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Most of my customers submit Purchase Orders before I can send them an Invoice. There is nowhere to log or store them in Xero. I have invented my own system within Xero whereby I create a draft invoice and save it as APO. This is somewhat clumsy and I would like Xero to fix the system to allow customers to send POs.

Large customers always issue a PO and it would be ideal to track it within Xero — assign line items on Invoices to specific POs, track and report on the remaining balance. Please!

unless i am missing something in the help files. Many larger organisations will not spend money without a purchase order, how can one create an invoice with a purchase order.
The events are create / send a quote - receive purchase order - create invoice with purchase order number

Is it me or has anyone else noticed that when you copy from a purchase order to an invoice, it no longer changes the prices to sell prices but leaves them as buy prices??

This is a fundamental business need - really disappointed Xero does not do this out of the box & clients are having to request fundamental business accounting functions from premium accounting software

Use the Purchase Order as a Delivery Note and Copy to a Sales invoice

Most of our customers are large organisations and will not spend money without submitting a purchase order. There is currently no facility within Xero to save a customer's Purchase Order and then turn it into an invoice. This would make my invoicing accounting so much easier.

hi Gordana, we added a column that you can search on an invoice number but its a very manual process... I would also like an automatic way to do this.

Is it possible to create a link between a quote and invoice that will indicate on the quote what was invoiced. This is of great importance for partial deliveries and will ease the effort that is done as it would automatically take only the outstanding items to the second invoice. It also will also make follow-ups easier and should be available in reports.

A similar feature between invoices and bills that will enable us to draw a backorder report for ease of use.

Hi Kelly, this is for post (or during) sale inquiries - to find a link between transactions, possibly all on one screen :) .
How would I know which item was invoiced to a customer A and which to B, and how can I trace back by which vendors' invoice it was billed on (or arrived)? Hope I have clarified my question.

Please create a link between Quote >PO > Bill and Sales Invoice

I would really like to have some traceability in few years time where I would be able to see from vendors' bill or sales invoice (by clicking on it) what was ordered, and received from the vendor or quoted and charged to a customer. This would be great for instances when items that had at the time of invoice, for example, 10 years warranty but now the vendor is offering only 6 years.
Thank you