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  1. There is no way to put a due date as "end of the fourth month after bill date". For example, in the UK, you may enter a bill for Corporation Tax of £50,000 in April 2026, which is not due for payment until 31st January 2027. Please can you allow us to manually enter how many months after the bill date the bill is due.
    Also, please add "Previous Year" as a placeholder. For example, a bill on 1st January 2026 may be for services provided in 2025. Only the current year is included in placeholders at present.

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    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. 🙂

  2. Refunds from a supplier. Have the ability to choose a refund in the bank reconcile screen, and the ability to allocate/ match it to the original supplier overpayment, if it is a returned payment, or a bounced payment by the bank.

    Also, to have the ability to process an overpayment (credit) in the "New Transaction" section within the match tab, to have an option for "supplier refund" (or customer refund), so that it shows as a supplier refund (under a supplier contact) rather than a customer overpayment, and vice versa.

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    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. 🙂

  3. It would be very helpful to know the last date we paid each supplier on our 'bills to pay' list. We have to do this manually using judgement to ensure we have the correct bank details for suppliers we have not paid within the last year.

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    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. 🙂

  4. You can only select the quantity to bill when creating a bill based on an existing purchase order. However, other businesses, like Amazon, divide their invoices and add promotions, discounts, and other deductions to their Invoices. When you place a five-item order on Amazon, it may be divided into five invoices. A promotion or discount will be applied to the initial order total, but it will be divided among all invoices. 

    This means that we are unable to use the Xero's purchase orders percentage calculation tool if we have a PO with a promotion or discount applied and the PO…

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    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. 🙂

  5. Have the ability to toggle if you want Xero to use Organisation Defaults or Supplier Defaults for Draft Bills from email.
    Currently it's a roughly 50/50 split on whether my supplier's invoices have their line items inclusive or exclusive of GST. It is immensely frustrating that Xero chooses to ignore the tax setting for the supplier on emailed draft invoices and the number of times I go to approve an invoice only to be told the totals don't match, is infuriating.

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    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. Have the ability from the homepage on the desktop software and the mobile app to access inventory without having to use the drop-down menus to go through the products and services. Also, for the mobile app have it accessible from the homepage so you do not have to create a quote or invoice just to check quantity or price of an inventory item. Also make it so the cost of the product can be shown or toggled off if desired by the user.

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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 🙂

  7. place "Product Ideas" on your main page. if i could have my customers suggest how to imporve my business right at the time they are getting frustrated I would be elated as this would give me direct access to my customers and what they are experiencing as they interact with my business. this seem like an absolute no brainer.

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  8. Allow the default financial ref to be used in the pay online section. It currently uses the invoice number meaning that every time I create a batch for online bill payment I have to manually enter our account number for each bill. Plus as it is per bill I cant batch the supplier invoices until all of the ref's for each individual supplier are the same.

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  9. Ability to create recurring bill direct from bank feed. Once you select 'Create', an option to create transaction or recurring bill would be useful.

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  10. Ability to Select and Edit Auto Populated Fields

    Recent updates to Xero’s bill upload functionality have introduced several inefficiencies in the auto population process.

    Description Field:
    Xero now pre populates the description field when bills are uploaded. The suggested text is not fit for purpose, as it includes unnecessary information—such as supplier name, the organisation’s own name, and invoice dates—which are already captured in other designated fields. In addition, the description field is restricted to a single line, resulting in all invoice line items being grouped together regardless of tax rate or account coding. This requires users to overwrite the…

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  11. When receipting a purchase order to a bill, it says reference should say supplier invoice number, an additional field that show what the purchase order was used. Currently the purchase order populates into the reference field, we then have to copy it to a separate line at the bottom of the bill so we can see which order it relates to.
    The supplier card should have another column of the purchase order no the bill relates to so can been seen a view instead of having to click into the bill to check.

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  12. When I click on my suppliers list, it shows the name of the supplier on the left, and on the right a total balance outstanding.

    However it didn’t allow me to filter out the suppliers with no balance. I just want to sort or filter by those that have a balance.

