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This is a brilliant idea, I prepare payments to be authorised by a director. I have to send them a seperate email with the references to use, when they click "group payments" it removes all the references i have entered and returns them to a blank

Not sure why this hasn't been done yet

to clearly see who the payment went to is critical on the bank and account transactions without having to see multiple "batch payment" references, it becomes a time consuming, frustrating and duplication of process.

I see from this and many other basic accounting and process issues that the standard response is to send the query to yet another "community suggestion" page rather than actually addressing the issues raised by users, some dating back many many years without resolution

Bill reference is included in the first ref cell - but when exporting to the bank (ANZ) - that ref is not exported over. I have to copy and paste the reference to the 2nd ref cells for it to be included on the uploaded file at bank point. Very time consuming.

This is hugely important, when there are multiple invoices being paid, it prevents the creditors from allocating our clients payments to the wrong places, which would result in massive unnessecary admin to untangle when realised (ususally only when the next statement comes and the payment is not showing)

lots of time wasted manually entering details into this column each month. surprised Xero hasn't looked into automating this yet.

This seems like such a fundamental feature for batch payments - automatically populating the Particulars and Reference fields that will be recorded in the payee bank statements.

This seems like such a fundamental feature for batch payments - automatically populating the Particulars and Reference fields that will be recorded in the payee bank statements. This data is loaded in to Xero when the invoices are set up so should be straightforward to bring across into the batch payment fields. @Xero - this would be great to sort out please.

You would think Xero would have created an auto fill function by now. I've been using Xero since 2012 my colleague raised this a few years ago same response. Come on Xero surely there must be other companies with the same issue.

Currently when creating a batch payment, the bank payment details fields (Particulars / code / reference) are all drawn from the payee's Xero contact details page.

payment of some bills require an invoice number in the bank payment reference field (rather than just an account number), and this also helps to track which invoices are paid for companies with frequent / varied billing + auditing bank transaction list records.

It would be great if either:
a) For a specific bill, Xero reads the invoice number and places this into the "reference field" within the bill payments screen (usually works) AND THEN this overwrites the default reference field for that contact in creation of the batch payment line
OR
b) When entering a bill - once the contact is loaded, that the default bank fields for that contact are presented and editable on the bill screen (Combining multiple payments to the same contact in batch payments would have to be disabled for this to work)

I waste so much time each month doing my 20ths, having to copy and paste all the data from the Ref column to the Reference column, as I usually have around 150 items to pay - and then if there is a mistake in the batch, if it isn't as simple as removing some lines, I need to go out and do it all over again! Xero Support tells me there is currently no option for this. It would be soooooooooo helpful to have an option for the Reference column auto-fill from the Ref column