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The concern from nearly 600 upvoters here, is NOT about physically issuing foreign currency payments, Kelly. We have all figured that out already. The ACTUAL concern, is that Xero does not allow you to RECORD said payment.

This is more than a matter of efficiency as Luan Wotlemaro aptly describes below. I must add, emphatically, this is a COMPLIANCE issue. My business operates "in trust for" its clients which means we handle money that does not belong to us and we are legally required to account for every penny of our clients' money we handle. We have to be able to say to the client we sent you X.XX much and it was for X Y and Z assets.

The structure and coding for batch payment recording (and subsequently the ability to produce a remittance containing the list of all bills included in the payment) already exists in Xero for your home currency. All Xero needs to do is copy and paste that SAME functionality across all currencies.

I hope that clears up the concern Kelly and that you ensure your development team are actually addressing the thing you have promised to develop, because your recent "update" indicates you are off on a side quest unrelated to the actual thing we have all upvoted here.

I strongly support this feature request. In addition to the ability to batch-pay multiple foreign currency bills, it would be extremely beneficial if Xero could generate one consolidated payment remittance advice covering all invoices included in the batch payment.

This is particularly important for organisations that regularly process multiple supplier payments in foreign currencies. Currently, processing and reconciling each invoice individually is time-consuming and creates unnecessary administrative work.

Having a single payment remittance that clearly lists every invoice paid, including the invoice number, amount and currency, along with the total payment amount, would significantly improve efficiency and provide suppliers with a clear breakdown of payments made.

It would also strengthen payment tracking, simplify supplier reconciliations and reduce follow-up queries from suppliers who need confirmation of which invoices have been settled.

I believe this enhancement would be a valuable improvement to Xero's accounts payable functionality, particularly for businesses and organisations that regularly make bulk payments across multiple currencies

Maybe, but that's the wrong way, if you're reconciling a bank statement it should be for a payment that already exists otherwise it's just yet another shortfall in the way the development team at Xero are forcing people to operate. In summary: Xero are wrong.

I use the Bank Reconciliation Screen to apply a single payment (in any currency) to bills (even in a different currency). Just need to be careful that you're watching the exchange rate.

Why are your replies always so bloody idiotic? Don't bother replying if you're not going to add any value, otherwise it's just going to **** all of us off even more.

As usual, you're only coming up with a half-assed response Kelly, you should be ashamed of yourself. We don't only want the ability to interface payments with the bank, but the ability to pay a batch of invoices to the same foreign currency supplier without having to enter a payment for each individual bill and then try and match it together later. Get your head out of your behind and focus on what's needed and stop forcing people to do things in such a weird way.

Shockingly short sighted, again. I shall have to report your incompetence to the Xero board again.

To be absolutely clear, we are not asking Xero to pay foreign-currency bills.

We are asking for the ability to select multiple FX invoices and allocate them to a payment that we have already made independently, allowing us to generate a remittance and subsequently reconcile the transaction easily.

It is incredibly frustrating to see hundreds of comments from customers explaining essentially the same requirement, in many different ways, while the responses from Xero continue to address a different problem.

There is clearly a disconnect between what customers are actually requesting and what Xero's technical team believes is being requested.

This is fundamentally an invoice allocation and remittance workflow issue, not a request for Xero to facilitate foreign-currency payments.

You’ve got to be taking the ****!! The online bill payments is not a solution. We simply want to mark the bills as paid in bulk like we do with the GBP bills. Luckily, Hedgeflows has come up with a solution. Xero, you’re an absolute joke!!!!

I complete agree with the recent comments made about this. To be honest I am getting so board of making basic 'feature requests' that are completely ignored by Xero, whilst they spend time (and money) introducing features that are of no interest to me. PLEASE fix the basic stuff, before moving onto the 'nice to haves'!!!

I have started using Hedgeflows off the back of Alex’s comment in May, and cannot recommend them enough. I started using them as a solution to batch reconciling and batch remittance advices for our Euro suppliers (we’re a UK company), but actually found their FX platform to be more competitive than our current provider, so we now use them for all our EUR payments. It links perfectly with Xero and a process which previously took hours each week, takes minutes. Definitely give them a go as it’s worked wonders for us, seen as Xero hasn’t bothered. Alex has always been extremely helpful and quick to add in additional features to make it even more efficient.

