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  1. Batch payments of Foreign Currency Bills.

    Dear Xero,
    Please consider the feature of being able to batch up foreign currency Bills. We often pay multiple invoices in one go, having to reconcile and mark as paid 10 invoices is extremely time consuming.

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    Hi team, appreciate wanting an update - I'm pleased to share the beta went well and we've now launched international bill payments for our UK customers, making it easier to pay overseas suppliers.

    Using open banking, UK businesses can now securely send money to 180+ countries including Europe (EUR), America (USD) and Australia (AUD). So you don't have to juggle multiple platforms or hidden fees. Whether you're paying a single bill or multiple bills at once, you can authorise payments prepared by your team and easily track which suppliers have been paid.

    We’re committed to new ways to expand our bill payments feature for small businesses and their advisors in other regions by leveraging new technologies, where available. I'll keep you updated of any further developments for this, here.

  2. Add the 'Upload bills' feature as a widget on the Dashboard, for convenience.
    At present you have to navigate to 'Bills to pay', then from the 'New bill' dropdown, select 'Upload bills'. It's a great time saving feature, but seems tucked away, and would be great if right from the dashboard I could just drop bills, and invoices, ready to process later.

    30 votes

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    10 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Hi team, pleased to share that this is a feature that will be coming with the new Xero Homepage! Once released it will be an option available from the bill drop down within the Bills to pay widget 😊. I'll round back to share as it becomes available in orgs.

    If you'd like to get more understanding of the new homepage and navigation visit our website and try out the prototype!

  3. The option to view the product descriptions when in the Product and Services list should already be a feature.

    Many of our products have an abbreviated item name, with the description containing the expanded product information. Opening individual products to view the description takes a significant amount of time as we have over 1,500 items.

    It is also the product description, not the product item name, that appears on invoices to customers, so it only makes sense to be able to view the descriptions from the P&S list.

    5 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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    Hi Community! 👋

    Thank you for sharing your feedback. I’m happy to share that this is now in development.

    With this update, you’ll be able to choose whether to show or hide the sell and purchase description column on the Products and services list page.

    I’ll circle back here again once the change has rolled out. 🙂🙏

  4. Add a line item/total for 'Awaiting approval' to the 'Bills you need to pay' section of the Dashboard.

    25 votes

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    12 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for all your input and sharing the needs in seeing awaiting approval invoices and bills from the Dashboard.

    We'll soon be rolling out our new Homepage experience. The team have put a lot of work into designing the new widgets with our customers front of mind.

    Within the new Tasks widget you'll be able to get a quick snap of invoices (and bills) awaiting approval, and from the 'Invoices owed to you', and 'Bills to pay' widgets you can get a quick understanding of the # of invoices or bills awaiting approval and amounts associated to them.

    Try it out in the demo company now and I'll be back to share when it's fully released 😊

  5. 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.

    229 votes

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    80 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.

  6. When sending invoices from Xero to Xero it doesn't attach the actual invoice in the draft bill as an attached so we don't have this invoice for record keeping purposes and can't even see if there's VAT or No VAT charged on the invoice as it is not attached to the bill. This needs to be added.

    10 votes

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    4 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Hi team, apologies as we have jumped the gun a little - While it's currently possible to include a PDF of the invoice when sending via the Xero network, including attached files is not available just yet.

    However, I want to confirm this is something the team are currently working on and we will share as soon as there is another update on this.

  7. 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.

    122 votes

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    45 comments  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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    Hi community!👋

    Thank you to everyone who contributed to the team’s research in this area. Your input has been invaluable. The discovery phase has given us rich insights, and we’re excited to share that we’ll be moving ahead to design and build a solution.

    As we begin development, we’ll transition the idea into this next stage. We look forward to coming back to you when there are new opportunities to be involved and to share further updates along the way.🙏

  8. Ability to use backorders in the Purchase Orders.

    Purpose: Users can easily know which purchase orders have backorders.

    79 votes

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    Hi team, work for negative inventory is well in development and we really value all of your inputs here as we've picked into how we solve the needs of backorders in both the purchase and sales flows.

    We look forward to being able to share more updates soon with detail of how this works within your Xero organisation. Thanks!

  9. The old Xero version of Products and Services was really useful, as would show individual pieces costs to 4 decimal places.
    The new version only shows 2 decimal places - we would really like to be able to see the 4 decimal places again!

    The old version was also more user friendly, as you could 'tab' shortcut from one section to another when making adjustments. The new version you need to use your mouse and select everything which takes much longer.

    Would you be able to update this?

    10 votes

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    Hi Community! 👋

    Thank you for sharing your feedback and engaging with us on this improvement. I’m happy to share that this work is now in development.

    As part of this update, Products and services will display values to 4 decimal places on both the products and services list and details page.

    I’ll circle back here again once the change has rolled out 🙂🙏

  10. Is it possible to add GST and Account columns to the draft bills screen in Xero to check the account and GST total before approving?

    15 votes

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    6 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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  11. Ability to include an attachment with an emailed Purchase Order

    Purpose: Because there may be additional specifications or plans that need to be sent to the supplier through PO

    273 votes

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    Hi team, we highly value all the feedback we've received through this request, and understand wanting more functionality to manage communications with suppliers directly through Xero.

    As you may have read on our blog, we're redesigning the purchase orders experience, and our product teams have paid close attention to ideas for purchase orders in these forums.

    I'm pleased to share that being able to include file attachments when sending purchase orders is being developed into this new experience. I'll update again as this feature rolls out to customers. 😊

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