Batch Payments - Bills stays selected/ticked on multiple pages
Ability to make the invoices that have been ticked in the previous page stays ticked.
Purpose: Because it’ll save users’ time when they’re doing batch payments, especially when they have to tick all the invoices across multiple pages.

Thanks for your contributions and voting on this idea, community. While we're seriously taking on board your feedback for how and why being able to hold selections across pages would be helpful when processing batch payments, we want to be open that this isn't a focus area for product at this time.
We'll continually reassess ideas where there's opportunity, so please keep adding your votes and interest, here. If there's any development planned we'll be certain to share this with you all.
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Liana Primarano commented
Please prioritise this development, we are a large business and the items per page needs to be increased to avoid excessive time spent creating multiple batch payments
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Maggie Kavanagh commented
Xero has merged the two separate requests to increase batch limit from 200, and to allow a filter on batches. I can see how a filter can help to reduce batch size to under 200 in some cases. But by combining both these requests into one, that just creates a larger job. Hence the new response now that no action is being taken:o)
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Maggie Kavanagh commented
Not sure of the reason for the limit - can't see any response from Xero. But 200 seems a very low number to limit businesses to.
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Heather Harvey commented
I also agree with Sharelle Jacobsen, the ability to filter out suppliers would be extremely useful. I have over 500 invoices in the system every month and if there was more flexibility in being able to filter out suppliers, it would be very helpful.
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Sharelle Jacobsen commented
I also have clients that have a large number of supplier invoices so really need the bills item number limit to be increased to avoid multiple batch payments.
I would also like the filtering in Bills to include the ability to hide a supplier, to improve the batch payment creation process.
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Philippa Hayes commented
I agree - we regularly have payment runs with more than 200 bills so have to split the payment run up.
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Pippa Scott-Haynes commented
I agree- we are processing our employee expenses which all go into the batch payment individually itemised and there are always more than 200 so we have to do each page at a time and then create the payment file for each page.
It would help if the system would either group them together for the employee so it shows the total sum for that person instead if individually itemised OR we had the ability to select more than 200 in one go
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Andrew Knowles commented
My request is quite basic.....if the screen view is 100, retain the ticked bills when moving to the next page. At the moment when moving to page 2 you lose those that are ticked & have to start all over again! And if searching by supplier and ticking bills to be paid, retain those that are ticked so you can then search on another supplier and retain the ticked bills for each search.
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Shelley Sames commented
Why is this not a priority to fix? This is a basic Accounts Payable function - it's not just helpful it's really important ... the same as a creditors' activity statement. Both have been issues for years now.
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Dennis Lawrence commented
Dammit. This hasn't been a focus for over the three years I've been griping about it. Seems that Xero is still focused on cutsie bells and whistles stuff while ignoring the fact that, for it's users, Xero sucks. Fix the issues that impede your users ability to efficiently execute their jobs. And quit sending out the propoganda emails touting how great Xero is. We users don't share the sentiment that you guys are shoveling.
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Bill Purdom commented
This is important to me
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Claire Barning commented
We are not even a large business, however we always have way more than 200 creditor invoices and since Xero has even more issues and is not able to find all contacts with the same word in the name (eg "Capricorn"), then it makes setting up payments a nightmare.
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Mark Dowling commented
This is a must for larger size businesses :)
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Heather Harvey commented
I also concur with all the users on this thread. This is a real issue for those of us with suppliers who have over 200 bills for the month. I am not sure why this is not being looked into or actioned as it appears Xero has been well aware of this for some time.
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Ruth Accounts commented
In bills to pay! Be able to search and select multiple invoices to create a remittance.
Currently if you select one and then search for another, the previous selected one is deleted.
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Charlotte Rix commented
Please can this be developed and actioned asap, I am in the same position with suppliers having over 200 invoices for payment, I have to split payments then it messes up the bank import feed as it will not find the matched payment and the remittance looks incredibly messy to our supplier.
Xero could widen it's customer base to support larger business's with this development.
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Nicky Nicolai commented
Surely a quicker fix than selections across pages is to make the Invoice page show 500 - 1000 invoices for larger batches. It is sooooooo time wasting creating multiple batches because of this issue.
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Amanda Schaeffer commented
Within the Bills to pay, the most you can see is 200 at a time, when creating large batches that involve multiple suppliers and Invoices it is currently impossible to select those that are on following pages, this makes it really difficult. It would be great for an ability to see 500 or 1000 Bills on the one page at a time, please.
It would also be great to have greater ability to filter such as by supplier or to show all BUT certain suppliers.
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Margaret Nicholas commented
Forget it everyone, Xero is much more interested in messing up other stuff than providing much needed functionality. I really dislike this whole "ideas" thing. This is essential for business but they really don't care. Maybe they're focussed on attracting much smaller businesses and people who require more will need to go elsewhere.
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Jas Thind commented
We too would appreciate displaying more than 200 items for the same reaon. WE end up having to create multiple batches which could easily be remedied