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Often we receive partial deliveries from one factory for several purchase orders. It would be great to be able to apply the amounts delivered to each purchase order and know the balance and value of items left for the factory to deliver. It would also help with work in progress and cash flow. Currently using a spreadsheet to track this behind the scenes, which is creating double work.

The ability to select items on a PO to move to an invoice showing the PO is partially used/ invoiced.
For example, if we had a po for 5 sets of £100.00 and only 3 sets of £100 had been invoiced to date, it would be great if the PO on xero could show 2 remaining.

We push our bills through from AutoEntry and it would be good if you could part bill a PO. So when you publish the bill the PO is remains for the balance.

Will there be another update on this? I can see the report shows PO totals by Contact, however, it's not very useful as a report to determine outstanding balance on each Purchase Order x Invoices is crucial, otherwise it's too time consuming to do it manually and also keep a separate control for this.

we have multiple purchase orders where small deposits have been paid upfront. There is no option to mark the payment against the PO. We can only do it once the goods have arrived where we then convert to an invoice and mar off paid from there.

With multiple international suppliers, this is very frustrating as there are several PO which are showing as the full amounts as there is no way of deducting the figure we paid upfront

We are buying and selling all day and it is nice showing that an item from inventory is on order but when we start receiving items, we need to show what we have had and what is still outstanding.

Are Xero going to look into implementing this feature soon? Its a real sticking point for us. Xero excels in so many other areas but purchase orders are really poor!

Being able to record a partial bill and see the remaining outstanding PO balance would be very helpful for our industry. Often work is exceeding several months however we have subcontractors providing support and invoicing us every month. Being able to understand how much of our PO they have consumed without having to do a bunch of note reading is vital information to ensure they don't overbill us and put us over budget on our projects.

Did anyone find a solution to this? Has anyone perhaps used any 3rd party software to get into the back end data or used SQL to get it.

We can't report our European VAT properly as a result of lacking the visibility to see what invoices are raised against which PO's. We can't match our purchases to our sales without drilling into every single PI and writing the PO number next to the PO.

Xero is lacking some seriously basic functionality for a so called accounts system. I remember 10 years ago seeing Xero and thinking this is the future. 10 years on it's exactly as it was back then with no further dev.

I am chatting with a few companies on getting access to back end data to see what's possible but if anyone can share their experiences with 3rd party software I'd appreciate it.

@Xero, this has been an ongoing issue raised by many, many people over 10 years - since 2014, according to this thread alone. Its time to stop making reports look prettier, and start actually focussing on functionality and the needs of your users. This is a pretty basic requirement, I can't possibly understand why 10 years later it's still not resolved?

It would be great to be able to see what items have been billed and what is yet to be billed in the Purchase Order. This would save a lot of time for some of my clients.

Hi, Do we know when there will be an update so you can run a report to see your balance remaining? May have to go to another software for that purpose if it's going to be a while.

It would be great if the lines on the purchase state if it's been invoiced or what the remaining quantity is as it very time consuming to check the multiple bills against a large purchase

Please can you advise WHEN this is going to be resolved. Not very useful if you cannot print a report to determine outstanding balance on each Purchase Order!!! A very basic business requirement.

Please give us the ability to bill from individual PO lines or even partial billing against one/more lines and retain only the un-billed lines/balances of those lines on the PO.

It would be great to be able to link bills that were forwarded to Xero via emails to their corresponding purchase orders. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only way I'm able to link bills to the purchase orders is by copying a purchase order to a bill.

yet another basic function within Xero that goes unnoticed.

I vote for this too please. We need the ability to match an invoice partially against a PO. Instead, I am having to amend the PO amount to the invoiced amount and create a new PO for the difference. This is a real time waster. I am surprised it is not available yet.

Basic functionality that an accounts system should offer!

Purchase Orders To Show Reducing Balances When Bills Are Created Against Them.
Some POs are Billed against over months or years so it would be a game-changer for current POs to show the reducing balance as each Bill is created against it, ideally line by line. Also to be able to link a new PO to an existing Bill would be helpful when one happens before the other - life happens.