Xero Blue | Global Search - By Contact account number
Using the dashboard search, we are no longer able to search by account number and must instead use names. Account numbers are used by thousands of businesses across the country and it's one of my most common client questions.
We can search by account number in the contact screen, please extend this to the dashboard search
Ben Knapp
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Tim Stone
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This also applies to searching/filtering bills/invoices awaiting payment, currently you have to use the contact name.
Realistically, you are either using contact names or accounts numbers for entry or lookup. It makes sense that ANYWHERE I can search or filter by contact name, I should also be able to search or filter by contact account number.
Really is a half finished "feature" if it's not always available. Don't think I'll hold my breath though.
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James Miller
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Really surprised when I realised this function is missing. Also missing is the ability to be able to sort customers or suppliers in account number order in the contacts section. This is surely a basic requirement to order the lists by what is the unique identifier?
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Amy Hatcher
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Ability to search by account number on dashboard for clients and invoices.
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Amy Hatcher
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Agreed! Would be extremely helpful, not sure why this isnt already an option!
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Elaine Hardy
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Having the facility to search by contact code or grouping is essential for our client. They have countless contacts, and some are grouped when payments will be made by one entity for 100's of invoices spread over several different contacts. We haven't been able to find a way to to easily record the remittance as we need we're not able to filter the search in such a way that outstanding invoices for this group can be selected. This is making this job very time consuming.
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Thomas Verfurth
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Currently when using the fast search icon on the top right and side of the menu bar in the dashboard, we can only search key items, such as customer name or invoice number. It would be ideal if this function also allowed you to search by customer account number too. Similarly even by customer phone number also. At the moment we need to go to Contacts -> All contacts then search in the field there. If the same search functions in contacts was adopted into the quick search feature that would be great!
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Cheryl Schneider
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This afternoon, I searched Contacts by Account Number and found it worked to type in even a partial Account Number to get a list with the correct Contact within the mix.
However, there have been times when I've done the same and get a list of 0 Contacts. Not sure why Xero's Contact Search isn't consistent. -
Edelnet Accounts
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Reconciliation - search customers by account number
When matching a payment to a customer, one has to enter the account name to search for customers. Some customers only use account numbers as payment eferences, which cannot be used to search for the customer.
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Timothy Barnett
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Lots of integrations (like CRMs, etc) utilise a Contact Code in Xero to make the link between records. Currently, this Contact code is not available to report on, search by, or viewable in Contact export CSVs - the only way you can see it is to go into each individual record.
It would be much better to be able to search and report on this, as we are currently getting an error in the sync module of our CRM, and we cannot find the matching record in Xero without hours of manually opening every Contact record.