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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.
6 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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Tax number validation - The ability to verify VAT/GST/ABN numbers of contacts directly with the country Tax Authority
When setting up suppliers in "Contacts" within Xero, it would be great if Xero could perform a VAT check from a link to the HMRC website. There could be a button next to the VAT number box called "Check VAT" and then the supplier's VAT details (as per HMRC) would show.
Furthermore, it would be great if there could be a VAT report that you could run each quarter to check whether all VAT numbers are correct. It might involve a bit more work for the bookkeeper to ensure they set up the supplier correctly in Xero, but it would…
20 votesThanks for the suggestion to add a “Check VAT” action in Xero Contacts to verify VAT numbers directly with HMRC John. We can see how this would be a helpful addition for ongoing supplier checks ✨.We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so others can vote and add real-world examples. The more detail you can share about when and how you’d use this (for example, one-off checks during setup vs. quarterly reviews), the better we can assess impact and prioritisation. We’ll continue to monitor interest and will update this thread if there’s progress to share.
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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.
35 votesThanks, Carol for submitting your idea.
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Bills - Auto fill contact detail to create new contact
If a bill comes in from a new contact, auto-fill contact details from the bill rather than having to type in. Also auto-check and flag if contact details differ once you select a contact.
4 votesAppreciate you suggestion, Vanisha. We understand the request to automatically populate contact details from a bill when creating a new contact. Having more information carried across during the creation process could help reduce manual data entry when adding new suppliers.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd use it.
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Bills - Verify bank account name against BSB and account number
It would be great if within Xero we could Verify that an account name matches the BSB and Account number - like can be done within some bank logins, to be able to quickly identify scam bank accounts.
3 votesThanks for sharing this idea. We understand the request to verify that a payee’s bank account name matches the BSB and account number before making a payment. Having this check available in Xero could provide an additional layer of confidence when updating supplier details or processing payments.
We’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you’d like the verification to work.
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Contacts - Set date to send reminder notification for service dates
Could we add a feature to enable us to email out service and inspection reminders up to 28 days before it is due.
This could be done by date only.
It would save us having to add another app and potentially another running system to get this feature.15 votesAaah gotcha, thanks for the confirmation and additional feedback on the idea here. A bit of an extension from our existing functionality for Contacts and there may be some CRM solutions that you could explore in the Xero app store atm.
For now we'll track the interest in this from community here.
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Contact Details - Ability to resize or expand the text box for Notes
Can't highlight select specific text within the Contact Details - Notes Box to edit Contact information - when attempting to select part of the existing text to highlight so I can copy or delete this, however all the text below is highlighted and the screen rolls down or up when attempting to do this... it's so frustrating & annoying as the only work around for this is to copy the entire text & paste to Apple Mac text notes on another screen, so I can then edit the text and copy back into the Client Details - Notes Box in…
5 votesHi Michelle, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that having the ability to resize the Notes field within contact details could be useful for recording detailed client information or internal instructions.
The idea is to allow users to adjust the size of the Notes text box, making it easier to view and update longer notes without needing to scroll through a smaller fixed field.
We encourage the community to vote on this idea if you’d find this contact management improvement useful.
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multiple contacts for a single company
When we invoice we often deal with multiple contacts in a single company. What would help us massively is having the ability to have a single company card and multiple contacts to chose from within that company when invoicing.
The only way we have found to deal with this is to have multiple entries for a company each set up to the contact we need to invoice for a particular project. This means we can't use any of the other features to review how much work has passed through a single client without reviewing each entry in turn.
2 votesHi 👋 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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Contacts - Smart Lists for Suppliers
I am just working through the L3 Xero Certification and finished the contacts section. I notice that Smart Lists are only available for customers.
Is it possible to create Smart Lists for Suppliers?
We have over 600 suppliers and many of those could be archived. If I could create a Smart List for Suppliers that we haven't used for a specific period (e.g. 2 years) I could create a list of suppliers to archive, rather than having to go into each supplier to check the last transaction date.3 votesThanks for sharing this suggestion, Margot. We understand the request to extend Smart Lists to suppliers, so inactive or rarely used supplier contacts can be identified and managed more easily.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd use it.
