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  1. I noticed this morning that country codes have been added to all phone numbers, and the formatting of phone numbers has been affected accordingly. The issue with this, is we use the search function to quickly search for a client's phone number when a client calls us to see who is calling us. The formatting of the number has been removed, previously we had saved numbers as 04 11 111 111 and now the formatting is +6111111111 which makes quickly searching a number more difficult and not as quick. Please remove the requirement for the area code, or make it…

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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. 🙂

  2. It would be helpful to be able to filter by group on the tax page of the Xero practice manager so that we can see what MTD/VAT submissions are our bookkeeping clients for us to submit and which ones submit themselves.

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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. 🙂

  3. AU Tax - Trust Returns
    Item 57 is missing from the navigation on the left.
    It is compulsory for every Trust return, but is so difficult to get to.
    Numerically, and logically, 57 belongs between 56 and 58.
    [For some reason it has been hidden at the bottom of the business items - out of numerical order??? So we have open those items and scroll all the way to the bottom of that listing.]
    Can we please have it on the navigation, between 56 and 58?

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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. 🙂

  4. Section 5 of the FTE form requires all trustees of the trust since the proposed commencement of the election. That date can be several years back, and the list may include former trustees. The declaration only needs the current trustee(s), who sign the form.

    At the moment, Xero Tax uses the same trustee data for both sections. You can’t remove a former trustee from the declaration without also removing them from Section 5. This means one of two things happens:

    Section 5 ends up incomplete, or
    the declaration lists people who aren’t current trustees and won’t be signing.

    This matters…

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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. 🙂

  5. In the new Xero Hub > Jobs > Staff Schedule, need selections so that:
    a) Sort so either the Unallocated Job Tasks do not show, or show at the bottom. At present if a staff member wants to view their schedule, they have to scroll through all the unallocated jobs first
    b) As well as showing the hours budgeted, can the actual hours also be shown on the Staff Schedule. Currently can only see the hours incurred by going into the job itself.
    While have the blue until over budget then goes red bar with the percentage of time taken…

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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. 🙂

  6. There is no filed currently for company registration number (CRO number) in the practice organisation set up. Therefore, the templates do no include this number, and on invoices it pulls in the VAT registration number instead - which is incorrect.

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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. I would love to be able to share deductions between spouses in individual tax returns. Quite often spouses have donations or investment related expenses that need to be split. This would save time.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, Jenni. We'll start to get a wider understanding of the interest for this from Partners here.

    Feel free to share this with other colleagues that would like to see this too, so they can add their vote.

  8. Please open up the reporting options. The current set up is unnecessarily complicated by sectioning everything off but not having all of the relevant fields available for reporting &/or for setting the criteria. Just let us build our own reports using all the fields in the system. It is so inefficient, requires timely workarounds to combine different sets of data, or we flat out cannot get the information we need. It's very frustrating.

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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. Association of International Accountants (AIA) as a choice. AIA is a senior body along with the Chartered Accountants. The only difference with the latter is privy council decision. But all bodies are legally are of the same standing.

    https://www.frc.org.uk/library/supervision/professional-bodies-supervision/professional-bodies-supervision-overview/

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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. 🙂

  10. It would be a game changer for many clients if Xero had the ability to automatically add interest to outstanding accounts receivable invoices that are overdue past a certain time.
    It takes a LOT of time to go into each invoice and manually add interest to each one.

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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. 🙂

  11. Can we please have the ability to export our current Custom Field which is the Registered Office address directly into the new Registered Address Field in XPH, and then be able to choose that Registered Address Field in XPH in the Report Writer, that way we can bulk update the new field with the existing Registered Office addresses that we already have and also use it to run reports for Company Annual Returns

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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. Summary of Feature Request

    Please introduce a dedicated Trading Name field within XPM and make this field searchable, reportable, exportable, and available as a selectable column in client list views. The legal/client name should remain distinct and continue to be used for tax and BAS lodgement workflows. Since XPM and Xero are increasingly using a unified client record, accurate client master data is more important than ever.

