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How do you not have this function at a "big" brand accounting software? For 11 years, people have been wanting this. Do you listen to your customers?
Please it's now 2024 nearly 2025 surely it can't be that hard to create!

This would be a great feature to have, we are considering offering settlement discounts again but the process is currently quite cumbersome having to raise credit notes which is putting us off.

This is critical for our plans and how we would like to charge our customers.

We would love to be able to offer early payment discounts to our clients to encourage the timely settlement of invoices. We feel that this is a critical element of Xero that just isn't there. Please, please, please make this a feature going forward.

Work for all those subscription price rises and implement this already.... 283 votes...

How hard can this be!! Once again a big XERO for effort on your behalf dev team.

Xero often makes a lot of press release noise about payment delays in small business, A built in prompt payment discount would automate that instantly and would only take Xero to look at the terms and due date already living in the invoice. I could make ALL invoices 20% higher as default.... then if people pay them ontime, they get the discount. Instant fix and all of the data is already in there. Rather than sending out press releases, build that in and actually put rubber on the road.

A little frustrating as we didn't think this was an issue moving over to Xero, so many great features in Xero compared to our old software, frustrating that it falls down with this element.

How can an Accounting Software not have a vendor discount terms as part of the system? Right now I need to do it all manually AFTER I remember that my terms include an early discount that I have to calculate, discount off the bill I enter then ensure I pay early within those discount terms. The system should allow more than just a Net 30 term. It would be best if the business was allowed to create their own terms item, not forced to use what you think we need.

@Kirstine Selman, you are better off going back to your previous system if this is really important to you. This has been an issue since forever.

In hindsight we all should do adequate testing before changing systems.

really didn't realise that settlment discount was an issue with Xero - this is a huge pain already and we only switched from 1st April. SORT IT OUT!

This has been an outstanding request for quite awhile. Is Xero looking at it or will it never happen? Why do they fix what isn't broken and don't get on with what is requested?

this is a must have

This a response I recently received from Xero this may help people

One method you could use for settlement discounts for multiple bills is:

Set up an account for the settlement discount. If you'd like to keep them separate, you can set up multiple for each supplier that offers this.
During reconciliation, use Find & Match to search for the bills.
To account for the difference between subtotal and money spent, click Adjustments, select Bank fee and then allocate the difference to the settlement discount chart of account account created in point number 1. You could set an appropriate VAT rate for it at this time.
Click Reconcile.

The bills will be fully marked as paid and the discounts will show in reporting. Alternatively, you could also:

Raise a credit note for the amount of the discount instead and apply this.
Edit the bill and use the discount field to lessen the amount due on the bill.

This would save hours of admin time each month. Please add this feature!

We offer prompt payment and manually have to manage this, which is really cumbersome. The discount is critical for us and this is a huge gap in the Xero functionality.

Move back or move to MYOB, people.

Really important to our customers since we have just moved to xero and didnt realise this was a problem

We have a great deal of invoices that we receive early payment on. This would be absolutly critical to our business

This would be incredibly helpful.

This could also be helpful when you run a tax report based on invoices with cash discount upon payment.
I.e. if you post the cash discount as a payment and don't manually adjust the report you'll pay tax on the gross amount.