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We are builders and trades put in progress claims against purchase orders.

This is absolutely KEY to many clients who often raise large POs with overseas suppliers and then commercial invoices are raised for amounts under that PO. The fact that this was raised in 2022 and hasn't been actioned is very frustrating.
Especially when Xero introduces immaterial UI design updates before practical solutions like these.

When can we expect to see this feature be introduced??

Ability to apply multiple bills to single PO then the purchase order report or the PO itself showing what has billed against it and what is left.

Hopefully in the near future the PO's will be able to track and monitoring the requested value. I work for a very large Farming Company. We send a PO no. only to a supplier without giving them a figure. This is how we monitor a large value against each invoices received.
Xero has proven to be very valuable to us. Just missing the PO reporting.

We need to be able to do this as well in order to issue a blanket purchase order to a vendor on a contract and bill against it over a year's time. This is a desperate need as evidenced by the multiple responses below. I do hope that Xero is looking to add this feature in the future.

I am very disappointed as I am moving a client to Xero from a system which is able to carry out this function. Xero has always been so much more user friendly and didn't realise this feature was missing, I may have considered not carrying out the move had I known this fact, due to the many items ordered on individual purchase orders being despatched over different dates.
My only option I feel is to delete the item received on the purchase order when each bill is received!
Xero has let me down for the first time.

Delivery notes that track split PO's which are uploaded following customer signature receipt of partial or full delivery of goods - not a warehouse picking slip!

I'm new to Xero and stunned that this functionality is not already within the software. Surely I am not alone here?
My business frequently receives a purchase orders from customers which may have from 1 to 100 line items for example. Some of these line items are available for immediate delivery whilst others could be several weeks in manufacture or delays with back orders etc. I would welcome the ability to create a delivery note for a partial delivery, mark the delivered items as delivered and an option to upload a signed delivery note for future reference should invoice queries occur. Having visual indication inside Xero that a PO is non-started or in-process or even a percentage completed would be ideal.
I really don't want to commit to another third party software to tackle these shortcomings that I hugely overlooked with Xero!
Please consider this basic function request that I'm sure many people want/need daily to run their businesses.

We raise purchase orders for large quantities of material which are delivered and invoiced in batch deliveries.
Not having this facility means we can’t keep track of outstanding amounts from the system.

We often raise a PO which is invoiced to us over months, sometimes years before clearing the PO. We could REALLY do with an added PO function which reduces the PO balance as each Bill is created against it. This would be a game changer!

Often large PO's have multiple bills because some items are either on backorder and others take longer to make so there are multiple bills and therefore multiple delivery dockets.

There is another idea posted for this, https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/44961154-purchase-order-applying-multiple-bills-to-a-sing

Often large PO's have multiple bills because some items are either on backorder and others take longer to make so there are multiple bills and therefore multiple delivery dockets.

Really suprised this feature still hasn't been actioned, we'll often have upwards of 20 invoices per PO and not being able to track commitment is a pain point.

More flexible for the details to appear for the PO

This would save our business time, paperwork and labour by allowing us to raise one PO for multiple deliveries from the one supplier. I know this is a feature in MYOB that allows you to receive stock for multiple deliveries and create multiple bills for those deliveries.

This would save our business massive amounts of time. At the moment we have to track POs raised for labour over thousands of jobs on spreadsheets separate from Xero and then reconcile that with the bills in Xero.

Agree. Critical and long overdue as a function.

Being able to assign separate invoices to different line items. As a manufacturing business we don't always receive stock as a whole order and part deliveries are common. The work around of creating individual PO's in monotonous and time consuming for the ordering and accounts teams

Hi Xero,
I've switched from a competitor and so, so surprised this is not a function.
How do others treat things like a 2 year software subscription billed monthly?

This is very important for our company as we currently need to track on a spreadsheet the multiple invoices which relate to one PO which is very time consuming. This function would be very helpful and reduce the workload as we could track this in Xero.

It would be really helpful to be able to select lines/or a quantity of items from a line to match to bills received. We often send large POs to a supplier, but then they bill them when they ship each item rather than all at once. I can't see what is remaining on the PO very easily with the current set up. We have a work around by going back to the PO and deleting the items that have been billed, but this is time intensive and sometimes gets forgotten.