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Purchase Orders - Posting to General Ledger
The functionality to be able to raise and approve a Purchase Order which, at the point of approval, would create a double entry in the general ledger. Specifically:
• Debit a Work in Progress (WIP) expenses account (to reflect anticipated expenditure),
• Credit a creditors account (to reflect the anticipated liability).
This would allow the PO to reflect a commitment in the accounts, enabling better management of Work In Progress and projected costs before the supplier invoice arrives.
In an ideal world, to be able to allocate the PO to a Xero Project, so that WIP and anticipated costs appear…
17 votesHi Tristan, thanks for sharing such a detailed and well-thought-out suggestion. We appreciate you taking the time to explain the specific accounting impact and how this would improve financial visibility.
We've reviewed your idea for having approved Purchase Orders post to the general ledger and integrate with Xero Projects. This suggestion is now ready to gain support and feedback from other community members.
Along with votes, others can now comment on how having this visibility of committed costs could improve their own project management and financial forecasting in Xero. 🙂
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Purchase Orders - Option to review and edit draft bills from PO link
⭐Description:
In the previous version of Xero, after we clicked Copy PO → Bill, the system would first open the draft bill screen, allowing us to:
review the details
edit the invoice number
adjust line items if needed
and then submit the bill for approval
This workflow was very efficient, especially for businesses handling a high volume of purchase orders.
However, after the recent Xero update, when we use Copy PO → Bill, the system now:
immediately marks the PO as PO – Billed,
automatically creates the draft bill in the background,
and does not open the draft bill screen…
2 votesHey Bangit, thanks for bringing this to our attention, we have seen an uptake in this request and we are moving this to Gaining Support. Now that we have reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!
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PLEASE ALLOW CONVERSION OF INVOICE TO PURCHASE ORDER. NOT JUST IN QUOTES AS THIS CAN MAKE MISTAKES IF A QUOTE WAS CONVERTED TO INVOICE AND T
PLEASE ALLOW CONVERSION OF INVOICE TO PURCHASE ORDER. NOT JUST IN QUOTES AS THIS CAN MAKE MISTAKES IF A QUOTE WAS CONVERTED TO INVOICE AND THEN A CHANGE WAS MADE AT INVOICE STAGE, QUOTE WOULDN'T REFLECT THIS.
2 votesHi 👋 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.
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Upload purchase orders
We do PO from excel that then is a PDF. It would be really helpful if purchase orders can be uploaded like bills?
3 votesAppreciate 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!
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Purchase order - Filter by tracking codes
Would love to have the ability to filter purchase orders by tracking code from the new PO menu
3 votesThanks for sharing this idea about filtering purchase orders by tracking codes. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know how this could help organise your purchase orders.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you 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.
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Purchase Orders - merge
We send individual purchase orders to a supplier over the course of a month, and the supplier sends one invoice at the end of the month. Currently, I can't create an invoice from the POs as it will provide me with a separate invoice for each separate PO. It would be handy to be able to merge either the POs or the invoices so that the final result matches the supplier invoice.
1 voteThanks 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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Flagging invoices in Awaiting Approval
Hello,
When we check a purchase invoice and the total does not match our order value (kept in a third party software) it would be useful to be able to flag/hold the invoice in the awaiting approval section so we have visibility in this list between those invoices that still need checking/approving and those that we wish to hold because they require further investigation.
1 voteThanks 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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Make Purchase Orders allow inline item editing like Sales Invoices
In Sales Invoices, items can be edited directly while creating the invoice (price, name, details). This is very helpful when prices change.
In Purchase Orders, this option is not available. If a supplier price changes, I must leave the Purchase Order, go to Products & Services, edit the item, then return to the unfinished Purchase Order. This is time-consuming and inconvenient.
Please allow inline editing of existing items directly in Purchase Orders, matching the behaviour of Sales Invoices. This would improve speed, accuracy, and workflow consistency.
1 voteHi 👋 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.
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Credit notes only allocate to newly created purchase orders/bills – unable to allocate to existing orders
There appears to be a workflow limitation/bug in how supplier credit notes allocate against purchase orders and bills.
Current behaviour observed:
• If a Purchase Order (or Bill) is created first, and a supplier Credit Note is created afterwards, the credit cannot be allocated to the existing order/bill.
• The credit note only becomes allocatable against the next Purchase Order / Bill that is created afterwards.
