u/dartmass

Dark mode (533 votes). Choosing what the Approve button does, so it stops emailing your client (444). A colour per organisation (308). Making a tracking category required before approval (287).

All four are marked "not in pipeline" on Xero's product ideas site.

I've been building them as a Chrome extension. Here's all of it in about 7 minutes — no sound needed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDkNlG-1D1o

What's new since I last posted here

The one I'd point at is for anyone filing under MTD. Xero's own guidance is to separate businesses using tracking categories — and a line without one is left out of the quarterly totals sent to HMRC. Xero has said it won't make the field required, and suggests finding the gaps afterwards with Find & Recode. After the return has gone.

So it now blocks approval until every populated line is coded — on invoices, on bills, and in bank reconciliation. Drafts still save. Bank rec is the one that matters, because for sole traders and landlords that's where nearly every transaction comes from.

About the plans, since I'd rather say it than have you find out

There are paid plans now: Solo Pro $14.99/month, Practice Pro $44.99/month.

Nothing that was free has moved behind them. The command palette, the bank rec shortcuts, the Approve default, dark mode and two organisation colours are still free and staying free. Solo Pro adds unlimited colours, custom keys, and opening every client at once. Practice Pro adds the approval guardrails and the review tools.

Free install: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aikgpmhkhmmppadcnijgcljehhjchcmp

Happy to answer anything, including why a particular thing ended up on the paid side.

Bank Rec → Reports → Invoices → back to Bank Rec. Every single time, it's the same 3–4 clicks through the nav. Hover, wait for the dropdown, click, sometimes miss and have to try again.

I built a small Chrome extension that adds a Ctrl+K command palette to Xero. Press it from anywhere — type the first two letters of where you want to go, hit Enter. That's it.

It remembers which screens you use most and puts them at the top automatically, so after a few days you barely need to type anything.

It also fixes the default Approve button (the one that emails your client every time) — that came from a separate thread but ended up in the same extension.

Free, no account, no subscription: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xero-power-%E2%80%94-shortcuts-co/aikgpmhkhmmppadcnijgcljehhjchcmp?authuser=0&hl=ja

Anything else you keep wishing Xero would just let you do from the keyboard?