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  1. Please could you add a 'Back to the top' button, especially on the reconcile and report pages, but every page would be useful.
    After scrolling down many line items, it would be far quicker to have this function implemented for ease.

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    Hi team, thanks for showing interest in this idea.

    While we don't have any plans for adding this within Xero atm, as mentioned in my last update if you're working on a desktop you can use the 'Home' button on a Windows, or on a Mac you can press the 'Command' key + Left arrow.

    This should help when navigating a long lists or pages like reports.

    We will continue to track the appetite through this idea.

  2. It would be great if you were able to drop a pdf into an invoice from the list view without having to open the said invoice / bill.

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    Hi Melissa, thanks for bringing this up. It’s clear that when you’re processing a high volume of invoices, having to open each one individually to attach a file can slow things down.

    One option for now is to upload documents into the Files inbox first and then assign them to the relevant invoice. While this can help streamline part of the process, we understand that being able to drag and drop attachments directly from the list view would make document management much more efficient.

    As we allow one idea per post to ensure support is tracked accurately, if you’d also like to see this functionality extended to Bills, please feel free to raise that as a separate idea so it can gather its own votes and feedback.

  3. Would be good to be able to see prepayments/income in advance account on homepage so you can see deposits that are in.

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    Hi everyone, thanks for bringing this idea to the community! Having an “Income in Advance” widget right on the dashboard would give you an instant view of your future revenue, helping you see your financial position without extra clicks.

    At the moment, this usually means running specific reports or manually calculating deferred income, which can slow down your daily workflow. In the meantime, you can run the Cash Flow Manager, which shows projected cash in and out, or keep a starred Balance Sheet or custom tracking report in your Favorites for quicker access.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can track interest and show our product teams how helpful this visibility would be for managing cash flow.

  4. The new Dashboard can be huge and challenging to navigate if you have multiple bank accounts. It will be helpful to have a section with ALERTS at the top of the page.

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion! We can see how having the "Items to Reconcile" alerts visible while scrolling would make daily bookkeeping faster and more seamless. It’s all about helping you stay on top of your work without extra clicks or screen-jumping.

    For now, you can use the 'Bank Accounts' widget or the Tasks widget to see if there's any items to be reconciled, but we know a persistent global bar would make this even easier.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support to get more perspective from the community, so we can show our product teams the value this would bring.

  5. A widget to quickly locate "most recent invoices put in system".

    We use Xero in our retail store and sometimes we end up DOUBLING up invoices for one order (paperwork is picked up by another helpful person to put in, but has already been put in).
    Also good for tracking daily invoices/orders placed.

    Thanks,
    - Merlin B.

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    Good to know the different elements that our customers find would help them rom the Homepage, Merlin. We'll continue to get a sense of the interest in this here.

    For the time being just to make sure you're aware - The History & notes report is probably most useful to you atm for getting a view of this. You'll be able to run the report for an individual all or users across your organisation and can filter to select only Invoice for Type. Once run if you type 'Created in the search box this'll further zone into just the invoice created by the selected users with in the date range. 🙂

  6. From the watchlist for chart of accounts I would prefer the link go to the balance sheet, not the full chart of accounts.

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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.

  7. The 'Last Signed In' date on the homepage is a bit misleading when in the situation where you signed in before the Xmas break, and then signed in again in the new year. Currently the way it handles this 'Last signed in 1 year ago' makes it sound like you haven't signed in for 12 months.

    I think a better solution here would be if it just said x days ago

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how you'd like to see this improved.

    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 votes and comments too!

  8. So I can filter and view the information how I want to see it rather than using reports.

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    Hi everyone, thanks for raising this. It’s clear that the information people want to see in homepage widgets varies a lot. For some, the invoice reference is key; for others it’s the due date or the contact. Being able to choose which columns appear would make these widgets far more useful for quick daily checks.

    Right now, if the detail you need isn’t shown in the widget, you have to leave the homepage and open the full Invoices or Bills list, or run a relevant report just to confirm. That takes away from the idea of the homepage being a true at-a-glance view.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can understand demand for more flexible homepage widgets. If there’s a specific column you rely on every day, call it out in the comments — that will be useful to us.

  9. Could the Accounts Watchlist feature have an option to have user specific watchlists? The accounts I want to pay close attention to as Head of Finance is different to what the Finance Assistant wants to see. Not all accounts are organisation wide specific.

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  10. When creating a new organisation, there isn't an option to choose Xero from the dropdown list of "What tool are you currently using to run your business". I'm migrating from one org to another because of limitations in your PAYE scheme functionality. Right now, a user can't select Xero from the list, which may help you shed light on users who are either running into org challenges or who are power users of your tools.

