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  1. When you 'Invite Staff', the ability to copy an existing staff members 'privileges' will speed up the user creation process significantly.
    Currently I have to switch between two screens to achieve this.

    1 vote

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

    9 votes

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  4. When giving a client access to their Xero file for the client to be able to add codes to the chart you need to give the client advisor access - Maybe the access to the chart of accounts should be added to the cashbook client as a tick box option (like manage users is in the adviser access)

    3 votes

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

    5 votes

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

    5 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. 🙂

  7. 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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  8. 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.

    78 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.

  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. 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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  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.

    3 votes

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  12. Hi,

    I would like if Xero can provide an invoice user view only to look at the overdue invoices.

    This idea came up because we have a requirement to give this access to the person we hired for invoice chasing.

    We do not need to let him see previous invoices or give him access to create new invoices.
    Just a view with pending invoices payments for sent invoices

    2 votes

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  13. 1) Limit which users can use this payment system (for security reasons)
    2) Limit how much they can pay out at any one time (for security reasons)

    2 votes

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    Hi all, while we removed the Pay with Wise, as a follow on from our last update we wanted to confirm that we have released UK bill payments in Xero.

    Customers in the UK can set up direct bank transfer as a payment method for GBP bills to quickly and securely pay bills. Funds are transferred from your bank account by Crezco using open banking. The availability of open banking in the UK has enabled us to offer this on-platform. 🙂- Read more on our Blog

  14. Ability to allow individual access to inventory(products & services) and sales in Xero.

    Purpose: Enable ability to view different sets of information within an org.

    496 votes

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    Hi Community! 👋 we're progressing well with our inventory permissions development, with plans to progressively roll this out early in the new year. We'll be providing a Products & services permissions set for the Invoice only role.

    You'll have the ability to choose;

    • No access
    • View
    • View and create/edit
    • View, create/edit and adjust stock

    I'll round back again as this begins to rollout. 🙏

  15. 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.

    171 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 😊)

  16. 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).

    91 votes

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

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

    456 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:

  18. 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.

    610 votes

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    We appreciate everyone that's contributed here. Needs in more incremental permissions for bank accounts, have been clearly highlighted in your feedback - from protecting the confidentiality of payroll information to securely delegating reconciliation tasks for specific accounts.

    Leaning in from our last update, our product teams have conducted lots of research of existing user roles, to highlight the most critical areas work is needed to power up our customers use of Xero.

    Reporting and inventory are our first areas of priority, and you may have seen recent updates across ideas for these areas.

    Permissions to bank accounts is another area that stood out in our research, but has more dependencies and will take longer to develop.

    We'll keep you updated as our journey with roles and permissions evolve and there's more in the space of banking to share with you all.

  19. 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.

    55 votes

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