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  1. It would be great if the description printed when you go to print the journal. Currently all that prints is date, the account name and the amount. The description is often the crucial piece of informaiton that makes the journal make sense. It would also be very nice the description allows more than one line in the box the way it did three hours ago before the new version of journals came into being. I don't feel personally that the new version is an improvement on the original. In fact its the opposite. Once again you've made something simple more…

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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. You must provide phone support. I cannot cope with this dreadful software and millions of pages of so called help. It does not do what I expect and I am paying for this. It says client invoice limit reached, but I paid for 10 and I only have entered one invoice. HELP PLEASE by phone.

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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. This would be useful for when you speak to a customer to request a payment date for overdue invoices, you could make a note of what they've said. At the moment there is only an option to select a date for when payment may happen.

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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 add the ability for admins to receive an email notification when a user hasn't logged into an organisation for a configurable period (e.g. 3, 6, or 12 months). This should cover all users with access, including our own staff, as well as any accountants or bookkeepers invited into our organisation.

    Access often persists long after someone has left our organisation or after an accountant/bookkeeper relationship has ended, and there's currently no easy way to spot this. An automated alert for dormant accounts would let admins proactively review and remove stale access, reducing security risk from old, unmonitored logins (e.g.…

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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. Can we turn the colour for Practice Manager back to green? Black/dark grey does not stand out enough from different tabs in the browser.

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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. 🙂

  6. I have just received an invoice from Xero for client subscriptions and they have changed the style. Instead of having net figures with a net total, a VAT calculation and a gross total; they now have VAT included in each line (as a total gross figure), they then have a gross invoice total and have a memo for the VAT amount. This is not normal in the UK, it is difficult to check to to the attached CSV - how can you check between net and gross figures? Support does not get it. I need an invoice from Xero that…

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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. A report which shows us the date we take on a subscription, as we sometimes can win multiple subscriptions in the same month but the team who action the billing to the clients don't see this - is there a way to have a central report from Xero which shows us the changes so we can ensure the billing is right.

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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 🙂

  8. Xero Partners generate and retain a significant portion of Xero's subscription revenue, yet currently receive the same support pathway as general end-users.

    Recent changes to support have introduced an AI chatbot as the mandatory first step for lodging cases. While this may be helpful for users seeking guidance or support articles, it creates substantial inefficiencies for experienced bookkeeping and accounting professionals who have already completed their own investigation.

    For certified Xero Partners, support requests are rarely "how do I do this?" questions. They are typically:

    • Product defects
    • Reporting discrepancies
    • Compliance concerns
    • Data integrity issues
    • Payroll…

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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 🙂

  9. The Calendar and Plus options are not visible in the Timer when viewing a single client in XPM. They are only visible on the full client list screen. This slows me down when completing timesheets as I have to change screens first.

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    Thanks for highlighting this improvement. Keeping the Timer controls visible when viewing an individual client could reduce extra navigation when starting or adding time entries.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support. Add your vote and let us know how you'd like the Timer controls to work on the client screen.

  10. Chart of Accounts and Report codes should be combined together. Currently if I create a new account, i have to go to three places - COA, report codes and potentially financial statements to group something. Very inefficient.
    Xero chart of accounts also doesn't have the header/subaccount options. I don't want to edit report templates every time i want to group something.

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We can understand how being able to assign or update report templates while creating a new account could make setting up your Chart of Accounts more efficient and help reduce the chance of accounts being missed from customised reports.

    For now, you'll need to update your report template or report codes after creating the account to ensure it's included in the appropriate reporting groups.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. We'll keep sharing the feedback from this thread with the team as they consider future improvements to the Chart of Accounts and reporting setup experience.

  11. In the different Sales and Purchases entry and edit areas in Xero the save or update buttons are in different places, one has it at the top of the screen and the other at the bottom. This is really annoying and would be way more efficient if they were both the same. Clearly two different people set them up or the same person was on a different mood when they created the two. I get this, I'm inconsistent all the time, its just super annoying in a major software package!

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We can understand how having the Save and Update buttons in a consistent location across transaction pages could make moving between different workflows feel more intuitive.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest and sharing your feedback with the product team as they consider future improvements to the experience.

  12. When Xero Support is added to a Xero Practice Manager tenant, Xero should automatically send an email notification to the tenant’s registered email address.

    This would provide a clear audit trail and help firms track when staff members grant Xero Support access to the tenant.

    When Xero Support is added to an XPM tenant, Xero should automatically send an email to the tenant’s registered email address.

    The email should include:

    The date and time Xero Support was added
    The user who added Xero Support
    A short explanation of what access was granted
    A reminder to remove Xero Support when access…

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We understand you would value the of receiving a clear notification when Xero Support has been granted access, including what the access is for and how long it will remain active.

    We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so other customers can vote and share their feedback.

  13. This is very basic, but a search didn't reveal an answer. Maybe it exists. Maybe it doesn't. It frustrates me when I try and look back on a reconciled bank item that it only shows the account description in view mode, not the code. I can only see the account number when I enter edit mode. Please make the account number visible in view mode. It would remove ambiguity when making a similar posting and prevent accidental corruption of previous postings. Pictures below Edit vs View mode.

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    Thanks for sharing this idea, Martin. We can understand how displaying the account code or general ledger account number when viewing a Spend or Receive Money transaction could make it quicker to review coding without needing to switch into edit mode.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know where you'd find this information most useful, such as the transaction summary or another view.

  14. 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 starting this conversation, Mihir..

    We can see how automatic notifications when a job is assigned could help Job Managers stay on top of new work and reduce the need to manually check their job lists.

    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 notifications would fit into your team's workflow.

  15. 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
  16. 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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  17. 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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    Hi Lungile, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We can see how including a VAT amount column on standard invoice templates could provide a clearer breakdown of tax for each line item and make invoices easier for customers to review.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support. If you'd like to see this added, please keep voting and let us know how this would improve your invoicing process.


  18. 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.

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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.

  19. Most of my companies do not have credit or debit cards, now I need to correct the Xero account with internal invoicing between the companies to recoup the costs and and claim the VAT in the correct company. Easy fix is to allow for debit orders or EFT payment. If accounts are not paid up to date, just block the use of the company.

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    Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback.

    We can understand why paying by card for subscriptions does not suit everyone.

    Xero does offer differing payment methods across regions.

    Depending on the region, these include card payments as well as direct debit options such as BECS in Australia and New Zealand, BACS in the United Kingdom, ACH/eCheck in the United States, and SEPA in Europe.

    In South Africa, the current subscription payment method is Visa or Mastercard credit or debit card payments.

    We'll get a broader sense of interest from other SA users on offering direct debit or bank transfer here.


  20. 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.


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