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  1. Please can we have automatic spaces for mobile numbers in XPM eg xxxx xxx xxx

    (Edited by Community Manager to remove personal data)

    11 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about phone number formatting in XPM. We understand that this change could improve number readability.

    Your idea has been moved to Gaining support, which means the community can now vote and comment. If this is something you’d like to see, joining the conversation and adding your support helps bring it to the right people in product.

    We’ll keep an eye on any updates and share progress here.

  2. This may not gain much traction with established partners, but for those of us who are new to Xero and are working to establish a business, the requirement to sign on a client within 60 days is a problem. At one time, the requirement was 90 days but was shortened to 60 in 2017.

    It should, however, not exist at all.
    Note that your closest competitor has no such requirement.

    What management may not realize is that it comes across as a threat from the beginning, which frankly stopped me from signing up for the program for a while. Now…

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you David. We'll open this idea up to the community so they can share their thoughts and add votes. Make sure to share this with your friends and colleagues who might also benefit from the implementation of this idea.

  3. At the moment, we can only print the tax return to show the TFN before changing the status to out-for-sign. The option should be available at all times to enable printing the tax return with the TFN when required. We have received a few requests from banks asking for the tax return with the TFN, but we aren't able to reprint it once it is lodged.

    2 votes

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    Hi Ribert, thanks for highlighting this. We can see how being able to print or download a lodged tax return with the TFN visible could be helpful when clients need to provide documents to banks or other third parties.

    Currently, the option to display the TFN is only available before the return progresses beyond certain stages of the workflow. Once lodged, the TFN is masked on generated copies to help protect sensitive information.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If there are particular scenarios where you regularly need to reproduce lodged returns with the TFN visible, we'd appreciate hearing more about those use cases.

  4. It would be good if the "Mark as Approved" and "Mark as Signed" buttons in XPM were different colours rather than the same green. It is very easy to click on Mark as Signed in error.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea relating to changing the colour of the buttons in XPM, 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.

  5. Make menus easier, there are too many different places in Xero such as My Xero, Xero HQ, Xero Central. It is very confusion what is where, one would be enough such as Xero HQ with all in one place. Cannot raise cases anymore without speaking to AI first which is also annoying. I struggle to remember what is in Xero HQ, My Xero, Xero Central etc - could we not just have one area for all of this.

    1 vote

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     ·  System responded

    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. 🙂

  6. when printing tax return you can do a one click anonymiser to exclude all sensitive data. This allows for blind review and the use of AI tools without compromising confidentiality

    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. 🙂

  7. After discussion with Xero support it would be beneficial to have the option for multiple business worksheets added to the Trust Tax Returns.

    4 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand you’re looking for a way to manage multiple business activities within a single Trust Tax Return.

    The suggestion is to support multiple business worksheets within one return, making it easier to capture different business streams separately while keeping the tax file organised.

    For now, some practices use external spreadsheets to consolidate and track this information before completing the return. We'll continue to track the interest on this idea here.


  8. The ability to create depreciation and motor vehicle schedules against share of partnership (and some trust) distributions is critical. Cannot believe it isn't available.

    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. 🙂

  9. Classic Workpapers - the Ability to export workpapers to pdf in Bulk. In preparation for the end of the classic workpaper, so that we can upload to our document management system for future reference and audit requirements.

    6 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback on bulk PDF export for Classic Workpapers. We appreciate you 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.

  10. It would be good if Xero tax is able to prefill the PAYG Instalments paid/raised in the tax returns.

    4 votes

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    Hi Sharleen, appreciate you raising this idea. We understand that having PAYG instalment details flow through to tax returns would help make the process smoother and reduce the need to manually check separate records.

    We'll continue to track interest and engagement for our product teams to understand the value of improving how PAYG instalment information flows into tax returns.


  11. The standard Date of Death field needs to be made available in Report Builder as an option rather than having to creaite a custom field doing the same job, just so you can run a report

    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. 🙂

  12. When I view the groups in the client tab, then manage groups, it shows the number of clients in each group, but I cannot export that information, or I cannot report on the Group number of clients data.

    Seems that this isn't a big issue to create a new field to add to the Group report for number of clients in each group, because the data is there...

    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. 🙂

  13. Problem

    Xero currently allows practices to restrict staff access to specific clients. Under the Clients section, staff members can only view the clients they have been granted access to.

    However, when the same staff member clicks on the Tax tab, they can view the full list of client tax returns across the entire practice. This effectively bypasses the client access restrictions that have been configured and undermines the purpose of limiting staff visibility.

    Why This Matters

    Many firms use client access permissions to:

    • Protect confidential client information
    • Segregate duties among team members
    • Ensure staff only work on their allocated client…
    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. 🙂

  14. want to be able to create Report Builder filtering Tax Returns where 'Final Tax Return' has been answered 'Yes' - this will help keep Offboarding & ATO list tiday & up to date for lodgement performance - can't seem to find this field in current report filters though

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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. 🙂

  15. Hi, this single billing account for UK or global is very painful, why cant your practice account bill for all clients, seems ludicrous that i have to have 2 separate accounts to bill

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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. 🙂

  16. Allow adjustable column widths in the Clients screen (like Excel), especially for the Client Name field. Long entity names are currently truncated, making it difficult to identify clients. Also allow adding additional columns such as ABN and Address. This will significantly improve usability for practices managing large client bases.

    3 votes

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    Hi Navnit, appreciate your sharing here. We understand you’re looking for adjustable column widths in client view so you can view important details like longer client names without needing to open each record.

    Having more flexible grid layouts could make it easier to review client information and manage records more efficiently.

    We'll keep track of this idea here and will update if there's any progress.


  17. Adding additional formatting options for reports so that we could fit reports to one page when exporting to PDF. Too many financials currently export with one or two line on the last page. This creates messy looking financials that are too many pages.

    6 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea and outlining your key needs. We’ve reviewed it and opened it up for community support 😊

    Share it with colleagues who may find it useful so they can cast their vote. The community can now comment and add insights on how your idea could enhance Xero.

  18. It would b e great to have a general checklist or ability to create a checklist for client onboarding and ensure we get all necessary details as we set up a client

    13 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea about the onboarding for new clients.

    It's now up to the community to get behind and support your idea. 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 and Practice Manager.

  19. Currently when working on provisional tax letter reports, the [Payment] Summary field is a big sentence including the year the calculation is based on, and the RIT
    (eg. 2025 RIT of 5,669.16 (from IRD Statement) + 10% uplift).

    Filtering by this field is therefore not possible.

    It would be great if the year and RIT were separate fields...

    We could then filter by year to find out which clients' calculations are based on last year, and which are based on the year before.

    It would also be useful to be able to filter by RIT.

    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. Emailing and sending documents directly to XPM notes, not just jobs.

    I think this could be valuable if subfolders could also be created.

    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. 🙂

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