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  1. Currently there is very limited information on the contacts main page. All it has is the name and if they owe or we owe. It would be so useful to see if they are allocated to a Contact Group and what date they were added, and perhaps the last transaction (so we can quickly bulk archive contacts that have not been used for a while). This would make contact management so much easier, as currently we need to click into each contact one-by-one which is just not feasalbe, therefore resulting in a contact system which is very unorganised.

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  2. To show a negative number in customer balance, when customers have a prepayment.

    Purpose: To make users easier to see any prepayments that were made by their contact in Xero.

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  3. It would save us so much time if there was an option to turn off debtor statements per contact just like we have the option to turn off invoice reminders. That way when sending statements we can bulk send without having to send them one at a time.

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    Interesting idea - we'll continue tracking interest here. 🙂 In the meantime I did want to highlight how you can send multiple statements at once and may help some here. 

    While it's not possible to set a default for each contact, you can currently send statements to multiple users at once - 

    From your Contact lists either select all, or just the contacts you'd like, select the 3 menu dots in the top right of the page where you'll see an option to 'Send statements'.

    • When clicked this will take you to the statements screen where you can further refine the lists of contacts you'd like to send a statement too
  4. Ability to accept emails that have no attachments in Xero Files.

    Purpose: Users can upload their email invoices/quotes easily into Xero.

    37 votes

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    Hi community, thanks for all your inputs here and apologies we've not engaged here before now.

    As we continue to explore ways to improve efficiencies for our customers this is an idea our team are aware of and will consider in future improvements.

    We have recently introduced Smart Document Capture, powered by AI that extracts data from files uploaded to your Inbox to help you create transactions in your organisation.

    Coupled with this, we've also released the ability to upload multiple documents from your mobile. Meaning you can take photos of invoices you've received via email and easily upload these through your mobile, which Xero will then analyse and help you create transactions from.

    We appreciate this isn't a direct solve for this idea but may bridge the gap for some here.

  5. Option to sort customers/suppliers by their surname.

    Purpose: This feature will make it easier for users to find their contacts in Xero.

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  6. It would be great to look down the list of files in the Xero Files inbox and see a thumbnail image of what the PDF is, so that non-relevant ones or replicas can be deleted in bulk.

    When files are forwarded, often the attachment is loaded to the inbox along with multiple other files which turn out to be logos from the email signature, and it is time-consuming to have to open every file to find out whether it is relevant or not, and delete individually.

    36 votes

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    Thanks, Carol for submitting your idea.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

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

  7. A 'Deleted' folder in Files that captures deleted files.

    Once I have uploaded a receipt to the files folder, I always dispose of the original.

    If you accidentally attach it too, and then delete it from the transaction, it is gone forever. You have no ability to reload it from the files folder.

    The original uploaded file is gone, so you have to source another copy of the receipt from the supplier.

    Surely this deleted uploaded file has gone somewhere?

    Can we have it directed to a folder?

    36 votes

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  8. In Xero, under All contacts, would be great if we & please add had more columns or choices to add certain column of attributes of the contact showing if they are in a group, and possibly a last action date of last transaction, so that any can be easily Archived, when they haven't been accessed in a long while. Thanks!

    35 votes

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  9. Can we have hubdoc detect receipt edges like the Xero Expense app, so we don't have to see the client's coffee table, bed, duvet, laptop, lap, the list goes on

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  10. A number of our clients simply use hubdoc as a filing system as publishing to Xero is not as simple as they would like.
    So we maintain their Hubdoc accounts, we update the document type and archive. It would savea huge amount of time if we could bulk edit and bulk archive rather than having to do this one document at a time.

    34 votes

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  11. Ability to rename the files in Xero Files once it’s attached.

    Purpose: To make other users in Xero (the one that doesn’t upload the file) can easily identify the file without having to click it.

    34 votes

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  12. Would it be possible to create a contact who is a "sub contact" of an existing contact. For example we perform work for a strata management company. Every invoice is made out to [name of strata company] but the contact details, email address and physical address are all the same - that of the management company. I would love to create [strata management company] as the main contact with all the strata "divisions" they manage below them without having to create a new contact for every single new building. What are my chances?

    33 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the interest and rational in this idea when you trade with Contacts that might be part of a larger group.

    We want to be open that this isn't something we have plans for developing just atm, but will keep considering the idea as we continue to develop contacts in Xero. I'll share if there is any progress here.

  13. Move the Delete button away from preview in files attached to contacts.
    So many times, I have accidently deleted files attached to contacts. The delete button is right next to the preview. There is no way to restore once deleted..

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate engagements on this idea so far. We understand how a confirmation step or restore option could help prevent accidental loss of files.

    It has been awhile so we want to update this idea status to Gaining Support. To be upfront, we don't have immediate plans to implement this idea but we’ll continue monitoring the interest in this request.

  14. Sort 'customer or supplier' list by account number from the drop down menu, (not the same as the search function).
    The account number field is a unique identifier to any customer or supplier record. Having this function should be a necessity as it is with most other software.
    In many cases the account number field is overlooked in Xero from the users point of view, yet it underpins the whole database for many people and connecting software/apps.
    In the same vein, the 'date added' drop down, which could be argued as being able to achieve a similar result, in my…

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  15. It would be great if, when viewing a contact, there was a quick 'sign/flag' to show if that contact has an active Direct Debit form.

    Currently you have to go to >Settings >Payment Service >GoCardless >edit >Direct Debit Forms

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  16. Under the Contact, where Xero shows the current account balance and further down the screen we can see all invoices etc for that contact. When I scroll down the list of invoices I'd love to be able to see a little icon that tells me how many files I have uploaded to each invoice. The only way to tell currently is if I click into each invoice and then I can see the number of files attached per the little file icon at the top.

    32 votes

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    We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    While we don't have immediate plans for adding a file icon indicator to the Contact Activity list we're tracking the interest from our community here and will share if there are any updates planned. Thanks

  17. When entering line items in Hubdocs it would be so useful if we could enter the same number of decimal places that are available in Xero. When we split invoices into line items it is very clunky having to make rounding adjustments because we only have 2 decimal places in Hubdocs, yet 4 in Xero.

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  18. Allow PDF Splitting in xero files to allow for batch scanning and uploading of invoices for auto extraction

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    Hi Jake, thanks for sharing this idea. We can see why having the ability to split PDF files directly within Xero Files could be useful, particularly when processing multi-page documents that contain multiple invoices, receipts, or other records. Being able to separate pages without downloading the file and using an external tool could help reduce manual handling and make document processing more efficient.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support. If this is something you'd find useful in your workflow, we encourage you to vote and share more detail about how you'd use it.


  19. Xero have changed the files section and now there is inbox and then archive. All the previous folders clients have are now in the archive section. In order to file something in a folder they now need to move it to the archive section which as this shows all documents, they then have to find the document again and then tick it and use the move to button to move it to the chosen folder. Xero need to add the move to button to the inbox screen otherwise clients are having to do multiple clicks again to move the documents.…

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback on the new updated Files. We appreciate the time you've taken to bring this to our attention. We've reviewed your idea and moved this to gaining support, 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.

  20. NZ: To be able to link the demo company to Hubdoc - for demo to clients, to show the process from mobile upload to coding in Hubdoc, through to Xero and also for training of practice staff

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