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  1. As a Group Financial Administrator at an IT company operating in South Africa, I am writing to request the expansion of Xero Inventory Plus to regions outside the US.

    Our business relies heavily on accurate, real-time inventory tracking across multiple locations, and we currently face limitations due to the unavailability of Inventory Plus in our region.

    Suggested Features to Prioritize:

    1. FIFO and batch/serial tracking
    2. Multi-location inventory management
    3. Barcode scanning and sticker generation
    4. Real-time inventory valuation and reporting

    Business Impact:

    Rolling out Inventory Plus globally would empower businesses like ours to:

    1. Improve inventory accuracy and reduce losses
    2. Enhance financial reporting and…
    76 votes

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    17 comments  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for sharing your idea, on the platform.

    We've reviewed the idea and it's now up to the community to get behind and support it. Sharing your idea with colleagues could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Members can now also comment to share additional details about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  2. What have you done to purchase orders? the delivery instructions are now all in one line, whereas we had them in separate lines to match our template. I suppose I now need to recreate one and then check to see how it comes out on our existing template. We've had no notice that these were going to change. The info is way too big now, like with the invoices. The Dashboard was bad enough. Why do you have to keep changing things for no purpose?

    12 votes

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    Appreciate the feedback and understanding how you preferred the formatting of your delivery address before, Julie. While we don't have immediate plans for changing this we'll start to get a sense of the interest through your idea.

    Our product team are watching the feedback around this closely and I'll be sure to share if there are any updates planned.


    In terms of the name of the client - this will be driven by the name entered in the Attention to field of the Contact. Within the po you can click on the Contact name to Edit, if you select the 'Edit all address fields' option this will expand the fields so you can edit or add a client name in the Attention to.

  3. Could you have an 'upload supplier credit notes' button, the same as you do for supplier invoices, because at the moment you have to enter any credit notes manually, and of course if you accidentally upload them under the supplier invoice button they appear as invoices and not credits!

    29 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about expanding this feature to include credit notes (and not create them as bills).

    Now it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea. Make sure you share it with any colleagues it could also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!

    In the meantime, it's possible to bulk import credit notes using a CSV file, but not via this feature.

  4. When copying from invoice to purchase orders the following items are an issue.

    1) ITEM CODE NOT POPULATED TO PURCHASE ORDER

    2) COMPANY NAME FROM CONTACTS IS NOT POPULATING IN DELIVERY ADDRESS

    3) CAN NOT EDIT DELIVERY ADDRESS ON PURCHASE ORDER IF REQUIRED

    4) LAYOUT NOT CORRECT ON DELIVERY ADDRESS ONCE CONFIRMED, IT SHOULD BE LINE BY LINE.

    5) CAN NOT COPY PURCHASE ORDER FROM INVOICE.

    See example attached.

    10 votes

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    Hi team, thanks for sharing with us in Product ideas.

    We appreciate hearing this and I'd like to provide some clarity that may help with the points that have been raised.

    • Only products and services that have selected that you purchase that item will show the item code when copied from a Sales invoice to PO - It may be worth double checking your inventory to see if you need to make any updates to check this option.
    • Within the PO you'll want to make sure the Attention to for the contact has been entered in the Contact address details. You can click on the contact name to edit then select to edit the full address details where you can update and save this information.
    • Once a PO has been approved, you'll be able to click the 3 dot menu and Edit which will open the Delivery address field where…
  5. Please change the Purchase Order screen, back to the way it was. Having the product line centred and smaller was easier on the eye. The delivery instructions window is now ridiculously small, and you cannot read the instructions all at once. Horrible change.
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

    9 votes

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    Hoi team, we do appreciate hearing your feedback on the new Purchase orders experience. In order for our product teams to get a good understanding of the direct changes that our customers would like to see, as well as help others in community understand what they've voting for we ask that each idea be created as a separate post. I've updated the title of the idea here to reflect the first point that Carl noted around the centring of the product line. We welcome you to each create a new idea for each change you'd like to see.

