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  1. Why does the delivery telephone number autofill with the business telephone number?

    I put the delivery name and number in the attention field of the delivery address in contacts. When the purchase order autofilled the name, with the name and number, I have been cuting and pasting the number across from the name field to the telephone field.

    Now new purchase orders is auto filling the telephone field with the business number which is not always the delivery phone number!

    It looks like the contacts part of xero needs to have a dedicated place for a delivery phone number for…

    6 votes

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  2. Please revert back to the original format of the Purchase Orders, I have no idea why you felt this needed to be improved and has caused more issues

    The viewing of the PO is far too big and makes my head hurt, can't save a PO without putting every detail in which we don't always have until later

    Not saving projects in the draft PO unless all details entered, which we could do before on the old format

    Can't just approve and copy to Invoice anymore need to go back into the PO for a second time which is unnecessary

    5 votes

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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. Once you close a period, pulled all the accounts and happy with the financial position, you close the period to stop posting to that period. But when you receive a old supplier invoice, which has been accrued in, Xero does not allow you to post the invoice without re-opening the period date. This means, you either reverse your accrual journal to post the older invoice, changing the financial position or manully altering the invoice date, to post it into current period. Increases workload and hassle. It also means your supplier account does not mirror with their accounts with dates. Xero…

    70 votes

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  4. Before this latest upgrade, when you created a Bill from a Purchase order, the PO number was up at the top of the screen, so you could add it easily to the Bill, now it's not there!!! This is annoying have to write it down. Love this to come back PLEASE.

    4 votes

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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. When a bill is in draft form, it would be good if this could be changed into a credit note without having to delete the bill and re enter this as a credit note. When suppliers email in credit notes, they appear as draft bills so would be great to have the option to convert into a credit note to save time and ease.

    As per the support specialist I've spoken to from Xero:
    At present, Xero doesn't have a direct function to automatically convert draft bills into draft credit notes. The standard process involves deleting the draft bill and…

    3 votes

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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. In the Bills section under- New Bill and Upload Bill you cannot currently drag and drop the file from an email into the box. You either have to email or download the file would be time saving if you could just drag and drop straight from email into the new bill box.

    24 votes

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  7. We can no longer attach any files at the creating stage of a purchase order, the PO has to be saved or approved before anything can be attached, then it throws you back to the purchase order listing and you have to go back in to save anything. In the old version, we used to be able to attach files during the initial creation. Please could your developers look at this and fix this.

    2 votes

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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. 🙂

  8. The ability to Submit for approval & view Next when working through draft bills. Sometimes I need to submit all the bills for approval before they are paid and it is quite time consuming that each time I submit for approval you need to go back to drafts to select the next bill. Like with Approve and Next - Submit and Next would be very handy

    2 votes

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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. 🙂

  9. If we had a calculated Percentage option between the purchase price and sell price set on an inventory item, the price of an item then could automatically change by updating purchase price then the sell price would automatically increase as well, keeping your margin at the percentage you want.
    If you were to update xero to change the price increase on an item in bills straight to the inventory a calculated percentage markup would increase the sell price as well.

    3 votes

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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. 🙂

  10. There should be the option to delete the duplicate bill instead of void option in xero.

    2 votes

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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. 🙂

  11. When raising a new purchase order, you used to be able to tab across from the description, quantity & price, and it would automatically put in the default account code and tax rate for that supplier - now it doesn't do that. As soon as you tab across it removes the account code and you have to physically add this to each line. Could you please go back to the old version where it would add the default information to these columns? It is time wasting, if the information is already added to the Purchase defaults in the contacts, why…

    2 votes

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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. 🙂

  12. I would like to submit a feature request regarding inventory visibility for invoice only users.

    It would be extremely helpful if invoice only users could access the “Latest transactions” section within each inventory item to view stock movement. During stocktakes, when discrepancies arise, we rely heavily on reviewing item movement to identify the cause and resolve issues efficiently.

    At present, granting access to this level of detail requires broader permissions, which then exposes reports and bank information. We would prefer our team members to have visibility over inventory movement only, without access to financial reports or sensitive accounts.

    2 votes

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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.

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  13. It would be good to have the option for emails sent to XERO which have more than one invoice attached to be dealt with in just one transaction. I've never had a need for XERO to create a transaction for every attachment, so if that is everyone's experience, then it would be good that happens, so maybe no option need be given.
    Currently the only way is to create a single PDF from multiple invoices, which requires third party software.

    2 votes

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  14. It would be great to have a Direct Debit flag on the Bills area. Especially on the ones waiting payment.
    That would allow us to know if a bill that is waiting payment is Direct Debit and we don't need to act, just wait to reconcile.
    I created a (terrible) mockup and attached it.

    102 votes

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  15. When copying an invoice, we need to be able to copy and paste in the item code without it deleting all of the description, qty and cost.
    You can do this in classic invoicing, but when you do it in the updated invoicing it removes all the data on the line.

    21 votes

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  16. 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

    17 votes

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  17. 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…

    2 votes

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    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. 🙂

  18. In the purchase order screen, once po is approved you can not add from library anymore you can only upload files. Can this please be re-added as we add invoice/delivery dockets and order confirmations emailed to us from suppliers

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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. 🙂

  19. The new changes to the Purchase Orders are terrible.
    Still haven't fixed the option to copy from invoice to PO without having to go into the invoice list to do it from there, from the first upgrade, but now you have taken away how the PO would convert a foreign currency to AUD automatically when copied from the invoice to a PO.
    Our current workflow does not utilise FX conversion at the billing stage; instead, we issue Purchase Orders based on the specific exchange rate from the date our client invoice was settled.
    This now means we have to manually…

    1 vote

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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.

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  20. Prior to the most recent update, you used to be able to view/refer to a purchase order's attached invoice from within the Purchase Order screen. Now you have to open a duplicate tab to do the same task. A 30-second task now takes much longer. This is frustrating when you're individually processing many purchase orders/bills in a day. Opening tabs, dragging them to another screen, closing tabs etc etc. I noticed that you moved the attachments back up to the top of the screen where it used to be - can we go back to the good ol' days with…

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    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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