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Contacts - improve contact search in Xero to prioritise surname
Please improve the Contact Search function so that when a user types the first few letters of a contact’s name (for example, the first three letters), contacts whose surname begins with those letters are prioritised at the top of the search results.
At present, search results often prioritise contacts where the same letters appear within an email address or elsewhere in the contact record, making it more difficult to locate the intended contact quickly.
Prioritising surname matches would make the search function more intuitive, significantly improve efficiency, and better reflect how most users search for contacts.
3 votesHi Mark, appreciate your time to suggest this. We understand the request to make contact searches more intuitive, particularly when the search term list out multiple results. The ability to surface surnames could make finding customers and suppliers quicker and easier.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. Add your vote and share your preferred way to search for contacts.
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Smart document data capture - multiple pages
please can you tell me when we might be able to capture a multi page invoice as one pdf in Smart Invoice Capture - ie 2 pictures to one PDF as can be done Dext
4 votesHi Tracey! We're in the process of releasing a new feature via our Xero Accounting app that will enable you to upload as separate or a single document that can be processed with Smart Document capture once uploaded to your org. 😊
We expect to have this live to all users soon so I'll round back to confirm when it's out to 100%.
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AU Tax - Include client phone and mobile number fields as columns in reports
Need to identify clients where the Phone/Mobile field has been populated. Currently reporting and exporting options do not separate the populated Client Phone field into Phone/Mobile etc. There is a compatibility issue with ATO SmartDocs not picking up the mobile phone number if it is in the Client's Phone/Mobile field. We need to move these to Phone/Phone field to fix the issue, but currently there is no way XPM can provide a list or report showing clients where their Phone/Mobile field has been populated.
5 votesHi Petra, appreciate your suggestion here. We understand that having key client details available while reviewing tax reports can help keep your workflow moving.
The suggestion here is to add client phone and mobile number fields as separate columns in tax reports, so you can quickly access contact details without switching between screens.
For now, you can use the Contacts list alongside your report or export your data if you need to combine client details. While this doesn’t provide the same in-report view, it can help streamline your process.
We’ve updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and gather feedback from accountants and tax agents on how this could improve reporting workflows.
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User Role - Lock or restrict permissions for creating new contacts
Ability to lock permissions for creating new contacts. This would mean controls on who could create a contact and therefore stop duplicate and incomplete contacts being raised. As a company that manages and cleans up multiple Xero accounts this is a feature that would keep client Xero accounts tidy and complete.
2 votesThanks for bringing this to the community. Being able to limit contact creation to specific users or roles could make it easier to maintain consistent and accurate contact records.
I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would be useful, add your vote and share how you’d like contact creation permissions to work.
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Smart Document Capture - Pick up Card number
Smart Document Capture
To pickup the last 4 digits of a credit or debit card on the receipt, and learning which card that is.
That’s going to save a lot of time reviewing which card it was spent on.2 votesHey Kirk, thanks for raising this idea with us, we appreciate the time taken to do so. This idea is now open to votes and comments from the community. You can share this with others so they can share their experiences around how this could improve their processes. We will post any updates for this idea here.
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Contacts - Include Contact ID in CSV Export
FINTECH requires Xero’s Contact ID for integration, but the Contact ID isn’t included in the contact export. They must be manually copied from the URL, which is slow and error prone.
11 votesHi Marcia thanks for raising this here, we can understand how including the contact ID would be a great addition to the export feature in Contacts.
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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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.
4 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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Contacts - Display Group membership in main Contact list view
Be able to see a list of contacts, showing which groups each contact belongs to at a glance. Who are donors, who are equine related, who attend camp, which are organizations/business/church, who take lessons
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Contacts AU: populate business details via ABN validation system
When creating a supplier contact and entering the ABN, the system should automatically populate the relevant details via ABN lookup for future improvement.
2 votesThanks for sharing your request here, Dilip. We understand the request to automatically populate contact details from an ABN lookup when creating a contact. Having business information filled in from the ABN could help reduce manual data entry and improve accuracy when setting up new contacts.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd like to use it.
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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.
5 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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Contact - Bank account verified
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.
3 votesThanks 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.
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