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  1. We have various users from accounts administrator to operations managers and the new home screen will automatically show them extra information they don't necessarily need, as in, the operations managers should ideally have the bills and invoices front and centre and not really each other's credit cards. Also, the profit and loss widget is extremely annoying being there as our management is presented with monthly accrual basis accounts and use a custom P+L that require a large number of journals done so the profit and loss widget is wrong until the journals get done. At the moment, the only way…

    28 votes

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    10 comments  ·  Homepage  ·  Admin →
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    Hi Debbie, thanks for sharing this idea! Giving a Subscriber control over the team’s homepage layout would be really useful—helping everyone focus on the right tasks while keeping sensitive information private.

    Right now, each user customises their own dashboard, so it can be tricky for admins to know exactly what’s visible. For now, User Roles can limit access to certain data, or you can share a simple SOP with a screenshot of your preferred layout for staff to match.

    I’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can see how many in the community would find this helpful. Your feedback really helps guide what we look at next.

  2. A widget or chatbox where you can leave comments for accountant or business owner?

    Ability to strikeoff and clear the comments/tasks. Ability to add attachments like screenshots or even videos will be a great feature for this widget.

    This widget can sit on dashboard.

    68 votes

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    23 comments  ·  Homepage  ·  Admin →
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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.

  3. Allow searching for unreconciled transactions from the home page.

    82 votes

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    9 comments  ·  Homepage  ·  Admin →
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    Appreciate the interest this idea is receiving about the new homepage experience. Thanks for your input!

    It would be good to clarify here - when you say you'd like to search Unreconciled transactions, would you be wanting to do this across all banks at once, or within each bank widget?

    We don't have any plans around this right now, but are continuing to track the interest here.

  4. Lock Date Message - link directly to financial settings
    Adding a hyperlink when you get the lock date error message to take you directly to the financial settings to update this instead of having to navigate there manually.

    8 votes

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    Thanks for bringing this to us Kory, we appreciate the time taken to let us know that having a hyperlink to the lock date section in the Financial Settings would be desirable. This Idea is now open for votes and comments from others in the community, so you can share this with friends and colleagues, this will allow us to gauge interest. We will post any updates here.

  5. "Doing Business As" is an important aspect of doing business because it allows separation of business and organizational administration as well as important banking, tax and branding functions. Something as mundane as cashing a check at the bank can be done in the name of your registered brand or dba but not if the check is written out to an LLC or Inc. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to make this distinction officially in the Xero software. As an example, my company is X-Ray and Digital Services, LLC but I do business and all my branding is…

    5 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  6. Change the high contract blue colour back to the softer on the eye colur before the recent update.

    Recent update changed the font and blue background on menu banners and buttons in the desktop interface
    * The new blue color is too bright, causing fonts to appear blurry and creating harsh contrast that is difficult to read.
    * Request to restore the previous blue color due to readability and eye strain concerns

    The old blue and new blue can be seen together in the hep chat.

    4 votes

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    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. 🙂

  7. Please add a widget on the homepage that displays the bank accounts in a simple table format, including the account name, balance, and transactions that need reconciliation.

    Overall, the new layout takes up too much space, making it difficult to fit essential information on a screen.

    A more compact view without unnecessary elements would be appreciated.

    And also the optin to disable popup adverts!

    24 votes

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    8 comments  ·  Homepage  ·  Admin →
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    Hi team, as we continue to closely monitor feedback about the new Homepage we really appreciate your input and feedback on the view of bank accounts here.

    We understand how having a more compact view of all bank accounts to see the information you need at a glance would be useful and are picking this idea up to dig deeper. I'll be back to share any news around this with you all here. Thanks

  8. Before the update, we were able to add settings like Report Codes to favourites, so it would appear automatically on the drop down list. Can you please reinstate the ability to add specific settings to favourites

    56 votes

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    6 comments  ·  Navigation  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for letting us know how this favourites feature matters to 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 votes and comments about how this would benefit them, too!

  9. The ability to access the setting for each menu item is great.
    The ability to create a sales invoice for billable expenses from the billable expense is outstanding.
    The button to View transactions on each bank account on the home page is excellent but I would like this button for accounts that have items to reconcile as well. Fewer clicksHelp banner on each page. I would like to be able to disable this permanently for established clients.Sales tab.
    Love the "Billable Expenses", Needs to be aboveQuotes. Need to be able to not bill them where I have a project invoice. Just assign the customer.
    Purchases Tab:…

    99 votes

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    Hi Michele, connecting with our product team I understand you directly caught up with them on some of these points too. We really value the time you've taken to connect and feedback about these beta experiences.

    I've split your feedback here to multiple ideas so we can track interest in each change separately.

    I've updated the title of this idea to reflect the request to add the Account transactions' button to the bank account widget and you'll find the other idea's I've created on your behalf listed below. 🙂

  10. 21 votes

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    Really good to get this sort of detail about aspects of the homepage that you feel could be condensed or removed to help with your experience of the homepage. We're continuing to get an understanding of community interest around this and hear any further detail of where within the page you feel space is unnecessary. Thanks

  11. When doing the year end processes, an accountant should be able to unlock the period for their log in only ie 'unlock for me only' as if the client or others have the same user access, they can change the accounts while we are working.

