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  1. When uploading invoices via Xero files, it would be nice to have an invoice number field as well as a reference field. It seems like an important field to miss out as it requires manually adjusting afterwards. I prefer Xero files to Hubdoc as it populates the description fields and automatically splits costings. This would be the cherry on the cake for a great tool in Xero.

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    Hi Rhys, thanks for sharing this idea. We can see how having an Invoice Number field within Xero Files upload could make it easier to create transactions.

    For now, if you're looking for automatic extraction of invoice details, Hubdoc can capture information such as the supplier, invoice number, date, and amount from uploaded documents before publishing them into Xero. We appreciate this doesn't help when you're managing documents directly within Xero Files.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If you're looking for a manually editable field, automatic extraction, or both, we'd love to hear more about how you'd use it.

  2. While Xero currently allows documents like Certificates of Insurance to be uploaded to a contact, it would be much more effective to have a structured compliance tracking feature similar to how W-9 information is managed. This would allow users to input and track key insurance details—such as policy type (e.g., General Liability, Workers’ Compensation), coverage limits, and expiration dates—directly within the vendor or contractor profile. With this data captured in a structured format, Xero could provide automated reminders for upcoming expirations and visual alerts for missing or non-compliant coverage, helping businesses better manage risk and ensure vendors remain compliant before…

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    Hi Logan, thanks for submitting this idea. We've opened this idea up to the community to share their thoughts and add their votes onto it. In the meantime, feel free to share this with your friends and colleagues who might find this feature useful as well. Cheers.

  3. hi guys, it would be helpful if i could add more than one email contact when i set up a new customer on my mobile app.

    simon.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, Simon 😊 We understand you’d like the Xero Accounting app to let you add more than one email address when setting up a new customer, so it’s easier to manage customer contact details on mobile.

    We’ve reviewed your idea and are moving it to Gaining Support so other customers can vote on it and add their feedback. Hearing more about how this would help your workflow in the Xero Accounting app will help us better understand the demand and use cases for this improvement.

    If this would make a difference for others as well, please add your vote and share more detail in the comments.

  4. I would like to see Customer and Vendor names automatically updated when edited. Right now the names stay what was originally entered. It would save a lot of time if the names updated on old transactions automatically.

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    Thanks for sharing this idea — we can see why having historical transactions automatically reflect an updated contact name would be helpful.

    We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue to track interest and impact.

    In the meantime, there is a workaround you can try. Create a new contact with the updated name, then merge the existing contact into the new one. When contacts are merged, Xero keeps the transaction history together and historical invoices, bills, and other financial transactions inherit the name of the contact they were merged into.

    Please note, if the contact is linked to a project, that will need to be updated manually after the merge, as project contacts don’t update automatically.

  5. When the transaction is reconciled to a Bill that's been uploaded from HubDoc in Xero, it should mark the document as Paid in HubDoc. (Google's AI-generated answer says that this happens, but it doesn't on my account). That way it would be much easier to see in HubDoc which items still aren't reconciled

    Specifically, if a document is
    1) published as "Purchased, Awaiting Payment", and published to Xero
    2) that bill is then reconciled to a transaction in Xero, so that bill is shown as Paid and linked to Hubdoc
    3) then when viewing the document in Hubdoc, "Mark as…

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    Hi Mark, thanks for this excellent and clearly detailed suggestion.

    We understand the workflow you're proposing: when a bill from Hubdoc is reconciled in Xero, its status should automatically sync back and be marked as 'Paid' in Hubdoc.

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

    We've reviewed your idea for the 'Paid' status to sync from Xero back to Hubdoc, and now it can gain support from other community members. Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how this two-way sync would improve their experience.

  6. It would be very helpful if contact group changes were shown in the history - what change was made, when, and by whom. Currently, they leave no trace.

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    Hi Chris, thanks for sharing this idea.

    We can see how having Contact Group changes recorded in History & Notes could make it easier to track updates and understand when contacts have been added to or removed from groups.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support, so we can keep track of the votes and feedback. These details help the team better understand the value of the idea.

  7. Hubdoc - Copy the Document type to "All Tabs". CN for Credit Memo, INV for Invoice, M for Memo, Stmt for Statement etc can be seen or searched for at a glance. Not just the Supplier, date, amount etc. Would be super convenient when searching.

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    Hi Kathy, while Hubdoc remains a core part of our offering we want to be transparent that we’re currently focused on delivering more efficiencies through Xero directly - such as with our new Smart Document Capture within Xero Files.

    While we'll move your idea to Gaining support for now I want to be open that we don't have plans for adding document type to the All tab in Hubdoc.

  8. It would be fantastic to attach more than one file when publishing from Hubdoc to Xero! Often bills come with supporting documentation, such as contracts and/or receipts. It would be great to be able to attach these, as well as the original bill to be published.

    Thanks!

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  9. On these top level menu layouts, like Invoices, Bills and Contact Activity list we really need to be able to add/remove columns. Eg. to see the net total for each Bill/Invoice, not just the gross amount including VAT.

    We use these menu layouts a lot, and have to copy and paste to Excel when we want to send that data, because there seems to be no export on Xero that can produce a neat one row per invoice layout. The exports produce a massive report that displays every row from every invoice - not much use.

    Having the ability to…

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    Appreciate your feedback, Maggie. However it is unlikely that this change would be made across all areas of Xero at once. It would help to get an understanding of the desire for this in each area to share with our product teams.

