<p style="font-weight: 400;">In carbonate U&ndash;Pb geochronology, unknown initial ²³⁴U/²³⁸U disequilibria can be debilitating for the accuracy of ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U dates. Even if residual ²³⁴U/²³⁸U disequilibrium can be measured precisely enough to perform accurate corrections, beyond ca. 1.5 Ma (depending on the magnitude of initial excess/deficit of ²³⁴U) the expansion of uncertainties due to the disequilibrium correction may make carbonate ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U dates prohibitively imprecise. An alternative approach utilising the ²⁰⁷Pb/²³⁵U system is arguably more accurate, however the lower abundance of ²³⁵U and ²⁰⁷Pb relative to ²³⁸U and ²⁰⁶Pb inevitably results in larger analytical data-point uncertainties. Here we explore analytical strategies that maximise the potential of the ²⁰⁷Pb/²³⁵U system for carbonate geochronology. ID-TIMS and LA-ICPMS are considered the most useful, and complementary, techniques. ID-TIMS offers the ultimate precision and accuracy combined with the ability to filter data for contamination using ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb, but it requires mg-sized samples that limit the spatial resolution and the spread of data along the isochron. Optimised LA-ICPMS with large spot sizes may be a quick alternative with better spatial control and enhanced spread of data along the isochron, but ²⁰⁸Pb normalisation imposed by the difficulty of analysing ²⁰⁴Pb may add noise to the results. Overall, precise ²⁰⁷Pb/²³⁵U carbonate geochronology is feasible and with minor analytical adjustments it can be adopted broadly instead of the ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U method. Future work on carbonates should obtain additional compositional information that will allow robust identification of domains contaminated with extraneous Pb.