    48 votes

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    Appreciate your sharing on lock date controls. Being able to remove lock dates for specific users can help maintain accounting information .

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining support, so the community can vote and comment. If you have any details about how you’d use it, adding them here will help everyone understand the idea better and give the product team more context down the line.

    We’ll update more here once we gain more traction.

  12. Have a widget for custom reports.

    Be able to access your customised reports from the home screen or at least from a button on the drop-down menu.

    56 votes

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    Appreciate the extra details shared by everyone here.

    We'll continue to get a track of the interest in a specific widget for accessing reports from the Homepage and share if there are any developments planned around this.

    Right now, just to highlight what is possible - You can favourite a report from the Reports centre including a custom report you've set up to make this accessible from the Reporting drop down menu in the navigation.

  13. Fewer clicks - Help banner on each page. I would like to be able to disable this permanently for established clients.

    89 votes

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    We're grateful for sharing your experience with the beta for our new navigation.

    Our Community have reviewed and shared your feedback with our product team. Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  14. Next Payroll Wiget for Homepage
    When the new homepage was launched, I was hoping for a widget that had the link to the next scheduled payroll, the draft amount, the due date, leave to approve, timesheets to approve, last payroll (perhaps), super payments, etc. Layout could be like the 'Bills to pay' widget without the chart. Given that in Australia, SGC will need to be paid each payroll, that draft amount could also be added in the widget, linking to the Super payments module.

    27 votes

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    Hi team, happy to share that this is something our teams are working on at present!

    We're developing a Payrun widget to help you keep track of upcoming or current pay runs ☺️

    I'll come back to share as it rolls out.

  15. We use cash basis for reporting, but utilize the COA watchlist in the accrual basis.

    Having the ability to choose your accounting basis on the Chart of Account watchlist would allow users to take full advantage of the COA watchlist without having to change their reporting basis to one basis to utilize the watchlist and back to the other for reporting.

    25 votes

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    Hi there,


    Thanks for sharing this idea!


    I can see how frustrating it is to have to jump back and forth into your Advanced Settings just to get the view you need on your dashboard.


    The Account Watchlist is meant to give you a quick "at-a-glance" look at your numbers, and having to change your global reporting basis to make it useful definitely adds extra steps to your day.


    I’ve assessed this and moved it to Gaining Support. This will allow our product team to see how many other users are running their operations on a different basis than their compliance reporting.


    I’ve also updated your title to: Dashboard - Independent accounting basis toggle for Account Watchlist to make it easier for others to find and vote on.


    In the meantime, while the dashboard widget is tied to your global settings, you can save a custom version of the…

  16. Viewer permissions - Ability to customize Viewer permission for users. Eg If I want to provide viewing access to only Bills but not for Bank accounts. Also, ability to provide access to users based on Reporting tracking category, this is very useful for not-for-profit organization, where many staff are volunteer and we would like to assign user based on reporting category.

    7 votes

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    Thanks for raising this, Reshma. We understand the request for more flexible View Only permissions, so access could be limited to specific areas.

    I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. What would you want to be able to include or exclude when setting up Viewer access?

  17. When exporting P&L or BS Reports into excel can the GL account number & description be separated into 2 separate columns - currently it exports as one field/column and needs a formula to separate the 2. This should be a standard feature ...surely

    29 votes

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    Hi Lisa thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We've reviewed your idea and now it is up to the community to get behind it and support it. You can share this idea with your colleagues and peers who may also find this functionality useful. In the meantime, we'll monitor this idea for traction.

  18. Create widget option to show a list view of draft invoices, and the same for bills.

    18 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Joe.

    Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    We''ll keep an eye on the traction this idea gets in the community. Thanks

  19. Can we be allowed to change the time selection on the cash in and out view (eg to 12/13 or even 18 months?) seems to be stuck on 6 months for me. I think to see trends you really need to see at least a year

    19 votes

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    Hi there, thanks for the suggestion!


    You're right that the current 'Total Cash In and Out' widget is fixed to a 6-month view.


    While you can see longer periods by running a Cash Summary report, I understand that having that 12 or 18-month trend visible immediately on your dashboard would be much more powerful for spotting seasonal patterns.


    I’ve classified this as 'Gaining Support' to see how many others would like more flexibility with this widget's timeframe

  20. Hierarchy of approvals of bills and Purchase orders

    eg Invoices over £1000 go to tom to approve

    74 votes

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    We appreciate the feedback and interest in being able to set different levels of approval across different transaction types in Xero atm. Currently the draft permission will enable a user to create draft transactions in an org with out the ability to approve, while the Sales Invoice Only role will enable a user to create and approve invoices or quotes without access to purchases, and similarly the Invoice Only Purchases role will allow a user to create and approve Purchase transactions without access to Sales.

    To better understand the ask in this idea can you share exactly the type of set up you would be looking to achieve to help with entering information in your organisation.

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