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Hi community, as mentioned in my last post we want to keep you looped in on changes around autosave.
Our product team has continued to focus attention on how we can make invoicing faster and more responsive to improve our customers' experience.
We've recently optimised autosave to require less processing power, leading to faster invoice loading and saving.
Our decision remains that we won’t be adding an option to turn off autosave on invoices. However, we hope this change improves your experience with autosave in draft invoices over time. Thanks again for your feedback.
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Fiona Davidson
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@Mike Johnson - Here, here.... their recent marketing strategy appears to be the solution, give new customers 3-6 months @ 90% off that way they don't know that it used to be better and by the time their pricing goes up they are too deep into it to change anytime soon. So it doesn't matter if they lose "old" customers that complain all the time.
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https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-xero-to-stop-making-changes
Please sign and share this petition.
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Petition for Xero Executives Regarding Alleged "Improvements"
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923 votes
Hi community, thanks for the strong support in being able to attach files within Xero Payroll, both for employee records and pay runs. We really appreciate you sharing the value and efficiency this could create for you when working with Xero. It's evident that being able to store important documents like licenses, sick notes, and onboarding papers directly in Xero would remove the need for external storing systems or manual processes.
We acknowledge it's not the end goal but wanted to highlight the use of apps, as some have shared like Dext, to help bridge this gap in the meantime.
I want to assure you that enabling attachments in payroll is part of our long-term intentions. However, to deliver this functionality effectively and reliably, we first need to develop some foundational elements within our payroll platform.
We understand your frustration with the timeline and the limited updates, and we're…
An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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I still don't understand how this has not happened yet....?
I would love a REAL reason as to why this has been ignored for so many years and not just a fluffy explanation about competing priorities and demand and other more important things..... @ Kelly Munro.....?
An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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This has been continually requested for at least the last 9 years since I have been using Xero, its not planned anytime soon.
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Kelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded · Mar 2, 2023
".....that there are no plans at present for this development. It is top of mind for the team, and will be reconsidered when resource becomes more available however we wanted to share and set expectation for the near term with you all, here."How can something be "top of mind" but have "no plans at present for this development"
I strugle to comprehend the alleged complexity of a function that is already established in so many other areas of Xero?
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408 votes
Hi community, we’ve just released some new keyboard shortcuts to new invoicing, that cut down the number of mouse clicks and help you perform actions on your invoice with some simple keyboard entry options.
There’s a range of different shortcuts that you can explore, and in particular a few that I wanted to call out for ‘Approve’ options that I know will be of most interest to you, here;
- Approve (Ctrl-Alt-A OR Cmd-Opt-A on a Mac)
- Approve & add another (Ctrl-Alt-O OR Cmd-Opt-O on a Mac)
- Approve & print PDF (Ctrl-Alt-R OR Cmd-Opt-R on a Mac)
- Approve & email / send eInvoice (Ctrl-Alt-E OR Cmd-Opt-E on a Mac)
While you get used to the combinations of shortcuts our product team have added small prompts to highlight these in the product, and if you’d like to view the full list of options you can see them all on Xero Central.
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472 votes
Thanks for all your input and sharing how we can improve Xero's user roles to cater for the needs of your business and staff you'd like to provide this access for.
As you may have seen in other ideas we've been conducting some research into user roles across all of Xero. As a step on from this, one of our teams are beginning a deeper dive into solving this idea here and enabling more roles access to Products & services (Inventory) in Xero.
While this may take sometime to accomplish we wanted to provide an update to you all interested in this, and we'll keep you informed of further progress as the team begin looking into it.
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529 votes
Thanks for sharing and showing interest in how we can develop user roles to suit your needs when using Xero.
With many varying ideas for roles and permissions in different areas of our products, user roles impact all areas of the product. There are many factors we must consider when addressing how to solve for majority of our customers needs.
We’re in the process of conducting research on the current landscape and how we might approach some of the most predominant needs in roles for our customers. This being one of our highest voted ideas surrounding roles is a specific focus for the team. too.
Discovery of this work is its first stages and will be long running. There will be multiple phases of research and forms of engagement with users that’ll help shape the path ahead in this space.
We value our customers input and would like to…
Fiona Davidson
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593 votes
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the possible solution we shared a few months ago. After careful consideration taking all feedback on board, we will not be moving forward with this solution.
We're still considering how we might solve for the issues presented here over the long term and there are other pieces of work the team are currently delving into such as duplicate bills detection that may also help solve some needs here.
That said, we'll move the idea back to Submitted and continue to keep you updated on any progression that can help the needs expressed through the idea here. Thanks
Fiona Davidson
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635 votes
Thanks for your expressions and feedback in a bulk download or print facility for Files (either from the Files library or at an individual transaction level)
We know that bulk operations can be handy, however at this time we have no plans to develop this functionality. We know it might seem like a small feat, however often even small change is more tightly woven and intricate to solve beneath the surface.
While we understand this must be frustrating to hear, we’re currently focused on making improvements in other areas of Xero and are unable to prioritise a bulk download or print feature right now.
However, in situations like these there are often connected apps through the Xero App Store that may be able to assist. We appreciate and will revise solutions that could fulfil needs in this space, but want to be honest this isn’t something we have plans for…Fiona Davidson
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689 votes
Hey everyone, thanks for all the votes and feedback on this idea! Our product teams have definitely taken note and understand the effort involved in automatic report generation and sending.
