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I've seen this for years. I wonder if they even know this website still exists.

Xero is great in a lot of respects - but issues like this, and even more so the lack of response, is what would prevent me from recommending Xero to others.

I would have thought this should be a trivial issue to fix. If you upload invoices from CSV, you can use more than 4 decimal places and the invoice will be calculated correctly taking all those decimal places into account - so the calculation itself is not the problem. You can print it, send it, allocate payments to it...

But, if you do anything to alter that invoice, even if it's just something like changing the print template, the invoice will be re-calculated but only using 4 decimal places and if the amounts are large enough, this will produce a VAT discrepancy which is a bit of a nightmare to correct (if you can be bothered).

If this is actually a difficult issue to fix, then why aren't Xero communicating with us to explain why, so that we at least understand.

Not good enough!

so many ideas posted to increase decimal points but there is NO action taken by Xero, now I have to do extra work to maintain a set of manual invoices. POOR SERVICE

We have electricity bills that use 5 decimal places every month and in the past payments per litre for milk was to 6 decimal places.
This would stop discrepancies of many £'s having to be entered as rounding errors and annual totals for products sold or paid for being correct.

We have electricity bills that use 5 decimal places every month and in the past payments per litre for milk was to 6 decimal places.
This would stop discrepancies of many £'s having to be entered as rounding errors and annual totals for products sold or paid for bring correct.

Does Xero have a roadmap for allowing 4+ decimal places?

Need at lease 5 decimal places for the price.

Your about the only software company that doesn't have that flexibility, its VERY basic request.

We sell units in excess of 100,000 (and we expect the volume to increase) at a unit price of .06525. The inability to cope with these decimal places means each invoice will have rounding errors. This will be significant over the course of the financial year.

I have a client that requires up to 8 decimal places - so any increase on 4 would be great :)

Our printing company sends us monthly invoices with Ink usage into the 5th decimal place.
Every purchase order i have made for them is wrong as it rounds upwards for the unit count but its all i can do in order to be able to pay them.

One of our Vendor invoices us with 6 decimal places which results in books no tallying. need 6 decimal places on invoices as well as bills

One of our vendors quoted in Five decimal places which result to not tally between our Purchase Orders and vendor's invoice. Four decimal places is not enough.

This is vital for both invoices and purchases for us, as we use units in 000's. So a price of $32.46 per thousand needs to be entered as a unit cost of 0.03246 Four decimal places is just not enough

our client work with Trust money and get audited on yearly basis, money received from client should balance to the cent.

It seems that this problem has been raised so many times and this thread has been going on for years. When will Xero ever address it? I never had this problem before because we usually deal with 2 dp only. However, I have now signed up a manufacturing client and they use 6 dp for raw materials. I am unable to help them nor justify why Xero only uses 4 dp. :(

It is good to fix the decimal points of the unit price to 6 digits.

We also need this function, the unit price limits at 4 decimal numbers create the difference between the total value in Xero and the actual value of the PO or invoice.

Time and time again when entering supplier quantities and want to use the unit price it only has 4 decimal places. Is there any way to increase this to more than 4 so I don't have to add a useless line just for rounding to match the supplier invoice. This happens in particular with Fuel invoices and also entering Levies for Commodity payments. It would be great to have something in settings if some businesses don't want so many but kind of frustrating and time consuming so would be appreciated if Xero can change this. I've put up with it for years but today felt the need to finally say something. Seems crazy the maths isn't balancing. Fingers crossed this is a simple fix and can happen soon.

Doing a simple search for "decimal" on this site shows there are several ideas that are all requesting the same or very similar functionality. Perhaps an admin can consolidate these to show the true number of those voting for this?