. To avoid jigsaw identification, each apartment could be linked to a classification matrix—for instance, showing it as a two-bedroom unit paying $2,000 per year—without revealing the resident’s identity. This…

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    Thanks for sharing your idea. We appreciate you outlining how a GDPR-compliant view-only feature could support transparency for organisations like block management companies and public sector bodies.

    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.

  6. When will the ability to add a shortcut to the settings like "tracking category" and "Fixed Assets" to the "accounting" dropdown menu be re-activated like you could do with the old task bar, or is this another case of "we don't care about our customers bookkeeper's productivity being lost" as all the other dropdown menus appear to have all the shortcuts?

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    Thanks for your feedback on navigation shortcuts. We appreciate you explaining how important quick access to Tracking Categories and Fixed Assets is for your workflow. You should see Fixed Assets within the Accounting menu already. However, you are correct that accessing Tracking Categories requires an additional click and are shown under the Accounting Settings option.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  7. It is too easy currently to click back/undo one too many times and end up inadvertently posting into a different organisation from the one you were working on.

    I was showing a colleague how to do something in the Demo company, but I clicked back too many times and ended up making my dummy postings into a client's organisation instead.

    For accountants and bookkeepers who have multiple clients and multiple transactions to post, this could create a lot of unnecessary work that can easily be avoided by some kind of indication that you are changing organisation.

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    Hi team, we understand wanting more of an indicator when you're entering data in the demo org, and with our new navigation experience you'll now have a banner at the top of the screen to let you know that you're in the demo company to avoid wasting time of data entry that should be in your actual org.

    We want to be upfront that this banner is only applicable for the demo company, so not exactly what is being asked in this idea but hope it goes some way to helping in scenarios like has been shared here.🙏

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  9. Dashboard - Account Watchlist to include current balance of account (not just MTD / YTD balances)

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    Hi team, we appreciate interest in being able to see current balance of accounts in the Chart of accounts watchlist on the Homepage.

    Being open this isn't something we have plans for at present but have an eye on interest here. Make sure to share this with colleagues or clients that would like to see this too so they can add their vote.

  10. My firm works with additional bookkeepers, and we do not want to have their business or personal emails displayed in our clients files.

    Ideally, they would be behind the scenes and would just show our practice as connected.

    Next best would be showing first name or first and last name, but no email address.

    We can assign them an email address from our firm for a more professional appearance, but often their certifications follow their own business/personal email addresses.

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    Appreciate why you'd like to be able to group some users that are logging into client organisations to perform admin under a single login, however from an audit pov would also need to make sure that actions could be traced back to the individual user.

    Being upfront this isn't something we have plans for atm.

    It would be good to get a wider interest through this idea, so make sure to share this with others colleagues that would find this useful.

  11. Xero has recently improved user permissions so that users with the Sales & Purchases – reports for sales & purchases role can access Aged Receivables and Aged Payables reports without also being given access to all financial reports.
    This is a very welcome improvement, particularly for administration staff who need access to debtor and creditor information as part of their day-to-day roles, but who should not have access to sensitive reports such as the Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet or bank account information.
    Unfortunately, these users can currently view and run the Aged Receivables and Aged Payables reports but cannot…

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    Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea with us. We’re pleased to let you know that it’s now open for votes and comments in Xero Product Ideas. We encourage others in the community who would benefit from this functionality to vote and join the conversation. The feedback and support shared through Product Ideas helps our product teams understand what matters most to customers when considering future improvements.

    Thanks again for helping us make Xero better! 😊

  12. It would be great to be able to select/deselect more options under each role if the role isn't quite right.

    E.g. I need a user to be able to view all the previous invoices and create new ones but not be able to approve invoices. Neither Sales nor Draft sales roles offer this option.

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    Thanks for sharing this idea and for letting us know you’d like to give a user access to view all previous invoices and create new invoices, without giving them permission to approve invoices 🙂

    We’ve opened this idea up for the Xero community to vote, comment and share their feedback. The more support and discussion an idea receives, the better we can understand how broadly this capability is needed.

  13. Please add an option to temporarily unlock accounts. For example, a user could unlock them for five minutes, see a countdown, and have them automatically lock again when time ends. This would prevent users from forgetting to re-lock the accounts and reduce the risk of accidental changes.
    (The unlock should apply only to that user, while all other users remain locked out.)

