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Xero Tax (AU) - Ability to share deductions
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.
2 votesThanks 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.
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XPH - Collapsible fields when editing client information
It would be great to bring back the collapsible custom fields in XPM when editing client details. This previously made it much easier to jump between headings. With the new tabbed layout, all custom fields now appear in one long list with no distinction between headings, which means a lot more scrolling to find the fields we need to update.
24 votesHi Hannah, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the business structure view in Xero Practice Hub. It’s helpful to understand how important it is to see clearer client details at a glance when you’re managing groups of clients.
Your suggestion around having a more detailed business structure breakdown makes sense, especially as broader categories like Other can cover a mix of different client situations.
We’ve now moved this idea to Gaining Support, which means it’s open for the community to vote and add comments. This helps us understand what’s most valuable to you, and we’ll keep you posted as things progress. If others would find this useful too, feel free to share your thoughts.
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Staff - Provide temporary access to Client
It'd be helpful in some cases to provide a Staff member temporary access to a Client.
There can be situations where a staff may only need access for a day or month and being able to set a timeframe for this and then access be removed would be helpful.22 votesHi team, this idea has been created off the back of this idea to get a good understanding of the interest in specifically providing temporary Client access to a staff member.
While this isn't somethign we have planned atm, our product team would like to get insight to consider in future planning. Thanks!
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Xero Tax (AU) - History report for client changes
To have a "history" tab on a client that would show when someone has made a change to something (an address, a phone number/client details) along with who would have archived a client on the system.
The history tab would be a great aspect for support hub team members so they can ask that person if there is an issue or to see a date and time that this has happened to then liase with the client.
19 votesThanks for sharing your thoughts on this idea for a history tab in Xero Tax. We appreciate you explaining how tracking changes to client details could support your team's workflow.
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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XPM - Include Date of Death and additional contact fields in Report Builder
It's great that XPM now has standard fields for Date of Death, additional email addresses (on the client file) and additional physical addresses, however, we cannot run a report to show those fields.
15 votesYour idea is now live! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on how we can improve. To move forward, your suggestion needs community support—feel free to share it with your colleagues to gather more votes. Other Xero users can now also provide feedback and additional details in the comments section to help us understand the potential impact.
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Xero AU Tax - Audit report of deleted returns
We would like to have an option for a Tax Return that has been deleted off the system to effectively sit in a recycle bin before it is immediately deleted off. Would also like to suggest having the ability to see a report for any such returns that are deleted off to see who has done it and the date.
16 votesHi everyone, thank you for sharing this here. We've moved this idea to gain more support from the community as we can see there's quite a few votes. We want to get an understanding of other users that might want to see this feature implemented as well. In the meantime, please feel free to share this with your friends and colleagues so they can add their votes and comments too.
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AU Tax - Show/hide columns
Users have control over which columns are visible and the order in which they appear. This is managed through drag-and-drop functionality or by checking/unchecking column options.
6 votesHi everyone, we have started this idea off the back of the original post here so we can get an understanding of support for being able to show or hide columns on a user basis within AU Tax.
Being upfront, we don't have any plans for this at present but would like to get an idea of the interest through this idea.
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Xero HQ - Filter staff list to active users only when assigning client access
Since the recent updates in Nov/Dec 2025, when adding staff access to Blue Xero clients in Xero HQ, the staff list now shows ALL staff members, including those who are inactive or no longer working. Previously, only active staff were displayed.
Having inactive and former staff appear in this list creates unnecessary clean-up work, as these users must be manually removed. Restricting the list to 'active staff only' would improve usability and reduce the risk of incorrect access being assigned.
20 votesThank you for sharing your feedback and highlighting the features that are most important to you.
Your suggestion has been reviewed and is now open for community voting. We encourage you to share the link with colleagues who might benefit from this change so they can add their support. In addition to voting, other members can now leave comments to explain how this improvement would enhance their Xero experience.
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Tax Manager - Ability to set the default view for Filed tab
Setting the default view in the Filed tab to show 'filed only' rather than 'all'.
3 votesHi team, we've created this idea to track interest on setting default view for the Filed tab on Tax Manager. We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. If this would be useful, add your vote and share how you’d like the default view to work.
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Tax Manager - Align tax return statuses with practice workflow
Partner Hub - tax return workflow/states. The current states are buried under headings and I think these need to be surfaced into a logical practice workflow. There's also no complete All listing.
I've attached the current process/states below.
I think this could be improved by
1. Showing all steps across the screen rather than having to click and click again to identify the returns in each grouping.
2. Display numbers of returns in each step.
3. Make the steps more like an actual practice workflow. I've come up with the following.Ready/All Not started
Draft Being prepared
Completed Preparation finished…3 votesThanks for raising this idea. We understand the request for Tax Manager to reflect a more logical tax return workflow, with clearer status stages and easier navigation.
I’ve moved the core suggestion to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest.