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  13. For property rental clients they often recharge costs to a customer
    EG cleaning fees, BWOF rates.

    As the original bill is coded to an EXPENSE account you can only allocate a recharge from this code as a 15% GST on EXPENSE or NO GST.

    Can you add a 15% GST on Income and Zero Rated GST options under Tax Rate Field?

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  14. Enable Clickable Item Codes across Forms (PO, Bills, Invoices)
    As a user, I want item codes on POs, Bills, and Invoices to be clickable so I can view their history and inventory IN and OUT transactions without searching manually.

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    Thanks for raising this idea with us. 🙂 We’re moving it to Gaining Support so the community can show how valuable it would be to click item codes on invoices, bills and purchase orders to open the item details. Yo can now share this wiht colleagues and others in the Community and they can vote and comment and share how this could be beneficial to their business. We appreciate you taking the time to suggest an improvement to Xero.

  15. JAX - Ability to create a spend money and bill like it can invoices

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    Thanks for sharing this idea, and letting us now how useful you would find it for Jax to create Spend Money transactions and bills. We’ll move this idea to Gathering Support ✨ so we can gauge interest across the Xero community. Votes and comments will help us understand how valuable this functionality would be for customers.

    We’ll share updates as the idea progresses through the review process.

  16. Hubdoc is a Xero product, yet Xero verify dosnt work with Hubdoc.
    Authentication between the two should be seamless.

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    Hi Daniel, we understand the request for Hubdoc to support Xero Verify push notifications for MFA. This could make logging in quicker and provide a more consistent sign-in experience across Xero products.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and share your thoughts.

  17. Problem: Hubdoc already contains the original photograph/image of the receipt, yet when a publishing mistake needs to be corrected it says to upload the document again.

    This is particularly ridiculous for users who photograph receipts specifically so the physical receipt can then be discarded.

    Requested improvement:
    Hubdoc should simply reuse the existing source document.

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    Appreciate you raising this. Being able to select a receipt already stored in Hubdoc and attach it directly to a Xero transaction could save a few unnecessary steps when managing documents.

    We've moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can keep gathering feedback. If this could help your workflow, add your vote and let us know.

  18. Allow a Hubdoc document to be republished as a different transaction type

    Problem: If a receipt has already been published as a Purchase/Bill, Hubdoc will not allow it to subsequently be published as Spend Money.

    The message effectively says that the transaction must be removed from Xero and the document uploaded again.

    Requested improvement:
    Allow an existing Hubdoc document to be changed from:

    Purchase/Bill → Spend Money
    Spend Money → Purchase/Bill

    without uploading the document again.

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    Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We understand how being able to republish an existing Hubdoc document as a different transaction type could reduce steps.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest. If this could be useful, add your vote and share how you'd like it to work.

  19. Purchase Order Delivery Address -

    The drop down menu is messy and out of order.

    Currently I can see all the old saved delivery addresses (from the old set up) and they are in alphabetical order, easy to scroll through.

    All the new delivery addresses (when you updated the PO's) are saved but saved in chronological order. Very difficult when I want to reuse a delivery address.
    There is also no search function to search the saved list.
    Currently you can only search contact list.

    We have many Suppliers and they have multiple delivery addresses (Example: clothing stores - One…

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    Thanks for bringing this to the community. We understand the request to make the delivery address dropdown on purchase orders easier to navigate. Having addresses displayed alphabetically or in consistent order could reduce the time spent looking for a particular location.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and tell us how you'd like the list to be organised.

  20. After entering a credit and allocating it, Xero now displays the Invoice not the Credit. This is very confusing and annoying.
    Xero support answer was:
    I understand you're finding the recent change to the credit note display confusing. When you complete and approve a credit in purchases and apply it to a bill, the screen now displays the bill rather than the credit note you've just entered.
    This change is part of recent improvements to credit notes that Xero has made to build consistency across different Xero experiences. The new layout has been designed to save time when applying credit,…

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. Having the option to return to the Credit Note after allocating it to a bill could give users more control over their workflow.

    I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest. If you regularly work through credit notes, let us know whether staying on the Credit Note or returning to the bill would be your preferred experience.

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