Hi everyone, we understand how frustrating it is when important emails like invoices are filtered or blocked, and how this affects customer trust and timeliness of engagement with your transactional communications. Thank you for continuing to share examples and highlighting the impact this has on your business.
We’ve made meaningful progress towards enabling email sending from your own domain. While progress is taking longer than we’d like, we can confirm that substantial backend work is underway. This work spans multiple interdependent teams across Xero, and there are still important steps we need to work through before we can release the capability to customers reliably.
As we continue to develop this capability, there are a few questions that would help our product teams ensure we’re solving the majority of our users’ needs in this space, with a reliable and secure solution.
We’d really appreciate your input on the following questions, either on the idea here, or by reacting to our update and sharing your internal feedback;
Within your Xero account would you want multiple Users to be able to manage custom email domain settings, or just Administrators?
Does your domain have more than one mailbox associated with it?
Would you want to use the same domain across more than one Xero organisation?
Thanks in advance for your inputs to these questions, which will help validate user requirements for this feature.
We’ll provide another update here as soon as there is more progressive news to share.
Hi everyone, we understand how frustrating it is when important emails like invoices are filtered or blocked, and how this affects customer trust and timeliness of engagement with your transactional communications. Thank you for continuing to share examples and highlighting the impact this has on your business.
We’ve made meaningful progress towards enabling email sending from your own domain. While progress is taking longer than we’d like, we can confirm that substantial backend work is underway. This work spans multiple interdependent teams across Xero, and there are still important steps we need to work through before we can release the capability to customers reliably.
As we continue to develop this capability, there are a few questions that would help our product teams ensure we’re solving the majority of our users’ needs in this space, with a reliable and secure solution.
We’d really appreciate your input on the following questions, either…
Hello XERO Community,
It appears XERO has decided not to be compliant with modern email messaging standards when sending emails on behalf of its customers; a customer with clients using Google systems (such as Google Workspace or Google Enterprise) it appears will be unable to receive emails from XERO commencing February 2024.
We hope the XERO team will reconsider; we want to keep our services with XERO. If we can not safely send Purchase Orders, Quotes, Invoices and other accounting-related services through XERO using our company email, we must consider alternative platforms to do our accounting.
Hello XERO Community,
It appears XERO has decided not to be compliant with modern email messaging standards when sending emails on behalf of its customers; a customer with clients using Google systems (such as Google Workspace or Google Enterprise) it appears will be unable to receive emails from XERO commencing February 2024.
Another discussion thread with XERO shows the community is not satisfied with XERO's lack of development to support DKIM and DMARC authentication for all domains, noting the ability to "Vote" interest and "How important is this to you?" are now enabled, we encourage all to vote and speak up.
* https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/46571656-enable-dkim-to-reduce-sent-emails-from-being-flagg
Here is a good write-up on the evolving email-sending requirement that we found concerning Google's & Yarhoo's shift towards DKIM and DMARC authentication for all domains:
* https://www.valimail.com/blog/the-new-requirements-for-email-delivery-at-gmail/
And here are both Google's & Yahoo's pages on the announcements.
* https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/
* https://blog.postmaster.yahooinc.com/post/730172167494483968/more-secure-less-spam
Microsoft announced similar measures in July 2023 that have already taken effect, so clients with Office 365 will already be having issues receiving invoices from Xero.
* https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/announcing-new-dmarc-policy-handling-defaults-for-enhanced-email/ba-p/3878883
We hope the XERO team will reconsider; we want to keep our services with XERO. If we can not safely send Purchase Orders, Quotes, Invoices and other accounting-related services through XERO using our company email, we must consider alternative platforms to do our accounting.
In good faith :-)