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  1. our saved delivery addresses for Purchase Orders have disappeared. is this one of the new changes?

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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. 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…

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  3. 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.

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  4. We were excited to see the new Xero feature that allows users to mark a partial purchase order as billed. However, we are confused that the total amount of the purchase order remains unchanged after a portion has been marked as billed.

    As a result, the outstanding amount shown in the Purchase Order Overview does not accurately reflect the remaining balance to be billed. It would be much more useful if the purchase order total or outstanding balance automatically accounted for amounts already marked as billed, providing a more accurate view of what remains open on the purchase order.

    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. 🙂

  5. There's current a price the product is sold at, but not a cost we purchase it at. Adding this field would set the cost (pre-populate) on a PO when ordered, which could be overridden on a PO if needed.

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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. We started using Melio bill pay, and it keeps posting the spend money transactions for Melio fees to an account it creates (550, not at all the format we use) and a vendor "Payment Fee." Every time I have to change the vendor to the one I want Xero to use ("Melio"), the account I want to use, and then archive their contact and GL account again. The user should be able to set the contact and account to be used for Melio fees.

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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. 🙂

  7. Has the ability to add new delivery addresses been taken away again? We have lots of saved delivery addresses for previous / current projects and finally had the 'add new address' button added back in and now everything has gone!

    Can only add one off addresses - can't add new addresses to be saved, can't select any old ones.. does everything need to be raised as a contact again? it's a massive pain in the backside.

    I don't know how it's gone backwards when it was fixed..

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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. Batch payments should be increased to a minimum of 500, as the current limit of 200 is insufficient.

    Additionally, when creating a batch payment, it would be beneficial to allocate the payment to both the supplier invoice and the credit note. This allocation ensures that the payment is reflected on the remittance.

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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. It would be nice to be able to post a receive money overpayment directly against a supplier and have it go to trade creditors in the instance where a supplier has refunded money and an credit note has yet to be issued.
    Similarly it would be nice to be able to a post a spend money overpayment directly against a customer and have it go to trade debtors.

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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. 🙂

  10. When drilling into a payment applied to a bill, I'd love to see the GLAs that payment posted to.

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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. Add a credit notes section on the Supplier account for ease of searching for the credit notes received.

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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. Currently, users must reconcile the payment and then navigate back to the bill or payment record to send a remittance advice. This creates unnecessary extra steps and increases the risk of remittances being missed.

    Having this option available during reconciliation would streamline the process, save time, and ensure suppliers receive timely payment notifications.

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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 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.

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  14. As a Xero user, I regularly upload supplier invoices and receipts as attachments to Bills. While the attachment is stored correctly against the Bill, it is not visible when viewing the related bank transaction, account transaction, or reconciled payment.

    This creates a challenge when working with accountants and bookkeepers. During month-end reviews, audits, and reconciliations, accountants typically review transactions from the bank account and transaction listings to verify that every payment has supporting documentation.

    When they open a reconciled bank transaction and cannot see an attachment, they often assume that the invoice or receipt is missing. I then have to…

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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. 🙂

  15. The new autofill bills in the files section is really good, but unusable in its current state. The catagories/departments dropdown is missing. Could we get it added in?

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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. 🙂

  16. Please can the "Copy to" come back :) POs are being automatically marked as billed, I do not want this option to be automatic. Our manager needs to approve the bills and link the bills to POs but this can no longer be done. I have to go into each PO billed to unmark as billed. We should not be approving bills, these need to be signed off by a manager not automatically approved. Also I have a problem linking 2 PO's to one bill. Another thing when selecting create bill the PO number is not pulled through to the…

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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. 🙂

  17. Please can the "Copy to" come back :) POs are being automatically marked as billed, I do not want this option to be automatic. Our manager needs to approve the bills and link the bills to POs but this can no longer be done. I have to go into each PO billed to unmark as billed. We should not be approving bills, these need to be signed off by a manager not automatically approved. Also, I have a problem linking 2 PO's to one bill.  Another thing when selecting create bill the PO number is not pulled through to the…

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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. 🙂

  18. In "The Long and Short of It" in April 2026 Xero released "Extract bill line items straight from Smart Document Capture". Although this says it is Global I have also seen elsewhere where this is only in the UK.

    Release this globally. Also, instead of just having it be entered as a Spend Money, have these extract to Bills also.

    This is the write up - can't confirm that we have it in NZ.

    Your bills are now as easy to capture as your receipts. Smart Document Capture can now extract data from bills - one of our most requested…

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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. 🙂

  19. The bulk stock adjustment feature is great.

    Can we please have an option to process against a location?

    This would help with having adjustments of stock with same product codes in different locations. Profit and loss by location reports would be more accurate in Xero.
    Currently we have no option to report location profitability without exporting to excel and manually entering the expense code against particular locations.

    Thanks

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  20. Feature Request: Pay with Wise for Non-UK Companies

    We would like to request that Xero extend the “Pay with Wise” / Direct Bill Pay functionality to non-UK companies as well.

    Currently, businesses outside the UK need to initiate payments separately in Wise and then sync them back to Xero. Enabling direct Wise bill payments within Xero for non-UK entities would significantly improve efficiency, streamline AP processes, and reduce manual work for global businesses using Xero.

    Please consider making this feature available for non-UK Xero organisations.

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