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  1. Can we please have a feature to confirm when a contact's bank account details were last verified? We are increasingly asking for confirmation of bank account details with no easy way other than the notes field to check the account status.

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    Thanks for raising the Idea with us and for the extra detail Elizabeth. I can see that is really important for you processes so we are moving this to Gaining Support so others in the Community and vote and comment and add their own details. Although there aren't any plans to add this in the future, the Product team will watch this to gauge community interest, and we will update the Idea here should there be any changes.

  2. The HubDoc Ui/Ux is outdated, we all know it. But its a good product. With the addition of the "Upload Bills" feature to Xero, it would make sense to just bring the full functionality of HubDoc right into the Ui of Xero rather than invest in the standalone product of HubDoc. It keeps us on one screen within Xero and eliminates all the nuances of the sync/integration.

    Maintaining backup to DropBox or Google Drive is key though. That makes it feel like a 'safe' backup method for receipts.

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    Hi Collin 👋🏽

    Thanks for submitting this important idea about integrating Hubdoc's full capabilities directly into Xero. This is a powerful suggestion for streamlining workflows and improving the overall document management experience.

    We've reviewed your submission and are happy to classify it as Gaining Support!

    Your post meets all the necessary criteria, and we confirm that the full range of Hubdoc functionality (including automated fetching and comprehensive processing) does not currently exist within the main Xero UI.

    Your idea is now live and ready for community support! Please share this idea with colleagues who would benefit from a fully integrated document processing experience, so they can vote and share additional detail about how this change could improve their experience with Xero.

  3. For internal controls it would be good if creating new customer and supplier contact can go through a draft and for approval stage. This allows an approver to 4 eyes check the information captured before the contact is created. (Ensure all required fields get captured)

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    Hi Llewellyn, thanks for bringing this suggestion to the community.

    We understand why having an approval step before new contacts are created could be useful, especially for businesses and practices managing larger teams where keeping contact records accurate and consistent is important.

    This idea is suggesting a workflow where new contacts can be reviewed and approved before being added, helping teams maintain better control over their contact data.

    For now, you can manage who can create and edit contacts by adjusting user roles and permissions. We’ll continue to track feedback and interest from the community around this idea.


  4. To be able to add a new contact to a group from edit contact
    Currently you can only add group from the main Contacts page
    Also to see which group contact is in from the customer profile

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    Thanks for sharing your idea it seems that having a Group option to select when creating a new contact is something that yo would really like to see. We appreciate the time taken to raise this, this option would also allow you to see which Group the contact is in from the contact record.

    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.

  5. Have an option to keep a file in the library such as Term & Conditions to add to Quotes or have a default Terms section instead of an empty box.

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    Hi Shannon, appreciate your sharing here. We can understand why retaining files in the File Library Inbox after they're attached would be useful for some workflows.

    I've updated the idea to Gaining Support while we gather more feedback.

  6. Most of our receipt uploads are treated as spend money, using our main bank account.
    Every time I review a receipt I have to select the document / transaction type and the bank account used.
    Having a default with the option to change it would be good, or simply remember the last used values.

    3 votes

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    Hi Roger, appreciate you sharing your workflows here.

    We understand you’re looking for Smart Document Capture to remember your usual settings, like contacts, accounts, and tax details, when reviewing similar documents in Xero.

    Having these defaults available during review could help make recurring document processing quicker and reduce manual updates.

    We’ll continue to follow the discussion and capture feedback from the community as this idea progresses.


  7. Noticed the new files are saved as large sized images e.g. 4mb. The previous files reduced the file size to around 100 to 200kb. Handy to have the reduced file size as if downloaded can save to PDF and easily upload to other apps e.g. Job apps. Large files are sometimes not accepted to these apps. cheers

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    Hi David, thanks for highlighting this. Automatically optimising uploaded images could help reduce file sizes while keeping documents easy to view.

    This post is now Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest.

  8. I'm really enjoying the smart document capture feature. It has been very useful so far. However, the one downside I have found is that it is limited to documents (in my case, invoices) with maximum 10 pages. Quite frequently I must process invoices with many line items which usually comes in well over 20+ pages. While the smart document capture does process the entire invoice as 1 line item, I actually require each individual line item to be present in the bill so I can monitor the purchasing activity for these specific products. This is a very time-consuming manual process…

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    Thanks for sharing this idea, Jaymin. Being able to process longer documents through smart capture could reduce the need to split bills before uploading.

    I’ve moved this post to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback.

  9. Customer statements to show on the contacts tab when sent - I can see in history & notes on the file tab on a contact that a statement was sent but it would be great if it was possible to click a link here to see the statement that was sent to the customer (rather ticking to send statement to own e-mail)

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    Thank you for sharing your suggestion and outlining your desired changes. Your idea has been reviewed. It is now open for community voting and support. We encourage you to share this with colleagues who stand to benefit so they can add their vote. The comment section is also open for members to provide further context on how this would improve Xero.

