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  1. When running reports, posting timesheets etc, it would be good for the client search function to search the entire name, rather than requiring exact input. Similarly, the ability to type a date in any format (e.g. DD/MM/YY), rather than being exact or using the calendar icon.

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    Hi Emily, thanks for sharing this feedback on how we can make everyday tasks in XPM more user-friendly. We know that improvements to common fields like search and date entry can make a big difference to overall efficiency.

    We've reviewed your suggestions for making the client search function more flexible so it searches the entire name, and for allowing dates to be typed in various formats. We can see how these changes would streamline tasks like running reports and posting timesheets.

    Your idea is now ready to gain support and feedback from other members of our practice community. Along with votes, others can now share how these kinds of usability improvements to client search and date selection would help streamline their own daily workflows.

  2. Would it be possible to close sections of the job that you don't use and these stay as default. (Information Tax - job details, custom fields etc.) This would make it easier to see the sections you do use. It would also be useful if you would put them in the order you prefer.

    For example to me the most important section is tasks and these are quite low down the list. I would like this to be a default setting.

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    Hi Sally, thanks for your suggestion. Good to hear how we could improve Jobs for your experience. Make sure you share this with any colleagues that could benefit from this too, so they can add their vote!

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

  3. With the movement towards Digital ID (MyID, Auspost Digital ID, Connect ID).

    https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/

    It would be convenient if we could onboard clients using these systems. Would ensure that details were correct and identify the clients at the same time.

    Is Xero working on 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.

  4. see CX0014868568

    can we modify the password settings?
    we prefer dd/mm/yyyy

    or allow us to modify the password in whatever way we see fit.

    the current method of dd-Mmm-yyyy with the first letter of the month being capitalise gets cumbersome for clients

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    Hi Christopher, we appreciate you sharing this idea. We understand the value of being able to set a custom password for Outcome of Assessment (OoA) documents in Xero Tax. Having more control over how these documents are secured can help you align with your firm’s processes and better meet client needs.

    At the moment, Xero Tax automatically applies the client’s date of birth as the password for OoA documents in dd-Mmm-yyyy format. While this works in many cases, we acknowledge the interest in having more flexibility — whether that’s for consistency across documents, improved client experience, or added security.

    This idea is now in the Gaining Support stage. The community votes and comments help us understand how important this is to the wider Xero community and guide future product discussions. We’ll continue to monitor the feedback here and share any updates as they become available.

  5. In Xero Tax, you can enter "Any other payments or credits on account" to show what a client has already paid towards their tax bill. But you can't enter a negative figure (i.e. a refund already received for a return that is being amended) and there is nowhere to add in any outstanding tax from a previous return etc so that the payments report factors this in.

    It would be good to be able to have some additional boxes to show these please.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea for being able to enter a negative figure for other payments. This is something our product team are currently exploring and we'll keep you updated on any progress for this, here.

  6. When creating custom queries, only the system default workpapers are available to add the query to. So when you are processing the workpapers, you need to manually move each query to its relevant workpaper, if you want it on a custom workpaper. Please add custom workpapers to the custom query creation list.

    Alternatively - if queries were rolled forward from one year to the next, custom queries would only need to be moved in the first year.

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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!

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  7. It would be great to have two additional tax return status values, to more efficiently support the typical workflows of busy tax agents.

    1. Waiting on information - return cannot progress until the client provides missing info.

    2. Rejected - return has failed review and requires adjustment before it can be lodged.

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  8. The queries portal is nice, but its Xero Blue - we'd love to be able to put our own branding on things much further beyond our logo.

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  9. Would it be possible to visibly see the Government Gateway currently set up for HMRC submissions for each individual client? At the moment I believe this isn't available, however it would be helpful to be able to view this information via Practice Manager

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  10. When moving time to another job in XPM and you start typing the client name that the time is to be transferred to, it appears at the very bottom of the list, So you always have to scroll down the screen to see the job that you want to transfer it to. Could it please appear at the top of the list on the screen?

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  11. It would be great if there were the ability to run a report of all business structure type Tax returns (AU, CTR, PTR, SMSF, TRT) with who is tax payable and refundable.

    At the moment, we can do this for some business structure types, but not all and when adding in these columns, it immediately removes all clients.

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  12. In Individual income tax returns, where an individual received a trust distribution, the trust name appears to show the Trust's TFN in the name in the trust distribution income section. It will be great if the hiding TFN feature includes the hiding of TFN in this distribution income section as well.

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  13. If preferred method of contact area could be created.

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  14. Please can you include the workings (which are long and complicated) for top slicing relief on an insurance bond gain in the "schedule of data" report which I find to be very basic compared to what my previous tax software provider included. Otherwise it is fiddly and time consuming to check this manually.

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    Thanks for your feedback and sharing with us through the idea here, Zoë.

    It'll be good to get a gauge of the community support through your idea here. We don't have any plans for adding top slicing relief on an insurance bond gain atm, but we'll share if there are any changes for this made.

  15. Would it be possible to match a VAT payment or refund to a VAT return?
    This way we could easily manage the status of VAT payments?

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  16. Option to import historical TBs monthly instead of annually.

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  17. see CX0015898344
    I was told that when you create a job for client A, you can only create CURNN for client A.

    We are unable to make CURNN for client A's association - such as their spouse, their business (company, trust, partnership, etc) or any client in client A's group.

    To do a CURNN for client A's spouse, i would have to create a job for the spouse then create the CURNN.

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    Thanks for your feedback here, Christopher. Appreciate you have also shared detail around this with our specialists at Xero Support, however just highlighting that ideas in the forums here are for the community to support any detail you can provide through the idea directly here will also help other community members understand and support your ideas.

    We don't have any immediate changes around this planned, for now you'll want to add a New CURNN to each individual client. We'll continue to keep an eye on the community support for this here,.

  18. Please could we develop Xero Tax to be able to recognise UK Public Listed Companies (PLCs) and have the ability to file Corporation Tax returns through Xero

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  19. If you send an email from the XPM Job it automatically adds the details as per the "name" field of the job as the subject in the email.

    Please add the name of the client after the insertion of the "job name" field of the job in the subject.
    If I do have a client with multiple entities, it can be confusing for the client as he does not know for which entity the mail is - he only sees the job number and the job description. If you look in history of your mails you can then also search…

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  20. Please add an option in collaboration to show active only or ALL jobs.

    We sometimes receive mails after the job was completed(or billed) but then we must open the job to allocate any mails received.

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