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  1. Due to the government now forcing MTD on many sole traders and small businesses I would like to request the bill creation limits on "Ignite" be revisited to better reflect the customers using this plan.

    I find that 20 invoices is more than enough, however 10 bills is not nearly enough. Perhaps this could be increased to at least 20 to match the invoices or ideally even more. When using things like Hubdoc to track receipts these are created as Bills automatically. Given that Xero itself is x1 bill, most people would also put in their phone, subscriptions to cloud…

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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. 🙂

  2. Can you please enable passkey as an authentication option for logging in to xero.com? Given the "trust this browser" doesn't remember the selection between sessions, being able to authenticate via passkey would be even more helpful and removes the extra step of having to grab the mobile to open Google Authenticator for the OTP each time.

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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. 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.

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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. 🙂

  4. Please update Notification Settings to allow "Job Managers" to be notified when they have been assigned to a job. Currently, only 'Staff' are able to be notified.

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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. Grandfathering JAX to every user with a new ToS is garbage, please allow a complete opt out of the feature.

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    Hi Timothy, while we appreciate your feedback I want to be upfront that we don't have any plans to add a complete opt out option.

    JAX has become a core part of how Xero works, which is why we've moved it to always-on. That said, JAX isn't active until you open it and move through the initial consent step, so it won't do anything without you initiating it.

    You won’t be able to turn JAX off for the whole organisation, but you don’t have to use it:

    • If you don’t want to use JAX, simply don’t open it
    • If you don’t want certain people to use JAX, you can manage their Xero roles and permissions so they can’t see sensitive data
  6. We have integrated Xero with Avalara, but when we extract a transaction report in Avalara, instead of being able to see the Contact's name or Invoice number, we see the URL (the invoice’s unique ID). Can this be fixed?

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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. From the standard template, is it not possible for Xero to create a "show tax amount column" option which I can select as opposed to only including the tax rate in each line item? This without creating an advanced docx template from scratch?

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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. 🙂

  8. Have invoices from Xero in a more logical place, like under subscription and billing. The way it is now isn't logical and always takes more time. It would also help with efficiency if the Xero invoice was attached as a PDF to the email saying you've been billed or available via the Xero app.

    This seems like such a simple fix from Accounting software.

    3 votes

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    Appreciate your feedback here, Jessica. While subscription invoices are available to view from the Billing accounts tab under Subscription & billing it sounds like you're wanting the view option to be more prominent and directly available from Subscription and billing. We'll get a better sense of the interest for this from the community here.

    We have an existing idea around being able to attach a PDF of the invoice to the email you receive and I've added your vote for this so we can keep you updated here.

  9. XERO Tax the Tax practitioners Board TPB and the ATO have placed strict requirements on tax agents to sight identification of new clients. Both the TPB and the ATO have advised that you are unable to have a face-to-face meeting and sight the actual documents, then it is highly recommended that the Tax Agent uses a security system or secure link to transfer documents. Xero should look at this service to assist with satisfying the security of certain documents.

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    Hi Michael, thanks for bringing this idea to the community. We understand why having an integrated way to securely collect identity verification documents and support client onboarding compliance could be valuable, especially for practices managing remote clients.

    The idea is to provide a secure document collection or verification workflow within Xero Tax, helping practices manage client information requests and keep compliance processes more streamlined.

    We encourage the community to vote on this idea if you’d find this practice workflow improvement useful.


  10. HAVE A PHONE LINE!

    Xero claims "24/7 support" - This is a fraudulent claim.

    Denying your clients a number to call is not only repugnant customer service, it is spitting in the face of people who pay for your product.

    Whoever had the idea to save money by not having a number to call should be let go, uncerimoniously

    Very very bad customer service

    4 votes

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    Hi team, thanks for sharing this feedback. We understand that sometimes speaking with someone directly is the quickest way to work through an issue, especially when you need help with something urgent or complex.

    At this stage, an inbound phone number isn’t part of our current support model. Our focus is on making sure customers are connected with the right team member who has the right context to help, rather than spending time waiting in a queue.

    For situations where a call is the best option, we offer a callback service so our team can connect with you at a suitable time and be prepared to assist.

    We appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Feedback like this helps us understand what matters most to customers and where we can continue improving the support experience.

  11. Create a button on Jax that allows the dialog box to "Pop Out" or detach from Xero. It makes no sense that I have to copy directions from Jax to paste into Word so I can follow the often multi-step instructions that cannot be done while Jax is active.

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    Hi Allen, 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.

  12. When speaking to Xero support on a chat can Xero show the date, time of each part of the chat please like most other providers do each time each party of the chat types something in. It's really handy to refer back to.

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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 🙂

  13. Ability to be able to subscribe (via email) to Status updates and incidents for all or selected options within Xero, via the Status page.

    A problem with Projects the other day, there was NO alert, no notification. I was entering data thinking it was being saved. Only by accident did I notice my whole day of adding time was gone, went to the discussions then to the status page to see the incident report.

    If I was aware of the issue, I could have done manual recording of time.

    Other brands like Webflow, Squarespace and many others do this.

