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Where are all the inventory updates that are supposed to be coming after Xero acquired Locate?
I'm really surprised at how slow the product roadmap seems to be when they are on stage saying this is a priority. Hopefully 2023 will be a busy year for (just basic!) Inventory Management in Xero.

Make this happen, please. Or you could reply and let us know you are on it. Or not on it. Or going to make us pay for it? Or something.

Urgently required, along with the ability to put items on back-order. I'm seriously thinking of switching to a different accounting software.

Hi. it would be great if this feature can be implemented soon. We sell items as a kit but buy them individually. being able to create a kit or bundle would me such a benefit to our business.

We have taken on a client who sells kits that are made up of several components, managing stock/inventory outside of Xero is time consuming and costs more for the client (my time). This request has been raised before, but not implemented despite there being several discussions about making this service available in Xero. This needs addressing

Item, Product or Service, Quote

Most users of Xero sell products or services.

A product or a service may consist of many items within the product or service.

So to build a product or service which could have multiple item within it, for a user to add to a quote or an invoice, there should have a feature were you can add multiple items to build a product or services.

In the products and services tab there needs to be an item tab which hold information on a particular item cost price, sell price (which should also hold information like supplier, mark up percentage) very similar to adding a service or product currently but with a little more detail. Then the user can pick multiple item to build there product or service, see example below

Example; I have based this on a double socket outlet a product I currently sell.

So the product would have a code and name (Code: DSW) (Product: Double PVC Socket White)

So to build this product you would choose multiple items

So select an item, then a quantity

Cable, 30
Back box, 1
PVC socket 1
Labour .75 of an hour

This will give you a total product cost and sell price.
NOTE the item cost should update automatically in the product when updating the item.

Hope this makes sense

Very important, we currently cant use the "track inventory item" due to this feature being missing. Most of the products and services are assemblies but are sold as separate items, so having this feature is vital to us.

Very important

Desperately need this

Extremely helpfule

This would be extremely useful, I have just taken on a new client where this functionality is vital

It's been almost 2 years that has been requested and I'm surprised it only has 10 votes as I personally know at LEAST half a dozen people that migrated to Quickbooks exactly for this feature .. Please make it happen ASAP!

It would be great to have this feature as it's commonly used in many business sectors now.

This would be really helpful for our business!

Group line items in quotes and invoices to create bespoke 'packages', 'sections', 'assemblies', or 'kits' on a case-by-case basis, with headings and sub-totals for clarity.

Groups would be a type of new line item that can have other line items nested under them. Products and services can then be added as normal, then dragged in and out of groups. Groups would have a heading and description, and a sub-total of the line items nested inside it. Nested line items would retain their usual attributes (qty, price, discount etc).

For example:

Package 1
Item 1 $100.00
Item 2 $90.00
Item 3 $360.00
Item 4 $130.00
Item 5 $20.00
Package 1 Total $700.00

Package 2
Item 6 $450.00
Item 7 $75.00
Package 2 Total $525.00

Subtotal $1225.00
Total GST $183.75

Total $1,408.75

Currently, the Products and Services list only allows for individual items to be listed. You can create an item and include multiple products in its description and cost, but then you lose the ability to track each product in that line item. Instead, each product has to be added to quotes and invoices as a line item. This results in long quotes with many line items, with no clear way to group each product by purpose to show how they relate to each other or to the quote/invoice/project as a whole.

Adding grouping features in quotes and invoices would greatly improve readability for the customer, breaking long quotes/invoices up into chunks rather than being presented with a wall of text.
Grouping products by their purpose also means that customers who do not have the technical knowledge of what an individual item is used for can understand which part of the project it is related to. Meanwhile those who are more technically minded can still be clear about exactly which products are being supplied.

This format is already widely used in the events industry, but would be useful to any business that typically has many items in their quotes/invoices which could be split into sections.

(An extension to this would be the ability to group Products and Services to create 'packages' that could be quickly added to quotes, and then edited as needed)

This is a basic requirement in many types of businesses to create a single item from individual items. Let's call these Retainers, Basket Items, Bundle Items etc.

It is particularly important to track the breakdown of income for these grouped items gauge where you are more profitable. A simple one-liner "Retainer Fee" will not serve this purpose since you lose the make-up of these items.

I repeat myself, we need to create a basket or a bundle by either collapsing the lines on the invoice or, (which will be first price, to create a bundle or basket item consisting of the individual items. And because of the need to track the source of income, the reports and GL postings should be based on the individual items.

The world may be moving towards simplifying everything but need to be wary that we don't lose the detail we need to manage our businesses.

Jacco du Toit

Is one of the main things that has always been missing

More important then bench marking

Small employers need to be able to build products and are not in the income range to purchase more subscripts to other inventory programmes

This is also important for customer invoices. Often the customer buys something as a bundle or assembled 'kit' which they recognise. Having to send them a detailed itemised invoice just so that our inventory is properly updated is annoying for us and confusing to the customer.