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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…
    63 votes

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    14 comments  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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  2. 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!

    12 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.

  3. 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…

    22 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.

  4. 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.

    11 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.

  5. 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.

    40 votes

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    9 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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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.

  6. 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.

    10 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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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.

  7. 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.

    6 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.

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

    5 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

  9. 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.

    6 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.

  10. Bills are listed as 'duplicate' even tho they are monthly recurring bills so even tho the amounts are the same, the dates are different. Is there any way of these monthly bills not being listed as 'duplicate'. wastes a lot of time checking.

    9 votes

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    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. Make sure you 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.

  11. 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…

    17 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. 🙂

  12. 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

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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.

  13. Please allow us to update the batch payment export file for FNB in South Africa. The current export file does not have all the fields needed by the bank.

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    ✨ Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback on batch payment exports for FNB. We appreciate you highlighting how important this is for your payment processing. Your idea has moved to Gaining Support, which means our Community team has reviewed it and it’s open for votes and comments from the community. We encourage you to reach out to others using FNB for batch payments to add their votes and share details about the specific fields you need, as your input helps our product team understand the priority and scope of ideas like this.

  14. 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?

    4 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.

  15. Bill payments - allocate directly to supplier account without having to match to a particular bill/s. Also allow allocation and creation of bank rule that allocates payments to the relevant supplier account from the bank reconciliation

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    Hi Ziaad, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We have moved this idea to gain more support from the community.Make sure you 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.

  16. ⭐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…

    2 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!

  17. You have today added a great new feature - the ability to upload Accounts Payable invoices to generate the Draft transaction.

    Can I suggest that you have a look at the options available after the invoice has been approved, to then quickly navigate back to the Draft Bills.

    This is because it's likely that we upload in batches then approve, however to navigate back to Draft to pick up the next invoice takes quite a few steps!

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how the workflow could be improved for you, when you're importing and approving bills.

    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 also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!

  18. Add a "add Bill" button to enable you to add a bill after the batch has been created without cancelling the batch and redoing.

    6 votes

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    Hi christine, is this a common situation you find yourself or business running into? It'd be good to understand more detail if there are common circumstances that lead you to needing to edit a batch payment after it's been created.

    For the time being we'll start to feel out the interest in this from community. Thanks!

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

    3 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!

  20. Purchases Tab: would like to see Billable expenses not billed.

    8 votes

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    We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    Our Community have 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.

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