Bills - Purchase order number field on bill
A field/box to enter the purchase order number when entering bills
We use a separate system for creating POs and would like to record our PO number in a dedicated field when entering the corresponding bill(s)
 Kristen Saunders
    
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       Elaine Maskelyne
    
 commented Elaine Maskelyne
    
 commentedThis is a very simple and basic requirement. I'm continually astounded by how many basic things are missing from this system. Does anything actually ever come of these suggestions? (I'm badgering my company to change systems as I know, from experience, there are far better solutions!!) 
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       Clarrie Williams
    
 commented Clarrie Williams
    
 commentedyes im the same , id like to look a a list of invoices from a supplier and have my po info show up as well as their invoice 
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       Debbie Elliott
    
 commented Debbie Elliott
    
 commentedNew Tab for Purchase Order Number in Bills Can we please get another box for PO Number in between reference and doc upload Especially for tradesmen who have hundreds of invoices we need match with PO and this is very time consuming as you have to open each bill and look for the PO to match 
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       Tim Mitchell
    
 commented Tim Mitchell
    
 commentedWhen copying a PO to a draft bill (whether marking it as fully billed or not), the bill has a link to the PO in the history, so why can't the PO number be included as a reportable field on the bill? This would presumably just be an autopopulated field from the copying, or even as a manual entry. This is critical for ensuring POs are fully invoiced to enable reconciliations, accruals and reporting. 
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       Shannon McMonigal
    
 commented Shannon McMonigal
    
 commentedComing back to comment again as I've just received a stack of bills from a supplier who also uses Xero, who noted a PO as well as having the auto-generated invoice number on each. I WAS going to have dext auto-publish all their bills to save time, but I now have to manually go through every one just to copy the reference into the invoice number section. So time consuming for something Xero already has on their invoices! 
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       Kiran Rai
    
 commented Kiran Rai
    
 commentedThis is important to have an option of adding fields and to appear those fields in the reports as well. This will help to customise our bills and reports per business needs. 
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       Joseph Sammut
    
 commented Joseph Sammut
    
 commentedThis is such an important feature that unless it is implemented we would look at another package which is a pity as the package is so interesting with other features. We needs an additional reference fields in Bills - can we have feedback if this will be implemented or not? 
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       Kristen Saunders
    
 commented Kristen Saunders
    
 commentedWHY IS THERE NO PURCHASE ORDER FIELD IN THE BILLS TO PAY SECTION. HONESTLY THIS IS SO INCONVENIENT. I NEED TO RUN A REPORT TO SEE WHAT PO'S HAVE BEEN MATCHED TO WHAT INVOICE FOR A SUPPLIER, BUT BECAUSE THERE IS NO PO FIELD IN THE BILL I HAVE TO MANUALLY GO THROUGH AN ENTER THEM ALL. ITS BEYOND RIDICULOUS THAT AN ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE DOESN'T HAVE THIS FIELD. 
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       Shannon McMonigal
    
 commented Shannon McMonigal
    
 commentedYeah I notice you can add a PO & Invoice number to invoices, not sure why this isn't possible for bills. Would certainly be super helpful, as currently we just have to squeeze both into the one field. 
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       Lynette Duncan
    
 commented Lynette Duncan
    
 commentedAfter 14 years of using Xero, how hard can it be to include a simple field for a reference. They can do it for invoices, why can't they do it for bills. Come on Xero, get your act together. 
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       Damon O'Keefe
    
 commented Damon O'Keefe
    
 commentedHow is this not a function of the software? 
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       Mariette Van Wyk
    
 commented Mariette Van Wyk
    
 commentedCritical - Linking PO number to an invoice will make tracking easier and assist in searching bills based on PO number 
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       Lara van Eeden
    
 commented Lara van Eeden
    
 commentedCritical - will really make tracking of transactions better. 
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       Anton Verster
    
 commented Anton Verster
    
 commentedThis is an important field we would like to have available to assist in searching bills and linking PO's to bills 
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       Ruan Lindeque
    
 commented Ruan Lindeque
    
 commentedThis is a critical part of our business and will allow for much better tracking of transactions. Please action this urgently. 
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       Suzelle Pienaar
    
 commented Suzelle Pienaar
    
 commentedIt is extremely important to link a PO to invoices for control purposes. 
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       Roelien Fryde
    
 commented Roelien Fryde
    
 commentedWe also use an separate system to create PO's and would like to be able to record the number on the entry in Xero 
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       Michelle Westle
    
 commented Michelle Westle
    
 commentedDext also now extracts PO numbers from bills and it would great to have this field so the PO can flow through into Xero. 
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       Chris Sinclair
    
 commented Chris Sinclair
    
 commentedI would like this feature to help us with our accruals accounts. 
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       Luke Potts
    
 commented Luke Potts
    
 commentedI'd like to see this feature as well, simple to add and report on 
 
              