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Go take a look at the backorder capabilities in MYOB - excellent.

we need this to be for purchase orders and sales orders when the orders are incomplete and are still expected in

Aside from not allowing for backorders - incredibly frustrating - you cannot attribute payments to a purchase order. Our factory requires payments in advance on goods to be made up and shipped. Duh!
Furthermore: when looking into a line item from the 'products and services' list (AKA inventory) and when you click on an item (opens up the details of that item) and you can see in the top right there's a 'quantity on order', you would think if you clicked that phrase 'quantity on order' it would open a page or box that showed which PO or PO's that item is included in. Especially when you have a few containers lined up.
Yes, if you buy more subscriptions from XERO you would get these features.....but these were standard in MYOB.........hmmm back to MYOB?

Embarrassing that you don't support backorders. This will be the feature that moves us back to MYOB.

Also Xero should be aware that this idea has been posted multiple times in slightly different ways, so they should accumulate the votes and do something about it. Every single person that has commented on any “backorder” related idea is saying the same thing and we all cannot understand why this is such a hard thing to implement. It would reduce the need for any over-complex, over-priced, over-engineered inventory plug-in that is overkill for most small e-commerce or trading businesses. We just need to be able to handle backorders in a simple way and that surely is not beyond the Xero developers to implement quickly and once and for all as it has been asked about over a number of years without progress. Like others have said, AccountEdge (MYOB) did this backorders job very well in a simple way.

We used MYOB for over 10 years, before moving to Xero, and even when we used the CD rom version it STILL accommodated for backorders. Get with the page XERO.

Critical

This is critical for our business as we do large purchase order.

Better connectivity between the purchase order and the bill - This is one thing that QBO was miles ahead as they have it automated between bill and purchase order.

Having just started using tracked inventory for my own business, this has now become critical for me

Guys,
This is the same issue that has been around for 3 years. This was said to be getting fixed in 2022....
Please can we get an ETA on this!
Thanks,
Lewis