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  1. I am going through a bad divorce and I have to give my ex wife read only access to my company file however i am going against court orders and not giving her access as i know she will take invoices, purchase orders and product sell and buy prices to my competitors once our settlement is complete.

    I need xero to create a read only service that does not show invoices, purchase orders, bills, inventory and also removes the report tab. pretty much just allow her to see bank accounts and where money is getting allocated.

    i really feel like…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. Xero’s current roles (including Read only) are intentionally broad, but we know they’re often too ‘all or nothing’. We can’t give a timeline for specific changes to Read only yet, but the direction is definitely toward more configurable roles and tighter control over what view-only users can see.

  2. New Inventory Permissions - Standard user automatically gets full control of inventory. Is it possible to customise this like you have in Invoice only to View,Edit etc?

    Could we please request further customisation of inventory permissions?

    Under the current permission structure (NEW), a standard user has the ability to edit and manage inventory. However, if reduced to Invoice only, they can view inventory items (which is helpful) but they lose the ability to view all invoices for a contact. This makes it difficult for them to properly review customer purchasing history.

    At present, the only way to allow visibility of…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for the additional feedback! Understand how having these permissions for the Standard role would be beneficial, and this is something we do want to support but don't have a clear timeframe for just yet.

    I'll shift your idea for Accepted right now and keep you updated of any progress around this here.

  3. Hi Xero Team,

    I’m really disappointed to discover that the Xero Mobile App doesn’t provide any way to view the Balance Sheet - a core financial statement that forms half of any set of accounts and is the backbone of understanding a business’s position.

    As a property developer, tracking CAPEX spends per project is critical, and not having quick access to this information on the go is a significant limitation. Even a simple dashboard or quick-glance view in the app would make a huge difference for users like me who rely on Xero to manage their businesses efficiently.

    We all…

    21 votes

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    Appreciate your feedback here, James. It's good to hear the sort of information our customers would find most handy on the go.

    This isn't something we have direct plans for atm, but we'll get a sens of the interest for viewing the Balance Sheet in the Xero Accounting app from the community here and I'll let you know if there are any plans made.

  4. I’d love to see a feature added that helps prevent accidental data loss when entering conversion balances. Currently, if you leave the page without saving, there’s no warning and it’s easy to lose your work. I’d really appreciate a dialogue window that pops up when you try to navigate away with unsaved changes.

    17 votes

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    Hi Karlee, thanks for sharing this idea.

    We've now reviewed your idea and it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that could benefit from the warning/ pop up notification on unsaved conversion balances before they navigate away so they can add their vote too!

    Other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  5. I would suggest adding "Drafts" to sales and purchases menu.

    21 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing back on the new navigation experience with us here. We understand there are different options that our customers would find most useful within the menu drop downs and our product teams are paying close attention to the feedback we receive on this in Product Ideas. We will share any updates surrounding this with you all here.

  6. I would suggest adding "Drafts" to sales and purchases menu.

    24 votes

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    Great to be getting this feedback and see the input from our community that are getting a gauge of the new navigation experience. Thank you.

    Our product teams are very close to the different needs being shared from our customers in the forum here and we will keep you updated if there are any plans made around the menu options for Sales.

  7. Please add an option to temporarily unlock accounts. For example, a user could unlock them for five minutes, see a countdown, and have them automatically lock again when time ends. This would prevent users from forgetting to re-lock the accounts and reduce the risk of accidental changes.
    (The unlock should apply only to that user, while all other users remain locked out.)

    2 votes

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    Hi Muhammad, thanks for starting this conversation. We understand the request for a temporary lock date unlock that automatically restores the lock after a set time. This could be a useful option for teams that occasionally need to make adjustments after a period has been closed.

    I’ve updated the post to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community feedback. If you have a preferred way for the timer or auto-lock to work, please share it below.

  8. Anywhere we can add Notes (invoices, transactions, etc.) we should be able to tag other users. I'd like to write a note for my bookkeeper and tag her so she knows to go look at it.

    Those tags should then show up as notifications in that users console and/or some sort of "To-do" area.

    6 votes

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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 can see how quickly tagging other users straight from Xero would be helpful. We've updated the status to "Gaining Support" and It's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  9. Editing the Branding Theme doesn't change all instances of certain terms. We don't use QUOTES in our business, we send out PROPOSALS. Changing all instances of QUOTES here doesn't change all instances of Quotes throughout the approval process. On the approval page, if you click Download in the upper right hand corner, it still says "Quote Q-####" and on the invoice itself it references a Quote number, not a Proposal number.

