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Been waiting 15 years for this. In that time, Xero have brought in plenty of upgrades, but not this one simple feature. Come on Xero, get your act together. Having this reference as a search field is an excellent idea.
Sales Invoices have always had this, why not Bills.

In desperate need of more than 1 reference field on bills. Fields must be searchable within Xero as well

Please consider adding an additional reference field to both bills and invoicing - this would be really useful. The attached shows the difficulty we are having with this when compared to SAGE, who's software currently allows for this much more effectively. If this could be added, it would be much appreciated and would greatly improve our Xero experience.

Please see attached email detailing how SAGE invoicing is better as it has more fields. Had we understood the Xero limitations here we may not have moved to Xero. There are a lot of other users asking for more invoice fields. This would be a great enhancement.

Please see attached email detailing how SAGE invoicing is better as it has more fields. Had we understood the Xero limitations here we may not have moved to Xero. There are a lot of other users asking for more invoice fields. This would be a great enhancement.

Please see attached email detailing how SAGE invoicing is better as it has more fields. Had we understood the Xero limitations here we may not have moved to Xero. There are a lot of other users asking for more invoice fields. This would be a great enhancement.

I have been using Xero since March 2010, and have been waiting 15 years for this second reference. You bring out all these wonderful "improvements" but no second reference field.
I too have made duplicate payments because of this problem.
Why have you not added this small feature, you've had it for sales invoices since day one. No brainer. Come on Xero, get it sorted. I am sick of waiting.

Please please can this 2nd reference field be added to Bills soon! Duplicate payments have been made because of this oversight. 10 years of asking and counting.... please....

It has actually been over 10 years since this feature was requested. No update as to when this could be added and suggests that no development has been done in Bills for a long time as it could easily be incorporated into an update. It is standard practice for Purchase Order reference to be linked to a bill, but Xero expects this to be added into the line detail. This is a very backward approach for a forward thinking company. It may seem trivial, but if you are dealing with this for hundreds of bills a week/month, the benefits of Xero start to get outweighed by the daily functionality of other options.

We would like this added in too. We use our own references i.e 1st invoice in May is MAY001

Please add this in - I need to be able to search for things using 2 different references!

To have separate fields for invoice number and reference when entering bills.
Providing two distinct sources of information when reviewing supplier transactions and help reduce duplicate entries. Having these as separate fields could make it easier to search, sort, and reconcile supplier bills more efficiently.

Please add this feature, it is now long outstanding and we need second reference option in the bill.

Hi,

Could we have another box next to reference in suppliers invoices for purchase orders, as the moment we are using reference for invoice number and adding the PO details in the description which i would prefer to keep for what the purchase was.

All other systems can record 2 reference numbers. Our reference number so that we can locate the item and the supplier reference number. Ridiculous that only one reference field is available.

it would be helpful to have two reference boxes when posting a bill. One for the bill invoice reference number and one for the companies reference if you use reference numbers which my company does.

We are an ERP provider that integrates with Xero and this is causing grief and confusion for our customers that use Xero when over time they will inevitably receive 2 Bills from different suppliers that have the same reference number.

This is a no brainer. This is the simplest of fields required and they need to implement it without delay. Do we have an idea when this will be implemented?

Agree the comments below, this will help our organization greatly.

As per the comments below - we need this to be able to report on costs per vehicle.