I have started using Hedgeflows off the back of Alex’s comment in May, and cannot recommend them enough. I started using them as a solution to batch reconciling and batch remittance advices for our Euro suppliers (we’re a UK company), but actually found their FX platform to be more competitive than our current provider, so we now use them for all our EUR payments. It links perfectly with Xero and a process which previously took hours each week, takes minutes. Definitely give them a go as it’s worked wonders for us, seen as Xero hasn’t bothered. Alex has always been extremely helpful and quick to add in additional features to make it even more efficient.

Kathryn, Claire - following up on my comment from May, since the thread has picked up again.

HedgeFlows' Bills to Xero has been live since July, and our clients have already used it to record tens of thousands of bills.

On Claire’s point: you select the bills against your foreign currency bank account; they’re recorded in Xero as paid in one go, and one remittance listing every bill goes to the supplier the same day.

You don’t wait for the bank feed, and it can work for accounts with no feed at all. Payments stay with your own bank.

Interactive demo here: https://hedgeflows.storylane.io/share/ppkr9cxfzwhe

For context, HedgeFlows is an FCA-authorised fintech and a certified Xero app partner. I’m a co-founder and CFO - alex@hedgeflows.com

Hi Kathryn, I'm Mordechai, a developer. For the last six months I've been building a finance tool with a CFO who uses it every day.

Your post is exactly what we built for: one foreign-currency payment covering several bills, and one remittance that lists every bill for the supplier. It isn't a banking solution. Your bank stays yours, and it only reads from Xero.

Here it is on a demo company, 26 seconds (attached).

It's exciting to see the problem put so clearly. If it looks useful, reach out: mordechaipotash@gmail.com

Leslie, I agree this is how I sometimes manage for FX payments from our AUD trading account, but unfortunately there can be a timing delay between creating the payment when the remittance advice is ideally sent and the payment occurring on the bank statement. This delay can lead to errors as the bills appear unpaid until the bank feed comes through, making it harder to spot due payments in the awaiting payments list. Our Foreign currency account, however, does not have a bank feed so this is not a solution for those payments.

If you're importing your foreign account statement into Xero, on the reconcile page you can match the statement line to multiple foreign currency bills. Then go into the account transactions page and click on the payment and send remittance from there. Creating the batch on the bills page would be a far tidier solution (especially since we can't get automatic bank feeds for our foreign currency accounts, so it means doing a manual import every time you want to send a remittance advice), but it's at least a simpler workaround than individually marking each bill as paid.

Also agree with Kathryn. We do not need a banking solution, we already have FX in place with our own banking institutions. It's about efficiently recording a batch payment to an overseas supplier. One posting for multiple invoices and one remittance advice per one payment. Having to manually record a payment to each of many bills in one payment is painful and incorrect.

Absolutely I agree with Kathryn and Kim, my clients sometimes have 20 or 30 invoices for a single supplier in a month there will paid by one single bank payment and yet in zero we have to **** about making 20 or 30 different remittance advice is to send to the client that then annoys the customer because they can't see directly or easily then make up of the payment they've received - especially if it's in a currency that's different from the customer account where perhaps they're receiving an equivalent value of a foreign currency.

Agree 100% with Kathryn Dredge. It is a massive hole in the process. We are paying extra for FX but we can't pay our suppliers? This isn't purely about efficiency, it is a basic functionality that is missing.

I don't think your solution here addresses the actual issue. When we make a foreign currency payment we may pay a number of invoices for one supplier in one bank transaction. But we can't manually create a batch payment to reflect the same bank movement, we have to individually pay off each invoice. This also means we can't send the supplier a remittance for the entire payment. I don't want you to provide a banking solution, I want an accounting solution to be able to pay multiple invoices in one batch, send a remittance and easily reconcile my bank account.

Quickbooks can do this very easily, for it's faults. If this isn't brought online in the next days, I am going to have to move away from Xero because this is stupid.