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Please give us the ability to bill from individual PO lines or even partial billing against one/more lines and retain only the un-billed lines/balances of those lines on the PO.

It would be great to be able to link bills that were forwarded to Xero via emails to their corresponding purchase orders. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way I'm able to link bills to the purchase orders is by copying a purchase order to a bill.

yet another basic function within Xero that goes unnoticed.

I vote for this too please. We need the ability to match an invoice partially against a PO. Instead, I am having to amend the PO amount to the invoiced amount and create a new PO for the difference. This is a real time waster. I am surprised it is not available yet.

Basic functionality that an accounts system should offer!

Purchase Orders To Show Reducing Balances When Bills Are Created Against Them.
Some POs are Billed against over months or years so it would be a game-changer for current POs to show the reducing balance as each Bill is created against it, ideally line by line. Also to be able to link a new PO to an existing Bill would be helpful when one happens before the other - life happens.

Purchase Orders To Show Reducing Balances When Bills Are Created Against Them.
Some POs are Billed against over months or years so it would be a game-changer for current POs to show the reducing balance as each Bill is created against it.

Purchase Orders To Show Reducing Balances When Bills Are Created Against Them.
Some POs are Billed against over months or years so it would be a game-changer for current POs to show the reducing balance as each Bill is created against it.

I freaked out when I learned that xero does not track line amounts on purchase orders. This is the very reason you want software - to track the minuta for you.

Virtually all our suppliers invoice at milestone increments against a purchase order, however our only option is to have it marked 'billed' or not. We need to be able to mark PO's as partially billed against. This is a very common scenario.

@Xero - it is completely ridiculous that this basic quantity matching/GRN process STILL isn't available in basic Xero after all this time. It is the underpinning of any business that buys and sells stuff.

I'm not working with particularly high purchasing volumes at the moment, but in case it helps anyone else (in a non-internal controls critical environment, because Xero wouldn't actually pass the process to not accidentally receipt/pay suppliers twice due to the lack of this feature), the slightly cruddy workaround I'm using at the moment for no GRN matching, no PO value reduction once receipted & no GRNI is as follows:

Supplier sends 15 of 20 items.
Copy PO1234 20 items to PO1234-A
Select PO1234 & reduce quantity to 15 to match what was delivered
Copy to bill
If not invoiced, save as draft & draft invoices become the GRNI list at month end to accrue
If invoiced, drag pdf from supplier in to bills screen & approve (note 2nd feature request here Xero - complete PITA that supplier bill can't be emailed to the Xero bills@ email to make a draft bill and then MATCHED to the relevant PO!)
Go back into the copied PO1234-A and delete the line items received, so a PO still exists showing the remaining 5 items yet to be shipped from supplier, and still referencing the PO number they will quote when they deliver, but capturing the fact the rest has already arrived & been invoiced etc.

Should it be this hard? NO

Is it effective as a work around? Just about - but it's a terrible use of time & resource & god forbid the phone goes when you're part way through copying & deleting lines & whatnot.

Would it work for higher volume of POs/partial deliveries? NO it would be a complete flipping nightmare trying to track things like this at scale.

JUST ADD THE FEATURE TO RECEIPT LINE ITEMS, CONVERT THEM TO BILL AND RETAIN ONLY THE UNRECEIPTED LINES ON THE PO.

It's not even like it's a rocket science bit of coding, given all the unnecessary screen layout twiddles & bells & whistles that have been released lately.

Can Xero just go back to getting the BOG BASICS sorted out please?!? Thank you!

Clients are not moving from other software such as Sage because of this. Especially the audit clients who need this as part of their internal control system.

Adding this feature will be helpful.

This is vital to keep track of purchasing.

Hoping Xero can implement this feature very soon as it would be very beneficial. Even our Timber program had implemented it, so this is one feature of Xero that we have gone backwards with, going from our Timber program to an accounting program for our accounts side.

Purchase order based reports, where are they ?
O/S PO balances report
Export ability for Purchase Orders with filters for Tracking categories and GL Account Codes

What is the holdup Xero. would have thought this would be easily implemented

Yes we vote for that function to be implemented please ASAP.

Please add this function.

The fact that this was raised TEN years ago and XERO havent bothered to do anything about this basic functionality - makes me completely loose faith in their commitment to this product ...

To put it into context : just look at what has been invented in the last 10 years - SpaceX's reusable space rockets - driverless cars - Venmo - Applewatches - ZOOM and yet XERO have failed to develop partial billing to a PO

Im lost for words

I hope people find this comment useful and in comparing of what mankind has achieved in the last years yet XERO have added nothing to their product ... and seem to be losing partners at an alarming rate