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  1. Users with the Invoice Only (Approve and Pay) role should be able to view historic invoices/credite notes/bills for a customer or supplier within their contact page.

    5 votes

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  2. Users that can create draft invoices should also be able to print off pdf's and packing slips of approved invoices

    24 votes

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  3. Only allow people with limited access to Projects to see their own hours/project, not the total hours billed to any project. The total hours are really none of their business.

    9 votes

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  4. Enable to invite a user into an organisation via the Xero App interface.

    10 votes

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  5. Can we have one more category of user role in Xero (A user role with Ability for only to create all possible drafts + View reports)?

    This kind of user role can help to minimise recording errors when any transaction (Quotation, Invoice, Bill, expenses, transfer, receive and spend money) can have two steps approval. It can provide more verification flexibility /security for the business which managed by more than one person as well.

    View reports can help the initiator to check the effect of the transaction after approval.

    We are looking for your kind consideration.

    Thank you

    6 votes

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  6. Adding security measures to the file tab - so only certain users can open and access that information

    7 votes

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  7. Ability to specify which user has access to the lock dates.

    Purpose: To prevent clients from changing prior year figures in Xero after the financials have been published.

    81 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing your feedback on this idea. We appreciate you explaining how important more control over lock dates is for protecting your data integrity and supporting your workflows.

    As part of our wider review of roles and permissions across Xero, we’re pleased to let you know that this is a feature that we’re exploring controls in and reviewing the viability of. We'll keep you updated here as our plans shape up further.

  8. Change the permissions required to connect apps, most importantly the Pipedrive app. Since currently Pipedrive users (sales people) are required to have full access to Xero in order to connect and use the integration. We can't give our sales team full access to our accounts due to sensitive transaction details and salaries contained in Xero as you would expect.

    5 votes

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  9. There are users who need access to custom projects reports but no others. Currently they either have to repeatedly customise the base reports or have access to all the reports.

    5 votes

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  10. Please provide invoice only + draft users with the ability to create purchase orders from the mobile app

    4 votes

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    Thanks for raising this, Amy. 

    I've done some testing to check around this and can confirm - While not currently available for iOS devices when using the Xero Accounting app, this is possible on and Android device with the mobile app, or when using Xero on a desktop.

    There are some complexities adding to iOS and with a very little usage from IO users there are no plans at present to develop this there. However, it'd be good to get a better sense of the interest, and we'll start to track this through the idea, here. 🙂

  11. If a staff member leaves, you would usually delete them as a user. That causes issues, however, if they have set up recurring invoices. These will be left as draft and will not be sent. It would be useful if you could keepa staff member but remove the access so that they can't log in themselves anymore, almost making them inactive?
    It is not as simple as resetting their password because of the 2 step authentication.

    4 votes

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  12. An employee is in charge of paying our foreign supplier accounts. So we gave him the role "Invoice only (Approve and Pay). Unfortunately, he is not able to see a full statement of the supplier account with all invoices, credit notes and payments made so he does not know how much is owed. He is also unable to enter payments against a supplier without an invoice already existing in Xero, which is an issue when making payments to suppliers who require payment in advance. We cannot grant him full access to see bank details because if we did he would…

    5 votes

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  13. Ability to assign a user where they can only have Invoice only and view only reports.

    Purpose: To make user permission easier to set up, rather than having to upgrade them into Standard. As this will allow a user having access to more confidential reports.

    196 votes

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    Hi community, our reporting team is actively testing how reports are grouped and accessed, and we'd like your feedback to help us design a better report grouping structure that supports role-based access in reporting.

    How you can help: Complete a quick 15-min online activity to test how reports are grouped and accessed:

    • Part 1: answer questions about the current report grouping
    • Part 2: explores a new grouping and role-based report access

    👉If you're interested, please use this link to get started.

    We greatly appreciate your ongoing support & valuable input for the reporting team!

    (If you’ve already taken this activity, there's no need to do it again — our researchers may have contacted you earlier 😊)

  14. Ability to have read only permission when setting up staff access in Xero.

    Purpose: Because some staff aren’t allowed to make changes to certain area (e.g. access to bank accounts and reports).

    93 votes

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  15. Ability to customise user roles to restrict some access in Xero.

    Purpose: Some staff should only have limited access in Xero.

    475 votes

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    Hey everyone, we've been following the conversation closely and we want to acknowledge how important this is for many of you.

    Atm, we’re on a long journey to provide more controls within Xero features that our customers need. Being such a broad idea that touches many areas of our platform, we’d like to encourage adding your votes to specific user permissions that matter most to you, such as:

  16. 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.

    665 votes

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    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…

  17. Ability to restrict access to specific tracking categories for some users in Xero org.

    Purpose: To help users hide the incoming and outgoing transactions from some users within the Xero org. Some organisations (e.g. not for profit) need this to protect the privacy of their donors and departments.

    59 votes

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  18. We need a way of allowing off-line working during any disruptions to the internet or other downtimes. So we can load Xero and continue working, with all edits during that time uploading when Xero gets back on-line?

    1 vote

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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  19. Currently bookkeeper has to be set in Advisor similar to the senior accountant due to inability to publish reports. Often transactions went through to the locked period when advisor had to open the locked period during business hours.

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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  20. 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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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

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