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I agree with Laura Bishop comment below. The PO system/activity, if your partially take a PO to billing the remaining values on a PO should be adjusted, this is a normal function on an accounting system and should have been in place already on Xero.

Yes - this also links to the benefit of a partially filled pack slip [delivery order details]; from a revenue & sales capture pov, it is generally best to get the 100% order logged...but client's often prefer partial deliveries rather than the 100% ordered amount. So being able to generate a packing slip which is a subset of the full order is an option that would help.

Ability to assign supplier invoices to a PO and then see how much is left on a PO to make sure they are not overbilling. We have to do this in Excel, externally to Xero.

To be able to track the Purchase Order items approved but not invoiced by the supplier is critical. Those are "committted" costs, a crucial concept in project cost management. It is inconceivable that Xero does not have this feature implemented.

Purchase orders seem like a pointless feature if partial bill payments cannot be tracked along the way.

Often we receive partial deliveries from one factory for several purchase orders. It would be great to be able to apply the amounts delivered to each purchase order and know the balance and value of items left for the factory to deliver. It would also help with work in progress and cash flow. Currently using a spreadsheet to track this behind the scenes, which is creating double work.

The ability to select items on a PO to move to an invoice showing the PO is partially used/ invoiced.
For example, if we had a po for 5 sets of £100.00 and only 3 sets of £100 had been invoiced to date, it would be great if the PO on xero could show 2 remaining.

We push our bills through from AutoEntry and it would be good if you could part bill a PO. So when you publish the bill the PO is remains for the balance.

we have multiple purchase orders where small deposits have been paid upfront. There is no option to mark the payment against the PO. We can only do it once the goods have arrived where we then convert to an invoice and mar off paid from there.

With multiple international suppliers, this is very frustrating as there are several PO which are showing as the full amounts as there is no way of deducting the figure we paid upfront

We are buying and selling all day and it is nice showing that an item from inventory is on order but when we start receiving items, we need to show what we have had and what is still outstanding.

Are Xero going to look into implementing this feature soon? Its a real sticking point for us. Xero excels in so many other areas but purchase orders are really poor!

Being able to record a partial bill and see the remaining outstanding PO balance would be very helpful for our industry. Often work is exceeding several months however we have subcontractors providing support and invoicing us every month. Being able to understand how much of our PO they have consumed without having to do a bunch of note reading is vital information to ensure they don't overbill us and put us over budget on our projects.

@Xero, this has been an ongoing issue raised by many, many people over 10 years - since 2014, according to this thread alone. Its time to stop making reports look prettier, and start actually focussing on functionality and the needs of your users. This is a pretty basic requirement, I can't possibly understand why 10 years later it's still not resolved?

It would be great to be able to see what items have been billed and what is yet to be billed in the Purchase Order. This would save a lot of time for some of my clients.

Please give us the ability to bill from individual PO lines or even partial billing against one/more lines and retain only the un-billed lines/balances of those lines on the PO.

It would be great to be able to link bills that were forwarded to Xero via emails to their corresponding purchase orders. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way I'm able to link bills to the purchase orders is by copying a purchase order to a bill.

yet another basic function within Xero that goes unnoticed.

I vote for this too please. We need the ability to match an invoice partially against a PO. Instead, I am having to amend the PO amount to the invoiced amount and create a new PO for the difference. This is a real time waster. I am surprised it is not available yet.

Basic functionality that an accounts system should offer!

Purchase Orders To Show Reducing Balances When Bills Are Created Against Them.
Some POs are Billed against over months or years so it would be a game-changer for current POs to show the reducing balance as each Bill is created against it, ideally line by line. Also to be able to link a new PO to an existing Bill would be helpful when one happens before the other - life happens.