Bills - Apply discounts on accounts payable invoices
Applying discount on account payables invoices.
Purpose: User doesn’t need to manually recalculate the cost of each item
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Son Le commented
We're starting Xero from this month, and this feature is important to our business, as I'm sure to many, many others - so why has Xero not done anything about it since the idea was touted in Aug 2012?
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Deedra Knaus commented
There is no discount column for bills must be Stone Age accounting. It cannot be that hard to add; even the old Real World accounting had this built-in!
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Jon Hardiman commented
Xero added the discount column to Invoices why cant they add it to Bills as well.
Agree with other users that it is frustrating to be unable to add in a discount.
Please Xero look in to this, the original post was created years ago! -
Simon Kelly commented
Totally Agree Tracey, it's terribly frustrating having to 'doctor' the Bill to allow reconciliation. Not to mention the implications for my accountant.
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Tracy McConnell commented
We have several clients that get discounts from Suppliers for Early payment. Different % discounts depending on how early they pay. We have not found any simple way of dealing with this, and are having to change each individual Bill/Purchase invoice, before allocating payments. This is dissuading our clients from wanting to move to Xero, and some that we have recently moved are considering changing package again. This is costing alot of time to maintain at their current rate of orders.
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Abetta Moble Locksmith commented
The mind boggles as to why this is not just added as the coding is already there for Invoices, Sales Orders and Purchase Orders.
Considering Xero has been around for 17 years and this is still just a topic of conversation. I would have expected this issue to be resolved back in 2006 when Xero was Accounting 2.0 and the issue had already been raised in the Beta version Accounting 1.0 - Rant Over !
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Kurt Schubert commented
This is an astonishing omission from Xero, it is an everyday occurrence in commercial trading terms and should be corrected as a matter of urgency.
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John Rae commented
I told agree with Rosalyn Easton
I was stunned not to have this feature when I started using Xero in July 2022. I consider it a major omission that should be fixed ASAP. A total pain to work around. Aarggghhhhhhhhhh -
Rosalyn Easton commented
I was more than annoyed at the lack of this feature that has been totally missed by Xero. It adds extra steps changing the invoice totals and then remembering when to pay various invoices on time to get the discount.
In my previous package I had the ability to set in the Supplier Contact level of discounts and "if paid by dates" that automatically calculated the discount if I paid before that date. -
Eta Brand commented
I am new with XERO. When entering a bill from a supplier I discovered that there is no quick built in option in a column (there is this option in creating an invoice) for applying a discount to that item. My supplier offers 10% on some items and 5% on other items in the same bill. XERO already includes this easy option when creating an invoice. It seems like a no brainer to add this IMPORTANT option for entering a bill. How soon can this be actioned? Tinkering with the number of items or create fractions of an item this will create a nightmare for my inventory numbers. Creating a separate line for a discount is a time wasting exercise. PLEASE find the way to include this easy improvement ASAP. This would save time for users.
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Henrique Figueiredo commented
I was surprised by this limitation. I don't understand why Xero doesn't support supplier discounts on invoicing.
At the moment we are integrating with Xero API and unlike sales invoices, we will have to calculate the discount before sending the data to Xero system. Unfortunately, the integration of purchasing bills will be less transparent. -
Gillian McConnell commented
Is it possible to be able to apply even a penny discount when paying a supplier invoice. ATM i have to go back into invoice to reduce the original amount of invoice by the discount which is time consuming
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Liza Labuschagne commented
Hi I agree , we need to add the discount % on the contact detail where you do all the financial info if very invoice carries a %. We should also be able to add a discount on single invoice (refer sage cloud).This is very import for the retail clients.Thanks
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Susie Lacher commented
I agree. My Suppliers add discounts to each line. No having a discount column as it does in invoicing makes entry slow.
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Barbara Toth commented
It seems inconsistent that there is a discount column in invoices but not bills. Should be easy enough to add it in since it is in the invoice template already.
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Lana Joubert commented
Agree, our suppliers often give us discounts on products and I have to manually go and recalculate each item (100's of items on one invoice). There should be a column headed discount, then we can just type in the percentage and it will work it out.