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Thanks for your feedback on Single Sign-On(SSO). We last updated this idea in October 2025, and we’re sorry it’s taken some time for us to provide another. We will do our best to keep you more informed of progress as it continues.
Where SSO is today
We’ve built an SSO capability for accountant and bookkeeper partner practices using OpenID Connect (OIDC). We ran a closed beta with a small group of partners, which is now complete, and those partners are connected. We’re still confirming how and when other accounting and bookkeeping partners can access it. SSO isn’t currently available to businesses or IT providers. We’ll share access details in a future update once they’re confirmed.
What we’re looking at next
We’re exploring what it would take to offer SSO to small businesses. Business needs differ from accountant and bookkeeper partners’, so we’re looking at:
- how a business and its users…
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Reinart Stander
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I wonder how many complaints about the product would make Xero take this seriously. It is not a big implementation task. The responses from Xero shows no real interesting in developing such a critical component.
Reinart Stander
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Hi Kelly,
This isn’t about convenience. It’s about identity security.
Xero does not expose sign-in logs (successful/failed), source IPs/locations, or provide native controls like geo-blocking or Conditional Access. Without those, we have no verifiable authentication telemetry and no policy enforcement at the identity edge.
Bottom line: the current setup lacks a critical security layer. To meet baseline controls, Xero access must be fronted by an IdP (SSO + MFA) with Conditional Access and logging routed to a SIEM. Until that’s in place, you cannot claim adequate identity assurance.