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  1. 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.

    25 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.

  2. bringing back the year-to-date view in the analytics chart for net profit or loss

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  3. Hi Xero Team,

    We are in the process of registering Xero as our Computerized Books of Accounts with the BIR. In line with this, we would like to share some suggestions that may help Xero meet the BIR requirements.

    For report generation, it would be helpful if the footer could include:

    The type of book,

    A timestamp and date,

    The name of the person who generated the report, and

    The software version number.

    At present, the footer only shows the date and type of report. Adding the generator’s name, exact time, and version number would make the reports more aligned…

    33 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes you would like to see to the headers and footers of your reports. We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    Please note Xero operates on a continuous delivery model, which means we're constantly updating and improving our software. Unlike traditional software Xero doesn't have version numbers or release dates so we are unable to provide this information.

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  4. It would be a good idea to include verification codes in the Manual CIS Suffered report. It would allow a check before submitting the monthly report to HMRC.

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    Thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand the request for the CIS Suffered report to include the subcontractor verification code alongside the existing payment and deduction information.

    This could make it easier to cross-reference subcontractor details when preparing and reviewing CIS returns.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would be useful, add your vote and let us know what you'd like to see included in the report.

  5. Currently, It prints TITLE, COMPANY, DATE/ PERIOD. Please can you add to DATE/ PERIOD 'as @ TIME OF PUBLISH'. This would solve issues where I am looking at two identical spreadsheets but am unable to tell which is up to date.

    12 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this suggestion — we can see how adding “as at time of publish” to the DATE / PERIOD would make it much easier to tell which published spreadsheet is the most up to date when reports look otherwise identical.

    We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can keep tracking interest and feedback from our community. While we can’t make any promises about if or when this might be added, the support and examples shared here help our product team better understand the impact and usefulness of this change 💥

    If there are any updates to share, we’ll post them here.

  6. Would it be possible to freeze the header row on the screen when running reports.

    61 votes

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    Thanks for continuing to support this idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed the idea and found another similar idea that we have merged with this, 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.

  7. Custom Reports Formatting & Formulas

    1 - more options like spacers (not just page breaks), lines, section dividers
    2 - text box more flexible = between lines, not just at the beggining and end of the whole reports
    3 - allow formulas to display text results (if statements), not just numbers

    5 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing your feedback here. We understand why having more flexibility in custom report layouts and formulas could help create more tailored reporting outputs.

    The idea is to provide additional formatting options and expanded formula capabilities, allowing users to build reports that better align with their reporting needs.

    We’ll continue tracking engagement and feedback from the community here.


  8. For Company Accounts - the directors feed from Companies House and include the resignation date in the Company Information section of the accounts. However, the final report doesn't include the resignation date against the director. Whilst, there is obviously a work around to include the date as if it's part of the directors name, it relies on manual intervention and given the information is already there, it seems odd that it isn't automatic.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for taking the time to share this idea — we can see why this would be helpful.

    We've now moved this idea to Gaining Support 🌟. This means we've recognised it as a valid feature request and we're now gathering feedback from customers to help us understand the level of demand and the impact it’s having.

    We agree it would make sense for the resignation date to flow through automatically into the final report when that information is already available in the Company Information section.

    At the moment, this isn’t done automatically, so the current workaround is to manually include the resignation date in the director details where needed for presentation in the final accounts.

    If this is something you'd like to see improved, please add your vote and any extra detail about how it affects your workflow. That helps our product team better understand the demand and the use case.

  9. Can you raise an enhancement request for the P&L report to give 2 options- Includes GST and Excludes GST to give an option to the user(similar to the current option of Cash or Accrual)?
    If a user selects "Includes GST ", a new line item gets added showing the GST account, else default option is "Excludes GST " meaning no change to the current report.

    7 votes

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

    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!

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  10. Can the transition period for change in financial year date be added to companies that are non UK organisations as well. we have a group of companies that all extended their financial year but i have only been able to use the transition period in UK organisations. Why is this not an option in non UK organisations?

