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Xero have blatantly ignore this basic functionality for years. they must be the only accounting software in existence that doesn't have a second reference field in bills. Having to add a PO number to the end of an invoice number negates the detect duplicates feature. someone might write PO 123, or PO123, or PO#123 or PO #123. Plus it looks messy and forces me to use functions in excel to sort everything out (text after, text before, left, right etc) when i export data.

It is essential to be able to search bills by the PO number because sometimes a PO is split accross several bills

The people designing xero aren't day to day users and are too busy faffing about with ai nobody wants or asked for. We would rather have a second reference field in bills. how hard can it be?

Yes, a real pain in the bum and an issue which has been around for ever. We use project numbers and the only way to ensure everything is cross referenced, especially when exporting the data, is to add this to the reference field with the project title and add the project number again as an empty item entry in the invoice or bill. As mentioned the input duplication is prone to error.

Xero when will you be implementing this?? It is already on the sales invoices, so why not on the bills?
This is an essential part on billing, we NEED this now!!

Not having a second reference field available is actually causing duplicates to happen as we have to add the 2nd reference we need (project name) on to the end of the bills ID which we may enter "9895 - Stanton Road" the first time but the second person may write "9895 - Stanton Rd" then Xero duplicate checker doesn't identify they're actually the same bill and they both end up getting paid.

We definitely need a Second reference field! It is infuriating to have to add our ref to the end of the Invoice Number. We work on Job numbers, so an easy visual is needed, instead of having to click into each Bill to ensure it has been allocated correctly to the right job.

So it does Allen! What's even sadder is that this 'idea' has been with Xero since 2012!!! 14 years!! Xero don't care. The amount of changes they have made to views and analytics but not making this simple change is ridiculous. I have taken my comments to Facebook before, was told to get back here 😅

The sad thing is that this field actually exists and is used by Xero if the process starts the creation of a purchase order rather than just entering a supplier invoice

Xero a lot of your client base desperately needs this feature. I know for my business, by xero not having this feature it really creates a lot of manual process

i was thinking the same thing Erin. Is anyone at Xero actually reading our comments as this has been going on for years!

Does anyone know how to get this seen by Xero product team? This seems like such a basic function. I'm sure no one reviews these ideas . Maybe if we all keep posting new comments it will get traction

An invoice number field and a reference number field is crucial due to the invoice number character restrictions when making payments, the second reference field is information desperately needed for PO numbers and Job references,

I can see this has been requested many times over many years, it is on the sales invoices but not on the bills?

Come on Xero, get this sorted!

I don't understand how in this day and age xero does not have this feature.
I need a 2nd reference box for both bills and invoices

I would also like to NOT see the JAX, or any other items that cannot be removed taking up valuable page space.

Xero, Please address this!! even just add an extra box in the bills window for PO number. This must be the only accounting system that doesn't have a field for PO number. I don't care about JAX or fancy dashboards. I care about basic functionality.

Has Xero got any update on this?
It seems a simple fix to add a second reference box, or even to allow the enter key in the current reference box. This would allow for a second line of reference to be added.

There is room for the invoice number but urgently need a space for the PO number.

A second reference field or User Reference will allow the user to add a unique identifier reference number to each purchase invoice. Being able to sort in order of this reference is also required. this is different to the invoice number.

Need to show our job number along with the customers PO number.
Important to us to line up Invoices to Jobs in our Digital job system.

Add an additional input box called Invoice Number to replicate AR view in AP i.e. so AP has Invoice Number and Reference fields too.

This may enable Capture to work with bills as currently Capture is not recognising the Reference field as the Invoice (bill) number when creating a draft bill.

The Reference field could then be used for a PO number.

How has this been open since 2012 and not implemented? Clearly your user base needs this feature to help support their business operations

ive moved from clearbooks to xero. clearbooks has a summary field where you can put a site address, this then appears under the client head office address. this is needed as i have a client with over 50 sites but currently the only workaround is to put the address ion the description line whcih clients done like as it needs to be as a header. this seems very easy to do. looking at the comments below this summary box can also be used for multiple PO numbers