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Further to my comment below from last Nov. When I first saw this limitation nearly 10 years ago, I steered clear of Xero as it is a big hole for my business. Unfortunately, as time passed, and we needed better integration with our contracting/billing platforms, we had to drop MYOB and migrate our two businesses across to Xero. So, not being able to properly track backorders and part-shipped orders became secondary to having proper integration with these other two platforms.

The cynic in me thinks that Xero deliberately leaves these 'gaps' in functionality to encourage 3rd party developers to build add-on products to fill these gaps. If the base Xero product did all of this natively, there wouldn't be a lot of ISV support for building add-ons, as they'd be too niche and therefore would not have enough market appeal, etc. I think they don't want to alienate their after-market add-on developers and 'in-app' marketplace...

I vaguely recall there being some sort of 3rd party subscription that can achieve this functionality, but seriously, who wants to pay what is probably another 80% of the Xero MRC for an add-on to track backorders???

This has been an idea For almost 10 years. I don’t think Xero are even looking at these comments. All the items I have supported have been around for the same amount of time 7-10 years. Not one has been actioned by the Xero development team. Crazy huh

Yes. I will consider using other software if I don't see a reaction from Xero.
Odoo is an option

I don't think Xero are even reading these, there has been no response whatsoever. They are too busy changing cosmetic things that worked perfectly well before. I'm having to work on spreadsheets to try and keep track of everything.

I've given up waiting for Xero on this. I'm starting to migrate my clients to QBO since their PO system works.

The ability to see how much of a purchase order has been depleated from past bills in incredibly important to prevnt overpaying suppliers.

Hi Any update on this features ?

DEC 2014 ?????

its Feb 2023 - almost 10 years people have been asking for this ...

I can't believe that it isn't already implemented. For me this is so important looks like I'll be looking for another option.

Hi Xero Team,

What is the status on implementing this idea? With several comments here, this should be a required field now in Xero based on the demand. For myself, I am responsible for running reports on a monthly basis that show outstanding commitments (which include purchase orders), part of this is to capture unbilled portion of partially billed POs but this task is currently done manually. It would be highly appreciated if this feature can be automated in Xero so it can make the reporting aspect quicker for the finance team. Please advise.

Thanks,
Hussain

Would also be useful to be able to book in POs so that cost is reflected in the correct period - matching then takes place against a GRNI (which can take place months later) but at least P&L is correct...

This function is desperately needed to avoid manually having to record how much of the PO has been invoiced/remaining. It was a basic function on our previous system

I own/run an IT MSP. I attended an Autotask/Xero demo/session back in about 2014. It was very much a 'check out how easy it is to use Xero' type event. And what the Xero rep demoed was very impressive compared to clucky old MYOB.

In the break I was chatting with another attendee and made a comment along the lines of "...Xero looks the goods, I might think about switching from MYOB..." and he laughed and said "until you need to track partial shipments on orders" and indicated that's why he still uses MYOB.

I have finally switched to Xero just this recent financial year. Mainly due to better integration with other 3rd party SaaS tools we use. But, we have to manage the partial shipments and backorders manually. It amazes me that something so key to a product like this that was missing over 8 years ago is still nowhere to be seen.

For those of you who will change if this isn't fixed, well, start planning your migration as this will never be in the product. Xero has ignored this feedback for close to a decade; I doubt they're about to listen now.

I am manually adding invoice details to line items and reducing the purchase order value on multiple line orders and multiple invoices from suppliers. there must be a simple way for Xero to do this?
If you use inventory it used to be possible.

If this is not fixed soon we will be switching to a new system

This is really important and I can't see anywhere Xero have updated?
How far away is this?

Super urgent function that we cant use. Would be very helpful to a business like ours.

Any ideas on where this stands on the pipeline for development? Quite urgent for us to manage applications against contracted values on our construction business

As an accountant this isn't a feature we often need, however we do bookkeeping for a client where this feature is really needed. I can imagine many businesses find tracking what has been billed and invoiced a nightmare.

It would be great if Xero could comment as to where this is up to and if they are working on it at all. It shouldn't be necessary to have to pay extra for this feature from an external source (linked item I'm guessing)

I agree Helen. Maybe rather than spending time making the front end looking pretty Xero could use the time to come up with a fundamental function. Sage has had this for at least 20 years, think I might go back if it's not sorted soon.