Published January 8, 2012 | 
The following are various questions about Xero from users on Linkedin:
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1. How do you enter supplier payments on account?
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2. Page navigation in reconcile bank screen
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3. A client runs a holiday lettings business. Does Xero have an add-on which could manage the lettings diary and CRM?
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4. Inserting a new line in an invoice instead of just adding a new line.
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5. Does anyone else need 3 or 4 decimal places for unit prices?
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6. For the advisors out there, which system is most prominent with your clients that have not already switched to Xero? Post a comment on a function that the other system has that you believe Xero needs
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7. Setting up email alerts/reminders in Xero
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8. How about credit limits on customers’ accounts in Xero?
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9. When will we be able to upload scanned documents to Xero outside the accounts payable ledger?
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10. So… here’s another place I’d like to see some #Xero innovation… Oncharged expenses
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11. How to avoid Contact Clutter in Xero?
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12. Expense claims – batch payments
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13. Small building contractors
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14. I’m looking for a cloud manufacturing solution to work with Xero. Any ideas?
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15. Anyone have experience with running a dental office on Xero?
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16. A note page is critical for practices
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17. Contacts export
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18. GST on Import: Does anyone know of an effective way for clients to code the GST paid to customs on the import of products so that it does not get missed from the GST returns?
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19. Is there any talk of a global search box at the top of the site? Would be nice to have as a quick search… contacts, INV, CR, etc…. Sure would be a time saver.
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20. Any update on discounts? I’ve been waiting for a year to get inline discounts to Xero. Can you please come clean and tell us if you are not going to do this because I seriously doubt it would take this long to add this feature.
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21. Visual variances in the Bank Rec Screen: When Xero finds a direct match, we get the green shading. Wondering if it would be possible to differentiate the “Bank Rule” matches from the “Suggested Matches” by using a different shade (perhaps amber?).
I’ve got a few clients who have a whole mixture of match, bank rule and suggested, and having a visual trigger as to each would be handy 
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22. Is there a product or a process to get receipts attached to supplier invoices within Xero in a simple way that doesn’t take much time? I’m interested to hear how you’re all doing that.
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23. Report layouts – Can you ordered by code? I have uploaded a custom Chart of Accounts to Xero and now want to customise the report layouts. By default the reports are built based on alphabetical ordered – can this be changed to order by code? If yes, how can it be done?
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24. Is it possible to add reports to the management reports other than the standard P&L etc, like Expenses by Contact. If someone could help that would be great.
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25. Employee Expenses: Not sure if this has been raised before but I would love to see 2 additions to the employee expense area. Firstly to be able to enter expenses on behalf of someone else – I’ve seen Xero’s video of the guy entering his expenses but the CEO’s of many of my clients still dump their expenses on to their PAs or bookkeepers. Once entered they appear as payable to the person who entered them! Second (and I am sure this has been raised before) being able to include expenses in a normal AP run, and pay via an ABA file.
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26. GST returns in Xero – box to insert DLN number from paper statement – would like to add this to the xero ‘enhancement’ list please.
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27. POLL: Email Template for Xero – Do you think email template should be for available for some repeating emails such as sending out invoices and/or statement of accounts?
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28. Recommendation for Excellent Xero Training Course. I recently completed the Xero Basic Course from Shashi Sharma of Bizmate Ltd (www.nocarbon.co.nz). I found the course excellent and would recommend it to anyone who needs to gain a course in Xero.
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29. Does Xero support EDI any major EDI integrators, and does it integrate with Drupal?
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30.Gift Certificates. I’m looking for best practice on handling gift certificates for a cash basis client. She sells them via her website through a third party as well as from her office.
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31. Anyone found an automated way of dealing with the taking of bookings, accounting for deposits, raising an invoice and receiving the money, net of deposit? Looking for a simple approach for a client.
