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Tracking Categories - Increase maximum number of active tracking categories and tracking options
More Tracking Categories Fields: please would you consider increasing the number of Category fields? Currently there's only 2 fields and in a situation where you want to track complex sales cycles and sources, this is not sufficient.
For example - tracking a referring business, a partner account manager, a salesperson and a client account manger.
Having categories allows to perform calculations of revenue generated, its sources etc.
262 votesHi everyone, thank you for sharing how the current tracking limits impact your reporting and tracking of different aspects of your business and processes. We know this is an important capability.
We’re exploring how we might tackle the needs in this idea and enhance Tracking Categories for the future.
While we can't commit to developments at this stage, we want you to know we hear the support and feedback from our community on this.
We’ll provide another update as the direction for this feature becomes clearer.
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Bank Reconciliation - Add Tracking Category to Transfer
when using tracking categrories it would be useful to be able to add the tracking category to a bank transfer, instead of going through find and match and the adding a transfer.
50 votesHi Dominik, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
We've reviewed your idea to add a tracking category option on the transfer when reconciling your bank accounts, 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.
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Invoicing - Apply tracking category automatically after creation
When you need to create a new tracking option in the sales invoice screen, you have to search for it again after you have just created it.
This used to work where it would keep the tracking option you just created but now you have to then search for it to select it again. Doubling up.17 votesThanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We appreciate you explaining how the workflow for creating and selecting tracking options could be 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 vote too!
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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Export Accounting Data - Export data with tracking categories split into columns
Add an option to export accounting data with tracking categories split into separate lines instead of combined in one field.
This would make exports much easier to use in other software, reduce manual data cleanup, and support clients who need to import Xero data into reporting tools or different accounting systems.
9 votesHi Alice, 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.
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Invoices - Create invoice to a date. Simple scheduling calender
Basically calendar to add draft invoices to, to use as a job scheduling calendar.
Add draft invoices/job to a date add basic detail to the schedule day and it saves the detail in the description row on invoice with the date.
Each time you add an invoice to a date and you add detail it adds new row with simple details
Once finished you finalize draft invoice as normal.
14 votesHi Michael, returning to your idea here this'd be quite a difference to the way in which Xero works today and we don't have any plans of adding an invoice calendar to be able to schedule tasks that'll add new rows to an existing invoice.
That said, we have another idea for being able to add a date column to invoices that you may like to join and would be a step toward what you're hoping to achieve here.
Alternatively, if not already I'd recommend exploring Projects that enables you to add tasks and expenses on the fly. When ready you can create draft invoices from the tasks and expenses within a project which can be carried through as either a combined line or individual lines on your invoice.
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Tracking Category - Add description or internal notes field
It would be helpful if you could add a description or comment field to tracking categories. This would allow us to add keep category names concise and then add more information to in the description field so that we can describe things like how it is used, start and end dates for event tracking etc.
8 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that having more context around Tracking Categories could help teams apply them consistently, especially when managing more complex reporting setups.
The suggestion is to add a description or notes field to Tracking Categories, giving teams a place to record how each category should be used.
For now, some teams use internal guides or shared documents to keep these details available. We’ll continue tracking this idea here, where other users can add their feedback and examples to help shape future improvements.
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100 limit is insufficient and will force us to abandon Xero
For our business it is essential that we get increase the number within each tracking category which is currently capped at 100 for each category (there are two).
If this is not addressed soon, as we reach the 100th project we will need to abandon Xero, which is a great inconvenience for us, especially as Xero works well in every other respect.
1 voteThanks 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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More tiers of financial tracking, budgeting and reporting
For organisations managing multiple portfolios, funding contracts, services, properties and events, Xero’s current limitations around tracking categories and reporting hierarchies make it difficult to capture and report financial information across these different levels/tiers.
There is a need to allocate Budgets and expenditure at different levels, automatically link related information, and roll figures up or drill down to see actual spend and variances. This doesn’t appear achievable through Xero’s standard functionality.
Has anyone explored custom development to extend Xero’s functionality to meet these requirements, or found another solution?
1 voteThanks 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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Fix the dark & light colour coding on the 'cash in and cash out' section of the dashboard.
The light and dark blue coding on the dashboard for 'cash in and cash out' is switched. It is extremely confusing. At first sight, cash in is in light blue, cash out is in dark blue but when you click on the columns to see the amount it is the other way around. This is basic visual communication.
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When using Xero for a multi-entity organisation, tracking categories are essential for identifying which entity each transaction belongs to.
When using Xero for a multi-entity organisation, tracking categories are essential for identifying which entity each transaction belongs to.
At present, opening/conversion balances entered at the conversion date appear as Unassigned in tracking reports, and there is no simple way to assign tracking categories to those balances.
This creates a recurring problem because the Unassigned tracking report is then cluttered with historical conversion balances, making it harder to identify genuinely uncoded transactions after the migration date.
