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We should be able to recognise back orders.
Tracked inventory items need their quantities updated when the items are received, not when the purchase order is billed.

Or, more convenient, add the ability to enter the quantity received for each PO line item. Add a report to show all POs with unreceived items. This is the only thing I still need with Xero. Otherwise, quite happy!!

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.

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It would be a very good addition to xero to be able to note part supply

I have issues with this too. There are a couple of fairly minor yet critical changes Xero needs to make to their inventory to make it useable for even the most basic of business requirements. While I understand they are not in the business being an all encompassing product, the inventory suits almost nobody and is not useable in its current form, meaning every business neds to get an inventory add-on.

Our company imports products
We make advance payment; value enters the Advance to suppliers account.
Afterwards, the supplier issues the Commercial invoice and releases the container at the port of origin.
90 days later, the stock arrives at our warehouse.
If the BILL is included without stock and the stock entry is in the following fiscal year, this changes the Income Tax payable.
So this is not just an idea, but an urgent demand for operational and financial importance.
Our accountant does this manually because the system does not automate the function.

This idea is right! At the moment, the stock isn't being put into inventory until the item is billed, which is inaccurate. We also have many deliveries that are part-delivers. If anything, this happens more often than not.

Sometimes we are also billed before the stock has arrived, again causing inaccuracies.

Not being able to show what is on back order is also creating many dramas in our company as well...

This is a most important feature and I cannot understand why it isn't there. When importing products you get invoiced and have to pay before goods arrive and will often have part deliveries as mentioned. MYOB have a receive button - maybe you could have something similar? Please update it is a must fix problem!

On a purchase order i would like to see a checkbox so as i can mark the
items received, leaving the items back ordered clearly outstanding on the purchase order.
This would also prevent ordering the same item again.

Last year when XERO acquired LOCATE, then i believed that this will be most important feature XERO will update at the earliest.

Having ability to dispatch/create multiple shipments/ deliveries against single Sales Order/Quote and Invoice only 1 time.
Similarly, having 1 PO and receiving the items in multiple GRNs, but still no improvement...

In fact this functionality will take the XERO itself to next level in terms of clients reach... Hope they act soon on this

Part delivery would be awesome. We have so many that come in parts. Amending the PO twice is such a pain!

This would also be useful when matching the invoice to the PO to know that the goods have been received and that the right amount of goods have been invoiced so we don't keep having to check with the warehouse and interrupt them.

Yes - just use a traffic light system next to each line (item) green (arrived) and red awaiting receipt

Also, there is no way to allocate the invoice to the Stock account if billed before the purchase order is complete

A seperate screen for Goods received would be great.

After creating a purchase order, sometimes the stock arrives before the purchase invoice arrives (or the bookkeeper is only in for a day a week and so the purchase invoice cannot be entered for a few days). I would like to see a button on the purchase order page to be able to add the items to stock, so that the items can then be sold.