Purchase Order - Option to choose percentage is calculated from amount instead of quantity
You can only select the quantity to bill when creating a bill based on an existing purchase order. However, other businesses, like Amazon, divide their invoices and add promotions, discounts, and other deductions to their Invoices. When you place a five-item order on Amazon, it may be divided into five invoices. A promotion or discount will be applied to the initial order total, but it will be divided among all invoices.
This means that we are unable to use the Xero's purchase orders percentage calculation tool if we have a PO with a promotion or discount applied and the PO was divided into several invoices. Because you are only able to select the quantity, not the amount, that you wish to bill when making a bill. To use this tool effectively, this is essential. We are now unable to determine how much is remaining to be billed. It would be great if Xero could offer the option to each business via their settings, if the percentage tool is based on quantity of items or an option to use an amount from the total.
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Thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that you’re asking for the percentage billed on a purchase order to be calculated from the monetary amount, rather than quantity, so that discounts, promotions and purchase orders split across multiple bills are reflected more accurately.
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