Bills - Pay Bill electronically from within Xero
Ability to automatically pay supplier bills from within Xero, withouth having to login to online banking.
Purpose: To make it easier to pay bills, rather than having to jump between two different platforms.
Hi team, thank you for sticking with us on this one. Online bill payments are now live in Australia through Airwallex, so you can pay supplier bills directly from Xero without logging into online banking.
As mentioned in my last update;
- In the US we have bill pay powered by Melio, with quick payments and contact syncing.
- We offer bill pay with Crezco for our UK customers, including international payments with 32+ currencies supported.
We’re reviewing the experience across additional regions and will continue to share updates as we learn more and make further progress.
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Judy Ford
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UK payments is critical and the ability to have no restrictions on number of transactions per payment
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Lyall Zweck
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Thanks for the feedback, Nigel.
I was considering trying this for one of our businesses but on the basis of your comments, I'll not bother.
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Nigel Williamson
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Thanks Kelly. Great to see some progress on this. But the Airwallex solution is currently sub-optimal. It doesn't work well with payment batches or remittance advices (they are non customisable so can't add own branding, have Airwallex branding), and bank details attached to payments are those of Airwallex instead of the payer, which would cause confusion on identifying payments.
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Jill Fechner
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I now have an extra column for a feature that I would have to pay for, as it is not included in my subscription. I do not have an option to hide that action column, and no way to dismiss the annoying pop-up telling me how to pay my bills. I will not be paying Xero more for the ability to pay my bills, thank you very much!
I need a way to dismiss the pop=up and hide teh column asap -
Sarah Willfield
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Would be critical for our small business to have the ability to pay bills directly from Xero within Australia without having to login to the banking platform. Either bank transfer or debt/credit card payment would be ideal.
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Finbarr O'Leary
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This feature is now being offered every single time you select an invoice to make payment, with a pop up window that does not give the option to 'Don't show me again.'
Please add this option so that I don't have an additional step permanently embedded in the payment process. Xero, if I ever choose to pay extra money to link our bank(s) to another third party, I promise you'll be the first to know.
Until then, please allow me to opt out of constant upselling.
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Anikam Anikam
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We are looking for a feature, where we can directly pay to our vendors directly from Xero in a single click given inside every bill.
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Tracy Pender
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BILL for new US customers no longer works. When will there be replacement for ACH bill pay?
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Alan Tran
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This would be really useful!
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Brendan Tate
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Ability to automatically upload batch payment files via API / integration to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. This will streamline having to manually download and upload batch payment files to another system for processing the payment.
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Shannon Mullins
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Is there a way for a US Xero subscriber to pay an international vendor/bank via the platform (vs. a separate subscription to Bill.com, say)? For example, I'm only seeing the ability to input a supplier's bank account and routing number but the UK vendor banking info I have uses IBAN/SWIFT/Sort Code.
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Leon Dehari
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As we know, Xero UK allows you to pay bills directly through the 'awaiting payment' tab. However, this doesn't seem to be the case for Xero GLOBAL Clients, some of whom use exactly the same bank accounts but just happen to be based outside UK so need Xero Global for other purposes.
It would be helpful if Xero could implement the direct bill payments for these companies as it is so much hassle to pay these bills manually one by one. (I.e. dutch based foundation making payments in GBP with wise bank account can't use the function as it is using Xero Global rather than Xero UK).
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Julian Cheetham
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Xero used to do this for some banks in NZ, it was withdrawn last year.
Xero support, very painful to continue to see loss of key functions coupled with increase in prices.
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Angus Jaffray
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The current options for payment are very poor.
1) I recorded the sequence for creating a batch file and then paying in online banking. It took 16 clicks! More than half of these were in Xero. That is very clunky.
2) I can maually go into online banking and pay. This is much faster but then I have to retype the payment reference which creates opportunity for error.Surely you can link an instruction directly from Xero to pay from the bank account.
Angus
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Robert Tersigni
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We are converting from Sage 50 to Xero .... I am truly shocked that Xero does not have this capability. , this can be a simple data export . Sage 50 has this feature. and that system is a DINOSAUR!
--- Has anyone had any luck building a macro to build the EFT 80 Byte File outside of Xero? ... I can not believe I have to go down this path
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Heather Rogers
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ACh deposit
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Sharon Williams
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This is a basic service now in Canada why don't we have this???
Bank cheques are now a fraud risk that is higher than the EFT. -
Nicole Gebhardt
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My vendors send me a Quickbooks invoice with an ACH payment option embedded and all I have to do is enter my bank account info and it's saved in their system for all future payments.
Why is this not an obvious feature of Xero too?
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Jade To
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For those in Australia, we have been using a third party app Parakeet for BPAY and bank account supplier payments. Bypass the use of any ABA files or bpay files. For those interested, they are in the app store. https://apps.xero.com/au/app/parakeet
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Andrew Ball
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Agree with Shane - this is being requested not only for UK, but for other countries.