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  1. Have a chart of accounts to be able to use for SMSF's

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  2. Good day,

    Would it be possible to allow us to import the staff assignment via the CSV import file rather than assigning staff afterwards. Same for the template, category and job state.

    Regarding the bulk staff assignment function, could we add filters and have the columns sort when you click on the column headings of this section please.

    These two short comings is creating a huge delay in annual job creation for routine jobs.

    No we cannot use re-curing jobs as XPM does not have the functionality yet to choose the date on which the re-curing job is created, you…

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  3. A way to have the notifications for signed packs be sent to a specific email address.
    For example:
    x creates and sends the pack but y is notified when it is signed.

    22 votes

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  4. Currently when copying a job then the costs and milestones are automatically copied as well. It would be great to be given the option to copy these or not. Most of the time we do not want to copy these specifically the costs

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  5. We'd like to create a custom tax report which identifies individual client who have claimed a deduction at Item D12 so we can double check we have the notice of intent to claim on file.

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  6. In the company return you have the ability to create a new schedule.
    Specifically, A rental statement to be included here:

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    Hi everyone, thanks for raising this idea. We know rental income and expenses are a key part of tax for many businesses, and it would be super helpful to have a rental property schedule within the Company Tax Return (CTR) in Xero Tax.

    At the moment, there aren’t any rental worksheets for companies in Xero Tax, because the ATO doesn’t accept rental schedules on a CTR through PLS. That means this part of the return needs to be managed outside the system — which we understand isn’t ideal.

    That said, we can see this idea is already getting some traction, and it's now in the Gaining Support stage. If this would improve your workflow, feel free to vote or add a comment. It really helps the team understand what matters most to you.

  7. Ability to remove team members from cancelled subscriptions or a trial which has expired whether setup by our practice or the client.

    21 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the interest from users in this idea and while this isn't something we have immediate plans for at this stage we are continuing to watch interest in this closely and will share if there are any updates. Thanks

  8. Need a placeholder for title (Mr/Ms etc) for cover letters. It should be an easy implementation, as tax returns should already have that as a label. We need it for the address section of the cover letter.

    21 votes

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  9. Enable reporting / export for the 'Fee from Refund' field under Tax under the Tax and Company section in clients.

    The other fields in the ax and Company section are available in the Client & Contact Report Builder, however this field is overlooked. I understand that there is a 3rd party request to have this field included in the Client API.

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  10. It would be great it we could have a Task automatically added to the auto-generated job when we have the 'Create Activity Statements on a newly generated job' option checked.

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  11. Xero Practice Manager Timesheet upload. We have staff that complete the same administrative tasks each day every week for up to 50 clients a day. Entering these times in XPM is extremely time consuming and the time spent rarely changes. It would be extremely useful to be able to import a timesheet template with set clients/tasks/times. Then they only have to make modifications to timesheets. This would reduce time entry burden by two or three hours per week.

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  12. Ask Queries - Automated reminders
    The ability to have automated reminders on Ask queries would save substantial time (and reduce likelihood of things getting forgotten) and reduce likelihood of having to go to an alternative paid app in order to get this functionality (eg ContentSnare)

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  13. Would be great to copy company access rights from one staff user to another. When a staff member leaves and inherits a portfolio of clients would be great to copy client access from one client to another.

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  14. In XPM there is currently no option for Unitholders in the Relationships section. Currently need to use either Shareholders or Beneficiaries so that information flows into Group Structure charts that receive data from XPM, neither being ideal particularly when sending that chart to banks.

    Request that a Unitholder option be added to the Rekationships.

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  15. When doing a CTR for a client that has an ARBN. There is no ARBN field to enter this detail for our client.
    Can you please create a ARBN field and for this to pull from the clients details onto the CTR - as per the attached screenshot of the CTR

    21 votes

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  16. the function to search for clients needs to be easier (similar to the search function) when you are trying to run reports in XPM. It is tiring to go through 3,000 clients on a list to select the one I want to view as the function to run reports only allows me to type the first initial.
    It takes us almost 5-6mins to run a simple report

    21 votes

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  17. When preparing the statutory accounts in Xero Tax it would be great to have the feature to create your own "freeform note". For example, I need to add a secured debts note to the accounts however Xero does not currently provide this note amongst the list, therefore I need a freeform note where I can determine the heading and body of the note to feature in the notes to the financial statements. Currently the workaround is to declare the secured debts note as a line with the creditors which makes the presentation of the accounts weak.

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    Thanks for everyone's contributions, here.

    Things have moved on a lot since we last updated this idea - we recently launched Company Accounts, a new accounts production solution built directly within Xero which supports FRS 105 and FRS 1021a accounts for limited companies.

    A lot of our customers feedback was incorporated into the development of this, particularly around notes.

    We've updated a lot of disclosures for FRS 1021a and there's core text editor functions throughout these and the accounting policies which allows you to style the font, add bullets/numbering and add bespoke tables.

    We'll continue reviewing this idea but building Company Accounts into Xero allows us to move much faster than we could before so we're going to continue focusing on specific note requests first so that we can save you as much time right out of the gates as possible, without having to invest time building your own notes.

  18. Ability to report on New & Archived/Terminated Clients with dates they were added/archived. Helpful for Practice Reporting & assessing promotion results etc.

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  19. Pre-populate W1 and W2 fields in the Activity Statement when using an outside payroll program. This would save time and reduce errors.

    21 votes

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    Hi community, thanks for engaging with us on how the prepopulation of W1 and W2 fields would improve efficiencies when preparing and filing tax with Xero.

    We're currently working on prepopulation of these fields where these would be generated from the ATO prefill.

    I'll be back to share another updates when this rolls out to partners on Xero Tax (AU).

  20. Ability to add "Non Active" into return type when setting up clients in XPM for entities who are on our tax agency list but do not have to file a tax return.

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