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I'd like to request the restoration of a feature that was previously available in Xero — the ability to copy an invoice directly to a Purchase Order.

**The Current Limitation**

At present, when using the 'Copy to' function on an invoice, users are only able to copy it to:
- A draft invoice, or
- A quote

The option to copy to a Purchase Order is no longer available.

**Why This Matters**

There are many common business scenarios where copying an invoice to a purchase order is a logical and time-saving step. For example:

- A customer invoice is raised, and a corresponding purchase order needs to be created for the goods or services being sourced to fulfil it
- Recurring orders where an invoice serves as the basis for a new PO in the next cycle
- Businesses that work from customer-approved invoices before raising supplier purchase orders

Without this functionality, users must manually recreate the purchase order from scratch, re-entering line items, quantities, and descriptions that already exist on the invoice — which is inefficient and introduces unnecessary risk of error.

**The Suggested Improvement**

Simply reinstating 'Purchase Order' as an option within the existing 'Copy to' dropdown on an invoice would restore this workflow. This was previously available and its removal has added unnecessary manual steps for many users.

Thank you for considering this request. It would be a welcome return for those of us who relied on this feature.

Its been another year..Your 'Team' aren't monitoring the situation. You are just outright ignoring it.

The copy to function already exists from PO to inv, from PO to Bill from inv to bill and every other simple direction know except the one we would use the most as drop shippers from an Invoice to a Purchase order...

What makes it worse is we used to have it and your 'development team' fail to put it back in with the new invoicing layout.

Pick up your game team

The ability to copy data from Invoice to Purchase order remains with the latest update however the ITEM CODE does not transfer over to the purchase order. This results in having to reenter the item codes before sending the PO to a client/supplier. This is time consuming.

Please note that clearing browsing data/cache does not work.
Please note that even when ticking the item code box in invoice settings this still does not work.

There is something missing in the latest update as the issue only started happening early February 2026.

Please assist

We used to be able to copy the invoice over to purchase order and it would pull your products over at the stored prices etc, so much easier that re-entering everything - I desperately want this feature back!!

The request for multiple delivery addresses per contact is over a decade old. Don't expect quick action from Xero. The maddening thing is that this used to be possible in classic invoicing, and it is still possible in new quotes, so why not here!

I have vintage wine that's younger than this feature request!

Xero - do the thing. I beg.
I don't need to explain why as so many others have here.
Only replying to increase traction.

It’s now been almost a year with no update or acknowledgment.

Please, out of professional courtesy, provide a simple update, whether good or bad, so affected businesses can plan accordingly.

yet another year goes by and Xero continue to ignore the customers....The OLD invoice page had a copy to Purchase order button..

How hard could it be to put it back...

ignorance....

PLEASE ALLOW CONVERSION OF INVOICE TO PURCHASE ORDER. NOT JUST IN QUOTES AS THIS CAN MAKE MISTAKES IF A QUOTE WAS CONVERTED TO INVOICE AND THEN A CHANGE WAS MADE AT INVOICE STAGE, QUOTE WOULDN'T REFLECT THIS.

Having now seen further subtle changes to the Purchase Order screen, I feel it’s necessary to ask again for clear confirmation regarding a key feature: will the ability to “copy an invoice to a purchase order from the list views” remain, or is it being removed?

This functionality is essential to our operations, and the lack of communication on this point is causing understandable concern. I previously asked for clarification but received no response, so I am requesting a direct yes/no answer this time.

Clear guidance would be greatly appreciated so that we can prepare and adjust our processes accordingly.

Thank you.

If I get an order for several different machined parts, I create a draft invoice. Sometimes that invoice gets copied to up to 4 different suppliers of materials. The reason for copying rather than creating the PO is so we can see the trace in the history of that invoice. I can simply click on the PO in the history to take me to the related supplier PO.
This is now very tedious with this work around method.
I was told to put any ideas here to help put 'new' features on Xero. This isn't a new feature, I just want it back to how it was.
It's bad enough that copying from one invoice to another no longer shows as a trail in the history.

Hi Kelly, we haven’t received any feedback yet on whether we will still be able to “copy an invoice to a purchase order or bill from the list views” as recommended above. I’m aware there are planned changes to
Purchase Orders, but given the recent removal of several critical Invoice functions, it would be reassuring to know that this capability will remain.

Could you please confirm whether copying invoices directly to purchase orders will still be supported in the future?

Your response would be appreciated.

It's baffling that new quotes has a copy to purchase order option but new invoicing doesn't. They've made the code to drag things from the sales side to the purchase side but haven't implimented it in the amazing new invoicing, which we were told would make it easier for them to add new things.

We're still waiting for them to add the old things!

I just asked Jax to copy an invoice to purchase order and it couldn't do it, has anyone found a use for Jax yet? Every time I try it, it either can't do it, or does such a poor job I end up doing it again myself from scratch.

Stop shoehorning in AI where it doen't belong and fix the broken mess that is new invoicing!

With the upcoming changes to purchase orders, can you confirm that you will not remove the only remaining method of copying an invoice to a purchase order, as described above? Xero has a habit of removing critical functions without warning, so we’d appreciate the opportunity to plan ahead.

I dread purchase orders!!! Please bring back copy to PO from Invoicing.

I have found you can copy from and invoice to quote, and then copy quote to PO then that works, but then I have to delete the quote which painful.

PLEASE GET THIS DONE ASAP!!!

Current process is too time consuming...

MAKE IT A PRIORITY!

This feature was in the old system but was removed, WHY?? If something ain't broke, don't change it

Xero please get this done!!!

We sell commercial office furniture and the way it works with us is that we create items to be used as barebones for informtion because of the infinite ways an item can be specified. For example item 40562:
Office Task Chair
Fabric:
Mechanism:
Arm code:
Base color:

During the quote, the rest of the information is filled out based on what the customer picked. When we create a purchase order using the "copy to" feature, all of that information is lost and needs to be entered again. This is madness. Who wouldn't want to purchase what the customer approved?!

This should be an easy fix by just adding a checkbox that says "Copy as entered". You already do this when you convert a purchase order into a bill.