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Purchase orders, bills & inventory

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  1. When creating a bill, if adding a previously created inventory item it pre fills cost price from when it was last amended. It would be great if we had the option to update the new cost price as the bill was created.

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  2. Option to raise a supplier bill as a proforma bill

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    Hi Lucy, thanks for sharing in the product ideas forum here. It'd be great to get more understanding of the needs for recording a bill as proforma in Xero.

    Is there anyway entering the information as a Draft bill or even a purchase order could accommodate your needs here?

  3. It would be highly beneficial if users could filter bills based on the assigned approver. Currently, there is no easy way to view all bills awaiting action from a specific approver, making it difficult to monitor approval workflows and follow up on outstanding items.

    A filter by approver would allow finance teams to quickly identify which bills are assigned to each manager or department head, improving visibility and accountability throughout the approval process.

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  4. In Xero Accounting, users currently need to open each individual bill that is still awaiting approval to determine why it was rejected or not approved by the approver. This process becomes particularly time-consuming at month-end when there are multiple outstanding bills requiring review.

    It would significantly improve efficiency if users could simply hover over a bill in the "Awaiting Approval" list to view any comments or notes left by the approver explaining why the bill was not approved. Alternatively, displaying the approver's comments in a dedicated column or tooltip within the bills list would provide the same benefit.

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  5. We use extra PO lines to seperate and create headings for section on a PO. The new version seem to arbitrarily remove these lines - removing user input without any feedback or warning.
    Being able to seperate by our own heading is helpful.

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  6. why don't Xero have the same date format when entering the date across all aspects of the system.

    Invoice format - DD/MM/YYYY
    Projects format - DD/MM/YYYY
    Bills format - DD/MM/YYY

    BUT

    New Purchase Order format - MM/DD/YYYY

    PPPPP.

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    Thanks for sharing with us here, Nicholas - Is it possible your browser language is currently set to English(US). This maybe causing the formatting you're mentioning here and changing to English (UK) or (AUS) should help.

  7. Melio - Partial Bill Payments
    Currently unable to do a partial bill payment with Melio in Xero. Note: this is a very straightforward process when using Melio directly, but unfortunate now that I've cancelled that subscription and migrated the entire process to Xero).

    The support center provided a cumbersome "hack", which really lowers the value of doing this process in Xero (to reduce manual steps/processes). Here's the hack:
    (1) Manually record a part payment on the bill for the balance still due (the amount you don’t want to pay now).
    (2) Process payment via online bill payments for the balance…

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  8. Dear Sir/Madam,

    I found an online PDF User Guide regarding "Sending E-Invoices to AGD (B2G)." On Page 22, it states that for e-invoices billed against an Invoicing Instruction (II) or Purchase Order (PO), the line numbers on the e-invoice must match those on the corresponding II/PO.

    I have included the link to the PDF User Guide below for the Xero team to review as a product enhancement suggestion. I hope this will help expedite the addition of this feature to Xero.

    Please refer to the following link for reference:
    https://invoicenow.billbay.co/foc_package/foc_userguide

    Thank you.

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  9. Manually matching bills to POs is made difficult by the order of items on the PO vs the order of items on the supplier bill.
    The ability on the PO (and the bill creation) to simply reorder the items by both product name/desc, and the Item Code would help to overcome this in many cases, and would also help to find accidental duplicates

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    Hi Yariv, just to get better understanding of your post here by XIP would this be our Xero Inventory Plus feature?

    Would the request be that you're wanting Xero to automatically create an invoice once a purchase order has been fully billed?

  11. Good day.
    The cursor in the Purchase Orders as well as in the Bills screens in Xero is invisible when typing. The fields accept input, but the cursor does not display, which makes data capture difficult.
    Kindly assist with resolving this issue.

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    Hi Natasha, could you share more detail about the field you're in within a Bill or Purchase order where you're unable to see the cursor?

    We've recently released a new Purchase orders experience and can confirm the cursor should be visible when typing in fields here, and similarly when testing Bills quick view and Bill create or edit pages the cursor shows in each field.

    It does sound like this maybe an issue best investigated with our Xero Support team directly.

  12. This applies to sales and purchases.
    I think Xero product ideas has been as effective as screaming into the void ... however that did not work so I will try Xero Product ideas.

    1. Every time I have seen a Xero company use Prepayments it has been a ... mess.
    2. Users have prepayments going to various accounts, some with GST and some without and there are transactions in the Prepayments accounts that were not processed as Prepayments.
    3. You end up with prepayments scattered over the balance sheet, amounts in Prepayments that are not prepayments, and some have GST and some not.…
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    Hi Alex, appreciate your feedback here and please know this is valued and does get attention from our teams. You'll see from the forums that there are many ideas for improvement that our customers feel could add value so the forums here help us understand and advocate for the idea that our community feels valuable.

    I want to make sure I'm interpreting your idea here correctly - Rather than a change to the prepayment transactions it sounds like you'd like to restrict posting to the Account prepayments are posted to in the Chart of Accounts and would like a separate account that purchase v sales prepayment transactions are automatically posted to. Would this be right? Please do let me know if I'm misunderstanding.

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