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I must say this is disappointing as it is a feature that many of our clients want to utilise. This is a crucial part of any job costing analysis, which, having projects function in the system, would suggest you are able to achieve.

Thank you for the update - we will be cancelling our projects users shortly as the software is not fit for purpose and requires a lot more development to be worthy of being charged for as an extra - which doesn't seem to be on Xero's radar any time soon.

I could understand if it was free while in development and then charged once fully released and useful.

Hi Hannah,

I would suggest reviewing focusing your attentions on this in the near future, it unfortunately is something of an assumption when purchasing Xero projects so is a huge gap in functionality for us and by the sounds of it an awful lot of others customers.

Hi Hannah, I'm struggling to understand why this is so difficult for your company to achieve. Particularly since it can already be done once a Purchase Order becomes a Bill. What's the difference from your point of view?

Thanks for the update Hannah. Pretty shocked at this to be honest.

Thank you for confirming this Hannah.
Due to this, and many other functionalities that Xero lacks, we will be transitioning to a new platform.

Christie Van der Beeke, whilst i appreciate what you are saying, the issue is that we need the reference box to tie it back to our projects. There is a important need for most of the Xero users

Tony Morcom - on the top right of the Invoice template there is a reference box, which allows you to insert text. There is where I reference PO numbers. Hope this helps :)

When working with local Councils or State Government entities, they provide a Purchase order that must be shown on the invoice, or the invoice won't be paid. I am new to Xero, so hooping I've just missed something....

It is important for us, as the person raising the purchase order, for a specific project, is not the same person that processes the bill when it arrives. This will then save the fact finding mission of which project the expense relates to.
The purchase order format and the bill format are almost identical, so the ability to do this should not be too far away.

This idea was proposed more than 5 years ago and still there isn't a significant/meaningful answer from XERO. Invoices and Bills already have the interface and the backdrop technology/code can't be that different (perhaps take into account a potential double entry!).

XERO team if you really look at this platform, provide an answer. I am okay to be wrong but at least have the courage to comment. This is suppose to be a mean for XERO to interact with customers and instead has become an excuse for the support team, with their favourite answer to software issues is: "please add your comments to the ideas forum" which is code for f-off.

To be honest, without this, the Projects module is more or less useless. Project Managers care about committed costs, not just invoiced. On big projects, orders may have substantial lead times, so the value of POs can far exceed the value of billed costs.

I've worked with Xero for a good few years and with multiple clients, but the lack of this feature is by far the biggest gripe I have with the software, and enough to make me consider alternative systems.

To be honest I was very surprised to find that this was not already a built in function. It should be a basic feature and greatly undermines projects. As soon as any company issues a PO it is committed to that cost and maybe this piece is being missed by the team. This feature needs to be prioritised. Xero has a huge number of positives and this would greatly add to your functionality.

It is crazy that such a huge platform is not listening to it's clients on what is a pretty simple function. If you wanted to, you could write a line of code tomorrow and it would be up and running and we'd all be delighted. We have all waited patiently for far too long.

My current workaround, since the client requests the PO # be on the invoice, is to add the PO number to the end of the Job Name. I've also started a folder in Files for POs from clients so I can attach their documents to invoices, quotes, etc.

beyone basic bookkeeping function

So you have had this issue under review for a year. A year is a good long time perhaps things have got better?

Xero admin this shocking service. Xero Projects was sold to us as the perfect solution, but it does not even incorporate standard Xero features let alone any to improve the system. Quickbooks has all of the features we required. Someone has dropped the ball here. Very disappointing.

We are now looking to cancel Xero for this reason.

This was brought up over a year ago and this is the response we received and you have had numerous requests come in for this to be corrected and added and yet you have changed existing systems namely invoices and payables and yet nothing has been done in this regard. We really don't want this under review we want this under development and action. Can we now have an update on this which outliones dates when this will come into action