Multicurrency- Batch payments of Foreign Currency Bills.
Batch payments of Foreign Currency Bills.
Dear Xero,
Please consider the feature of being able to batch up foreign currency Bills. We often pay multiple invoices in one go, having to reconcile and mark as paid 10 invoices is extremely time consuming.
Hi everyone, thank you for all the interest and we appreciate the needs for those using foreign currency to have more efficiency in how you process these bills for payment. Your feedback and votes here have not gone unnoticed - We have a team that have been doing some ground work in this space and at this time we have beta that we'd like to invite any UK customers to join and feedback to our team on the experience. If you'd like to be a part of this please fill in our form here and we'll be in touch.
We appreciate this idea is farther reaching than UK alone and while the beta is limited to this region for the time being, based on results we will look at expanding this to other places.
We'll keep you updated of further developments here.
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Sarah Lumb commented
Couldn't agree more Victoria Banks, it is like having a bike with no handle bars! Useless
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Victoria Banks commented
I agree. The lack of foreign bills functionality and inability to enter IBAN numbers/Swift/BIC in Xero means we are moving away from this database. Unfortunate because it has so many pluses but it cannot seem to fix this universal thing. What is the point in allowing foreign bills to be entered but you cannot pay them?
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Kathy Phypers commented
A lot of our suppliers are paid in Euro, we can have 10+ invoices per month for each supplier. Marking these as paid one at a time is very time consuming.
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Jo-Anne HAEUSLER commented
This is critical to our business
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Jo-Anne HAEUSLER commented
Hi Xero Team. We desperately need to pay batch payment to international suppliers. Currently we have to process each invoice to our suppliers separately adding in the exchange rate on each invoice. We need to click all the invoices included in the payment and process as one remittance the same as you can do for domestic payments within Australia.
Needing to pay each invoice separately on one remittance is very confusing for our suppliers when they only receive one amount in the bank and many remittances (sometimes 10-12 remittances for one payment) This is urgent for us because its time consuming and confusing for the supplier receiving the payment internationally.
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Don Bird commented
Such a simple requirement of any accounting software. Coupled with an absence of an End of Year procedure and a simple Day Book this software leaves a lot to be desired and productive.
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Sarah Lumb commented
Andreas, you will not receive a response and I am doubtful that there will be any change. I joined Xero from Zoho in April 2022, had I known that batch payments could not be done in a foreign currency I would not have migrated over. I have had to employ another member of staff due to the drain on staff resources on this and other Xero matters.
I will be migrating back in November for two of my three businesses. There are many positives to Xero but without confidence of changes and good customer service it is just a risk to my businesses. I guess the only way to get a reaction to your issues will be via twitter/tic tok etc, this is a member only forum so unlikely to get any results here I am sorry to say. It is such a shame I really love most of the features of Xero but it is just not good enough, you can't even design your own remittance advice and get the addresses lined up on the invoices when you use the mandatory fields. Sorry for the morning rant Xero people, good luck! -
Andreas Scriba commented
Hi Xero Community Team,
Do you mind giving an update here? Been following this thread for a few months and am yet to hear any reaction, unless I missed something.
Does anyone know how we can escalate this to at least get some sort of response, albeit a negative one.
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Natasha Stone commented
This is business critical to our and many businesses over 75% of supplier payments are international and not being able to batch pay them is costing money and staff resource
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Sarah Lumb commented
After only using Xero for 7 months, unfortunately I will be moving to another accounting platform for this main reason. It has added such a huge amount of wasted time to our department. None of the issues reported here ever seem to get worked on which is unacceptable for a global accounting service.
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Erena Patterson commented
Customers have been waiting on this FOREVER. Why can this not be made possible asap?
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Alex Axentiev commented
Hi Dave,
If you are based in the UK please have a look at our certified Xero app as we streamline foreign payment runs and do much more to simplify foreign finances.
https://www.hedgeflows.com/foreign-currency-payment-runs
Kind regards
Alex
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Shannon Powell commented
It would be great to be able to pay multiple invoices which are in a different currency in one payment, instead of having to enter multiple payments. My client has multi currency books in Xero. USD is not our primary currency.
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Shannon Powell commented
It would be great to be able to pay multiple invoices which are in a different currency in one payment, instead of having to enter multiple payments. My client has multi currency books in Xero. USD is not our primary currency.
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Dave Lamont commented
This is VERY overdue as a function in Xero. More than 10 years ago, our previous software had this ability
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Dave Lamont commented
We badly need a batch payment facility for multiple invoices from one supplier in a foreign currency. It is a total pain having to pay individually, then at a later date, reconcile them individually, when they actually go through our currency account as a single transaction.
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Louise Bagatelas-Allen commented
Having to mark one bill at a time as paid if in foreign currency is BAD. Please let bulk bills be marked as paid if paid in a group from a bank account.
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Louise Bagatelas-Allen commented
Foreign currency payments, in bulk - the ability to clear more then one bill and mark as paid on 'bill payments' screen - in ALL currencies.
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Dan Evison commented
We have multiple suppliers in a different country where batch payments often occur. Having these supported in Xero would be valuable. Thanks.
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Alex Axentiev commented
Thanks, Nigel. Firstly, I agree it would be easier if Xero fixed it. In the meantime, however, HedgeFlows would do pretty much what you described - sync back to Xero with individual invoices paid and send remittance notes with a list of invoices covered. I think Crezco (in the UK) and Paytron (in AU) also can do something similar.