open standards data & document formats
At the moment I can import & export financial data via an Open Standards CSV format (& well-documented API's), which is great for interoperability with other systems :)
Unfortunately this is not carried through universally, such as Custom Invoice Branding, which is reliant on ms docx formats.
This excludes a significant potion of my own customer-base (many SME's/SMB's reducing overheads) that are increasing not making use of manu ms-based technologies (i.e. office), and are increasingly moving toward more "cloud-based" solutions, such as Google Docs (sample docs are an absolute mess in GDocs) & Open/LibreOffice.
Please add support for common, Open Standards formats, such as ODF & PDF, and less of a reliance on closed/vertical application stacks.
As this forum is for developer API functionality requests and yours relates to something that would need to happen in the main application, I’m afraid we have to decline this suggestion, but don’t take it personally – we would still love to see you make your suggestion in the Xero Community forum: https://community.xero.com/business/