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Files - Reduce clicks to access folders
Please change the files layout to what it was before. It's extra clicks with your new archive and inbox set up. It's really poorly thought through.
80 votesSorry to hear you're not liking the refresh of the Files inbox, Felicity. The intention is to make managing and working with your files simpler and more efficient.
Just to confirm, when you say this has added extra clicks for you - would that be the need to go to the Archived tab to access a fioder you've moved a file to?
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Xero Files - Drag & drop file to Folder
Before the update you could drag and drop directly into a folder in Xero Files. Now you have to drag and drop into the Inbox and then move from there. This created an extra step. It would be great if you could still have the option to drag and drop a document directly into the folder within the archive.
87 votesHi everyone, thanks for your feedback on the Xero Files changes. We appreciate you explaining how important direct drag-and-drop is to your workflows.
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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Smart document capture - Add tracking category when reviewing
Provide a way for an uploaded document to be assigned to tracking categories.
Due to screen space I suggest an icon which opens a pop up selector.Currently to assign a category to tracked items means re-opening and re-editing the transaction.
20 votesHi everyone, appreciate all the engagement here by far.
We understand you’re looking for a way to apply tracking categories directly while reviewing documents uploaded into Xero, so transactions can be coded completely.
Having tracking options available earlier in the workflow could help reduce extra steps when managing expenses across different teams, projects, or locations.
We’ll continue to monitor the conversation and gather feedback from the community as this idea gains support.
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Files inbox - Allow attachments to be drag & dropped from New Outlook
Allow email attachments (such as PDF's) to be dragged from an email, and dropped into Files. This feature does not work with New Outlook, only Classic Outlook. As Classic Outlook will be made redundant by Microsoft one day, it's imperative Xero restore this functionality we have always had with New Outlook. This isn't an idea. This is a request to maintain the same level of functionality we have always had
26 votesThanks for sharing this feedback in Product Ideas, Tamara. Drag & drop options into Xero Files is something our product team are looking into, however we can't make any commitment to development at this stage. I will keep you updated of any progress around this here.
In the meantime taking on board your feedback here they are keen to get further insight of the old to new outlook experience if there are any further details you'd like to share on your experience using Outlook with Xero, here?
While the drag & drop you're after isn't available atm, you should be able to use the Files unique email to still send your attachments from Outlook to your Xero Files inbox.
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Smart document capture - Ability to auto approve transactions to awaiting payment
The new Smart Capture feature in Xero Files is a great step forward, but one key limitation is currently preventing us from fully moving away from Hubdoc.
At the moment, when Smart Capture creates a bill, it can only be published as a draft. There doesn’t appear to be any option to choose the bill status during the creation process.
In Hubdoc, we can choose the status before publishing, for example:
• Draft
• Awaiting Approval
• Awaiting PaymentThis is extremely useful for workflow management and automation.
With Smart Capture in Xero Files, every bill has to be manually…
10 votesGreat to hear you;'re finding good use in our new Smart document capture 🙂
I've shared this back with our product team to be taken on board. We'll keep an eye on the interest here for now and share if there are any plans made.
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Files - Ability to adjust VAT when recording Spend Money direct from the Files page
I like the new feature where you can record Spend Money transactions direct from the Files page, but the whole feature becomes useless if you can't adjust the VAT amount to match that on the voucher/receipt. Switching to 'VAT Exclusive' doesn't give you the ability to amend the VAT value, so if it's out by a penny you have to cancel the operation and record it in the old Spend Money way. Seems a bit silly really.
So, allow users to adjust the VAT amount when recording Spend Money transactions direct from the Files screen.
Thanks
10 votes✨ Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea — we can definitely see why this would make a real difference.
Being able to create a Spend Money transaction directly from the Files page is a helpful improvement, but if there’s no way to adjust the VAT amount to match the receipt exactly, it does create a gap in the workflow. Even a small difference of a penny means the transaction can’t be completed there and the user has to abandon the process and enter it another way, which reduces the value of the feature.
We agree this would make the experience more practical and complete, so we’re moving your idea to Gaining Support. That helps us better track interest in this improvement and show the team the impact it’s having for customers using this workflow.
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Files - 'Move to' button on the Xero inbox files update
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.…
27 votesThanks 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.
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Smart document capture - support multiple currencies
Please support multiple currencies in the Smart Document Capture feature. This feature looks very promising but I have a lot of bills in USD and there is no way to use this at present without going to the bank account, grabbing the amount paid in GBP and then manually correcting the amount paid.
6 votesThanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you Nicola.
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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Files - Suggestion for thumbnail previews in Files Inbox
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.
33 votesThanks, 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.
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Smart document capture - Defaults when reviewing files
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 votesHi 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.
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Files - Option to skip review step
There is a new feature in files called Review, is there a way to remove it as it is something our company will never use and it gets in the way.
4 votesHi Julie, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that having more control over how documents move through Files would help make document management workflows smoother.
The suggestion is to add an option to bypass or disable the Smart Document Capture review process, so documents can be stored directly without needing manual review.
