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This is VERY overdue as a function in Xero. More than 10 years ago, our previous software had this ability

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.

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.

Foreign currency payments, in bulk - the ability to clear more then one bill and mark as paid on 'bill payments' screen - in ALL currencies.

We have multiple suppliers in a different country where batch payments often occur. Having these supported in Xero would be valuable. Thanks.

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.

Thanks Alex. While that's a fine tool for some, it's not what this request is about. Many of us already have foreign bank accounts - we don't need to create a forex batch and buy currency. If we have currency accounts, it's ludicrous that we have to pay every invoice singularly. Putting aside potential complexity around different banking systems and creating a batch to upload (which I don't actually think is any issue at all), I'm just talking about manually paying more than one invoice at a time, and creating a remittance advice that has multiple items on it. There is absolutely nothing complex about it and I don't understand at all why this really simple fix isn't just done.

Hi all,

There are several providers for this already around the world - check certified Payments apps in the Xero marketplace in your region.

HedgeFlows for instance can do payment runs in 30 currencies, help save on fx conversions and SWIFT fees, as well as help automate currency cost and risk management for larger businesses.

https://www.hedgeflows.com/xero-app

I am ready to pay right now for these feature, why it is so big problem to implement it?

This idea is nearly 10 years old!!! My god, Xero, will you ever do it??

It would be great to have the ability to have bank upload files with international bank details for international clients and those making payments abroad.

ASAP

Yes its a nonsense that Xero have not added this feature yet. If you truly want to serve the globe then you need to invest in these very basic issues.

Hi There,

We are a recruitment business paying a lot of contractors in EUR as well as having clients paying us in EUR and probably in the future USD as the area of trading will extend.

It is vital to be able to make electronic international payments from our bank currency bank account which at the moment it is not possible, this is done manually by creating templates on the bank portal and then allocate the payments against the supplier. So just paying the currency supplier requires a lot of time consuming.

Also we would expect to be able to create a file for international payments to be able to upload it on to the bank like we can do for the local currency. All supplier have already the financial details in Xero so why is it so difficult to be able to create a bank file for the currency suppliers?

Multi Currency (Foreign Currency) bills being able to be included in a batch payments, or a way to send remittance for multiple multi currency invoices in one go.

Very critical, I have 300 entries in various currencies that the owner has paid, previous accountants posted them to accounts payable, I need to get them to the owners drawings account, but there is no way of doing it other than by making 300 entries. What a terrible waste of my time.

The split between the treatment and process of local versus foreign bills is causing lots of frustration for our clients. They would like to be able to follow the same process for all their bills. They rely on the batch payment facility for all their local bills. However, it has happened on several occasions now that bills were double paid, due to the fact that the bank statement had not been imported and reconciled because the bank has two factor authentication so we cannot use bank feeds. This is a big operational problem for AP management.

We are a UK business where our 2 main suppliers are in the USA. We receive 10s of bills from each per month. They both expect a remittance advice when we make a payment. We typically pay 20-30 invoices each payment run. Currently we have to create a payment for each individual bill. The supplier certainly doesn't want 20 individual remittance advices!

There doesn't need to be a clever export file for then bank for the foreign payment. Just the ability to select a group of foreign bills to pay as a batch, and then send one remittance advice covering all the bills included in that payment.

Kindly do consider bringing in this feature, this saves up alot of time paying foreign currency bills individually.
As many deal with foreign currency transactions, this feature is vital for the future.

Please can you add the batch payment option to multi currency bills, at the moment we have to wait for the transaction to show on the bank statement and then clear the bills.
At the Pay Bill screen, it should be ok to chose a number of bills to batch pay and send remit to the supplier no matter what the currency of the bill.