User Role - Restrict access to individual bank accounts
To have the ability limit some users to access some bank accounts within Xero org.
Purpose: To limit some staff to not be able to see the information about the client’s bank balance.
Hi everyone, I want to assure you your voice is heard here and feedback is being shared back with our product teams.
We understand the desire to get this idea moving along and as mentioned in our last update we know this is an area that more controls and permissions would be most beneficial to our customers.
We’d like to share progress that we’re making for banking permissions - Work to provide more controls of sensitive banking information has started and will initially include the ability to restrict users from seeing sensitive banking information such as; account balances, bank transactions, and financial summaries.
We know this doesn’t relieve all pain points of this idea - It’ll be the first phase, a stepping stone of sorts in the development of per-bank controls.
As development continues we’ll share further updates as soon as they’re available with you all here.
Thank you for your involvement in Product Ideas and support in this idea.
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Nick Joyce
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Why on earth has this not been implemented yet - It's OCTOBER 2025! This is one of the most fundamentally critical security features required in accounting software. @Kelly @Xero Please Respond! Your ignorance of all these comments is highly unprofessional.
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Benjamin Abiker
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One of the many valuable and overdue improvement to Xero.
Being able to schedule reports to be emailed automatically would also move Xero to the 21st century. -
Shelley Mason
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Ability to restrict account access when you have more than one to different users. We are a small business and have one employee that helps us with some basic accounting needs such as allocating payments, creating invoicing and quotes BUT this is only required to do this in one out of the 4 bank accounts within our Xero account. For many small businesses that have serveral accounts i.e. tax account or savings account etc you need to be able to restrict what users can view or have access to these. At the moment its either access to all accounts or nothing.
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Adrian Law
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I want staff to work on the client account but not to see how much everyone is paid in the current account. Just seems a basic requirement.
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Matt Heaven
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Maybe Xero wants you to set up another Xero account for the bank account you want to be separate, but they won't say that. That is a solution that costs money, but may be worth it to some.
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Sandra Amoroso
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Agree with the need for this "upgrade". Should be a basic feature, for the reasons mentioned before. I cannot delegate any of the reconciling tasks to an employee without giving away the farm. I can't comprehend how Xero doesn't understand the need for this essential feature.
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Hugh Sandie
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As Tony Sinclair mentions, giving basic positions who carry out minor bank reconciliations access to all confidential data is huge 'no can do' for small businesses. It gives full exposure of the companies finances, exposes everyones salary, pay rates and bonuses, shows Directors pension payments, through to dividends.
How XERO can not correct this is mind boggling and shows how little understanding they have of small businesses.
Hopefully people keep commenting on this point until action is taken.
The result is that as a business owner, operating three companies, I have to do most of the bank reconciliations or risk having staff being exposed to confidential information.
Shame on you XERO for lack of understanding and action.
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Troy Sinclair
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In order to maintain privacy around payroll with a small accounts team it is vital that we can isolate the Payroll Bank Account to one user only so that visibility on this is not for everyone. Very surprised that Xero wouldn't already have this function.
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Stephen Sutcliffe
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I add my name to this request
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David Stacey
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Sadly, it is all silence from Xero on this much-requested feature.
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Hugh Sandie
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Such a basic feature imho - why does it continue to be ignored??
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Jessica Chan
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Is there any update on this? Clearly it's a critical feature required for many organisations, and important for clients who get audited
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Arfan Rafeek
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This UI looking great, We are running a growing companies, Alot of managers are working with the team, But current USER ROLES doesn't satisfy our requirements.
We don't want any operations & Marketing team to see the Bank Account & statements, It is solely under the control of Accounts Department.
Hope for wonderful migration.
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Rhys Howells
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Users - have the ability for a user to access and process sales AND purchasing without access to bank account feed.
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Murali Krishna Dittakavi
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Hi Team,
How much time will take to consider this feature to deliver.
This is sitting since 2013 -
Linda De Beer
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Good day
Xero please advise if this is something that is going to be addressed in the near future? The CEO wants us to move to away from Xero as access to bank accounts and other confidential info is not restricted.
Kind regards
Linda
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Michelle Williams
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We are gaining more staff and currently everyone can see how much each other gets paid, and when and how much any bonuses are received. Its crazy that you restrict the payroll settings but allow the admin who are reconciling transactions as part of their role to see this sensitive information.
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Adam Broetje
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Came here looking for the ability to limit a staff member to only credit card accounts, not bank accounts.
We have a user who helps with invoicing and monitoring credit cards, but does not need access to bank accounts.
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Nicholas Hills
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This is holding back clients from switching to Xero. They want to limit some admin staff to accessing and reconciling only the credit cards and restrict access to the main bank account.
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Jade Sacker
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Is this on the cards at all? We really need a practice manager, but I only want her to see one bank account, particularly to send invoices and allocate payments. Is this possible?