    18 votes

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    Hi Claire, thanks for raising this. We appreciate you sharing the want of having the transition period feature across all the regions while it is only currently available for UK organisations. Your idea is now in Gaining support status, meaning our community team have reviewed it and it's open for community support through votes and comments. We encourage others who would benefit from this to add their votes and share their use cases to help us understand the broader need.

  11. I would like to filter reports based on a bank account where there are multiple bank accounts

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    Thanks for bringing this to the community. We understand the request for a bank account filter in financial reports.

    To help us understand the idea more clearly, could you react to this update and let us know which report you’d like to filter by bank account, such as Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Account Transactions or another report?

  12. Please create a customer list report with options to list the fields in the contact details. The export sucks because one cannot filter it or choose the fields to export.

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    Hi Suzette, are there any specific contact details that you would be looking to get in a report? If you can share a little more on your use case this will help when sharing back with our product teams. Thanks!

  13. If I have a report and a column is a formula.

    When I export that report to excel, the column has the underlying formula in each cell.

    The column even has that formula in a cell that is in a total row. This is okay if the formula is a percentage, but never if the formula is an amount.

    A total row with an amount should always be the total of the cells above it. Never any other formula.

    Other column types (such as date), do not suffer this issue, they will correctly insert a formula that sums the cells…

    2 votes

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    Hi Sam, really appreciate you coming into our Xero Support team about this so we could get a closer look into the behaviour that you've mentioned.

    I've re-opened this and slightly adjusted the title of your idea now that we have a clearer picture. Just to highlight for others coming across - currently when you export a report to Excel the formula in the column takes precedence over the total calculation.

    There are no plans for changing this at this time, however we'd like to get a wider sense of thew interest through the idea here so that our product teams can consider this in future planning. Thank you

  14. Why is the export function in all different locations across many screens?

    Standardize where functions are for easier user experience.

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    Appreciate you bringing this to the community. Having the Export button in the same place across Xero could make navigation more intuitive.

    I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest. If this would help your day-to-day work, add your vote and let us know which location you’d prefer best.

  15. It would be great to have the option to present all reports in month-by-month format. It is possible with P&L and cash summary reports using the compare to function, but impossible for payroll reports. Thinking this could be really useful for STP finalisations and payroll reconciliations.

    4 votes

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    Hi Jess, thanks for highlighting this improvement.

    We can see how a monthly breakdown (or comparison) within payroll reports could make it easier to review trends, compare payroll costs across reporting periods, and support management reporting.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support. If this is a feature you'd like to see, please keep voting and share how a monthly breakdown would support your reporting workflow.


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  17. One of the key steps in preparing client financials is to ensure accounts, especially newly added ones, are assigned to the correct report code. I had the favourited on every client in the old navigation for quick access as it's something I need almost every time. It'd like that back.

    17 votes

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    Great to get your feedback here, Chris. It'll be good for us to get a sense of interest from others in community that also found this Favouriting of Advanced Account settings useful.

    We're keeping a close eye on the interest and will share if there are any updates for you here.

  18. New Tracking Report has no summary option - the existing summary option will be retired in November meaning more work will be involved in manually working out the summary balance for each tracked item. Please give a summary option similar to "old" report that is being retired.

    20 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback on the new Tracking Report. We appreciate you sharing how important summary and grouping functionality is for your workflows.

    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!

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  19. When exporting P&L or BS Reports into excel can the GL account number & description be separated into 2 separate columns - currently it exports as one field/column and needs a formula to separate the 2. This should be a standard feature ...surely

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    Hi Lisa thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We've reviewed your idea and now it is up to the community to get behind it and support it. You can share this idea with your colleagues and peers who may also find this functionality useful. In the meantime, we'll monitor this idea for traction.

  20. 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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    Thanks for sharing your feedback, Keith. We appreciate how having the Section 444(5A) statement appear only where it's applicable could make reporting more accurate and reduce the need for manual adjustments.

    We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community support and sharing your feedback with the team.

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