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Description / Problem Statement:

When reviewing bills under Purchases > Bills > Awaiting Payment, there is currently no way to easily see whether the contact (supplier) belongs to a specific Contact Group.

Contact Groups are useful for organising suppliers (e.g. utilities, critical vendors, IT providers), but this information is only visible by opening each contact record individually. This makes it time‑consuming to identify priority suppliers or segment bills during payment reviews.

Proposed Enhancement:

Introduce either:

An optional column that displays the Contact Group(s) a supplier belongs to, and/or
An additional filter allowing users to filter bills by Contact Group directly from the Awaiting Payment screen.

This column/filter would follow the existing pattern used for other contextual information displayed in the Bills grid.

Example Use Cases:

Quickly identify bills from critical or priority suppliers before running payments
Separate utilities or direct debit suppliers from discretionary spend
Speed up internal review and approval processes without opening individual contact records
Improve visibility for finance teams managing a high volume of suppliers

User Benefit:

This would reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and make Contact Groups more actionable in day‑to‑day workflows — particularly during payment runs and cashflow management.

That would be really helpful for us as well. Having the Contact group field visible on the Bills to Pay screen would make it much easier to filter suppliers when preparing payment files. We also use contact groups to separate suppliers paid by Direct Debit and others that are paid on a fixed monthly schedule, so this improvement would help us avoid including the wrong invoices in BACS payments and streamline our payment process. Visit https://hillclimbracingmodapk.com.in/

Display Supplier Contact Group under the Bills to Pay screen is a really useful enhancement—it makes managing vendor communication much more organized and efficient. Having quick access to supplier details right where payments are handled saves time and reduces errors. A small feature like this can significantly improve workflow and productivity.

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We have assigned our supplier contacts into "how they are paid" groups which allows Aged Payables reporting by payment type, it would be so useful to be able to filter by group in the purchases - awaiting payment screen, and also be able to add the column "group" into the screen. This would make filtering by EFT suppliers, and exclude suppliers invoices that are paid by Direct Debit or Credit Cards etc.

In most large ERP's a supplier/vendor group allows a selection of payments to be made. For a number of our businesses, we need to pay Food and Beverage on particular days. We manage everything using Contact Groups, but in the Make a Payment screen, contact group isn't a filter. Would be a game changer if that was a field to filter by.

This is pretty usual for accounts payable systems to be able to group suppliers by payment type to eliminate Direct Debit vendors being picked up in an EFT payment run.

yes, please this would be really helpful for cash planning

this would help manage the weekly payments / cashflow a lot easier

There's another thread requesting this product idea: https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/46322308-bills-to-pay-ability-to-filter-by-contact-group

The ability to filter Bills for payment by contact group would be really helpful / time saving. In our case, we have a contact group set up for suppliers that will accept payment by Credit Card. It would be so helpful if we could filter by this group when doing our payment runs so we have a list on screen of just those in the Pay by Credit Card group.