Bill Payments - Use supplier account number as Payee reference
Option to use supplier account number as Payee reference when making Open Banking payments by direct bank transfer.
Currently the Supplier account number is not displayed anywhere.
It defaults the Payee reference to the Bill reference which is fine when paying single bills to a supplier. However, if I want to make a single payment to the supplier for multiple bills (group by Payee option), we would want to enter our Supplier Account number as the Payee reference. See attached.
Hitesh Panchmatia
shared this idea
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Emily Paul
commented
Allow the default financial ref to be used in the pay online section. It currently uses the invoice number meaning that every time I create a batch for online bill payment I have to manually enter our account number for each bill. Plus as it is per bill I cant batch the supplier invoices until all of the ref's for each individual supplier are the same.
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Alan Steele
commented
I can't believe this is still open. It is an obvious bug that supplier reference is not filled in by the ystem.
Why even have that field if it is goinjg to be ignored?
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Chris Stokes
commented
This is a brilliant idea, I prepare payments to be authorised by a director. I have to send them a seperate email with the references to use, when they click "group payments" it removes all the references i have entered and returns them to a blank
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Julie Richardson
commented
So time consuming having to enter the payee reference to each supplier payment when paying more than one invoice
If paying one invoice Xero will add the invoice number as reference, why can't we have a field for payee reference on the contact that will pull through to the payment and save a lot of time. -
John Shiel
commented
In 'Bills to Pay', when I make a payment to a supplier, I always copy and paste the Supplier's reference into the Xero reference box (and maybe add more text after that).
I am willing to bet that a LOT of Xero users do the same, or leave it blank.
So why not PRE-POPULATE that field with the reference given by the supplier? (Or have a button which does that for you)?
Either way is a lot less irritating than what we have now. -
Margaret Thackray
commented
When I pay multiple bills to one supplier and reconcile in the bank account, I can't enter anything as a reference. I would like to be able at least to manually enter the supplier's name but even that is not possible! Are there more options in other packages? (I use Standard)
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John Cartlidge
commented
+1 on this, it's insane that it's not a basic feature, this is surely standard bookkeeping practice
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Graham Dixon
commented
Really important - Totally agree - many suppliers insist we use our customer account number as payment reference, and not the invoice number, when paying their invoices. However Xero defaults to the invoice number, or if multiple invoices are paid as group, then we have to enter the payee reference manually every time, despite this being saved in the Financial details of the Supplier in Xero. This is becoming really annoying when paying 70+ invoices to 30+ suppliers and having to enter the payee reference every time.
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Anita | Botham's of Whitby
commented
Yes I agree - or be able to save a default 'Reference' to use when paying multiple bills either at company level (eg a short company name) or at supplier level as the poster suggests.
Here is my example of faff I have had to edit before paying our bill today, and this is only about 1/3 of the bills.... seems unnecessary time which could be saved.