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Oh, I see. We don't use any of them for anything more than bookkeeping, VAT and so on. Accounts/corp tax are done elsewhere. So how Freeagent handles corp tax is irrelevant to us. The rest is just debits/credits, not sure what the problem is?

We're going to have to disagree on everything else as well, but glad to hear Xero is working for you because it never has for us.

The elephant in the room is that Quickbooks, Sage, Freeagent all handle credit note matching better than Xero, pretty much every software does. Also many of these Xero feature requests just aren't a problem elsewhere...

@Chris Rogers
You're not serious?

FreeAgent has a terrible functionality problem with dealing with Directors Loan Accounts, fixed assets and depreciation and thinks it can calculate Corporation Tax itself, which it can't. It's just not user friendly. It's not simple, it's clunky.

Crapbooks is unusable rubbish that's not fit for purpose.
We have over 75 clients on Xero, 3 remaining on Crapbooks - with many of our clients making the move to Xero in recent years. People are leaving Crapbooks in droves, because it's rubbish. There's no point discussing it further.

Sage Line50 was always the market leader, but when the world moved online, they got left behind and priced themselves out of the market. They have been trying to catch up ever since and Sage Online is not the same product as Sage Line50. They have made improvements in recent years, granted.

Until anything better comes along, Xero is the best value for money - presently - out there.

@Patrick James and Co: That's not true for everyone, I stopped recommending Xero in 2018. What does Xero have over Sage, Quickbooks, Freeagent? Nothing.

Sage and Quickbooks are perfectly functional for our larger clients, Freeagent's simplicity is perfect for our micro clients. Xero is a complete non-starter, it's not just these unfulfilled feature requests that are the problem, the UI is horrendous and I hate using it everyday.

The only reason we use Xero at all is for clients who transfer in who have been using it for years.

We all need to get onto our Xero account managers (if you can find out who yours is) and lobby them. I once had a call from a developer in the USA asking about what we wanted. I replied at length, sent scenarios etc. still nothing. Maybe I'll lobby the CEO next....

Claire, Lisa, Nigel, et al:
Sadly Xero have gone the way of other software companies and put money first.
They must have millions of subscribers by now, because all things considered, it's a far better piece of software than Sage online, the abominable Crapbooks and the laughable FreeAgent.
So, in their confidence that we won't leave them in our droves, they keep putting the price up whilst ignoring our please for basic, fundamental accounting functionality.
In a nutshell, it doesn't matter how many people post on all of the credit note threads (there were a few, because there is an outcry for the software's inability to deal with credit notes correctly), as long as they are still taking our money, they just don't care.
Keep voting, though!

@Lisa Winchester. A workaround we've used is to mark the credit as paid or received, and then in the bank rec, under Find & Match, select "Show Received Items," and the credits marked as paid or received will appear. Refer to screenshots. It's not ideal, but you don't have to match credits to bills or invoices and guess what the customer or vendor does.

I'm so annoyed they've closed off that other thread. Every month I LOATHE having to match 100s of credit notes to random invoices. There must be a simpler way!

Unfortunately on another feed also regarding the ability to properly use Credit Notes, Xero said they are not even considering this, I've attached a screen shot of the post and my own response to it.

Xero just don't get that this is something that we the end user NEED!

As others have said over the years that this has been "In Development", it's a basic / fundamental accounting requirement that should have been included from the launch of Xero, and should have been at the top of the development priority list to add / put right. Instead, Xero continues to focus on adding glossy features that I suspect most users don't actually use or need (AI and analytics for example), and changing the user interface. Come on Xero, listen to your customers and put some effort and focus on getting this and other basic accounting features put right to make Xero more user friendly.

This would save a lot of time

There are so many 'Product Ideas' like this that should be a core feature not something that has to be suggested and chased. All the while prices keep getting hiked and useless AI features are added, but not the basic functions we have been asking for for years.

How hard can it be!

This is a necessity and should have been addressed years ago. Come on Xero, sort it out!

In development in March 2024??? As this has been requested pretty much since you started in the UK isn't it about time you dealt with it? No doubt that the developers have NO idea what a hassle it is currently. For those of us who use Xero on a day by day basis it is such an annoying waste of time. Sage had it perfectly. Time to step up and do some things to help us timewise instead of slow us down.

Wow - stop wasting time on look - it’s all about content and functionality

Come on Xero. This is really iimportant. The credit notes functionality is exceedingly poor compared with other bookkeeping systems. THIS WAS FIRST REQUESTED IN 2012!!!! You should not have to allocate a credit note against an invoice which then shows as an underpayment of the invoice on the remittance advice. You should be able to include a credit note in a batch payment without a silly error message saying "you can't pay a credit note". You should be able to select a credit note along with invoices in the bank reconciliation screen. Xero have got their priorities all wrong. Lets sort the basic functionality which affects EVERYBODY before adding bells and whistles that only a few will use.

Any progress on this? I need to be able to account & reconcile for two invoice payments and a credit in a single transaction and can't see how this is possible unless I do them all individually which then doesn't reflect the actual line in the bank account. So frustrating

We really need this addressed. It has been over Thirteen years since this feature was asked for!! It is time to get this feature priortised.

Excellent.

Things like this are basic and need sorting because it makes the job easier! Most of what has been done recently doesn't!

Hi all, should we do this ourself. Make a Multi Tenant SaaS App to handle credit notes and payments.

🧱 Architecture Overview
1. Frontend (User Interface)
Web app where users can:
Connect their Xero account via OAuth 2.0.
View credit notes and payments.
Configure matching rules (e.g., auto-apply by date, amount, or supplier).
Approve or reject suggested matches.
2. Backend (Business Logic)
Handles:
Authentication and token management.
Fetching credit notes, bills, and payments from Xero.
Applying your custom logic to match credit notes to payments.
Creating journal entries or transactions in Xero via the API.
3. Database
Stores:
User accounts and Xero tokens.
Matching rules and preferences.
Logs of all actions for audit and rollback.
4. Xero API Integration
Uses:
GET /creditnotes, GET /payments, POST /journals, etc.
OAuth 2.0 for secure, per-user access.
Webhooks (optional) to react to new credit notes or payments in real time.
🔐 Multi-Tenant Considerations
Each user’s data is isolated and secured.
Tokens are stored encrypted.
Role-based access control (e.g., admin vs. viewer).
Optional: allow users to invite team members.