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  1. As a Group Financial Administrator at an IT company operating in South Africa, I am writing to request the expansion of Xero Inventory Plus to regions outside the US.

    Our business relies heavily on accurate, real-time inventory tracking across multiple locations, and we currently face limitations due to the unavailability of Inventory Plus in our region.

    Suggested Features to Prioritize:

    1. FIFO and batch/serial tracking
    2. Multi-location inventory management
    3. Barcode scanning and sticker generation
    4. Real-time inventory valuation and reporting

    Business Impact:

    Rolling out Inventory Plus globally would empower businesses like ours to:

    1. Improve inventory accuracy and reduce losses
    2. Enhance financial reporting and…
    76 votes

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    17 comments  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for sharing your idea, on the platform.

    We've reviewed the idea and it's now up to the community to get behind and support it. Sharing your idea with colleagues could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Members can now also comment to share additional details about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  2. What have you done to purchase orders? the delivery instructions are now all in one line, whereas we had them in separate lines to match our template. I suppose I now need to recreate one and then check to see how it comes out on our existing template. We've had no notice that these were going to change. The info is way too big now, like with the invoices. The Dashboard was bad enough. Why do you have to keep changing things for no purpose?

    17 votes

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    Thanks for the continued engagement with this idea, everyone. Taking on board feedback we're receiving on the new experience our product team are looking into the formatting of the delivery address atm. I'll share more news around this with you all, here.

  3. New Purchase order View is a waste of space.
    Critical items such as attachments moved to an obscure place.
    Requires extra cursor movement distances
    Requires Extra Clicks
    = Takes longer to do the same thing
    This is the pattern of anything "NEW" Xero does, you're developers are killing me by slaughtering the program.

    Why are you paying programmers and developers to ruin it?

    19 votes

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    Hey everyone, thanks for the additional feedback and support in this idea. Our product team appreciate hearing how the new Purchase orders experience is being received.

    Taking on board feedback they are digging into this request deeper to reconsider the placement of some actions.

    I will be sure to let you know of further progress around this here.

  4. The new PO rollout has removed the ability to add AND SAVE an address manually.
    Previously we could manually add an address and SAVE IT - meaning that it could be re-used while needed. Now we can only add a "Once-off" address

    As a builder, we send PO's with Site addresses, not addresses existing within our saved Contacts.
    This means I now have to either create a "Contact" just for a Site address
    OR
    Manually type the Site address EVERY SINGLE TIME I create a PO

    We URGENTLY need the ability to create, save and eventually remove manual addresses within…

    19 votes

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    Hi team, we really appreciate hearing back about the new purchase order experience. Taking on board feedback this is one that our team have picked up on and are looking to make a change for. I'll keep you updated on the progress. Thanks!

  5. New Purchase Orders View - Improvement Suggestions
    - Wide Screen is mentally straining and mostly irrelevent spaced out look over around 1400px; give a narrower screen width option please.
    - Alternate line colourings may help
    - Auto new-line/next-line is no longer working. Previously, pressing enter on a product made a default 1 item entry and opened a new line. This was a little unreliable, but clicking the correct product in the search also worked and cleanly. This action change is adding one more click to almost every line.
    - Save and Send button should be at the bottom too -…

    17 votes

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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  6. Could you have an 'upload supplier credit notes' button, the same as you do for supplier invoices, because at the moment you have to enter any credit notes manually, and of course if you accidentally upload them under the supplier invoice button they appear as invoices and not credits!

    29 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for sharing your idea about expanding this feature to include credit notes (and not create them as bills).

    Now it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea. Make sure you share it with any colleagues it could also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!

    In the meantime, it's possible to bulk import credit notes using a CSV file, but not via this feature.

  7. 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.

    541 votes

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    Hi team, appreciate wanting an update - I'm pleased to share the beta went well and we've now launched international bill payments for our UK customers, making it easier to pay overseas suppliers.

    Using open banking, UK businesses can now securely send money to 180+ countries including Europe (EUR), America (USD) and Australia (AUD). So you don't have to juggle multiple platforms or hidden fees. Whether you're paying a single bill or multiple bills at once, you can authorise payments prepared by your team and easily track which suppliers have been paid.

    We’re committed to new ways to expand our bill payments feature for small businesses and their advisors in other regions by leveraging new technologies, where available. I'll keep you updated of any further developments for this, here.

  8. When copying from invoice to purchase orders the following items are an issue.

    1) ITEM CODE NOT POPULATED TO PURCHASE ORDER

    2) COMPANY NAME FROM CONTACTS IS NOT POPULATING IN DELIVERY ADDRESS

    3) CAN NOT EDIT DELIVERY ADDRESS ON PURCHASE ORDER IF REQUIRED

    4) LAYOUT NOT CORRECT ON DELIVERY ADDRESS ONCE CONFIRMED, IT SHOULD BE LINE BY LINE.

    5) CAN NOT COPY PURCHASE ORDER FROM INVOICE.

    See example attached.

    15 votes

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    Hi team, just coming back around to this idea it actually turns out we have an existing one around being able to edit that you may all like to join here and I have recently updated - Our product team are working on some changes to this at present and I'll share more news here.

    Also listening to the feedback around the company name population our team are digging into this a little deeper to see if there are improvements we can make for this. I'll update this idea title so we can keep you updated on this feature here. Thanks !