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32. Reconciling one batch payment with multiple bank statement items – Payroll: I am having an issue trying to reconcile the payroll items with the bank statement entries in Xero. The scenario is that there is a batch payment of say $1,000 which is appearing in Xero however the employee payments were made individually say 5 payments of $200. When I select the first payment of $200 I can only match it with the batch payment of $1,000 and it tells me that I am out of balance by $800. There seems to be no way to make a part payment like with invoices and I am not sure how I am going to reconcile these items. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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33. Support for Multiple Email Addresses? Why doesn’t Xero support multiple addresses in their contacts email fields (i.e. separated with a , or ; to easily include more than one person on invoices?
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34. Using 2 Tracking Categories together? Hi Folks just started using Xero in our UK practice and think its the best accounting system ever! Now trying to see how far we can use it for management accounts analysis. Anyone using Tracking Categories together to say report Product Sales (Cat 1) by Region (Cat 2), where products can be sold across multiple regions? I’ve looked at this but there doesn’t seem to be a report that supportst totalling Cat 2 within Cat 1.
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35. Xero vs. Hosted QuickBooks. I’m planning on moving my bookkeeping practice completely online, I’m trying to nail down the best platform. What do you think Xero, QuickBooks… or both?
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36. Different user permissions for different bank accounts. I would really like to see the ability built into Xero to allow only certain users to access particular bank accounts. This is proving a problem for us when small businesses have separate bank accounts for say payroll which the owners want to see but do not want their staff to have access to. Has anyone else found this to be a problem?
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37. Hi All. Just wondering if anyone is aware of a way to send a remittance advice to a creditor direct from Xero? If not might be a good suggestion to put forward for a future release.
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38. Little tool to import a PDF invoice direct into Xero
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39. Year end dates and conversion balances dates. I have hit what I think is an issue with the above. You can select any date of the year as a year end date but only a month end date as a conversion date.
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40. Job costing and tracking purchases for a mobile workforce. Does anyone know of the best add-on solution for tracking both time spent as well as tracking purchases made on a particular job?
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41. From Dropbox to Xero… – what else would be useful? My company – Receipt Bank – recently announced our integration with Dropbox so that invoices and receipts deposited in Dropbox could be automatically collected, the data extracted, and the data and the image published into Xero.
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42. Does anyone know of a work around for depreciating assets in xero using the ATO Small Business Concessions?
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43. Dashboard Alerts/Reminders
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44. I am interested if anyone has had to integrate Connectwise with Xero. As I understand it, there is no “out of the box” solution, however I would be very interested to hear if anyone has been able to achieve this…
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45. Reconciling GST – Aged Payables and Aged Receivables report with GST. Does anyone else find it extremely difficult when preparing annual accounts to reconcile the GST account against the Debtors and Creditors when the reports don’t show the GST included in the Debtor or Creditor Invoices? Especially where the client has a sales mix that includes both GST and GST Free items.
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46. Xero Podcasts
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47. Discounts – what do you want to see? As part of our design phase we’re really interested to get everyone’s thoughts on how they’d like it to look. What are the important aspects of discounts for you? By invoice line, by invoice, default rates for customers, inventory items… and what do you expect to see in reports. Any ideas welcome.
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48. Any ideas on tracking donations in XERO? I need a way to export a report with donor summaries for end of year statements/letters etc.
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49. There does not seem to be an option to add a residual value for fixed assets so when Xero calculates dep’n it takes the NBV down to nil. Could an field be added for this?
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50. Does anyone know of rental management software that integrates with Xero?
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51. Cash flow Forecast? This important management tool is currently missing from Zero. (Available in competitors account packages) There has feedback that it is on the Xero wish list. Does anyone know of a scheduled release date?
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52. Can anyone help me with a not for profit org thats needs to track how its grants are spent? Currently using MYOB and jobs – but very messy.
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53. One of my clients is trying to move their legal practice firm to cloud. They are using LEAP Office now. Any suggestions?
Or any where can just hire a host server for this?
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54. How to structure Xero accounts for a theatrical agency
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55. Hi, does anyone have any experience in handling Direct Debits that Bounce in Xero?
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