While it's something we see as valuable in the long run, it's not currently on our development roadmap with a specific timeframe. We're still keen to hear from those of you who would find this feature helpful, so please keep the conversation and votes coming. We'll be sure to update you if our plans change.
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708 votes
Hi community, we appreciate this idea has collected a fair amount of votes and commentary. This has all been feedback and taken seriously by our product teams.
Currently, there are ways to record a bad debt in Xero, depending on your tax registration status and how you want the transactions to be recorded in your reports - We have help for this on Xero Central you can draw into.
We don’t have any plans in the near term to expand functionality to develop a button to write off invoices or bills as 'bad debt'. If anything changes in this space, we’ll update you on this idea!
Fiona Davidson
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712 votes
Hi community, first off thank you for the continued interest and feedback surrounding this idea. We’re continuing to build on the bank reconciliation experience in Xero and recognise the ways this feature will help improve the efficiency, flexibility and transparency of transactions in your business. Our team have done a lot of exploration into being able to surface and match Credit Notes when reconciling your bank account in Xero, and this is now in development.
We’ll shift the idea here into ‘Working on it’ and continue to update as there’s more detail of this to share.
Fiona Davidson
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1,061 votes
Hi everyone, we appreciate the interest surrounding this idea, however we want to be open that we're unable to extend our log-out time past 60 minutes. Xero hold a lot of sensitive information including bank data and we're required to be as secure as online banking.
Any session information running on a web browser can potentially be stolen. If the session does not time out. You then have an infinitely long vulnerability window to session hijacking. Our best option is to keep a tight expiration window on the session cookie, and regenerate them frequently. Even setting a long timeout doesn't help with this - too long a timeout will greatly increase the risk of invasion or potentially jeopardise your personal data and the safety and integrity of the Xero application itself. This is why we maintain control of this.
If we detect there's been no activity on a page (e.g…Fiona Davidson
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We're grateful for sharing your experience with the beta for our new navigation.
Our Community have reviewed and shared your feedback with our product team. Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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And the ability to turn off recommendations such as payment services.
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59 votes
Hi everyone, I appreciate feelings shared in not seeing traction as fast as you'd like to ideas you're interested across Xero Product Ideas.
Our community team are pure advocates for our customers ideas internally, making sure these are shared and highlighted to the teams and individuals that can make a difference, and doing our best to get ideas reviewed and into our teams planning wherever possible.
We receive ideas for incremental, and large changes to existing products, as well as for new features entirely. With so many customers the range of ideas coming from our users is large, and we cannot action all things at once.
We try to be transparent in our communication and updates to ideas across the site, even if this means there is no current development planned for a feature.
I can assure you the site here is a tool that all our product teams find…
An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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@ Anthony Kear - Agree.
But they do that for all the new users who never knew it existed before.Fiona Davidson
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Hi everyone, we regularly review our pricing against the value we are providing customers and as part of our commitment to evolve and enhance the Xero platform.
We've been investing in the future and our platform foundations — which includes upgrading our technology across Xero to enable us to build more of the features you are asking us for, faster. And we're also looking at ways we can ensure you’ll have access to AI innovation and mobile upgrades. That means continuing to streamline time-consuming, manual processes – which you can see across AI-powered features like bank reconciliation.
While product ideas are a great platform for our customers to share where they'd like to see change across Xero, this does not determine if or when an idea will be developed.
Votes and comments help uplift where improvements could be most valuable to majority of our customers, and many factors weigh into…Fiona Davidson
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Hi all, we appreciate the interest and hearing how you find autosave a useful feature when invoicing. At this stage, we don’t have any plans to roll out autosave to the editing of an invoice once it’s been approved.
We’ve made some recent improvements to autosave within the draft state of an invoice that we wanted to share with you - Our product team has optimised how invoices autosave to help reduce the lag, meaning invoices load and save faster. Thanks again for your feedback.
An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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DON'T DO IT! Your killing your customers will to work with this.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!!
Autosave in invoicing is a nightmare and I use bills 10 times more than invoicing. I cannot justify the increase in work hours to my customers and employer for the program lagging. Not to mention the mental health impacts.There has to be another solution, or at the very least be able to have it optional, not mandatory like in invoicing.
@Peter Rickert - I'm not sure what other programs you are using that have autosave?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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Xero response to my query.
An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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I have just had this happen.
If a negative leave balance exists on termination then ATO/STP rejects it.
Xero has a workaround that then entitles the employee to additional superannuation.By my understanding in these instances they are only STP compliant after manipulation.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Fiona Davidson
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HATE the constant prompts to set up payment services!
Payment Services now an in software Marketing Scam from Xero?!
These have become the equivalent of a Marketing Scam so Xero makes more money from kickbacks.
We DO NOT pay for you program to be bombarded with promotions for things that make YOU more money.
Seriously it used to be a lovely little discreet option, not its on everything and is not appropriate for all staff to see, or my clients who do not know how to map accounts for that matter.
I know Xero will not do what I am asking, they cant even get core functions of new invoicing to work why would they let us turn off something that makes them more money?!
I'm so angry and over their newspeak.
Fiona Davidson
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I am with you on this. New Invoicing is a as efficient as a square wheel.