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Only one way to copy to purchase which waste so much time.

Xero was a easy and fast done all works but now is NO.

Xero please get this done!

What a load of rubbish..Other Priority BS... You are doing absolutely nothing.. This function already existed on the old invoice. It can't be that hard to put it BACK on the new invoicing.

You say you are monitoring it. .its been 12 months. .come on... I look on Social media and people are leaving Xero because of your disinterest.

Over a year of waiting for this feature with the supposed 'NEW' version of Xero. With over 5 pages of complaints and requests for this feature to be reinstated is crazy. Makes me think Xero don't even look at these messages.

Same copy and paste response answers from the ticket response team as they are not given any constructive info just causing frustration for the Xero user base. You telling me with all the DEV team behind Xero this feature cant be implemented when it was part of the OLD/Classic version of Xero.

Poor showing by the Xero management team.

Why on earth would you remove a feature? So strange

This is copying to a quote not a purchase order - these are different things
The other option is not an easier process. How is this an improvement to your portal?

The recent changes to the PO creation process in Xero have made it inefficient. Having to go back to the invoice page, find the correct invoice, and restart the process every time is frustrating, especially with multiple suppliers and long lists of goods. This update has slowed things down instead of improving efficiency. Please consider refining the process to reduce unnecessary steps or go back to the old version, which was way better.

@leongwang This is @xeros alternative method and was always tghere, however if you have an invoice full of multiple line items with several different suppliers, you have to keep going back to the invoice to know which supplier to copy to, so this is not an efficient workaround, if you have multiple suppliers on one sales invoice as we do.

Definitely frustrating to remove existing functionality.
But after some digging, it looks like they moved it (less efficient method) without informing customers.

https://learning.central.xero.com/student/activity/3482#/page/6655f93a1b870ef6196c0a46

@kelly Hi, it's over a year since this tread started and nothing has been done. Why do you keep saying that you are investigating this idea like it's something new being suggested here? Copying Invoice to Purchase Order was a well working function in old invoicing since way back. You just removed it. Please give a real estimate for when this function will be re-activated in the new version or if at all? For our business copying from Invoice to Purchase Order is very important not only for efficiency but also for linking transactions together for future follow-up. We are now evaluating alternative solutions for the whole accounting process.

@kelly using the process you describe is extremely time consuming because if you have several suppliers to copy across from the invoice you have to keep checking the names and details of the suppliers because they are not visible using this method. This is not an efficient or effective workaround....and your comments that 'there are a few other priority pieces of work that are currently of focus' does not help this situation in any way. This is a critical function that should not have been removed.

We’re voting on exisiting features which Xero has removed. It’s ridiculous.

@kellymunro @everyone after such a diabolical mess why can @xero not keep original invoicing live until this Number 1 issue ie #141 New Invoicing | Copy to - Purchase order is resolved, because it is going to cause an enormous amount of additional manual entry for most of the user base and is just not a viable option for most of your users!

This 'workaround' is not a suitable alternative. it's adding steps to a workflow which was fantastic. it adds the possibility for human error - ie selecting the 'wrong' invoice to copy from.

it adds time which most small business users do not have.

The fact that this is not a priority to xero speaks volumes about xero as a company and that they do not care at all about their user base.
Why remove features which are useful? - surely you can leave 'classic' invoicing in situ whilst you resolve the absolute mess you have created?

The new invoicing despite this as a UX nightmare, loads of wasted space. no longer able to use the keyboard to 'tab' about in order to quickly enter data.
absolutely terrible.

Whilst this this still isn't a priority could you still please allow us to use the old invoicing? It's double the work and not small business friendly at all.

Hi Kelly, thank you for finally coming back to us all with a response. While not the answer any of us were looking for at least it was something. The most frustrating part about the response is that your team are monitoring it and it's not a priority piece for Xero, meaning we the end user just have to suck up your changes (or look elsewhere),when you guys are good and ready to reimplement the Copy to PO you'll do it and will be happy knowing that you have extremely upset customers that once again you have created MORE work for. The new change to the invoicing system is not data entry friendly, for some reason you all think we need to unnecessarily click our mouse buttons. I have a motto in my business "if it's not broken don't fix it" the system wasn't broken it worked fine and you had happy customers.

@Kellymunro finally a response! That wasn't so hard to respond to your users re this critical issue #141 after so long now was it???

Agree with everyone here. Crazy the new invoicing can't have a basic feature like this. Sure there is a work around but it doesn't even work from the "all" Invoices tab. I try to use the new invoicing system each day but it runs so much slower when looking up product codes and the layout doesn't help productivity when I need to approve, apply payments and then email and print invoices. I'm super happy with change if there is an improvement but new invoicing in my opinion is far from ready. @Kelly we are more than happy to provide your team again a list of improvements that we beleive are requirements before retiring the old. Thank you.

I raised this issue when you first touted the new invoice format. Why have you side lined it? I have resisted using the new invoice system up to now - it is so critical to me I would consider moving away from XERO - as I think others should. You clearly have the "Microsoft Mindset" - force changes on paying customers and don't care if you upset people.

I am not looking forward to having any time without this function. The time I spend on this will double if not more! As it will become manual. Copy paste... copy paste.... copy paste... lines and lines of detail. Triple checking to ensure nothing missed. The double handling will be a nightmare. PLEASE get this going URGENTLY!!!!