  6. When entering or editing a bill I need to be able to enter and see the account code. At present, you can only see the account name.

    10 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Paul.

    We've reviewed your idea regarding the account codes visibility and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Feel free to share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  7. That would be great to make the Contact group field visible on the Bills to Pay screen to let us filter to certain contact groups when we are preparing a payment file.

    We use the contact groups for example to mark suppliers that are paid by Direct Debit, so this would be a useful feature to filter them out and do not pick their invoices up for a BACS payment.

    We also have another group of suppliers within the contact groups that we pay at once on the same day of each month so we would be able to easily…

    24 votes

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    Thanks, Marianna for submitting your idea.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  8. We do PO from excel that then is a PDF. It would be really helpful if purchase orders can be uploaded like bills?

    11 votes

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    Appreciate you sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Alyson.

    Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    We will keep an eye on the tractions this idea receives in the community. Thanks!

  9. Navigation. Wouldn't it make life easier when paying bills if you could create a batch and then go directly back to the Purchases Overview to create the next one. At the moment it's Create a Batch Payment then > Purchases > Bills. Repeat the process.

    13 votes

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    Thanks for your idea, Karen. Understand how this would improve efficiency if you regularly create multiple batches in your workflow. We'll get a sense of the wider community interest in this from your idea here.

  10. New Bill Button - Please bring back the single click New Bill button. Anywhere I click on the New Bill button gives me a dropdown menu, requiring mouse movement and a second click. I would expect this to function in the same way as the new invoice button where you can click on the button to generate a new bill or you can click on the arrow down to see the dropdown menu. Bring back the single click efficiency.

    12 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback on this change, Patricia. Out of interest is there a particular reason or workflow for why you prefer to enter your bills manually rather than via an upload?

    Appreciate, will take a little getting used to a different flow. A couple of other options for navigating to the new bill screen could also be;

    • Using the keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shift+N) from the bills screen
    • Using the '+' icon in the navigation header to quickly Create a new Bill from any screen
    • Using '/' and typing 'b' in the global search where you'll get the option of New bill from any screen

    While we'll get a sense of interest in this through your idea, we want to be open that there aren't any plans for changing this back.

  11. Fix the Xero App that your programmers broke, please.

    When approving bills in the app it removes any decimal places beyond 2 and changes the final bill amount. The notes against the bill don't show this. I have marked up screen shots attached.

    The Xero App has been broken for year now and having to manually change thousands of bills in a year because you broke your own program is a joke. Asking a business owner who works 60-80 hours a week to log in to his computer instead of the app on his phone to approve bills is not…

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing images, Fiona.

    Taking a look into your communications with our support team it does appear there was a bit of confusion and oversight by our team when you first got in touch. We apologise for this and I'd like to provide some clarification around the idea you've raised here.

    What is currently possible within the Xero Accounting app does differ between Sales and Purchases.

    While it's possible to view Sales credit notes that are awaiting approval, this hasn't yet been built into the Purchases side. To approve a Supplier credit note, you'll currently need to log into the web version of Xero.

    We're working to develop the Xero Accounting app to add more functionality with growing needs from our customers in what they need to do on the go. We'll start to get a sense of interest from the community in this here, and I'll update if…

  12. MY e-invoicing requires a tracking category in Xero. As we have clients which requires 2 tracking categories for their businesses, it is impossible to free up 1 tracking category for e-invoicing. Please look into this matter by considering adding a new tracking specific for e-invoicing.

    41 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the appetite in this idea for being able to add more tracking categories to suit the needs of eInvioicing in Malaysia. We want to be open that while we have improvements planned for eInvoicing in Malaysia, increasing tracking categories isn't in our plans right now.

    I understand some in the conversation here may already be doing this however to highlight for others - Right now, if you use a Tracking category for this purpose you can also look to add a default tracking to a contacts record which may help with auto assigning these codes for customers you trade with frequently.