In my case, I have approximately 73 opening balance entries dated 30 June 2026 across multiple entities. All post-conversion transactions are correctly tracked, but…1 voteHi 👋 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.
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Tracking categories - Ability to set alert to add tracking to every transaction
Please give us the option to add more than 2 tracking categories and settings to generate an alert when a transaction (PO,Sale,Purchase) is generated without picking the category
1 voteThanks for your feedback, Vicky.
We have an existing idea for being able to add more than two active tracking category's that I've just added your vote for.
So, I've updated the title of your idea for the second idea you've shared around a warning or alert in transactions.
I want to be open that if this idea is picked up it's unlikely this would be implemented across all transactions at once, however it would be great to start getting a wider sense of the interest of this here for our product teams to consider.
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Inventory | Invoice - Add a Minimum Order Quantity to restrict line-item entry amounts
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So with Pastel you could insert the minimum quantities into the system and when you book out products when you invoice a client the system would have a automatic pop up informing you that your product qty is below the minimum order qty you have set. Please can you bring in this function. It is very time consuming for us to have to export sheets of data and to review all the products from Xero exported sheet to my excel sheets.
2 votesHi Kristie, thanks for putting this forward. We understand that having a Minimum Order Quantity setting could help businesses manage wholesale rules and reduce the risk of orders being processed below required thresholds.
The suggestion here is to add a native MOQ field or validation that prevents users from creating invoices with quantities below the set limit.
For now, you can add MOQ details to the item description in Products and Services as a reminder when creating invoices.
We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and share your feedback with our invoicing and inventory teams.
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Bills - Certificate Insurance | Prevent bill from being submitted after COI has expired
Certificate insurance is a big part of our company's operation. Xero needs to include a mandatory compliance option for companies to implement. When a compliance requirement, e.g., a certificate of insurance, is due to expire in 30 days, the system should prevent bills from being submitted for payment until compliance is met.
6 votesHi Kristi, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We've moved this idea to gain more support from the community. We'll be monitoring this space for more traction. Cheers!
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Reporting | Tracking - Inherit tracking categories on foreign exchange gain and loss
Assign tracking categories to exchange gains and losses based on the original transaction postings.
1 voteHi Kelly, thanks for sharing this idea. Having FX gains and losses inherit the tracking categories from the original transactions could make departmental and cost centre reporting easier to manage.
I've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. How would you like this to work? For example, should the tracking category automatically follow the original transaction, or should users have the option to select how FX adjustments are tracked?
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Tracking Categories - Bank Feed Rules
We use location codes to sperate our transactions by site or (cost centre). I tried to create a bank rule to allow the transaction to be dynamically allocated to an individual location, depending on the location appearing in the transaction description.
I have been told that this does not currently exist.
8 votesHi Peter, thanks for sharing this idea about having the option for setting tracking categories in bank feed rules. This idea is now in Gaining Support status, which means it's open for the community to show their support through votes and comments. We encourage others who would find this useful to add their votes and share how they'd use this functionality. We'll keep an eye on the feedback and engagement this receives.
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Payroll UK: assign payroll group tracking to statutory recoveries
Reclaimed statutory maternity pay showing as unassigned despite employee in an employment group on their employee record.
1 voteThanks for sharing your idea about Xero payroll automatically applying group tracking to statutory pay.
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.
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Tracking - Sub-category under options
Can we please add the ability to set up a sub-category under category options?
For instance, we have already tracking categories by store locations (i.e. Loc 1, Loc 2, Loc 3). However, we need to have a sub-category per Deputy's area (i.e. FOH, BOH) under the store locations.
Category option: Loc 1 (Store Location)
Sub-category option: FOH, BOH (Area)If we could set up a sub-category under tracking options, that would be great. Thank you!
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Validity period for Tracking Category
We would like the possibility to assign a validity period to each new "Tracking Category" entry.
This would mean that you don't have to see all options every time the Tracking Category drop down list is selected e.g. when entering an invoice.
It would also help to limit the Tracking Category options available to employees, for example, when they enter their expenses.
3 votesHi Amanda, Tracking was originally designed to be used as a way to track and monitor parts of the business that did not have a lifespan like departments. Appreciate there are many different ways our customers have grown to use tracking, and we'll start to track the interest in this through your idea. But do want to be open that we don't have any plans for this at present.
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Tracking - Increase tracking options limit
Hi there, we have been using tracking options for our projects and we have now reached the maximum number and reached the limit for it, but we don't want to delete the previous projects<. Just want to know, if we can increase options limit to numbers. Thank you.
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Tracking - "Add another option" at top of page
When you have a large number of Tracking category options and you wish to add another, you have to scroll heavily to get to the bottom of the list each time you wish to add another.
This is not time efficient. The option to add another tracking category option should be at the top of the page for simplicity and time management of the XERO user7 votes
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