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  1. Exportable “InvoiceNow Success Report” at Xero Organization & Invoici App Level for IRAS GST Reconciliation
    🚨 The Problem:
    Currently, the Invoici app dashboard lacks a reliable way to isolate and extract sales invoices and purchase bills that have been successfully transmitted to IRAS via InvoiceNow.
    • Flawed Filtering: Unchecking "show failed" and "show not submitted" still displays transactions marked as "document validation failed" (typically non-GST bills where "no tax" was intentionally selected).
    • No Export Option: There is no way to export this filtered information from Invoici into Excel.
    • In XERO, insufficient Audit Trail: Currently, successfully transmitted details to…

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We understand the request for an exportable InvoiceNow Success Report that shows successfully transmitted e-invoices and bills for GST F5 reconciliation.

    Having this information in one report could make it easier to cross-check InvoiceNow transactions against GST reporting without reviewing transmission history individually.

    I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know which fields you’d need in the report.

  2. Our board have frequently asked that our management accounts/Profit and loss etc is displayed not in alphabetical order but in order of value. Currently, I manually change the order but this takes far too long.

    11 votes

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    Hi Liz, thanks for your suggestion. We understand that being able to sort Profit and Loss lines by value could make it easier to highlight key income and expense areas when reviewing reports.

    For now, you can use Edit Layout in the Profit and Loss report to manually reorder accounts and customise the report layout.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and share your feedback with our teams.

  3. A way of converting quotes accepted into order acknowledgements and / or delivery notes before creating the Invoice would be helpful. I use a work around with templates, but it shows prices which you don't really need or want on delivery notes and the attachment PDF is still labelled as a quote.

    16 votes

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    Hi Rob thanks for sharing this here. We can see how having an order acknowledgment or delivery note upon quote acceptance could be useful to have. We will open this idea up to get more support from the community. Just to add on to your last two points, you can edit the way the PDF attachment shows. You can also create DOCX templates, so that the price does not show. If you require further support with this, please do not hesitate to raise a case with our support team.

  4. You can run depreciation, without posting the journal entries (so it rolls over to the next financial year without changing the current financial year accounts).

    10 votes

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    Hi Katrina, 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.

  5. For example, on our budget variance report, the closing parentheses are bleeding down into a separate line, making the overall report look messy and unprofessional. This should never be something that happens on a report; the formatting should adjust automatically based on the size of the data.

    3 votes

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    Hi 👋 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.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  6. PAYG Instalments generated from XPM read as a BAS, wording should be updated.

    3 votes

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    Hey Ashley, thanks for bringing this to us 🙂So we can review this idea fully can you give us a little more information around what you experiencing with as much details as possible.

  7. The new manual journal has added more tabbing which takes more time and has started hurting my hand. We went from a whatever it was to 7 tabs to get to the same spot in each line. It is nice to have an option to copy the line to the next line and select with a space. That seems to have added one tab. I could take it or leave it as a tab. I don't need that as often. But do we really need to tab to the trash column. Are we going to use that enough to need…

    6 votes

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    Appreciate your suggestion here. We can see how more streamlined tabbing through fields in Manual Journals could support faster keyboard-driven data entry and a more consistent workflow.

    We've moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering interest from the community.

    If there are specific parts of the tab sequence you'd like to see improved, please continue to share them here. That context is valuable for the team as they review this idea.

  8. At present, fixed asset depreciation in Xero follows standard monthly periods, which can make it difficult to align depreciation expense with businesses that report on a 4-4-5 calendar. Allowing users to override depreciation period dates would improve accuracy, reduce manual journal adjustments, and make the module more practical for retail, hospitality, and other businesses that use non-standard reporting cycles.

    5 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Fixed Assets  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for sharing this idea ⭐ We’re moving it to Gathering Support so we can gauge the level of interest from the wider Xero community in supporting custom depreciation periods, including 4-4-5 reporting calendars.

    Feedback and votes will help us understand how broadly this functionality is needed, as well as the impact it has on businesses that use non-standard reporting periods. Please continue to vote and share any additional details about how this would help your business.

  9. Customer Credit Limit vs Sales Report
    I'd like a report that combines customer credit limits with their sales activity in one place.
    Currently, there is no single report available that provides this information. I run an Aged Receivables Report to include Credit Limits (which only shows customers with active, outstanding balances).
    Run an Income by Customer Report for historical sales data.
    Export both to Excel and manually merge the dataset and add in missed customers.
    For a customer base of approximately 700 customers, this process takes an entire day to complete.
    A report showing Customer Name, Credit Limit, Current Balance,…

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know that a single report showing sales activity and the customer credit limit would be something that you would like to see developed in Xero.

    We've opened this up to the wider community and now it's up to them 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 share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  10. Ability to run detailed transaction and other reports translated to another currency.

    When you are running a multinational business, the ability to convert all data back to 1 currency for reporting is invaluable. Though the entity may trade in one currency, being able to report in another is also important.

    Also, looking at the detailed transactions for analytics is important but difficult when it's in a foreign currency. Having a multicurrency TB for export/import and reconciliations would also be handy.

    11 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate all the engagement so far. We understand that when you’re working with multiple currencies, being able to view and present reports in a different currency can make it easier to communicate results.

    At the moment, report currency is tied to your organisation’s base currency, which means you can’t switch the presentation currency directly within a report.

    For now, these reports and spreadsheet exports can help bridge the gap when you need converted views for reporting. We’re continuing to track interest here and share it with the team.