• To make allocation work, users must create the Credit Note first and then create the Purchase Order / Bill, which is backwards compared to real business workflows.In real operations, purchase orders and…
1 voteHi 👋 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.
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Purchases - Send pricing requests to supplier for saved inventory
I hold inventory for a large number of products, many of those products can be made by more than one manufacturer.
At the moment, if I want pricing from a supplier, the only real option in Xero is to raise a purchase order. That doesn’t work well in practice, because quite often I need to request prices before I’ve decided who I’m buying from, or before I even have an existing supplier relationship set up.
For example, if a new manufacturer opens nearby, I might want to send them a list of specific items from my inventory and ask for…
1 voteThanks 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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Purchase Orders - Quickly duplicate line items
As a Procurement Officer or Small Business Owner, I want to quickly duplicate an existing line item while creating or editing a Purchase Order, So that I can save time when entering multiple similar items that only require minor adjustments (like different tracking categories or descriptions).
1 voteHi!
Thanks for sharing this idea that might make entering lots of similar lines onto orders faster for you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit, so they can add their votes and comments about how this would help them too!
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Purchase Orders - Show subtotals on Approved and Paid
viewing subtotals of approved and paid purchase orders (currently only purchase orders awaiting approval show a subtotal at the top of the page)
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Purchase orders - When clicking Add a note, default Cursor to the Notes text field
When selecting notes, cursor to appear in the focus box (like it is for Bills) so you can commence typing immediately
1 voteThanks for sharing this, where it could be handy for the cursor to automatically appear in the Notes field when you've hit the 'Add a note' button.
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Purchase Order - Add attachments when copied to bill
When you mark a PO as billed and copy to a draft bill the files attached to the PO don't remain with it and attach to the draft bill. Very annoying that you have to re-save the file and re-attach it to the bill
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Purchase Orders - Approval for amended purchase orders
Since the option is there to amend a PO once it's been approved would it be possible to add a requirement for POs where the value has been increased to have to be re-approved?
4 votesAppreciate why you may want to review a Purchase order if it has been edited once raised, Jenni.
We appreciate you taking your time to share changes that would be most meaningful to you. We'll get a sense of interest and track support your idea receives from the community.
You can find out and stay updated with all Xero releases on Xero Central.
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Xero Network - Send purchase order via the network
Xero to xero network - send purchase orders. Want to be able to send my regular supplier a Xero Purchase order via Xero network, who can then create a bill in their Xero, who can then send me their Invoice via Xero network. Would be super helpful given the start of the workflow is typically the purchase order.
3 votesThanks for your idea, Paul. Great to hear you find using the Xero network helpful in your workflow.
We'll gauge the interest from the community in expanding the use of the network to send purchase orders. This isn't something we have plans for at this stage but we'll let you know if there are any updates.
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Inventory Plus - Create a Purchase Order directly from an open Sales Order
Currently, this process is separate so you have to recreate the sales order as a purchase order to send to a vendor to fulfill. Instead, next to each item on the Sales Order, or at the top to create a single PO for all items, you could create a Purchase Order. This would put the Sales Order in process and save a step.
3 votesThanks for sharing this idea. As you're aware, it's possible to duplicate a Sales Order to create another, but you can't copy it to a Purchase Order right now.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their votes and comments too!
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Xero Accounting App - Purchase orders in app search feature for tracking
I create a purchase order through the Xero App
I go to Categorise to an account - on my iPhone it has a search accounts feature, on my colleagues Samsung phone there is no search feature - he has to scroll through all the accounts listed to find the correct accounting code
Will this feature be added to Samsung phones?We also found this was the same when selecting Projects or Plant (tracking categories), on my iPhone I had a search feature, on his Samsung he did not and again would have to scroll through the extensive list we have…
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We will monitor and track support your idea receives from the community.
You can find out and stay updated with Xero releases on Xero Central.
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Purchase Orders - Import from an Excel file
Can we add a function to import purchase order from excel file? We have had it as import bill already, but it is not enough because we need to use the PO function in Xero. However, it is time consuming and many mistakes due to manually entering our PO. It would be great if we can import from excel for both bill and PO function.
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Purchase Orders - Make all fields mandatory
Purchase Orders - It would be most helpful when generating a purchase order, that all fields are made compulsory so that people can't save the purchase order until all fields have been completed. Thanks
4 votesHi Tessa, it'll be good to get a sense if there are others in community that are looking for this too.
Right now, to avoid your purchase orders going out without all the necessary detail you may want to consider giving some users Invoice Only - Draft permission.
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