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Thank you for the update.
When is the launch date for "contact" data addition to MJs?

Sounds very positive, thanks for the update.

Hi Kelly and Team,

I noticed that the request to include the contact (vendor name) on Manual Journals was moved to In Development on 27 February 2026.

Could you please advise if there is an estimated timeline for when this enhancement will be released?

This feature would significantly improve our reporting and make it much easier to analyse our P&Ls by vendor.

We'd appreciate any update you can provide, as this enhancement is important for our reporting needs.

Thank you!

Given the fact that it's taken them over 13 years to even consider this, I doubt it will happen in our career lifetime. Might as well move to a better platform than grow ancient waiting for Xero to respond to anything.

When will this feature be released?

I am also curious to know the timeline of when this will be released.

Thanks for the update, Kelly. Honestly, I'd given up hope on this one after five years, so it's good to see movement.

Quick questions for us to plan around:

Timeline: What's your estimated delivery window (quarter/month)?

Notification: How will we know when this ships, release notes, email notification, in-app alert?

This is great news! Is there a timeline that we can expect to finally be able to accomplish this?

Wonderful. Thank you!

Sometimes we need to recognize revenue using manual journals, with a debit to Unbilled Receivables and a credit to Revenue. We then issue the invoices in installments. It is very important to attach a contact name to the manual journals, as this allows us to run the Sales by Contact report.

This just made my day! Could you share any thoughts on timelines please?

Please enable an (optional) contact field for manual journals. We (and everyone else I'm sure) analyse monthly transaction data on a supplier contact level and it is very difficult to do this when the contact field is left blank. Aware you can enter a contact name in the description or use tracking categories but that is a workaround and incredibly inefficient.

Any update would be appreciated - This has become a somewhat crucial matter for a client.

Thanks - please inform me when this feature is released.

This is a horrible flaw in this system. There is no way to run reports to match to the vendor. Seems every other system out there has this basic functionality.

This is just what's needed ^^

Thanks so much. It is good to know that Xero is listening.

Deitri

Music to my ears!!

Good to see this has moved to discovery, and just agreeing with all of the posts below and hopefully this will get pushed a little higher to the top. We complete an insane amount of manual work in a spreadsheet for prepayments and unearned revenue to ensure the balance sheet accounts by customer / supplier are correct. prepayments and unearned revenue is essential part of all book keeping and accounting. its not a nice to have feature, its absolutely a critical part of the financial reports. And without that feature, every one has work arounds or hacks to make up for the xero limitation. Honestly, it amazes me what 'new features' get released that so pretty, but items that are critical to accurate financial reporting are not addressed. Also you could just have an accrual accounting feature, where when you enter a bill or invoice, you can choose how many months it's to be recognised over. how amazing would that be xero. THAT would mind blowing.

Amen! Make this happen Xero! We're getting sick of waiting.