    2 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 🙂

  10. Custom reports as an option the Report drop down. I know we can favourite them, but if we have a lot of custom reports it's quicker just to go to the custom report page immediately and work from there.

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback on the new navigation experience, Hilary.It's great to hear our customers are familiarising themselves with the new layout.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Our product team are paying close attention to the ideas and feedback we are receiving on this, and we'll continue to track the interest closely.

  11. To be able to globally set the entire Xero platform to week start on a Monday

    5 votes

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    Hi Harvey, 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. Feel free to share this with your colleagues and friends who might find this feature useful. Cheers

  12. Great Change
    Upcoming changes are very useful. However, a small suggestion re. the home page menu: As an Accountant in practice would like the following order.

    Home
    Accounting
    Sales
    Purchases
    Payroll
    Reporting
    Tax and
    Contacts.

    15 votes

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    Interesting to hear the differing views in terms of the ordering here. Thanks for your feedback.

    We're paying close attention to everything our community is sharing about the new navigation here and if there are any plans made around the ordering we will let you know.

  13. I used to be able to sort by login history to see who has been working on which client account. This feature no longer is available it seems. Also, there used to be the ability to see a year's worth of logins, now it's only a few months. Why the change? This doesn't help when we are doing a year's worth of book-keeping for previous periods and I would like the functionality back to what we had in Classic. When using something New, please add and not remove well used and helpful reports and options. Thank you.

    BTW, why did…

    11 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. Currently the History and notes Assurance dashboard shows the date and time for the year. We can appreciate that the Users - login history should show a period longer than 60 days, 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.

  14. Currently our monthly bank revaluation FX diff is being automatically coded by Xero to be split between tracking categories rather than simply being "unassigned". However, for our purposes, once USD are banked, they no longer "belong" to that tracking category and instead are general company funds. It is impossible to tell Xero to stop coding revaluation amounts to tracking categories but this doesn't make sense for the accounts, especially when a tracking category finished within the business months ago. It would make more sense for the FX funds held to be an unassigned tracking category once they are in the…

    9 votes

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    Hi Imogen, thanks for sharing your thoughts on multicurrency bank revaluations. We understand how having FX differences automatically assigned to tracking categories doesn’t always fit your workflow.

    This idea has been moved to Gaining support, so the community can vote and share their experiences. Adding a bit more about why this change would help in your workflow can help others see the value and give the product team context.

    We’ll keep an eye on the discussion and share updates as the idea develops.

  15. I have read the Xero feedback that multiple approval levels in XeroMe expenses is not on the roadmap (disspointing) but I would like to make a case for a specific situation. I have team managers that can approve other expenses, but they should not be able to approve their own expenses.

    Can we please have a check box, or option, that if someone is granted approver status, that they should or should not be able to approve their own expenses? Everyone needs a reviewer, but as it stands, if someone is granted approval rights, that individual can approve their own…

    5 votes

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    Hi Brian, thanks for sharing your feedback. We understand the point in having an option to prevent users from approving their own expense claims, particularly for larger teams or businesses with more structured approval workflows.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and help our product teams better understand the demand for this type of approval permission setting.

  16. Where you have a group of companies, it would be great if you could have a HomePage which consilidated the position across all Group companies. Forinstance if you had 3 subsidiaries under 1 topco, it would be great to see the cash balances, creditors and debtors of all 4 companies in one place.

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    Hi Peter, 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. Cheers!

  17. Remove the ability from certain users to delete bank line transactions.

    We need clients to update bank login details etc however we don't want them to have the ability to delete line transactions.

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    Hi Zak, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand how having more granular user permissions to prevent specific users from deleting bank transactions could help strengthen internal controls while still allowing users to complete their task.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this permission would be valuable for your business, we'd love to hear more about how you manage bank permission across your team.

  18. The 3 letters that are by the company name are automatically chosen by Xero, we should be allowed to change this to something relevant, for example, my company is called ACR Fabrications Ltd, common sense would dictate those 3 letters should be ACR yet xero has chosen AFL which is obviously the first letter of each part but that's not relevant to my company

    6 votes

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    Hi Ashley, thanks for sharing your idea. 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.

  19. Permissions - User Roles to Submit and Approve Journals.

    There is currently just an option to "save as draft" or "post" so no approval workflow or audit trail on approvals.

    Users should have custom permission to create/submit or approve journals.

    1 vote

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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. 🙂

  20. Individuals with the ability to manage users should be able to change and update email addresses for users rather than having to delete the user and add again.

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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. 🙂

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