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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

I find it very strange that you cannot add the project to the purchase order it seems so logical that it would be there so when we found that it wasnt we were very dissapointed and are trying to find away to work round it. I do not see the point in a projects module if it isnt working completely. Please sort, this is a basic must have for projects.

Assigning and attaching a Client's purchase order to a project Quote with an area to show the purchase order # on the invoice automatically to assist in getting paid faster. This is what I am hoping for.

I just create the PO, send it, then mark it as billed with draft status.

Works but is a bit wonky.

Hopefully projects will get more attention now that workflowmax was sold. Previously support always told me if Projects wasn't good enough to use workflow.

Can’t believe this hasn’t happened yet, it’s ridiculous. So simple to implement. Massive failure!
Also the inability to cover a quote into a Sales Order, as a stage before invoice!

Please implement this sooner rather than later. Now that WorkFlowMax is moving from Xero we need to be able to track client POs so we can get paid.

Why post ideas when, after nearly 6 years, you get a response saying no it's too hard we might look at it later...

Xero has sadly just become the typical tech garbage, seems purely interested in there bottom line instead of actually making the platform useful you cant even do the most simple tasks in most cases it makes your life harder not easier

We moved from QBO to Xero under the impression it was better. Some things are better in Xero Projects but the ease of PO's in QBO is much better.

If you already use QBO think twice about moving until Xero pull their finger out and make Projects what it was promised to be.