    How…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We're sorry to hear about the issues that you experienced with Projects recently. While there is no ability to subscribe to the status update, we appreciate you sharing this here. We'll open this idea up to the community so they can add their votes and comments on it. Cheers

  14. I would love Xero to create a piece of software for Film Production Accountants - Xero4Film!

    I work doing some film production accounting/bookkeeping for feature film companies in the UK as well as doing standard accounting for small businesses. Currently the software used for film productions seems to be Eclipse or Smart Accounting. Neither of these are very user friendly and I wondered if there was a possibility of Xero bringing out a version of its accounting software that could be used by Film Production Accountants. There are a few other software options out there eg Creative Computing but they…

    2 votes

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    Hi Elizabeth thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We understand how a software especially for film production may be useful! 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!

  15. I'm in the Assurance Dashboard in a client's datafile, doing a quick audit trail check for things that might need fixing or looking at, and I noticed that there were a couple of contacts being flagged as having the same bank account. So I looked at those contacts, and yes they do have the same bank account... Because one of them was merged into the other and then archived!

    It's been dealt with, and should no longer be coming up as flagged for checking.

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    Hi Freya, thanks for your feedback regarding the Assurance Dashboard. You’ve highlighted an important point about how archived and merged contacts are still being flagged.

    We’ve moved your suggestion to Gaining Support, meaning it’s now live for community voting. This allows us to monitor the idea's momentum and better understand its impact on our users.

    To clear the flag manually, you can briefly restore the contact, update the bank account details by adding a number to it, and archive it again. While we understand this isn't an ideal solution, it will resolve the immediate display issue. If you have any other questions, our support team is always here to help.

  16. It's a huge problem for me that when billing fails for an entity, no notification is sent to the billing contact, only the subscriber (me) gets notified. If I'm on holiday, and something goes wrong with billing, people get locked out of the platform.

    There should at least be an option for the billing contact to receive these messages, if not the default setting. I can't think of any reason I wouldn't want my billing contact to know that the payment to Xero has failed. My book-keeper doesn't know something has gone wrong until she is locked out of Xero.

    5 votes

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    Hi Alan, thanks for sharing this idea. This would be useful for situations when a payment fails, allowing a nominated user to be notified as well so action can be taken quickly and avoid being locked out.

    A simple workaround for now is setting up an email forwarding rule from noreply@post.xero.com

    or subscription.notifications@post.xero.com

    to your bookkeeper or Billing Contact. It’s not a permanent fix, but it can help make sure the right person sees the alert sooner.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can see how many in the community would value more flexibility in who receives these notifications. If this would help your team, please add your vote or share your experience—it really helps us understand the impact.

  17. Small businesses increasingly want to understand the environmental and social impact of their spending — but ESG tools are complex, expensive, and built for large enterprises.

    Xero is uniquely placed to change that.

    Idea:
    Embed lightweight, real-time ESG context directly into Xero, so small businesses can understand the impact behind everyday transactions — without extra systems or reporting burden.

    What this could look like:
    • ESG indicators at transaction or supplier level (e.g. climate, labour, governance risk)
    • Simple, plain-English insights alongside payments and invoices
    • Optional summaries over time (e.g. “This quarter’s spend impact”)
    • No scores to manage…

    3 votes

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    Hi Andrew , thanks for raising this idea here. We understand the business need to report on environmental and social impact for your business. For this reason, we're moving this idea to gain more support from the community. Now it's upto the community to get behind it and support it. Feel free to share this idea with your friends and colleagues who would also benefit from this feature being added on so they can share their thoughts and add on a vote as well! :)

  18. Make the reactivate process easier. Currently you need to change the selection to "All" under myxero. Hidden in the filter icon, could be more obvious with a visible drop down when you click subscription tab.

    Current process
    Select the Subscriptions tab.
    Click the filter icon next to the search bar, select All, and search by the organisation name.

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    Hi Hunter, thanks for sharing your idea here.

    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!

    We will monitor this space for further updates.

  19. We would like our staff to be able to experiment with JAX outside of our clients accounts - to do this, we would like JAX to be available in the Demo Company and it is not currently.

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    Thanks for your feedback on enabling JAX in Demo Company. We appreciate you sharing how important it is for your team to explore JAX's capabilities in a test environment.

    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.

  20. 24 HOUR LOCK WHEN CERTIFICATION TEST "FAILS" NEEDS REMOVED IMMEDIATELY.

    We have a trainee going through his Xero certification. He timed out the first test. He is now locked out for 24 hours.

    We can't have him spending weeks doing this.

    LOCK NEEDS REMOVED IMMEDIATELY

    8 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the feedback however want to be upfront here that we don't have any plans on removing the 24 hours lock off period - This 24 hour cooling off period is designed to give a user time to visit the learning needed to close any skills gap.

    Certifications is a test of a users ability to carry out tasks in Xero accurately.

    We generally recommend completing the full learning course first as it covers everything a user needs to know to pass.

    The direct assessment route is really for those that have been certified before. You use Xero daily and have all the skills, and are just needing to get certified.

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