    Business Problem

    Australian accounting and bookkeeping practices frequently work with clients whose trading names differ from their legal entity names.

    Examples include:

    Sole Traders
    Legal Name: John Michael Smith
    Trading Name: Smith Plumbing

    …

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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. We have noted that on the payment schedule of a tax return, when a payment is made that is more than the due amount for that date, the rest of the payment shows under the next payment date. Rather than showing the total amount under the one payment date. Is it possible we can have it so the full payment is just showing under the one payment date?

    I do understand this requires traction before action, however - worth an ask.

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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. The 2 tax widgets on the old home screen showed returns by month that could be filtered by tax year, and a bar chart for clear visual progress of filing by tax return type that could be filtered by account manager. Both these widgets were very helpful to us, but all that functionality has disappeared with the new partner hub tax widget that shows only current status of tax returns, which could be quite useful but not clearly presented, with very limited filtering options, and when you add the "compare last year" it shows nil for assessed returns because we…

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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. Remove Country address fields not required. overseas clients should be the exception.

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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. XPA - New dashboard is missing 'returns by month' line graph.

    It was helpfull in that we could easily flick between tax years and see how this years line graph was in relation to the same time last year to get a feel on how our tax returns are progressing.

    I dont see this in the new dashboard.
    Looks like we can remain on the old dasboard until 25th October. Could this date be extended out until the widgit is available on aworking on the new dashboard.

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    Thanks for taking the time to suggest this. A Returns by Month widget with prior-year comparisons could give practices a clearer view of lodgement trends directly from the new Xero Tax dashboard.

    This would reduce the need to compare separate reports when reviewing how current return volumes measure up against previous years.

    We’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering community feedback. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know which features of the graph you’d most like to see.

  17. It would be great if when a GST Job is created by a recurring job template, the GST return could also automatically be created.
    We missed filing a GST return because a Job was created but return not yet started, and the Job Status accidentally changed to Complete so it was archived and disappeared from the screen & reports so no-one picked it up till after the due date.

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    Thanks for raising this suggestion. Automatically generating a GST return alongside each recurring GST job could improve efficiency and help ensure every job has a corresponding return ready to work on.

    We’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. If this would be useful, add your vote and let us know how you’d expect the process to work.

  18. AU-Bank account on tax return

    I would like Xero to make it COMPULSORY to list a bank account on the cover of the Tax return - adn NOT BE ABLE to lodge unless a bank account is listed. Seems odd that Sage Handisoft tax programme has had this feature as a ERROR casuing lodgement stopping error for OVER 10 years and Xero still doesnt have this.

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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.

  19. Job manager > Important dates

    It would be good to be able to customise this view.

    I would like to be able to select 'Milestones' from the 'Show important dates for' dropdown menu.

    I like that the view shows three months, however, it's too expanded; I need to scroll down considerably to view the current date and future months. Considering it could probably not include less job information than what the calendar already shows, it may be helpful to have more options in the 'Show important dates for' dropdown menu, or the ability to customise the view (such as view…

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    Thanks for raising this suggestion. Being able to customise the Important Dates layout or view shorter timeframes could make tracking job deadlines more efficient.

    We’ve updated the status to Gaining Support. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share your preferred view.

  20. When Superannuation Income Stream information is imported from ATO Prefill, the amounts are automatically included in the individual's taxable income calculation. In some cases, this treatment is not correct, however there is currently no option to retain the imported schedule while excluding the income from taxable income calculations.

    Attempting to adjust the schedule can result in validation errors, leaving deletion of the entire schedule as the only practical workaround. This removes useful prefill information and reduces the audit trail within the return.

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. Being able to retain imported Superannuation Income Stream schedules while excluding non-taxable amounts could reduce manual work and preserve ATO Prefill details.

    I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. Add your vote and share your use case.

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