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  1. In XPM Report Builder, for "Monthly Summary" report types, there needs to be an option added for 12 months of data to report.

    This would allow a full financial year's worth of data to be summarised monthly where required.

    8 votes

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  2. Page breaks in the Notes should be automated

    25 votes

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  3. A placeholder for the applicable tax return year that can be inserted into the NOA email template would make it easy for clients to know which year the email relates to.

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  4. Change Capacity under Settings/Practice to allow for Saturday and Sunday so that on the Dashboard for Time Summary the time entered on Saturday and Sunday shows and is reflected in the Productivity circle on the Dashboard

    15 votes

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  5. Hi Support,

    When you view a group in XPM it shows you the recipients, the phone and address fields, it would be amazing if the mail email address was also displayed.

    Thanks

    11 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea here, Rosalie - Is there a particular reason you'd find it useful to view the email address here? 

    This would be good detail to share back with the team, and may help others to see how this could benefit them too 🙂

  6. The CGT worksheet does not allow for pro-rata of capital gain based on private use days.

    23 votes

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  7. Change the headings used in the notes to the accounts in the statutory accounts.

    Trade creditors/trade payables- just use one not show both.

    5 votes

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  8. When entering in the Franking Account in a tax return, you should be able to reorder the rows if you enter a date that is not in chronological order. Or alternatively, the system should be smart enough to re-order the rows based on date.

    46 votes

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  9. KPI DASHBOARD - BUILD REPORT ON CUSTOM PERIOD

    WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO BUILD THIS REPORT UNDER REPORT BUILDER OR EVEN WHEN YOU EXPORT IT THAT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO EXPORT IT FOR THE WHOLE YEAR AND NOT ONLY FOR THE 4 MONTHS & YTD THAT IT CURRENTLY ALLOWS YOU TO DO

    9 votes

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  10. 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.

    21 votes

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  11. It would be handy to be able to select (and deselect) in bulk when adding fields to a custom report. Currently, you can only select one item at a time from a dropdown list. It becomes very confusing when adding multiple fields, particularly when you have to keep scrolling down to find the field that you need. Also, it is difficult to determine which fields have been added etc.
    it would be useful to have checkbox function to select and deselect the required fields.

    2 votes

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  12. When preparing a cover email for documents being sent for signature, it would be great to be able to view the placeholders before sending the document, to check it reads correctly for the scenario.

    1 vote

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  13. When viewing bills/invoices under a contact, can the 'bill created', 'bill approved' and 'bill paid' icons be different colours please? :)
    Same applies for Invoices created/sent/paid

    2 votes

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  14. This would be so beneficial as it would allow us to use inventory fixed fee pricing like in Xero but still analyse staff time cost against the fixed fee price

    1 vote

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  15. It would save so much time if we could prefill year into the job name when we create a new job, and client name into the description so that when the description prefills into the invoice it specifies the entity.

    1 vote

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  16. Change reply to email address:
    Any user can send tax letters, but the reply to email address can be set as one specific email (much like in blue xero)

    For example:
    staff1@accountingfirm.co.nz sends provisional tax reminders to clients, but when clients receive the tax reminder email, the reply to address is admin@accountingfirm.co.nz

    This same feature is already available in Blue Xero when sending invoices

    11 votes

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  17. Where $nil value invoices are pushed to our "Xero Export Failed" list, it would be great to be able to select all $nil balance invoices in the "Xero Export Failed" list, and "Write Off Balance" in bulk. Currently we need to go into each invoice, one at a time, and select "Write Off Balance"

    1 vote

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  18. Calculated Opening Balance on partner accounts (bold line), plus OB for conversion year showing on a separate line. It would be practical to merge this two, but the calculated OB line can't be merged into a group. Instead opening balances prior conversion year must be entered in an unbalanced journal - looked up manual - ok, but just unusual and I have spent too much time on contacting Xero Support and finding this solution.
    Merging the two OB lines would be a much quicker way.

    1 vote

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  19. Xero Tax currently allows adding notes only on the cover page (character limit of 140) and on D1 (motor vehicle expense).

    It would be great if we could add explanatory notes (and simple calculations) on each of the line items if need be. I moved from Sage Handisoft to Xero and can't comprehend why such a useful and simple feature is not there in Xero. It would reduce the burden of creating additional workpapers for simple returns and will be handy even for the complex ones.

    2 votes

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  20. Just a simple one, but it has something I've spoken to many Xero account managers over the years.

    When preparing a tax return, you currently see an amount payable or amount refundable in text, and the dollar amount in bold black next to it.

    I feel that it would be a simple, yet positive change, to have the dollar value display in green when there is an amount refundable, or red when there is an amount payable. The colour system ensures that there can never been any mistake when quickly glancing at the dollar amount, for instance, when doing a…

    10 votes

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