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  1. 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…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this feedback, Kielan. We can see there’s a broader conversation here around how support could better meet the needs of partners who are managing complex issues across multiple client organisations.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and gathering feedback from our partner community. While we can’t make any commitments at this stage, we’re keen to hear more from partners about what they need from the support experience and where the current process could work better.

    If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share which parts of the current process you’d like to see improved.

  2. 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.

  3. When I used to click on the Help button in Xero, I was able to search through Xero's help pages. Now, that function has completely gone and has been replaced with a chatbot.

    By all means, have a chatbot so that people who want to use one can, but you shouldn't have removed the help pages for those of us who would rather find the answers for ourselves.

    Please restore this function.

    3 votes

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    Hey Alicia, thank you for raising this with us. We always appreciate the input from our customers and its great to hear about your experience around accessing Support Articles and Help in Xero Central. This idea is now open for votes and for the community to add their comments and experiences You can share this with others and we will gauge the community interest and response. Any updates will be posted here..

  4. I have just spent a frustrating amount of time going round in circles with the chat bot. I said that yes I would like to add a product idea and it gave me a link to a help page which tells you how to search for a product idea and how to submit one, but it didn't give me a link to the actual page where I can do that (this page it turns out!). I specifically asked for a link and it told me it was unable to do so. Then I asked how to navigate there and it…

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    Thanks for sharing this idea, Frances. We can see how helpful it would be for chatbot responses and help articles to provide direct links to the relevant pages. We’re opening this idea up for votes and comments so we can better understand how useful this would be for the wider Xero community. If you’ve experienced something similar, please vote for the idea and share examples of the links or journeys you’d like to see improved. Your feedback will help us gauge community interest and understand which linking improvements would make the biggest difference. Thanks again for taking the time to suggest this 😊

  5. 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.

  6. 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…

    4 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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!

  9. Could it be possible to create a video to explain about the particular features of the Xero function in their respective page? I am trying to better understand visually on how to navigate and use a particular feature within Xero.

    If not at the very least, link me back to the lesson where I can get on the feature in the Xero Advisor course? It would be helpful for me to revisit the topic.

    6 votes

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    Hi Marc, thanks for your engagement and for this excellent suggestion on improving our Xero Central resources.

    We've reviewed your idea about making our support content more visual by adding demonstration videos or linking back to specific lessons from our help articles. We agree that for many people, seeing a feature in action is incredibly helpful.

    Your suggestion is now open to gain support from other community members. Along with votes, others can now comment to share how more visual content like videos could improve their learning experience and help them better understand Xero's features.

  10. When we go to the apps directory, and click on an app we are interested, they are usually associated with an external company. For instance, Crypto websites that consolidate our crypto transactions, then can be imported into Xero.

    But when I go to the information pages about the apps, there is no link I can find to the actual website of the company. There are usually links to support, or social media.

    Please go one step further and just put in the official website.

    The reason for this is because sometimes we are researching what services actually connect with Xero…

    4 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea here, we appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve the App Store for you.

    As you mentioned, the app listings currently have links to their social media pages, but not directly to their website.

    For now, you might use these social media pages to get links to their websites. In the meantime, our team will check into this and your suggestion can now 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. 🙂

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