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    Thanks for sharing this idea.

    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 votes and comments too!

  11. Hi Community,

    In relation to XERO security, I suggest all users should have a password expiry functionality where after a period (eg 6 months) it prompts all users to change their password.

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    Hi Simon, thanks so much for taking the time to share this great idea about improving login security.

    We've had a look, and your suggestion to add a password expiry feature is now open for the community to vote and comment on.

    We're keen to see what others think! They can now add their votes and share how this would help them manage their own business's security policies in Xero.

  12. I love the way the various areas have been split now (Home Sales Purchases Payroll etc)

    I would prefer that reports relating to each of those sections, be stored in their menus. IN the Reporting menu, I have 10 varying reports which make it a long menu path. If they were in their individual menus (e.g. Aged Receivables Summary in Sales menu; Aged Payables Summary in Purchase, all Payroll related reports in Payroll) it would be easier to find and more logical. You could have more reports visible as well in each Menu.

    If this is not possible, can we…

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    Great to hear you like the new layout of the navigation, Jason.

    Appreciate how further customisation of reports and possible nesting under the relevant menu drop downs could be useful. We'll get a gauge of the interest in this from others in the community here.

    This isn't something we have plans for atm, but will share if this gets picked up at all.

  13. Navigation - Main Menu
    Personally, I access practice tools and hubdoc / syft several times daily, I'd prefer not thave to scroll down to get to these. Settings and Subscription / Billing are access much less frequently and coud me lower in the menu.
    Also the Xero Menu and Home Menu seem to do exactly the same thing? Could the main drop down menu therefore be moved over to the LHS where it was previously.

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    Thanks for your feedback, Tina. To make it easy to track the interest from community and keep you updated we request each post is contained to a single idea. I've slightly amended your idea to the first that you mentioned around navigating to practice tools. We have a slightly different one for the navigation to Hubdoc that you may like to vote for.

    For the last point you've noted around the Xero and Home buttons - welcome to start a new idea for this too, that we can track support in. Thanks

  14. Separate the Analytics menu from Reports; removing the needless navigation for a submenu

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    Appreciate your feedback, Ravinder. Lets start to get a gauge of the community support through your idea here 😊

    Our product team are watching the feedback through this forum closely and if there are any updates we'll share with you, here.

  15. As part of our QA, we review the list of users to check that it is up to date, eg, remove terminated employees, remove auditors at the completion of the audit or revert to Read Only, etc.

    It would be great to be able to filter/sort the view by access type, such as looking only at Payroll Employees, or filtering them out.

    8 votes

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  16. Would like to be able to add users with only access to invoicing, without them seeing any other part of Xero. This would be a huge benefit so I can have team members invoice customers without seeing company financials.

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  17. Ability to cc and bcc when sending emails from xero.

    This would be very useful as we have many clients that like to have various other people copied in.

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    Hi community, we value your engagement in product ideas here. As you may have seen we've recently rolled out a new send experience in new invoicing. 

    With this new side-by-side view you'll find you can also CC and BCC other emails 🎉

    While this feature is contained to new invoicing atm, we'll look at applying a similar experience to other areas of Xero that you can send from in the future, so we'll keep you updated of any further developments for this here. Thanks!

  18. It would be useful to be able to see today's exchange rates on the dashboard - I use information on the dashboard to prepare a weekly report and it's annoying to have to go to another screen to display exchange rates which also form part of my Excel report.

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    Thanks for sharing this suggestion for the Xero Dashboard. We understand that when you're preparing regular reports, having all the key information in one place can be a real time-saver.

    We've reviewed your idea to be able to see today's exchange rates directly on the dashboard. We can see how having this information readily available would streamline your weekly reporting process.

    Your idea is now open to gain support from other community members. Along with votes, others who work with multiple currencies can now comment to share how this feature would improve their own workflows.🙂

  19. It would be nice if the Xero app was fully functional like the website. I have clients that only use tablets and rarely use the website. Making the app identical to the website in feature would make it easier for them to do things

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    We've reviewed your suggestion, and it's now open to the community for support. Please share it with any colleagues who would benefit so they can vote and add their comments. Their feedback will help show how this idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  20. Currently this only shows over a 12 month period when in all cases I'd like to see how well each customer or supplier has performed against the same month last year.

    At worst could this not simply be a 15 month graph (as if it were 13 then the previous month/previous year would drop of when everything was in by the beginning of the following month?

    • at best could you select filters to compare even the past 3 years by month etc...
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    We appreciate the feedback on having more controls over the period of the cash in and out widget.

    With the rollout of the new Homepage underway our product teams have a close ear to the ground of feedback and I'll be sure to update if there is any changes planned for the periods of this widget here.

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