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Hello I am the product manager for the group within Xero which looks after the currency capability.
I follow the digital currency space closely, I find it incredibly interesting both sociologically as well as technically. However as a product manager my role is to ensure that my engineering group works on the things that create the most value, for the most people, and in alignment with the company's long term goals and aspirations.
Digital currencies continue to have an extremely passionate, but also extremely small group of users who want to see them handled in Xero. The cost remains very high for us to deliver this feature, and does not make a difference to enough peoples lives to justify that investment. There are a lot more touchpoints than many people appreciate to implement crypto properly. Huge decimal precision, UX, currency rate feeds, revaluation logic, reporting - all need changes to…
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I am a New Zealand sole trader and contractor for a company. I submit a timesheet, and they generate a IRD approved Buyer Created Invoice. They send me my payment with GST added, and witholding tax deducted.
There is no accurate way to extract the witholding tax from the final amount deposited to my account.
There is a hacky way, detailed here:
https://www.laurenson.co.nz/2017/09/accounting-for-the-tax-withheld/
But because Xero doesn't hold a high enough number of decimal places in the percentage field, the amounts are inaccurate by some cents each time. Which over the course of a year increases to a reasonable error.
I do not have to generate an invoice out of Xero for these payments.
What we need is a way of acknowledging that witholding payments have been deducted, and work back accurately to the original amount.
This way of receiving payment is pretty common here in New Zealand, and I daresay other countries like Australia.
I don't know if this may need some form of automatic invoice to be created, as a stand in for an actual invoice I send out. If it did, then some way of having that generate quickly and pretty automatically would be great.
As a note, as part of their process, I do get sent their Buyer Created Invoice in my email, so if that could be read in, as an invoice from my side, then that would probably be a good solution, since it provides all the amounts, in precise detail....
Thanks
Norman Cates
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Hi community, while we're continuing to keep a close eye on the support for this idea here, we don't have any plans in the near term to control the naming of files sent form Xero.
Just to share, though appreciate many will already be aware, once the file is received and downloaded by the recipient the file name can be manually edited on their local device.
If there are any plans made we'll share here.
Norman Cates
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Please investigate cheaper crypto aggregation services than the ones available currently in your apps section. Currently (Aug 2025) all the ones there are for enterprise, or businesses that trade a LOT in crypto. And the prices are ludicrous for those of us with small amounts of crypto assets.
Maybe get the IRD to fund your research and development of this kind of thing, because it will make proper tax reconciliation possible, and their investment will pay dividends.
As an example, ZenLedger (https://zenledger.io/) lets us integrate all this information. It still costs a yearly fee (per tax year) but its orders of magnitude less than any of the others in the current Xero apps list.
An even better solution would be to provide native support inside Xero for importing crypto transactions. Now, I expect there would come a point where its too complicated, and an external service may be needed. Thats fine, because I would expect by that point, there would be sufficient need for that service.
But MANY people would only need pretty limited numbers of transactions per year.
Downloading our transactions via our Public Address is done by any of these services. So it would be a trivial task for Xero to do that.