We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue to track interest.
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New files beta: re-enable reading email while looking at file
A beta for the files inbox has shown up on one of my clients today, and it's unusable as is (and I can't disable it and go back to a functional workflow). The biggest thing that is not working for me is that I can no longer view a file and the email associated with that file at the same time.
Attached is a screenshot showing what my files inbox for this client looks like. It's full of files which are the images from everyone's signature panels in the email thread. I can't delete the file without going back to…
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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Smart document capture - Ability to assign billable expense
In Files>File Details there is no option to assign expense to customer.
1 voteAaah perfect thanks for the confirmation and the screenshot, Jayne. Just wanted to make sure I understood correctly. 🙂
Being a relatively new feature this is still being developed and I've made sure to share your feedback on with the team. Can appreciate how you'd find this useful to add directly when reviewing the transactions from the Files inbox.
For now, you'll need to open the bill once Saved from within the Purchases section to assign the billable expenses.
We'll keep an eye on the interest this build here, and I'll make sure to share if there are any updates.
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Smart document capture - Line Extraction Defaults for Contacts
On the new files smart capture facility, there is an option to toggle the 'line items', please could you add a way to save the toggle for each contact, as I have some contacts that have various itemised invoices which would benefit from default already being collapsed, and some that the itemised extraction helps with.
Thank you.
2 votesGreat to hear you're finding good use in the new Smart document capture feature, Luis.
Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too. 🙂 We'll share if there are any plans made around this, here.
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Files Inbox - Attach to an existing transaction
From the Files Inbox, there is a way to attach the file to a NEW transaction, but please allow it to be attached to an existing transaction too. This is especially useful when there are lots of files in the Inbox.
15 votesAppreciate why you'd like to be able to attach a file to an existing transaction from the detail you've shared here, Hitesh.
This isn't possible from the Files inbox atm, however as you may already be across - from the flip side you can attach a file from the Files inbox from within the transaction.
Do get this means having to go to the transaction to perform what you're asking and we'll get a sense of the interest in being able to attach to an existing transaction from within the Files inbox, here.
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XPH - Add a column or notification to view new client file uploads across all organizations
I have many clients so it is time consuming to go to each client organisation and into Files just to check whether there are new uploads. It would be great to have a dashboard in Xero HQ that showed how many items were in a clients Xero Files inbox. Or at least get notified when a client has uploaded to the Files inbox.
3 votesHi everyone, thanks for taking the time to share this.
We understand you’re looking for a central way to see when clients upload new documents, such as a notification or status indicator within the partner dashboard.
Having a clearer view of new uploads could make it easier for practices to manage client tasks and follow up on outstanding items.
We’ll continue to track feedback and interest from the community for this idea.
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Reconciliation - Auto-match scanned receipts to bank transactions for easier reconciliation
Xero already scans invoices to create drafts, which is a huge time-saver.
Extending this capability to receipts would add even more value.
Specifically, if receipts sent to a Xero mailbox could be scanned and automatically matched to the right transaction, it would save significant manual effort, reduce errors, and streamline reconciliation. This small enhancement could have a big impact on efficiency for businesses handling large volumes of receipts.
9 votesThanks for the feedback here, team! Great to have thi forward thinking and I'm pleased to share that this is exactly what we're releasing with our new smart document capture feature in Xero Files.
Currently available to UK organisations we will be rolling this out globally to all other regions soon so I'll keep you updated here 😊
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Xero Files - Ability to tag files
File TAGGING! Can you please please add where we can tag files. Like ok tag to project tag to contractor. Tags! Tag projects to receipts and hires.
If you add "tags" or labels to files and projects that'll make less clicks for everyone! and so much faster. The tags will obviously auto populate into the right project, files, or contractors!2 votesThanks for sharing your idea, Jessasm. We don't have any immediate plans for adding tags to files in Xero, however we can start to get a better understanding of the interest around this from your idea here.
Share the link to this idea with other colleagues that would find this useful so they can add their support for this here, too.
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Files - Ability to split PDF to separate multi-page documents
Allow PDF Splitting in xero files to allow for batch scanning and uploading of invoices for auto extraction
2 votesHi 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.
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Files - Add Expiry/Renewal Date and Automated Reminders
Ability to add an expiration date or renewal date to files (Contract end date, Tax clearance certificates etc.) with reminders on when documents are up for renewal.
4 votesHi team, thanks for sharing your thoughts on adding expiry and renewal dates to files. It’s been useful to hear how this could support the management of compliance-related documents like insurance certificates and training records.
The idea of having reminders for upcoming renewals is a practical one, particularly for teams working in compliance-heavy environments. We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support, which means it’s now open for the wider community to add votes and comments. If this would be helpful for your business, feel free to share how you’d use it or any specific scenarios you have in mind — that context helps shape what we look at next.
In the meantime, the current workaround is to track renewal or expiry dates outside of Xero, and archive expired files before uploading the updated versions when they’re ready.
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