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    Hi Muhammad, thanks for starting this conversation. We understand the request for a temporary lock date unlock that automatically restores the lock after a set time. This could be a useful option for teams that occasionally need to make adjustments after a period has been closed.

    I’ve updated the post to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community feedback. If you have a preferred way for the timer or auto-lock to work, please share it below.

  14. Bookkeepers and accountants often manage multiple clients, with each client having multiple Xero organisations (e.g. trading entity, trust, SMSF, property entity, or separate business divisions).

    Currently, all Xero organisations are displayed in a single flat list within My Xero, making it difficult to quickly locate the correct organisation for a particular client.

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    Introduce the ability to create Client Groups (Folders) within My Xero that allow users to organise multiple Xero organisations under a single client.

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    Appreciate your suggestion here, Martha. We can understand how being able to organise your organisations into custom folders or groups on the My Xero page could make it easier to navigate when you're managing multiple entities.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. While we don't expect this feature to be on the roadmap anytime soon, we'd still like to gather feedback and better understand how customers would use it.

    If you're an accounting or bookkeeping practice, similar organisation management features are already available in Xero Partner Hub, where you can organise and manage clients using tags and filters. If that's a better fit for your business, you may want to consider joining the Xero Partner programme to access these capabilities.

  15. Remove the ability from certain users to delete bank line transactions.

    We need clients to update bank login details etc however we don't want them to have the ability to delete line transactions.

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    Hi Zak, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand how having more granular user permissions to prevent specific users from deleting bank transactions could help strengthen internal controls while still allowing users to complete their task.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this permission would be valuable for your business, we'd love to hear more about how you manage bank permission across your team.

  16. Please make Draft Invoices in a much larger font and at the top of the widget. The widget is ridiculously large and Draft Invoice link is in microscopic font, lost at the bottom. You have to actively hunt for it. Please don't tell me I can rearrange my home page. I've done that. It makes no difference. This is another unhelpful change forced upon us.

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    Hi Lou, a little round about to what you're asking here but our teams are working on an improvement to the sizing of some widgets that I believe will help with the feedback you've shared.

    We're building smaller size of the Invoices owed to you widget which will feature the drafts option beside the graph so it's more visible. 🙂 I'll come back and let you know once this is released.

  17. on the home page, under Tab For Tasks - have one of the tasks showing Quotes that need to be followed up , like after 1 weeks

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    Thanks for your idea, Ben. Appreciate for users that process quotes this could be quite useful as a quick indicator and action item.

    We don't have immediate plans for this but are considering improvements to the tasks widget so will be sure to share if there are updates on this.

    In the meantime, make sure to share your idea with other colleagues that'd find this useful and we'll get a sense of the wider interest in your idea here. 🙂

  18. The text that says '1 of 3 overdue' is so misleading. I took it to mean there were 3 overdue invoices as the the whole line is red. I kept looking for the three overdue invoices, but there weren't three, there was only one. Maybe I'm just dumb, but there's got to be a better way of saying that.

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    Hi team, coming back to the idea here we want to be upfront that we don't have plans for changing the way overdue invoices are shown for now.

    If you click on the red text this will direct you to your list of overdue invoices so you can validate the amount shown and action on particular invoices as needed.

    We will continue to keep a watch on the idea support here.

  19. I REALLY want a rolling 12 month turnover, VAT threshold warning.

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    Thanks for sharing with us here. We're keeping a close eye no the support for ideas around the new homepage and will watch interest in this idea grow. I'll be sure to share if there are any plans made for this, here.

  20. Provide an option to eliminate animations. The growing bars is a distraction, I find myself waiting for the movement to stop before proceeding. I'm here to work, I want the information - I'm not here for entertainment.

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    Thanks so much for taking the time to share how the moving graphs on the homepage feel for you – I’m really sorry they’re causing frustration and distraction.

    We introduced the animations to help bring key information (like money in and out, or what’s owed and due) to life and make it easier to see changes at a glance when the page first loads, rather than having everything appear as a static block of numbers. The bars “rising” from the baseline are there to show the most up-to-date figures and make comparisons a bit clearer, not to get in the way of your work.

    That said, we completely understand that movement on screen doesn’t work well for everyone, and it’s important you can focus on your tasks without visual noise. At the moment there isn’t a way to turn these homepage graphs off, or to disable the animation just for…

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