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Purchase orders, bills & inventory

Customer ideas for purchase orders, bills, inventory(products and services) and making supplier payments.

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  1. To have an option to set up e-mail notifications to receive a report when an invoice payable becomes due

    Purpose: To easily be reminded when invoices/bills due through email.

    246 votes

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    84 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for your valuable feedback and for sharing the idea of "Bill payment reminder alerts or emails." It's clear this feature would be a significant improvement. As a current workaround, you can use the existing due date field in Xero to sort your bills and set a separate calendar reminder in your preferred app. While we work on assessing this idea, I want to share that we're exploring bill payment reminders for users with multiple initiatives in progress. We appreciate all your feedback and votes, as they help us better understand the impact and benefits of this feature, and we'll be sure to update this page with any new developments.

  2. Ability to merge inventory items.

    Purpose: Users can easily merge the inventory items when they accidentally created the new same items in Xero.

    114 votes

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  3. Ability to allow negative stock in Xero.

    Purpose: Users that take orders and receive payments from their contacts before placing inventory can easily do it in Xero.

    132 votes

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    55 comments  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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    Hi team, we're pleased to provide an update as work for backorders in Xero has continued to move along. Our team are now in a position where we'd love to test our solution with a small group of users. 😊

    If you'd be interested in being a part of our beta group please fill in this form📝

    Just to note - space is limited and we may not be able to include everyone.

    We appreciate your time and inputs and will be sure to keep everyone here updated of further progress.

  4. Ability to create receipt, del note and remittance using DocX.

    Purpose: Users can easily customise their receipt, del note, and remittance using DocX.

    73 votes

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  5. Ability to customise check style so payee name field can be placed above the address field.

    Purpose: Professionalism with expected layout/formatting of Payee name above the address field.

    21 votes

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    Hi team, while this idea has been around for sometime we appreciate for those that work with Checks this is an important feature and more customisation of checks would be greatly useful.

    To be upfront, this isn't something we have direct plans of right now but will continue to keep a pulse on the interest here and share if there are any updates.

    In the meantime, please do make sure to share this with any colleagues or clients that could benefit so they can add their support here.

  6. Ability to have/add assembly inventory in Xero.

    Purpose: Users who are selling parts of the whole inventory can easily manage this in Xero.

    125 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks again for continuing to share your feedback and examples on this idea.

    We’ve now done some initial discovery on this and can see the value it could provide for businesses needing assembly or bundled inventory capability in Xero.

    This is something we’re interested in solving longer term, however there is a bit of complexity involved in the work and it hasn’t been roadmapped at this stage.

    When we are able to get this planned in the pipeline, we’ll be sure to update you here and keep you informed on progress.

  7. To have a list that shows bills that have and haven’t been assigned to billable expenses.

    Purpose: Users can easily identify which bills that have and haven’t been assigned to billable expenses.

    172 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for your contributions to this idea. We appreciate your feedback about the challenges in ensuring all billable costs are recovered, and your desire for an improved experience.

    As noted by others in the idea, there are some features that will give some visibility of billable expenses at present.

    Understanding the value more visibility of unassigned bills would have for customers, this is something we’ll continue to review in future planning but isn’t in the current roadmap. We'll be sure to update you all if this gets picked up.

  8. Ability to only print invoice total on the Check Voucher.

    Purpose: Remove un-needed information from the Voucher, and make interaction with contact more professional

    38 votes

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  9. Ability to print a deposit slip that shows the subtotals of cash and cheques.

    Purpose: Users can easily see the figure of subtotal cash and cheques in the deposit slip.

    64 votes

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  10. Ability to have a supplier name and link back to supplier contact list from the inventory.

    Purpose: Users can easily have information from which suppliers that they’ve purchased their inventory from, and can easily update any changes within inventory and supplier.

    76 votes

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    Hi team, while we don't have plans for adding a field for supplier to Inventory items, right now you could run the Payable invoice Detail report to see the purchases of items, and which supplier(s) they've been bought from.

    You can also Group/Summarise the report by Item Code or Contact, depending on which you want to see together.

  11. Ability to automatically pay supplier bills from within Xero, withouth having to login to online banking.

    Purpose: To make it easier to pay bills, rather than having to jump between two different platforms.

    535 votes

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    Hi everyone, further to our last post I wanted to provide another update for our US customers as we now have a bill payments solution powered by Melio! Xero has acquired Melio, a leading US bill pay platform designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, and accountants and bookkeepers in the US. While we value our partnership with BILL, we decided that acquiring Melio was the right strategic move to accelerate our ability to provide a seamless, integrated payments solution within Xero for our US customers. Powered by Melio, you can securely pay bills online, directly from Xero.

    As previously shared in the UK customers can now pay overseas suppliers easier with international bill payments, saving the need to use multiple platforms and savings in fees. Whether you're paying a single bill or multiple bills at once.

    We’re committed to finding new ways to expand our bill payments…

  12. Ability to have an option to automatically update purchase price on the item when users buy the same new items.

    Purpose: To save time from having to manually update each item price when there’s a different price on the same new items.

    191 votes

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    Thanks for your comments and emphasis on the bills side of things for the idea here. I've made sure this is shared with our team in this space.

    Bills is an area we're continuing to develop with building on beautiful and I'll be sure to let you know here if there's any consideration made to change behaviour of this through the bills add and edit flow.

  13. Ability to have multi-currency for inventory in Xero.

    Purpose: To make invoice and purchase tracking easier, because this feature will allow users to enter different currencies when they’re buying and selling the item.

    137 votes

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  14. Ability to have separate fields for posting date and invoice date.

    Purpose: To make users can ensure the expense is recorded in the appropriate month (posting date), and the due date is properly calculated (invoice date).

    276 votes

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    Hi community, we understand there are differing needs in this idea for why you’d like a separate posting date alongside the invoice or bill date. Whether it’s for reporting, compliance, or just a more accurate view of when things happened.

    While this has been carefully considered, we want to be transparent with everyone here, that this is not something we have plans for developing in the near term.

    We know given the interest in this that this is not the update you’re hoping for, and please know that we’ll continue to track votes this idea receives for future consideration. We’ll keep you posted if things change down the line.

  15. Prepayment automatically be created for the combined total of the "Income in Advance" lines.

    Purpose: To save users time from having to prepayment invoices manually by adding a payment to the invoice from Income in Advance

    14 votes

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  16. Ability to show the supplier’s bank account details of payment in the remittance advice.

    Purpose: To easily let the supplier know where the user sent the money to.

    64 votes

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  17. Ability to assign purchase orders to a project in Xero.

    Purpose: To make Xero projects overview shows everything ordered/billed & invoiced to the customers.

    606 votes

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    Hi community, we appreciate everyone's engagement here. To confirm we have intentions of developing the purchase order experience, however developing Projects into this does have some complexities and requires work across both purchase orders and projects to deliver.

    Right now our initial focus is releasing the new purchase order experience to all users.

    While we don't have a timeframe for assigning PO's to Projects at this stage, this is top of our product teams radar and we'll communicate here as soon as there's an update.

  18. Ability to edit Inventory adjustment.

    Purpose: Because it would allow the accountants to reverse the effect of any wrong adjustment.

    52 votes

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  19. Ability to duplicate a line item for invoices/bills.

    Purpose: To make users easily enter similar line items when creating invoices/bills.

    58 votes

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  20. Ability to change the date of paid bill.

    Purpose: To make it easier for users rather than going through the process of unreconcile the transaction, change the date and reconcile the bill again.

    14 votes

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