There are also a number of other suggestions included in this post. To ensure each can be considered and voted on independently, please create separate ideas for the additional improvements, including status counts, horizontal stage navigation, and lodgement outcome flags.
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Practice Manager - Allow spaces in Director ID fields for better readability
Allow space in Director's ID for easy reading.
20 votesThanks 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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NZ Tax - Separate [Payment] Summary field into year and RIT fields
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.
4 votesThanks for sharing, Kathryn. Appreciate how separating the information in this field would be useful to you.
This isn't something we have plans of just yet but well get an understanding of the interest here.
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AU Tax - Ability to print/download separate schedules/worksheets
Please enable download/print option for specific worksheets and schedules, so that they can become their own standalone document. Example, if I only want to view the rental schedule, have the ability to PDF just this part of the return. This would make the preparation of working paper documents much clearer, and support internal workflow processes. Ideally there would be a print/download button at the top of each schedule/worksheet for quick navigation.
4 votesThanks for raising this idea, Sarah. Being able to print or download a specific tax schedule as a standalone document could make managing working papers more straightforward.
We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. Add your vote and let us know which schedules or worksheets you’d find most useful.
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Staff - Ability to request access to Clients from admin
It would be handy for a Staff member to be able to send a request to a Practice admin to access a Client when needed.
16 votesHi community, we've started this request to gauge specific interest in enabling staff to request access to a Client within the unified experience.
Stemming from this original idea, this isn't something we have direct plans of at this time, but our product teams are staying close to the ground on what our practices would like to see developed and will consider this in future planning. 🙏
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AU Tax - Expand Financial Mapping to Include All Tax Return Schedules
Currently, when mapping the chart of accounts from your financial statements in Xero Blue to the tax return labels in XPM, you can only map to labels in the business schedule section of the return.
This means that accounts relating to other tax labels, such as rental property schedules, or other deductions, must be noted as "do not import", and then entered manually.
It would be great if there was the ability to map these accounts, in addition to those relating to the business schedule, as it would lead to further efficiency gains for accountants using Xero's suite of products.
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55 votesHi community, thanks for engaging with this idea! It’s already gaining strong traction, and we can see how important this is to many of you.
We understand the value of being able to map general ledger accounts directly to all tax return schedules in Xero Tax, not just the business schedule. This improvement would go a long way in streamlining tax workflows, increasing efficiency, and reducing the risk of manual entry errors.
The idea is now in the Gaining Support stage. Your continued votes and comments help highlight its importance and guide our product team's priorities.
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XPM - Update default balance date to March for New Zealand clients
Since the recent XPM update in Nov/Dec 2025, the balance date for new clients is now auto-populating as January. For the majority of New Zealand clients, the balance date is March, so defaulting to January is not practical.
If the balance date is going to be auto-populated, it should default to March rather than January to better reflect common NZ reporting periods.
18 votesWe appreciate you taking the time to share your ideas with us!
Your suggestion is now live on the community board. To give it the best chance of moving forward, be sure to spread the word to your colleagues so they can vote for it too.
Other users can also jump into the comments to share how this update would help them get the most out of Xero.
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Practice tools - Improve client screen layout on mobile devices
Following the recent XPM updates in Nov/Dec 2025, the client screen does not display correctly when viewed on a mobile device. The page layout appears distorted and is difficult to read, making it hard to use in a mobile web browser.
Older XPM pages that have not been updated yet still display normally on mobile, so it would be helpful to improve the layout and usability of the updated client screen to ensure it is mobile-friendly for web access.
16 votesAppreciate your feedback on this and good to understand the different ways our partners are often viewing this information, Natascha.
Your feedback here has been shared back with our product team and I'll be sure to loop you in if there are any improvements planned for how the page responds when viewing from a mobile browser.
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Practice tools | Staff - Ability to assign clients when inviting staff
Previously in Xero HQ you could invite a new staff member and immediately assign clients to them - This was efficient. Now the staff member has to accept the invite first before any clients can be assigned.
35 votesWe understand this is a feature practices may like to see. We'd like to get a gauge interest from beta participants that'd find this feature useful - Add your vote, share importance and any comments to share extra detail of how this would help your practice.
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adding interest
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.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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XPM - Stop work alert
Please add a field at the top of the client page where you can clearly identify in BOLD RED if the client has a stop work/file on hold action. This is helpful for clients that have overdue fees or if they are clients that we require upfront payment for. This needs to be visible on this page so it can not be missed by anyone that may undertake some work who is not aware.
8 votesHey Amy, thanks for sharing your feedback and for explaining how an alert or “on hold” option in Xero Practice Manager would help you manage work for clients who owe outstanding fees. We’ve reviewed this idea and are now moving it to the Gaining support status so other partners can vote and add their own use cases. Your comments and votes play an important role in helping our product team understand the impact of ideas like this and how they should be prioritised on our roadmap. We’ll be sure to update this thread if there’s any change to the status of this idea in future.
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