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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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Jamie Wheeldon
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Hi Kelly - any update yet on this idea? It's been well over 9 months now with no updates.
I know this is a non-trivial feature so not expecting you to announce imminent delivery dates or anything, but you did promise updates on your last message.
I think even a simple acknowledgement that this hasn't been forgotten and is still being worked on would be appreciated by alot of the customers following this idea.
An error occurred while saving the comment Jamie Wheeldon
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This is incredibly frustrating.
This idea is one of the top rated requests on this site, with consistent demand from users for updates and growing frustration at why it has so far taken 13 years to get this prioritised.
We need at least an immediate update on this idea - ideally some confirmation of when this will be delivered.
Jamie Wheeldon
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An error occurred while saving the comment Jamie Wheeldon
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Hi Kelly - Any idea when this might be coming? even a tentative release target would be helpful.
I have to admit given your update above about work starting on this 1st Oct 2025 I was more than a little surprised and disappointed that this wasn't included in the quarterly feature update email that went out earlier today.
As nearly everyone else has commented, given the sensitivity of the data stored on the platform the lack of this type of identity protection is a little shocking, especially given all the other great features.
Not having this type of standard/basic security controls in place just massively undermines all the other fab stuff xero does.
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Appreciate the feedback, Justin and understand still needing more from this feature.
This is something we'll continue to consider and will keep a close watch on this idea in the community here.
I'll make sure to share if there are any further updates planned for this with you here.
An error occurred while saving the comment Jamie Wheeldon
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In my experience expenses are always paid on the same date each month as part of an expense payment run and have to be approved before a certain date to be included in the run.
Being able to set the default payment date for all expenses is just an obvious feature to remove manual, repetitive tasks and reduce human error.
Even better would be the ability to set the due date based on a cut off date for submitting the expense.
IE default payment date for expenses is the 10th day of the following calendar month. So in this case the cutoff date for submission is the last day of the month.
Jamie Wheeldon
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Hey Kelly - Any chance of a progress update? It's been a year since you promised to keep the thread updated and 13 years since this idea was first logged and it's been like tumbleweed!!