    We have an existing idea for customising columns in the Invoices list, and one around the ability to view total and tax amount columns in the bills list that I have added your vote to, and I have adjusted your idea here for the customisation of columns in the Contact Activity. If there is any progress for each of these we will update on the respective idea. Thanks

  10. As the Archive in Files expands, we need the option to scroll through pages easily by using the scroll button. This should be located at the top of the page.

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    Hi Lynn, thanks for putting this forward. We can see how having page navigation controls available at the top of Files screen could make it easier to move through large folders and archived documents, especially for businesses that have built up a large volume of files over time.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback and better understand how this could improve document management workflows.


  11. Once PO's have been approved, could they be shown in BLUE (rather than green) - so as to distinguish between Bills "Awaiting Payment" (green) and PO's "Approved" (also in green) when in a Supplier.

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    Appreciate when viewing this information on a Contacts Activity tab how further differentiation could be useful, Ingrid. We don't have any immediate plans for changing the colour, however it would be good to get a wider sense of interest for this from the community here.

    However, to avoid any confusion you also have the transactions type tabs that you can click on to view only activity for that type of transaction.

  12. Moving or reducing size of the add address screen so you don't have to scroll down to select add. For ease of use, at 100% zoom it should all be visibleor action button to the top

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    Hi Trudy, just to check would this be when adding or editing a contact? From the left side menu you can click a section to quickly drop down and enter the details you like. Does this resolve what you're after here?

  13. New Xero files - add option to return to the old way of viewing bills that had been uploaded?

    I often log in to 80-100 bills that have been uploaded into files for me to add to a clients xero. Until the recent changes you could click on the oldest one and then scroll through each one viewing them full screen whilst working on another screen to add the information to a bill in xero. Now when you click on the file it opens in a much smaller box on the far side of the screen and you can't scroll…

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. While that exact group view isn't available in the new design, we have a helpful trick: we recommend you try expanding the side view of the file so it fills up most of your screen. When you do that, you'll be able to quickly jump between files just by hitting the Tab and Enter keys on your keyboard. If you run into any trouble with this or need more help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team :)

  14. Please add the ability to enter payment details when posting invoices via Hubdoc.

    At the moment, if an invoice has already been paid (e.g. by cash or a personal card), I have to post it in Hubdoc and then go into Xero to add the payment manually. This is especially common for my café and restaurant clients who pay many invoices in cash, and it creates a lot of extra work.

    Being able to record the payment at the point of upload would save a huge amount of time.

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    Hi there! thanks for sharing this great idea. We love hearing what would make a real difference for you.

    We could see that having the ability to record the paid invoice from within Hubdoc would be useful. Now it's over to the community to show their support. To help get the ball rolling, feel free to share the idea with any colleagues who'd find it useful – every vote helps!

    We'd also love to see others jump in the comments to explain how this feature would help them out.

  15. Allow organisations to disable autosync in Hubdoc for every supplier (existing & new) as an account level setting

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    Thanks for sharing your idea with us, Matt. 

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now live on the Community page where others can vote on it and share their thoughts.

  16. Allow us to send files to certain contractors via email such as subject or create a contractor portal or sync to google drive or something! Sending contracts would be amazing too ! like getting signatures within Xero
    And allow contractors to sync with Gusto and also add contract terms to their profile for automations

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    Thanks for sharing this idea, Jessasm. We can see how having a dedicated way to securely share files with contractors or external contacts could help streamline collaboration and reduce the need to manage documents across multiple platforms.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support. If this is something you'd like to see, please keep voting and share more about how you'd use file sharing in your workflow.


  17. Allow bills created from the files inbox to use a default VAT rate which could be set in the supplier record, this will massivley speed review of these bill, or where the category is picked up by Xero, use the default VAT rate for that category.

    At the moment it takes longer to process bills through the inbox, than the old way as draft bills, although more information is recorded, I'm not sure of the benefit of a slower process

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    Hi Keith, thanks for sharing your feedback. We can understand why you'd like contact defaults to automatically apply when creating bills from uploaded files.

    At the moment, bills created from uploaded files don't automatically inherit all of the defaults saved against a contact. This means there can be some additional review and manual coding required before the bill is approved.

    For now, you'll still be able to apply these details manually when reviewing the bill, and some customers may find tools like Hubdoc helpful for streamlining parts of their document processing workflow.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback and understanding how this could improve your accounts payable workflows.


  18. I don't understand why the tiny "Invoices owed to you >" box takes up the entire left column of the screen, which then means the Invoices list isn't full width.

    Surely the tiny overview box could be combined into the section with the graph and allow us to view a full width invoices list for a contact?

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    Hi Bee, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand the request for a more streamlined invoice view within a contact's profile. The idea is to expand the contact's invoice list table in the Contact Activity screen to improve visibility and access to the information you need without navigating elsewhere.

    If this would improve your workflow, please add your vote and share more detail about how you'd like to see this work.


  19. Enable a small CRM facility under Contacts
    Enabling users to add notes to contacts per invoice

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    Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea with us 🌟 We really appreciate you raising it and helping us understand how Xero could work better for you.

    We’ve moved your idea into Gaining Support so that other customers in the community can find it, vote on it, and add their feedback. While we cant promise this is part of our current plans, our product team will keep an eye on the level of community interest as they review ideas and consider future improvements.

    If this is something you’d love to see in Xero, please feel free to share the idea with others so they can vote and add their thoughts too. That support helps our team understand how valuable the idea would be for customers.

    Thanks again for sharing your feedback with us.

  20. If the ABN was displayed on the Contacts list screen, or when a contact is selected, it would be easier to check you were in the correct Supplier (or Customer) before inputting a new bill/invoice which may avoid errors.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    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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