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Gemma Clark
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Description / Problem Statement:
When reviewing bills under Purchases > Bills > Awaiting Payment, there is currently no way to easily see whether the contact (supplier) belongs to a specific Contact Group.
Contact Groups are useful for organising suppliers (e.g. utilities, critical vendors, IT providers), but this information is only visible by opening each contact record individually. This makes it time‑consuming to identify priority suppliers or segment bills during payment reviews.
Proposed Enhancement:
Introduce either:
An optional column that displays the Contact Group(s) a supplier belongs to, and/or
An additional filter allowing users to filter bills by Contact Group directly from the Awaiting Payment screen.This column/filter would follow the existing pattern used for other contextual information displayed in the Bills grid.
Example Use Cases:
Quickly identify bills from critical or priority suppliers before running payments
Separate utilities or direct debit suppliers from discretionary spend
Speed up internal review and approval processes without opening individual contact records
Improve visibility for finance teams managing a high volume of suppliersUser Benefit:
This would reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and make Contact Groups more actionable in day‑to‑day workflows — particularly during payment runs and cashflow management.
Gemma Clark
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Export Contact/Client Groups to CSV - (I'm believing I'm on the same wavelength of the original poster)
It would be incredibly useful if Xero provided the ability to export Contact Groups and Client Groups to CSV, separately from a Contacts export, or as part of, whatever would work best)
Currently, there is no way to download a list of groups or their memberships, making tasks such as:
> Identifying duplicate groups
> Reviewing existing group structures
> Bulk amending groups
> Creating replacement groups
> Auditing group memberships
> Cleaning up outdated groups
As part of our annual data audit process, we regularly review and cleanse data held in Xero to ensure it remains accurate, easily identifiable, and well organised. Group management forms an important part of this housekeeping activity, but without an export function it can be difficult to efficiently review large numbers of groups or spot duplicates and inconsistencies.
The suggested workaround, from JAX, of manually reviewing groups and copying information into a spreadsheet is not practical for organisations with a large number of groups and creates unnecessary administrative effort.
Suggested enhancement: Add an "Export Groups" option that includes:
Group Name
Group Type
Contact/Client Name
Contact/Client ID
Group Membership Details
Business benefits:
Supports annual data audits and housekeeping activities
Improves data quality and consistency
Makes duplicate identification easier
Reduces administration time
Helps organisations maintain clean and well-structured data
A simple CSV export would significantly improve group management and data governance for businesses that maintain large numbers of contacts and groups.
I support the idea that the option to export data held in Xero, especially for auditing purposes, would be an extremely useful function