  10. In Canada we need to file T4A slips for contractors. We can create a group of suppliers/contacts who would need a T4A, and we can create saved custom reports for the transaction lists, and we can add all their details to the contact, but we can't combine all this info into one report. It would be great if we could have a report that let us see both the amounts paid to a contractor AND their contact details in one report that we can then use to prepare the slips. Even better would be an actual workflow that we could…

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    Thanks so much for outlining your T4A workflow and how you’re currently pulling this together in Xero – that context is really helpful.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining support ✨ so other customers can vote and add their own use cases. We’ll keep an eye on the votes and comments here to help us understand how important this is and how it might fit into our future plans.

    While we can’t promise if or when this will be delivered, your feedback is now part of our product planning process. Thanks again for taking the time to share it and help us improve Xero for Canadian contractors’ reporting.

  11. Email forwarding to Xero Documents (formerly Xero Files) does not currently capture receipts or invoices embedded within the body of an email. HubDoc is able to do this, and this gap is one of the main reasons I haven't been able to move clients fully to Xero Documents and away from HubDoc.

    There is also an issue with setting up automated forwarding from Gmail. Google requires an authorization code to be sent to the forwarding email address before forwarding can be enabled. Because Xero Documents cannot receive or display the email itself, there is no practical way to retrieve that…

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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. Can you add a position field to a contacts details and attach tel numbers. We have multiple contact points in a customer, depending on whether we are sending Invoices, bills which can range from regular monthly or one off specials. I know you have notes but its too time consuming for our accounts team to run through all the notes to work out which person they need to send the document to and which person the telephone numbers belong to.

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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. Hi Hubdoc Support,

    I’d like to suggest a feature that I believe would benefit many users working with supplier invoices.

    Currently, when capturing invoice details, there’s no option to enter a discount before the total amount is calculated. It would be incredibly useful to have a field above “Total Amount” where we can input a discount value—either as a percentage or fixed amount—and have Hubdoc automatically adjust the total accordingly.

    This would:

    Reflect real-world supplier practices more accurately
    Reduce manual edits and errors
    Improve audit trail clarity
    Streamline publishing to accounting platforms like Xero or Sage
    If this is something…

    13 votes

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    Hi there! We really appreciate you sharing your idea, and thank you for the attached screenshot – it's very helpful.

    After reviewing your submission, we agree that this is an excellent suggestion that could benefit many businesses. To move it forward, we need to see strong support from the community.

    Please feel free to encourage any colleagues who would benefit from this feature to add their votes! It's also incredibly impactful when others share how this would improve their own workflows, so more comments are always welcome.

    Thanks again for taking the time to share this. We're excited to see the votes come in!

  14. Allow printing/ downloading of client contact statements via a CSV file not only PDF files. Also allow for filtering statements based on the Reference description before a statement is downloaded.

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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. When entering a new customer invoice on the fly as we have 6500+ customers and add 10-15 daily we enter the customer's name into the invoice field to see if already registered, if not we have the opportunity to add all fields at this point except for the contact name, there is a contact field, but its not picked up in the customer file or for email so then have to go into contacts and find the card, add the Customer representative name separately and then go back to the email prompt
    Why ?

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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. I'd just like the cursor to already be IN the search field when I open Contacts please.
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    We understand why this idea is quickly gaining traction. Being able to start typing in the search bar as soon as the contacts page loads would be a small but meaningful improvement.

    Right now, the cursor doesn’t land in the search bar by default, so it’s an extra click each time.

    This idea's now in the Gaining Support stage. If it’s something that would make a difference to your workflow, adding your vote or comment helps us understand the wider demand—and gives our product team more to work with when prioritising updates.

    We’ll post here with any changes or progress.

  17. Add global email & contact details to Groups: a settings panel that can be applied according to an optional 'tick' on each contact. The reason: any email changes for a business may mean trawling through several individual contacts to update one email address.
    This could be done so much quicker by the above modification by allowing for the edit of the 'collective info' panel and saving so it updates all contacts in that group that are set to use the 'default values' in the panel.
    This tick option would allow for individual records within a group to still retain their…

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

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  18. Add overdue amount to a template so we can chase just for that amount rather than the full amount. Currently I have to manually enter or copy/paste from the Statements list

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  19. for continually tardy payers, the option to automatically add a percentage to the account/client profile is extremely handy. this would automatically calculate to all invoices and even quotes. I can do this in another programme I use [FRESH], and it is a way to re-coup some cost if you are continually chasing money from the same client.

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  20. Have separate email addresses for the sales/purchase defaults of a contact.

    Some of our customers our also suppliers so it would be convenient to be able to store two separate email addresses - one for sending out invoices to the contact as a customer, and one to send remittances to the contact as a supplier.

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