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It's such a disappointing reply that basic function which is a need for everyone is not their main focus.

How am I not surprised. Based on the last response you issued regarding this issue that, for all other platforms out there is basic, you're concentrating on how you can make things easier and better, payment wise, for our customers, not your users. As a consequence, you're making it easier for our customers to pay us but you're not fixing it so that, when we receive these easier payments, we can post them easier and more efficiently. This is ridiculous. Your cutesie screens and updates to invoicing, updates to reports and customer payments do nothing to help the users of your **** software, the one's, might I remind you, that pay your salaries. The ability to select and post all outstanding invoices that we receive payments on in one transaction, one batch, is, in all other accounting platforms, basic functionality. It is unbelievable that you, the one's that created and support (and I use that term loosely) this software don't recognize the importance of this functionality and don't make it a top priority.
To the growing number of users that recognize that the brain trust running Xero couldn't give a **** about what we, the users, need, I encourage you to give these idiots a quick lesson in business - that being - the customer (that's us) should come first. The lesson should be the recognition that Xero isn't the only platform out there and that without us, they don't have a business. I will soon be transitioning to Sage 50 cloud, a far superior product, and I encourage each and every one of you out there that is offended by Xero's continued disregard of this and other issues that directly affect users ability to work efficiently to jump ship as soon as possible. A lack of customer base and, hopefully bankruptcy for these idiots, will teach them a lesson that they should have known when they started their business. The customer, your users, the one's that provide you with revenue, comes first.

It should be a focus - it is important!
If you are not focusing on this hopefully you are focusing on another other issue for accounts payable i.e. being able to view a report showing payments made to suppliers (not just being able to see individual invoices and the dates they were paid) but being able to access statements which show the total amount paid to a particular supplier at any time and over any period of time.

That's very disappointing! Particularly considering that not only you're not addressing this issue, but there's also now another glitch on bills pages, i.e. when attempting to filter by date (or by name), you get a result with random transactions, completely unrelated to dates or names selected, and then it would continue to display random transactions. When you finally get the list you intended to select, the minute you try to export (or make payment, or "add planned date") the list suddenly changes again; the selected transactions would unselect; the exported list would produce wrong results.

It's madness. Please fix it!

This is a basic functional requirement - it should be a focus for Xero. Very sad that you can't be bothered addressing this issue.

I understand this is not a focus for you, however please know this is one of the reasons I have moved on to MYOB.

Yes agreed Lori about sorting of transactions, it's a bug in Xero. It was fixed in a previous version and then re-introduced a while back when they made another change. We sort by supplier and by reference and then when processing the batch it re-sorts it randomly into any old order, so another step for us to edit and re-sort again.

Extremely important feature - with more than 200 entries over multiple pages only being able to select 1 page at a time to be batch is so time consuming for both business owners and bookkeepers. Why doesn't the batch report have the transactions per supplier with a total - if prints in random order see attached as example.

We have some very large clients who receive multiple invoices for payment each month and this will make our lives much easier plus will eradicate multiple payment files

Hey all you users out there. As was pointed out below, this issue has been raised for over two years and, nothing but crickets. As for this portal....this is just something put out there so we users will feel that we have a voice and some influence. Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but, and Xero has made it quite obvious, THEY DON'T CARE!!!!! It's obvious that they're going to keep making cute changes that don't really do anything but make users lives more difficult and continue to ignore us users that have to deal with all their current and "in the works" issues that make using their software difficult and time consuming. I'm sure that you're all in the same boat as I am. If I could change platforms I would in a minute. In the meantime, we're all just going to have to come to terms with the fact that the software sucks, we have to deal with it, and the folks at Xero will continue to ignore our cries from the wilderness.

This has now been requested for almost 2 years. I can't see the point of this request system if nothing gets acted on.
Meanwhile Xero messes around with functions and screens that previously worked perfectly and makes everything more difficult to use.
Xero a few years ago was excellent, now it's pretty ordinary.

This is so annoying and prone to errors not to mention so time-consuming. This makes me feel like I would be better off without Xero and processing manually.

When considering other basic features that are missing from Xero, I feel like this program has been designed by a ComputerTek rather than an accountant.

This needs to be at the top of list, limiting the selection of bills to 200 is just silly. So time consuming making various batches instead of just one.

This would be a big improvement. It is currently very time-consuming requiring sometimes 4 or 5 batches because when you complete a payment, the same bills don't come up on the same page.

I'm with you Margaret. If I had the power to ditch Xero I would in a heartbeat too. I've used many accounting platforms and batch processing of cash receipts with the ability to choose any and all outstanding invoices and do it in one transaction was standard. I'm sure that the Sage offerings, Quick Books Pro and others in the same price range as Xero have this capability.

Yes I fully agree, this functionality is on a "wish list" while they continue to stuff up every change that is made. Xero was very good in the beginning and now they've lost the plot. Every change they make is not properly tested and introduces new bugs which you then have to request a change for wtf?? I would change to another provider in a heart beat if they offered what Xero had a few years ago before they messed it all up.

Sorry folks but having software that is user friendly and has basic accounting functionality doesn't seem to be where Xero is at. Looks like they're more interested in creating cute screens and pushing WOKE agendas than fixing their **** software. Way to go Xero. You truly suck.

It is a required functionality and it makes the process more efficient and time saving.

100% Yes

This needs to be a priority