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Having set up a payment run in the form of 'adding a planned date' for numerous invoices, it would be lovely to have the option to select all to be marked and paid and for a remittance to be sent, but for the transactions to appear on the bank reconciliation individually as opposed to as a singular lump sum payment. Couldn't there be a toggle option to opt to show the payments individually or in bulk? Having to mark each one as paid individually and then separately sending each remittance advice does not seem particularly time efficient. It would also be nice to have the option to automatically send a remittance advice when a payment is made, as opposed to having to manually select to send on each occasion.

On the Reconcile screen, the right-hand column has user-generated transactions to match with the bank feed transactions. For Batch Payments, there is no vendor information shown. All it says is "Payment: Multiple Items" and "ref: Batch Payments", two utterly unilluminating bits of information which are of no interest to me. What would be very interesting indeed would be to tell me which vendor was paid by this particular Batch Payment. If I make multiple payments for the same amount to different vendors, there is no way to distinguish them on this screen. This is quite common for us, as we often pay down open invoices in increments, paying, say, $1000 to each of several different vendors on the same day. (This is in the United States version of Xero.)

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The problem is just another tedious time wasting non feature that Xero seems to be plagued with.

Where you have set up a batch payment for "multiple items", it would be extremely useful if on the bank reconciliation page if it gave you a mini list underneath of which invoices in the batch are being paid.

Otherwise, if someone does set up a batch payments for the same amounts, it is very easy to just press "OK" on the bank reconciliation page and offest payments to the wrong suppliers, as well as leading to other errors.

It is a little cumbersome to have to click on "Find & Match" and then click on the "multiple items" option to find out who has been paid.

I think the reconciliation box is big enough to give more detail, especially if you reduce the font size of "Payment: multiple items" and "Ref: Batch Payment".

See the attachment for example.

The only way I have gotten round this is to no longer reconcile a payment for multiple invoices or bills and go in manually note that a payment has been received on each bill and then go back to reconcile them one by one. It is a painful process.

Batch reconciliation does not work as intended. It is not fit for purpose and I don't think anyone at Xero cares about this quite fundamental 'feature'...

Just let us change references and/or customer names when doing batch reconciliation - STOP writing 'multiple items' - it is useless.

This is crucial as when reconciling I have no idea which company has paid as the batch reference is also not pulled through. Also when searching by customer name to match amounts, these entries do not appear

On the Bank Reconciliation Summary report, in the description column, when more than one bill was paid on the same check, it says "Payment: multiple item" instead of showing the contact that was paid. Why??? Of all places, on my list of outstanding items, I want to see to whom these checks were written. Please change this. This is our best moment of opportunity for fraud detection and it is obscured with "multiple item" which has zero relevance on this report.