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Document - Bulk export/print attached files
Ability to export and print files from Xero in bulk.
Purpose: To have backup files and audit purposes.
696 votesThank community, we appreciate all your involvement on this idea. We understand the ability to bulk export or print attached files would be a huge time-saver, especially for year-end audits, client communication, and general record-keeping.
We’ve evaluated the complexity of this feature against other priorities on our roadmap. Atm, this isn't in our plans however we'd like to explore bulk downloading of files from Xero in the longer term. I'll share an update when we're able to give more attention to this, here.
For the meantime if this is essential for you right now, you may like to explore third-party integrations through our Xero app store which could meet your needs here.
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Documents - Ability to have sub folders
Files is a great feature to use, to make it even more user-friendly it would be really useful to have a high level folder e.g. for the current FY, with the info sitting in sub-folders under it. that way you hold multiple years worth of info there, keeping it well-organised, easy to find and manageable.
133 votesHi team, we appreciate wanting to hear updates from us here.
Over the past year our team has been doing a lot of behind the scenes work for Files in Xero. We've released a new experience to our Files inbox, and while sub folders/files haven't made their way into the new experience just yet, I want to assure you our product team are aware of the vested interest here and how this could enhance your ability to organise and work with Files in Xero.
This continues to be a feature our product team are interested to explore longer term. While we'll move the idea to Accepted for now, we'll make sure to share any work and updates that could add benefit to your workflows with you all, here.
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Documents - Drag & drop document 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.
106 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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Documents - Control/edit the name of PDF documents sent from Xero
Ability to edit the PDF name when sending PDF attachment from Xero.
Purpose: Users’ can name their attachment with their business name.
94 votesHi community, while we're continuing to keep a close eye on the support for this idea here, we don't have any plans in the near term to control the naming of files sent form Xero.
Just to share, though appreciate many will already be aware, once the file is received and downloaded by the recipient the file name can be manually edited on their local device.
If there are any plans made we'll share here.
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Documents - 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.
92 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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Documents - Add a Search option
It would be great if we could search in the files that are attached in the file library. Sometimes you need to find something that was attached a long time ago or by someone else and if you could enter a keyword search it would save trawling through them page by page.
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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…
41 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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Documents - 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.
41 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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Documents - 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
39 votesHi team, while this isn't something we have plans to develop for already imported files. We have introduced a new upload tool via mobile that may help some here.
Via mobile, you can now upload multiple files as separate documents, or a single document - see more on this here
If for example you had a PDF with multiple pages you could instead take photos of each page and upload these via your mobile device as separate documents.
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Documents - Allow file emails without attachments
Ability to accept emails that have no attachments in Xero Files.
Purpose: Users can upload their email invoices/quotes easily into Xero.
38 votesHi 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.
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Documents - Ability to restore deleted files
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?
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Documents - Rename files once they are attached
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.
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Documents 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
34 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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Contacts - Show attachments for transactions in the contact overview
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 votesWe'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
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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.
30 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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Xero Documents | Smart document capture - Automatically populate tax rate when creating invoices
Currently when putting an invoice on Xero files, you have to manually apply the VAT rate. If the VAT rate can be populated based off what the invoice states, it would make processing more efficient.
28 votesThanks for all the engagement within the community so far. The feedback here makes it clear that automatically picking up the tax rate from uploaded documents could be a useful improvement to the invoicing workflow.
I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking the conversation. If there are particular scenarios you’d like this feature to handle, let us know below.
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Documents 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.
26 votesHi team, appreciate the continued feedback and hearing the needs around this idea. We understand there different workflows in which a document may be attached to a transactions that has already been recorded.
We are pleased to share that this is in the process of rolling out with Smart document capture and auto-match that's currently in beta with AU and NZ.
Auto-match compares details of your document against the transactions already in your organisation and will auto attach if it finds a match. 🙂
You can read up more on this feature on Xero Central and I'll round back to share once it's fully released.
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Documents - Add to new 'Credit Note'
I cannot attach a credit note file to a new credit note directly from Xero Files which is frustrating, it would be really helpful to have this as an option.
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Documents - Drag & drop a file to attach to a transaction
Just like the "Drop or click to upload files" area below this text box, I'd like an area within each transaction that I can use to upload an invoice or receipt. Rather than clicking the add document button and searching through the file hierarchy.
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Documents inbox - Simple email address for email to files
There should be a way we can change the email address that the files inbox accepts to make it more tailored to clients?
For example for a client, their inbox files email could be: xero.inbox.owerthsgm56785.49n6356@xerofiles.com which is crazy!
It would be so much better if it could be something like xero.inbox.clientname@xerofiles.com
21 votes
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