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I have only just found out that this feature is not available - how can this be when we are given to understand that all you have to do these days is upload a photo of your receipt and hey presto, all the work is done for you - and a copy of the receipt/invoice is held as a PDF against the transaction - all great until you need to retain copies for audit / VAT inspection / retention of files at company closure etc. Then I'm told I have to go and download each receipt/invoice individually - for hundreds of items??? I wish I had kept all the original documents in files now, like I used to before the "digital" age....I'm at a complete loss here as to why I can't download all the PDFs....??????

The idea is not to fly away but adhere to mandatory requirements. Google provides full data export (well in a ****** .json format) so Xero shall abide. If the product is good and prices competitive, people / companies will stick around.

I seriously feel that some consumer legal action be taken against Xero for this flagrant and deliberate avoidance of adding this obvious compliance audit requirement. This has been brought to Xero’s attention years ago and they simply ignore the poor rubes that are locked into their system. They obviously don’t have much faith in their own system - because they think people will leave in droves if this basic feature is introduced.

Could someone in New Zealand find a regulation that would enforce Xero to implement such feature? It's not a nice to have, companies must be able to bulk export data from critical systems.

It would certainly save a lot of time, as we prepare a PDF (source documents/bill and approval audit trail from ApprovalMax) of all bills paid in the batch for review prior to release in the bank by our Directors. As they may not have necessarily been involved in the approval process of each individual bill so therefore would like sight of it before approving the bak transfers.

Necessary for document back up retention

Need to be able to export all attachments associated with billable/reimbursable expenses. Clients need the supporting documents. Downloading them one by one is highly inefficient Lots of duplication of effort

I would like to be able to download all the attachments I've put in Xero each year as a backup in case Xero ever goes down or I need to provide to an auditor. Downloading them one at a time isn't a good use of time so a bulk download would be really nice.

It is odd that this isn't a function, since you can upload in bulk. It would be very useful for uploading into Dext to save time

There is also another post about this. Its ridiculous that this isn't an option - and no way of backing up attachment pdfs.

Obviously necessary feature.

ALL: This feature suggestion has been posted since Nov. 18, 2013 with 180 votes and it has still not been implemented. My suggestion is that we save whatever is uploaded as attachments to our company hard drives and use that as our back-up. Xero is clearly not in a hurry to add this feature so we shouldn't rely on them.

I am facing legal action and urgently need this facility to download a full schedule of entries and attachements dating back to Mid 2018 I need this by end of 30 October 2022. PLEASE HELP

Ability to back up all data and attachments is critical given moves toward paperless offices. Copies of bills are uploaded into Xero and are the only way to access this information. Back up of payroll data including Employee information is also critical to allow uninterrupted ability to process payroll.

Critical for Audit and Disaster Recovery

Xero clearly don’t GAF about it’s users as I don’t think I have seen a response to any of these comments on a critical required feature! It is so obvious they will never introduce this feature because if they do, users will have a reason to leave their system. It is a joke IMHO that Xero claim to be ATO compliant when they don’t even have this simple feature which is an audit requirement. Everyone is so polite in this forum - but I am ******!

For Audit Purposes

This feature will be very useful especially for audit purposes. It will save lots of time

Please get this feature. This is the only reason I will never recommend Xero to others! This feature is essential. I'm now looking for an alternative to Xero for next year unless you tell me this is coming.

We very much could use this feature. I'm hesitant to move our entire accounting firm onto this software without this feature because if it doesn't workout we have no way of moving off of Xero...

Xero needs this feature. Otherwise, it's clear to me Xero is more concerned with holding clients captive than it is providing a easy to use service. It's like subscriptions where its' easy to sign up but difficult to cancel.

This needs to be streamlined in case a client wants to move off of the software.