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  1. You are currently able to allocate Bills to customers in Xero, but not supplier Credit Notes. Adding this feature will make recharging costs simpler to manage, for those who use Xero for invoicing.

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  2. Title: Purchase Order–Only User Access (No Bills Visibility)

    Request:
    We would like the ability to assign users access to purchase orders only, without any visibility of supplier bills or broader financial information.

    Use Case:
    In our business, operational staff (e.g. apprentices, site staff, or project team members) need to raise and manage purchase orders as part of their role. However, they should not have access to financial data such as supplier bills, costs, or payment details.

    Current Issue:
    At present, Xero user roles bundle purchase order access together with bills and supplier information. This means we cannot safely allow team…

    5 votes

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  3. Need a report option to show price increases on products and services purchased and sold please

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  4. Mass adjustments should include the ability to increase quantity as well as value - when we run production I currently have to do this one by one or create a bill to bring in the stock, it would be great to be able to bring in production through an adjustment

    Adjustments should show the stock level as at date of the adjustment as we there is always movement between when we do stock count to when we process the count on Xero - hence there is the need to perform an additional recon to current stock levels in order to…

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  5. We would like to raise a concern regarding a recent update to the Purchase Order function, which is now causing operational issues for us.

    Previously, within a Purchase Order, we could select the three dots at the top of the screen, choose “Copy to…”, and then select either Bill, Purchase Order, or Invoice. This process worked well and ensured that all relevant details transferred correctly.

    However, following the recent update, the options have changed. We now only see “Copy to Invoice”, while Bill has been replaced with a blue “Create Bill” button. To create a Bill, we must manually select…

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  6. Please allow for more history of inventory items. Sometimes it is easier to look up an item to find latest bill to see last price paid to vendor. As it is now item history only allows one to see +/- 30 transactions. It would be nice to have the option to see more than this. Other areas of Xero allow for this option.

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  7. Prevent invoice scanning technology from splitting out the VAT on a bill where the client's financial settings are set to "VAT scheme - None" and all chart of accounts codes are set to "No VAT" (the client is not VAT-registered).

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  8. It would be really helpful to be able to allocate a credit note against the supplier account rather than against individual purchase invoices. We receive supplier credit notes for discounts applied for purchases which don't relate to an invoice so the only way we can account it for them is to use any purchase invoice which then reduces the invoice amount. It can be confusing for the supplier when the invoice amounts do not match.

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  9. We operate using a monthly statement from Capricorn Society, which includes multiple suppliers (e.g. Burson, Repco, Motorpass etc..) under one account.

    In Xero, we’re currently forced to enter this as one total bill and manually allocate expenses — which means we lose all supplier-level detail.

    What’s needed:

    • Ability to create a main account (e.g. Capricorn) for the monthly payable
    • Ability to enter each supplier invoice individually as it comes in throughout the month
    • Each invoice treated like its own supplier record (sub-account), capturing:
    • Invoice date
    • Invoice number
    • Part numbers / descriptions
    • Individual invoice totals
    • Ability to link all sub-invoices to…
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  10. I wanted to share a workflow improvement idea based on how we currently use Xero alongside EzzyBills.

    At present, our process is:

    Staff raise purchase orders internally
    Orders are placed with suppliers
    Supplier invoices are received and imported via EzzyBills
    Invoices are then posted directly into Xero

    The challenge we have is that the purchase order currently serves very little practical purpose in the system, as the invoice effectively becomes the trigger document for processing and approval.

    What we would find highly valuable is:
    A feature that allows imported invoices (via EzzyBills or similar integrations) to be automatically or manually…

    2 votes

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  11. Date selector in Purchase Orders should be Sunday to Saturday

    I’d like to request an update to the New Purchase Order date selector so the calendar can display Sunday–Saturday instead of Monday–Sunday, or at least follow the same week-start setting used elsewhere in Xero.

    Most US calendars and business workflows use a Sunday–Saturday view, so this change would make the Purchase Order date picker more intuitive and consistent with other Xero transaction screens (like invoices and bills), reducing date entry mistakes and improving usability for US-based users.

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  12. When you approve a bill it pops up with a notice saying add another bill, it should say back to (whatever screen you were on) i.e. I tend to upload bulk to the the ai section to which they then enter drafts. I have to manually go back to drafts each time to enter the next bill whereas it could automatically just take me where I need to go or at least offer the function

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  13. 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.

  14. I don't like the new vendor payment system. I want go back to the old system of paying by check. With new system you have to re-enter the vendor information to send a payment. Don't like it. How do i revert back to paying with my own checks.

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  15. At the moment, when a bill is sat in drafts, because it has gone through the upload process, it does not match with any unbilled purchase orders. Would be good if you could select the PO it relates to from a list or something

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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?

  17. Where the attachment is showing as being there it would be great to be able to hover over it and bring it up in a viewer window to check it rather than having to open the document up and then click into it to load it.

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  18. It would be great to be able to hover over the document line in the customer account screen or banking screens and see the document in a view only window so that you don't have to click in and back out or open another window.

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  19. Adding a drop down option - correcting the bank account after entry (Multiple banks in the system)

    There are times when we realise that we entered a spend money, made a payment or received a payment and we clicked on the wrong bank account...

    We "remove and save file to library" first to make sure we do not loose the attachment. Depending on the type of entry, let's say a "spend money" entry in this instance using a fuel receipt which will clear the next day (not yet in the options to reconcile). We then have to correct the bank…

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  20. Files Inbox - Review File Details - VAT amount difference (Purchases and Sales including direct Spend)
    It would be a good idea to enable the VAT amount to be edited. I received quite a number of POs, purchases, and receipts with a different VAT amount compared to what Xero calculates (rounding). Currently, I have to enter a direct spend into a bill just to correct the VAT amount. It suggests to enter a rounding amount but the system does not allow for only a VAT amount to be entered when creating a new row for the difference. If I use…

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