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I have a client who makes his own items then sends his customers the items on consignment. They only pay him for the items once they have sold from their stores. He currently sends an invoice with all the items, because there is no sales order in Xero. Like there is a Purchase Order where now parts can be billed, there needs to be a sales order so parts can be invoiced. Then you convert any required items to the invoice, leaving the rest behind on the sales order ready as a backorder for future sales. Is this what you will be setting up? I hope so! As that has been a feature in MYOB for years.

Hopefully this will work with progress invoicing of build invoicing as well as for inventory items.

Keen to understand more about the overall solution you are implementing - I assume it will be end to end encompassing all aspects of back order - Quoting (no physical stock), Invoicing, Inventory (-ve items ) etc..

Currently as a work around we have baselined our inventory stock at 1000 = 0 Physical Stock

Support for Back Order and other supply models - Ability to create a quote with partial or no ( -ve stock ) that will be ordered in.

Xero inventory only support basic business models current.

To save the hassle we now no longer invoice customers with products unless they are in stock. I wish I’d stayed with QuickBooks.

Really critical for us!

The is a basic function of sales invoicing why doesn't xero have it. May have to change software packages as this is a critical component

Also, allow to save a draft invoice without ledger account and tax rate. Classic invoicing allowed it.

We have always been able to add various items to a Draft Invoice while we are creating it including Tracked Inventory items even when there is insufficient stock showing in Inventory. We do this as a record of what has been sent out to a customer as quite often we will have received the goods before we have received the relevant paperwork from the supplier which would enable us to copy the Purchase Order to Bill which puts the items into stock. Copying it to a Draft Invoice not only keeps a record of what has been sent, we can also create a Delivery Note from the Draft Invoice. As of a few days ago the Draft Invoice will no longer save which has caused many problems for us. We could send out the goods in a few minutes by creating a Delivery Note and then the Invoice at a later date once all the items have been Billed. Please can you undo this latest 'Upgrade'.

David,

It has been EIGHT years since this was suggested. Xero wiped the discussion clean about 3 years ago, so it only looks like people have been asking for three. It is not going to happen.

It's been almost 3 years since this was suggested - any chance of getting an update regarding if/when this might be implemented please?

This functionality was enabled in the old invoicing when uploading. It has now stopped working.

I want to be able to automatically track a customers back order if I cannot supply all the quantity he requires.

looking at different threads about this matter online, looks like xero is not going to do anything about it. This feature has been requested since 2020 by other users and is still not available.

Need this in order to invoice customers before stock comes in.

I'd like to suggest/request that when loading a line item on an invoice that is a negative, that the quantity is loaded as a negative and not the value. We have created a Delivery Note template that excludes the values (see attached), as a requirement from customers that do not want this info displayed on the d/notes. Obviously then, any negative quantities do not show as such.

this is a needed function. how else to you supply a customer when the stock arrives. The receipted PO needs to reduce immediately.

Seriously - our business bills based on student's class enrolments, so we offer retrospective 'adjustments' within certain periods. Without this functionality, the previous *ancient* platform we just moved off of is suddenly looking much more fit-for-purpose.
Adding negative price quantities isn't enough, as it utterly skews the sales quantities on the product line.

Need this in order to invoice customers before stock comes in.

Absolutely critical in my business. We also do not invoice everything out at the same time and therefore any kind of report even would suffice that provides information on what has not been invoiced out PER ACCEPTED QUOTE