    We will continue to watch the interest through this idea closely, and share if there are any updates.

  13. Remittance Advice - Supplier Reconcilliation. One the occassion where a supplier has asked for remittance advice to be re-issued for multiple bill payments, it would be usefult to be able to select a supplier, then bulk-select individual bills that you want to re-issue the advice for, and send them again with one click. It wouldn't matter if they were sent as separate PDF's or emails, but a quicker way to do this would be much appreciated.

    8 votes

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    Hi Hayley thanks for sharing this idea here. We can appreciate how this might be useful for users so we're moving this idea to gain more support from the community. You can now share this idea with your friends and colleagues who may also wish to see this feature in Xero. We will monitor this space for traction in the meantime.

  14. I want easier visibility of draft bills and bills to approve - I need to scroll to see these now, even if bills to pay is in my top row

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback about this, and how you'd like to see this improved.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit ,so they can add their votes and comments too!

    Please note that the more specific your suggestions are about the changes you'd like, the better our Product team will be able to gauge exactly what you're looking to see.

  15. Create widget option to show a list view of draft invoices, and the same for bills.

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Joe.

    Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    We''ll keep an eye on the traction this idea gets in the community. Thanks

  16. Improve xero invoice (accounts payable) scaning function so that it is as good as Dext, thereby saving money for Xero customers (or maybe Xero just buys the Dext app in makes it the default scanning tool)

    6 votes

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    Hi Harpal, just to dig into this a little deeper - Are there particular fields you're wanting Xero to auto fill that aren't currently populating? Or is there specific functionality you feel could be improved with the auto creation of bills?

  17. ⭐Description:

    In the previous version of Xero, after we clicked Copy PO → Bill, the system would first open the draft bill screen, allowing us to:

    review the details

    edit the invoice number

    adjust line items if needed

    and then submit the bill for approval

    This workflow was very efficient, especially for businesses handling a high volume of purchase orders.

    However, after the recent Xero update, when we use Copy PO → Bill, the system now:

    immediately marks the PO as PO – Billed,

    automatically creates the draft bill in the background,

    and does not open the draft bill screen…

    6 votes

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    Hey Bangit, thanks for bringing this to our attention, we have seen an uptake in this request and we are moving this to Gaining Support. Now that we have reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

  18. As a Procurement Officer or Small Business Owner, I want to quickly duplicate an existing line item while creating or editing a Purchase Order, So that I can save time when entering multiple similar items that only require minor adjustments (like different tracking categories or descriptions).

    6 votes

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    Hi!

    Thanks for sharing this idea that might make entering lots of similar lines onto orders faster for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit, so they can add their votes and comments about how this would help them too!

  19. invoice email template options for placeholders allow for the 'reference' placeholder to be inserted.

    This needs to be available to be inserted into the remittance email template.

    As the placeholder exists, can it be allowed to the dropdown for remittance?

    6 votes

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    Hi Nicole thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  20. The functionality to be able to raise and approve a Purchase Order which, at the point of approval, would create a double entry in the general ledger. Specifically:

    • Debit a Work in Progress (WIP) expenses account (to reflect anticipated expenditure),

    • Credit a creditors account (to reflect the anticipated liability).

    This would allow the PO to reflect a commitment in the accounts, enabling better management of Work In Progress and projected costs before the supplier invoice arrives.

    In an ideal world, to be able to allocate the PO to a Xero Project, so that WIP and anticipated costs appear…

    19 votes

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    Hi Tristan, thanks for sharing such a detailed and well-thought-out suggestion. We appreciate you taking the time to explain the specific accounting impact and how this would improve financial visibility.

    We've reviewed your idea for having approved Purchase Orders post to the general ledger and integrate with Xero Projects. This suggestion is now ready to gain support and feedback from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment on how having this visibility of committed costs could improve their own project management and financial forecasting in Xero. 🙂

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