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I've stopped putting any suggestions on here as all the ones that are important to Xero's customers are totally ignored by them, but they continue to fiddle about with things that don't add any value (change of invoice and bill layout as an example) and are not important to us. If lucky enough to get a reply, it is a platitude along the lines of 'suggestions are reviewed and sent to product development if accepted, but currently there is no plan to implement your suggestion'.

The fact that this was raised on 2022 and still hasn't been integrated as a feature in 2025 is disappointing to say the least.
Knowing how bills are being paid is just as important as knowing when they need to be paid, the guessing game or hoping someone sees the notes left on a bill that is DD isn't the most efficient use of time, resources or software

Please do this asap - i am worried as a new user i will pay bills twice, once manually and then the direct debit happens

Totally agree with this and have been procrastinating about it for months. This would be a great addition so when running a payable list you can quickly see what is set up via DD, S/O or needs to be paid manually.

Absolutely. Most accounting systems let you set the usual payment method on the supplier. Failing that set it on the invoice posting. There is no way on the payments to be made screen it should show DD payments. they should be on another tab called upcoming DD payments or some such. This is a basic feature that needs to be added. I'm talking on the awaiting payment screen, where you can select which invoices to pay and then use open banking top pay them. I don't want to be paying invoices manually that will be taken by DD there needs to be filters so you can select all non DD's to pay. Currently there is no way to distinguish the required/usual payment method of the supplier.

Something to show if i need to pay or it is going to be paid by Direct Debit would really be helpfully as i keep paying things that are paid by direct debit and not pay items that are not paid by direct debit.

Thank you

This or a similar function would be very useful, especially with the Go Cardless integration.

be able to "Tag" payment method types on contacts to easily identify bills that will be paid by SO or DD or a "to pay" tag to make it clearer which bills need to be actioned on the aged payables reports.

This would save heaps of time.
Also, Xero Staff, this should be merged with this https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/46322308-bills-to-pay-ability-to-filter-by-contact-group
and the votes combined

This would be great! To be able to differentiate contacts that are paid by Batch payment (direct deposit), Bpay, or Direct Debit.

I cant believe this doesn't exist!

No matter how important we (their customers) think this is, Xero won't do anything about it. They are far more concerned in making 'improvements' to things that don't need changing (e.g. invoice layout) than actually listening to suggestions from us. Not one of my requests have been dealt with, yet they continue to mess around with things that work perfectly well.

Hi Xero, is there an answer to this problem yet?

Now that the supplier payments are integrated into Xero, this feature is critical as not to pick the DD invoices by accident. also convenient when they dont appear within awaiting payments section or have a filter option to exclude DD and Standing Orders

We have been asking for this for years now. It is unbelievable that Xero prioritise unimportant stuff when this remains a bugbear. Please pull your fingers out! It cannot be that difficult but would save users so much time and hassle.

You can use Groups for this - I have groups for 15th, 20th, 25th, and Direct Debits. Assign the contact to the right group, and when you run your AP summary group by Contact Group and it separates them all.

I suffix the supplier name with -BACS or -DD to help manage this, but it would be so much better to get this functionality built in.

100% behind this. I am using a spreadsheet to track this. I woudl like to see Xero add a field in the financial details section, so it exports with Aged payables or invoices payable reports. It would also be nice to see it on 'Awaiting payment' beside due date'.

Agreed, we need this feature asap because different payments methods are handled by different people within our org (cheques versus wires, for e.g.), so to have a place to immediately see how we need to pay the bill (and therefore who is responsible for paying it) is pretty critical. It's surprising Xero doesn't even have a place to record this on the contact page.

This should be a basic feature. Can you please add this in.