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I found that this functionality in Xero is preventing alot of business to transition to Xero, which is a frustration as client need this functionality of have Negative stock for quoting purposes

Yes, this is critical to my business and I cannot find an affordable inventory add-on that handles that.

So please, listen to all your customers asking for this -and imagine how many others potential customers have dismissed Xero because this function is not available.

I've been using MYOB for 20 years in my last business and it handles it easily - along with price levels for customers. Get into the 21st century Xero!

Very keen on this as we purchase from overseas invoice flow can be slow and not being able to sell negative is a huge issue for us. Can you provide an approximate timeline please?

I need this also Please

This is one requirement to post entry and make adjustment entry of stock after these calculation. As in some case inventory flow some inventory either missed or found in recounting. so this feature should be added.

Very handy for pre-selling, surely most companies need to special order items and get a deposit, very strange not to have this basic function

Very handy for pre-selling

I remember being able to have negative stock on hand when working for a previous employer who used MYOB. Twenty years ago.

We used this function so that customers could prepay for stock we had on backorder with our suppliers, and we could update them quickly and easily about the status of their orders when our suppliers updated us. I remember once having to warn my boss when the backorders needed to trigger another order of the same item from our suppliers, because I could see that the negative stock on hand plus normal orders would result in stock running out before a second batch would arrive. It made stock level management a LOT easier!

Please add this feature

We also need this feature asap. Considering changing software because of this.

This is a standard feature in most accounting systems and is critical to us.

Make this happen! Xero is being ignorant by not allowing negative quantities. I constantly create invoices and request payment before I place an order for an item. This does not make sense in the least to not allow a negative quantity

Sadly this critical idea has been requested for at least 9 years and the request falls on deaf ears. Tarting up the looks of the Invoicing pages etc goes nowhere to compensating for the lack of real world functionality!

Yes, please add this. It's so frustrating not being able to invoice for something before the stock is physically here and has been billed.

Small businesses rely on cashflow, and this doesn't help at all.

This is extremely important and is part of alternative softwares. Xero's stock management is severely lacking. You cannot alter stock adjustments even if the date was incorrect with no explanation why this is so important to be blocked. You cannot have minus stock to create orders and then add the purchase for the stock in later.

This is an extremely disappointing situation and making stock managment next to impossible. Especially when the competition has these very basic featues.

We are constantly having to issue invoices without the stock numbers. Then when the bills are allocated on Xero we have to go back into the invoices and at the stock numbers so that the parts are issued correctly. This means that we never accurately know how much we have in stock without manual checks.
Please allow negative stock on Xero!

We need to be able to send proforma and standard invoices without having the stock on hand. We will get payment from customers before we have ordered the goods, so we will not have the stock in place.

Currently, with the way the Xero system works we cannot receive payment before ordering the goods.

Please make this happen Xero! Very critical to our business.

Seems pretty obvious, I have customers who would like a genuine invoice prior to me being able to have stock on hand

I cant believe no one has asked for this, but it shoudl be possible to create an invoice to sell inventory items that are on order, before they are billed. Currently it fails as says negative stock. This stops me creating proforma invoices when an order is placed for the actual items. Work around is to create a PO to send to supplier, bill it, create invoice, delete the invoice and the bill. Now no record of the invoice.

Our business sells the good before importing them as well. Having this functionality would enable us to use the inventory function. As long as there was a way to zero negative stock manually this would be amazing.