    We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so others can add their use cases and help us better understand how this feature could add values.


  11. Need to seperate the Account Code & Account Description/Name into different columns on reports

    8 votes

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    Hi Ian, thanks for bringing our attention to this. We can see how having account codes displayed in their own column, rather than combined with the account name, could make reporting easier to read and work with.

    At the moment, account codes and names are shown together when the option is enabled in reports, and can be split manually after export if needed for further analysis.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If there are particular reports or workflows where separate columns would be most useful, we'd love to hear more about them.

  12. It would be useful to be able to add intangible assets to the Fixed Asset Register and actually have them classified as intangible assets on the register, rather than everything being classed as a tangible asset as it is currently. Then you could expand on this and allow setting for annual impairment write-offs or amortisation policies.

    9 votes

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    Hi Jake, thank you for bringing this suggestion to the community. We understand why having a dedicated way to manage intangible assets could be valuable, especially when you’re tracking items like software, patents, trademarks, or other non-physical assets. Keeping these records separate from physical fixed assets can help make reporting and compliance reviews much clearer.

    Currently, Xero Fixed Assets is primarily designed around physical assets and depreciation.

    One option for now is to create custom asset types and map them to the relevant accounts in your Chart of Accounts. While this does not provide a separate amortisation workflow, it can help you keep these assets organised and track their values over time.I’ve updated the status of this post to Gaining Support so we can continue to gather feedback and votes.

  13. 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.

    7 votes

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    Thanks for bringing this idea to the community.

    Being able to exclude customers with zero balances or no activity directly within accounts receivable reports could make it easier to review outstanding balances without needing to manually filter the results.

    We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this feature would help your workflow, add your vote and share which reports you'd like this filter to be included.

  14. I've discovered that in the new Xero when you create a tax return for a new client it defaults to agent address and agent trust account for refunds. Given the new AML laws, we do not want our account as the default. Can we either have the ability to change what addresses and bank accounts are set too by default or have them both changed to client?

    3 votes

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    Thanks for bringing this to the community. We understand the request for more flexibility over the default address details populated when creating tax returns.

    As there’s already a similar idea covering the default refund bank account, we’ve transferred your vote to that idea so community support is captured in one place.

    We’ve updated this post to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback on the remaining request.

  15. Be able to print reports from the Fixed Asset screen.

    9 votes

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  16. It is unacceptable that two standard financial reports within the same accounting system produce different balances solely because of the system's rounding method. Such inconsistencies create unnecessary complications during reconciliations, financial reporting, and audit processes.

    Describing this as a software limitation does not address the underlying issue or its impact on users. Standard financial reports are expected to reconcile with one another, and the Accounts Payable Aging Report should match the Balance Sheet. Even a one-cent discrepancy requires investigation, explanation, and additional manual effort, undermining the reliability and efficiency of the system.

    Financial reporting depends on consistency and accuracy. Users…

    5 votes

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    Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea and explain the impact it’s having for you.

    We understand how important it is for standard financial reports to reconcile, especially when even a small difference creates extra work during reconciliations, reporting, or audit review. We can absolutely see why this matters.

    Your idea has now been moved to Gaining support so other customers experiencing the same issue can add their votes and comments. This helps our product team better understand how widespread the impact is.

    While we can’t promise any specific changes or timing, please know your feedback has been captured and shared in the right place for visibility.

  17. When using a custom Profit & Loss report in a set of Financial Statements, you are unable to format formulas to be in bold or underlined. It would be beneficial from a visibility perspective to have these in bold, so they stand out as formulas.

    Can this be updated so to enable formatting at this level.

    105 votes

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  18. Suggested improvements to Receivable Invoice Detail - Top Customers report.

    The definition of this report is attached. It provides a list of sales invoices and credit notes by contact.

    If a customer has an overpayment on their account, the report incorrectly treats this cash payment as a sales credit note and reduces the customer's sales figure by the overpayment. Please can this report be corrected to only include sales invoices and sales credit notes? Thank you.

    26 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, Maeve.

    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.

  19. I really wanted to vote for this previous idea https://productideas.xero.com/forums/967121-users-setup/suggestions/50529057-navigation-favourite-more-than-20-reports but it was already actioned and completed last year.

    However, that was before the new partner hub when suddenly once again the maximum number of reports in the menu in practice manager has been limited to an arbitrary number of 20 which is far too low.

    This is a backwards step and frustrating. Please reinstate the fix you already did last year per link above. As a practice manager I regularly use more than 20 favourite reports and do not wish to trawl through the full reports screen to find…

    2 votes

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  20. It would be extremely helpful if Xero allowed UK Property Income to be entered manually within the MTD ITSA return, rather than requiring transactions to be entered into the ledger or quarterly journals to be posted.

    A common scenario is where a sole trader already uses Xero for their business but also has separate UK property income. Whilst it's possible to separate the figures using tracking categories, this still mixes business and property transactions within the same accounting records.

    Allowing manual entry of the quarterly property income and expenses for MTD ITSA would:

    • Keep business and property records completely separate.
    • …
    3 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Tax filing  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We can see how allowing manual entry of UK property income for MTD for Income Tax would be desirable.

    We’ve updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can better understand how many customers this would help and the different scenarios people need it for. If this is important to you, please add your vote and share any additional detail in the comments, especially how you currently manage property income outside Xero and where the current workflow creates extra work.

    We’ll continue to review the feedback and keep this idea updated here as it progresses.

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