  9. What's happened to the purchase orders, you've made them harder to navigate.
    - Firstly the delivery address has NO option to edit, delete etc once it's been created - we need this option as sometimes the contact/tel nbr or instructions change for the site delivery addresses.
    - Secondly, we used be able to tab across to the account and it used to bring up the account code automatic assigned to that supplier, now it doesn't do that. We have to select account description each time, despite it being a default under the supplier/contact.
    - We can no longer attach any…

    14 votes

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    Thanks for the extra details, Maria.

    Our product team are working on some updates for the Delivery address right now and I've added you as a voter to this idea to keep you updated on the work. 🙂

    Also I'm pleased to share that supplier defaults is under development with our team atm, too! Will share more on this here.

  10. Please change the Purchase Order screen, back to the way it was. Having the product line centred and smaller was easier on the eye. The delivery instructions window is now ridiculously small, and you cannot read the instructions all at once. Horrible change.
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

    11 votes

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    Hi team, we do appreciate hearing your feedback on the new Purchase orders experience. In order for our product teams to get a good understanding of the direct changes that our customers would like to see, as well as help others in community understand what they've voting for we ask that each idea be created as a separate post. I've updated the title of the idea here to reflect the first point that Carl noted around the centring of the product line. We welcome you to each create a new idea for each change you'd like to see.

  11. The periodical message that highlights "duplicate bills" and invariably just list recurring monthly bills from suppliers is incredibly annoying and simply wastes time.

    There should be an option to disable it. If users genuinely find it useful they could then of course utilise it, but for those of us who don't the ability to switch off would be beneficial.

    84 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback and letting us know how we could improve the way duplicates alerts work for you here.

    While we don't have any immediate changes planned for this, our team will consider improvements to this model overtime.

    For the time being we'll continue to keep our eyes on the support for this in community, here. I'll share if there is any news.

  12. When entering or editing a bill I need to be able to enter and see the account code. At present, you can only see the account name.

    10 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Paul.

    We've reviewed your idea regarding the account codes visibility and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Feel free to share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  13. In the "old" version of Purchase Orders, once you unchecked the "Send Myself a Copy" box when emailing an order, it remembered your preference.
    Now the default is to "Send Myself a Copy" and I have to uncheck the box every time I send an order.
    I can understand if a vast majority of customers wanted this option but I struggle to see that being the case. Am I wrong???? Or can we simply have the option to turn this feature off?

    6 votes

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    Appreciate the feedback and wanting to see a consistent approach to this selection when sending transactions, Jaime.

    Our product team have a close pulse on the feedback we're getting on this experience, and looking into improvements for the send copy to self check box. I'll share further updates with you here. Thanks

  14. We do PO from excel that then is a PDF. It would be really helpful if purchase orders can be uploaded like bills?

    12 votes

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    Appreciate you sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Alyson.

    Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    We will keep an eye on the tractions this idea receives in the community. Thanks!

  15. That would be great to make the Contact group field visible on the Bills to Pay screen to let us filter to certain contact groups when we are preparing a payment file.

    We use the contact groups for example to mark suppliers that are paid by Direct Debit, so this would be a useful feature to filter them out and do not pick their invoices up for a BACS payment.

    We also have another group of suppliers within the contact groups that we pay at once on the same day of each month so we would be able to easily…

    24 votes

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    Thanks, Marianna for submitting your idea.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  16. New Bill Button - Please bring back the single click New Bill button. Anywhere I click on the New Bill button gives me a dropdown menu, requiring mouse movement and a second click. I would expect this to function in the same way as the new invoice button where you can click on the button to generate a new bill or you can click on the arrow down to see the dropdown menu. Bring back the single click efficiency.

    13 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback on this change, Patricia. Out of interest is there a particular reason or workflow for why you prefer to enter your bills manually rather than via an upload?

    Appreciate, will take a little getting used to a different flow. A couple of other options for navigating to the new bill screen could also be;

    • Using the keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shift+N) from the bills screen
    • Using the '+' icon in the navigation header to quickly Create a new Bill from any screen
    • Using '/' and typing 'b' in the global search where you'll get the option of New bill from any screen

    While we'll get a sense of interest in this through your idea, we want to be open that there aren't any plans for changing this back.

  17. Navigation. Wouldn't it make life easier when paying bills if you could create a batch and then go directly back to the Purchases Overview to create the next one. At the moment it's Create a Batch Payment then > Purchases > Bills. Repeat the process.

    13 votes

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    Thanks for your idea, Karen. Understand how this would improve efficiency if you regularly create multiple batches in your workflow. We'll get a sense of the wider community interest in this from your idea here.

  18. it would be ideal if purchase orders were linked to bills when they are uploaded, which then is also linked to projects, this would automatically add it to the relevant project as an expense

    7 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  19. Please allow us to update the batch payment export file for FNB in South Africa. The current export file does not have all the fields needed by the bank.

    9 votes

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    ✨ Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback on batch payment exports for FNB. We appreciate you highlighting how important this is for your payment processing. Your idea has moved to Gaining Support, which means our Community team has reviewed it and it’s open for votes and comments from the community. We encourage you to reach out to others using FNB for batch payments to add their votes and share details about the specific fields you need, as your input helps our product team understand the priority and scope of ideas like this.

  20. Why does the delivery telephone number autofill with the business telephone number?

    I put the delivery name and number in the attention field of the delivery address in contacts. When the purchase order autofilled the name, with the name and number, I have been cuting and pasting the number across from the name field to the telephone field.

    Now new purchase orders is auto filling the telephone field with the business number which is not always the delivery phone number!

    It looks like the contacts part of xero needs to have a dedicated place for a delivery phone number for…

    6 votes

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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

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