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  1. The Section 444 (5A) Companies Act 2006 statement ("the directors have chosen to not file a copy of the company’s profit and loss account under section 444 (5A) Companies Act 2006")appears on the Balance Sheet in the full accounts. This statement should only be in the abridged accounts for Companies House, The only workaround is to manually edit the pdf, which requires pdf software and takes time. This needs to be amended.

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  2. Current Behaviour

    When using comparison periods in Xero financial reports (such as Profit & Loss), the report automatically displays periods in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest).

    Whilst users can manually reorder columns using the Edit Layout function, this change only applies to the specific report layout and does not dynamically adapt when different reporting periods are selected. As a result, users must manually rearrange the columns each time they run reports for different months, quarters, or years.

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    For businesses that regularly prepare management accounts, board packs, investor reporting, or trend analysis, reviewing financial performance from oldest to newest…

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    Thanks 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. 🙂

  3. Sort "Transactions by VAT box" by the sub headings i.e the Account and not just by Date. It would make it a lot easier when revieweing the VAT return. If I could sort by the Account I could go scroll through and easily see if anything has been posted to an account that doesn't attract VAT such as Entertainment or Insurance and ensure there are no transactions posted there.

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  4. As I inquired on how to modify a report to allow for printing the column headings on multiple pages, Xero Support told me that I should "export the report and add the headings on page breaks".

    Come on, Xero. That response was like a QuickBooks response! Surely someone at Xero must realize that when a report spans multiple pages, the user frequently may need to refer back to page one to be sure they understand what the numbers they are viewing are related to. Multiple page reports SHOULD have the column headings repeat on every page the report prints on…

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    Thanks 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. 🙂

  5. Extend the screen on budget manager to see all 12 months including the total. It is time consuming to scroll down and across when checking totals.

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    Thanks Cecily, for submitting your idea!

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now open for the community to support.

    Other Xero users can now vote for your idea and add comments to share how it could enhance their own Xero experience.

  6. It would be nice to be able to attach customers to groups within the contact details screen. Due to the way Xero works, every single customer has to be attached to at least two different groups for reporting purposes. I have one group called Customers so that I get every customer an no other entities in reports. The next I have to attach the customer to a state since there is no availability to create reports of sales by state.

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    Thanks 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. 🙂

  7. When filtering Account Transactions report by contact, show only contacts in the report, rather than all contacts.
    Would make conducting a review a lot easier - i.e. if you are reviewing one account in particular.

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  8. The uncoded statement lines report is really helpful to send to clients to show what documents we are missing, but seems to lack the functionality of the other reports.

    On high volume clients with multiple bank accounts an un-grouped option would be useful. When client provides receipts in currency paid GBP it is more helpful to have the data sorted by date rather than by bank account.

    It would be good to have the date range shortcuts (eg "this month", "last month", "last quarter") on this report - the uncoded statement lines report only has the calendar date selection option.

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  9. Budget Manager - Add Balance Sheet Items to Budget.
    - It makes no sense that one can't budget for balance sheet items.
    - The purchase of assets and repayment of loans, etc., have to be budgeted for and reflected in the budget actual vs budget reports.

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  10. Update the Account Transaction Report to include the Item Code as a column, enabling users to track spending for each untracked inventory item.

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  11. Two significant limitations with the Xero-Claude connector that make it difficult to use in practice:

    Single entity authentication only. Multi-entity businesses need to aggregate data across legal entities, but currently you have to stop the Claude session and reauthenticate for each entity. This rules out any scheduled or automated processes, which largely negates the value of the integration - at that point it's quicker to download a Xero extract or use another tool like XO.

    No transaction-level data. Pulling GL balances is useful, but most reconciliations and business reports require underlying transaction detail. Since Claude can't pull this, you're already…

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  12. Have the Cover Letter automatically ticked by default when sending activity statements for signing in Xero Practice Manager, similar to how the Substantiation Declaration, Activity Statement, and Worksheets are currently selected by default. Rather than having to tick the cover letter on the next screen before sending.

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  13. When we enter into the Fixed Assets screen, the default should be the Registered tab rather than the Draft tab because that is the most commonly used screen.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, Kirsten. It's good to get this understanding from customers on the different flows they would find most useful. This isn't something we have direct plans of right now, but will start to get a sense of interest in setting a default screen here. I'l be sure to let you know if there is any movement around your idea.

  14. US Tax: don't show tax rate for non-taxable items

    Why is Sales Tax showing as a % for Shipping when shipping is set as not taxable?

    I see there's a pop-up that says it's at 0% tax, but it's very confusing to the customer, showing a tax rate, and have explain that in fact Shipping Is not taxed

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    Hey Andrew, thanks for raising this Idea with us, we appreciate the time taken to do this. Thanks for sharing this feedback. We understand why this is confusing when shipping is set as non-taxable, but a tax rate still appears on the invoice.

    This idea has now moved to Gaining Support. This will allow us to monitor the Idea to better understand how much interest there is from other customers, which helps inform future prioritisation.

    For now, there isn’t a change to share, but we’ll continue to track the feedback being added here.

  15. When selecting a date range in reports, please can a "last week" / "this week" common date selection be added?

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    Hi Arthur, is there a particular report you'd find this selection most useful for? It's unlikely we'd add this as a common date range across all reports at once - it'd be good to better understand the reports this would be most helpful for you on. Thanks

  16. When editing a report, please make it easier to add multiple rows or columns at once - either by allowing continuous clicking on the "add row/column" button, or by providing more options beyond a 5 x 5 when creating a table.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, we appreciate you explaining how adding multiple rows or columns at once could improve your workflow when editing report templates.

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  17. A report is needed that lists the customer activity with the ability to filter out customers with a zero balance. It takes 20 minutes to run an activity report (which is transactions in AR) then filter out all of the customers with a zero balance. This needs to be done monthly and it is ridiculous to not have that ability.

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  18. Only show 'open items' on Balance sheet

    Have an ability to match items in a balance sheet account, so only the 'open amounts' (which make up the total) are visible eg for accruals - don't have to see all the old accruals, and the invoices that have cleared these out. Would be able to see summary of just the 'open amounts'

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

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  19. New Zealand Inland Revenue Department requires reciepts to be signed by an authorised person. . This does not appear to be possible possible with Xero at present by inserting an electronic or jpeg signature. With a significant number of receipts our charity issues this can only be done manually and a scanned copy sent.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We've opened this idea up to the community to add their thoughts and votes. We'll track interest on this idea in the meantime. Cheers

  20. Import a completed year end file into Xero. Store in Custom report, can't be amended, as this represents the final published accounts. Would be great to keep a permanent copy here, like all of our previous Published reports, that we can no longer use due to a change in reporting standards (NZ changes to incorporated societies reporting requirements under XRB).

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