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  1. When a bill is in draft form, it would be good if this could be changed into a credit note without having to delete the bill and re enter this as a credit note. When suppliers email in credit notes, they appear as draft bills so would be great to have the option to convert into a credit note to save time and ease.

    As per the support specialist I've spoken to from Xero:
    At present, Xero doesn't have a direct function to automatically convert draft bills into draft credit notes. The standard process involves deleting the draft bill and…

    53 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We appreciate hearing the option to convert a draft bill into a credit note will improve your workflow.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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  2. Could you have an 'upload supplier credit notes' button, the same as you do for supplier invoices, because at the moment you have to enter any credit notes manually, and of course if you accidentally upload them under the supplier invoice button they appear as invoices and not credits!

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about expanding this feature to include credit notes (and not create them as bills).

    Now it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea. Make sure you share it with any colleagues it could also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!

    In the meantime, it's possible to bulk import credit notes using a CSV file, but not via this feature.

  3. Building on the product feature implementation of "Approve and Vie Next", it would be good to also be able to Submit Bills for Approval and view next, please.

    18 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how you'd like the bill approval process to be more efficient.


    We've reviewed this idea, and now it's up to the community to get behind it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit, so they can add their votes and comments to support this too!

  4. Reduce clicks in bill review by making "Approve and View Next" a sticky option.
    I push batches of bills from Veryfi and then need to review each to assign a custom property. Currently, I have to click the dropdown arrow on the "Approve" button and then click "Approve and View Next". Instead, change the default button option to be "Approve and View Next" after it has been selected once. Revert to "Approve" when the user leaves the screen.

    11 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea Chris and everyone who is voted/commented.

    We've reviewed the idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share the idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too! Cheers

  5. Navigation is clumsy - takes too many clicks to get anywhere. For example: Purchase > Bills, should then have options > All / Draft / Awaiting Approval / Awaiting Payment. Currently need to wait for Bills page to load, then select option.

    Same for bank accounts. Need option from top nav to go straight to bank account instead of having to go via Home page. EG: If not main BANKS option in main nav, then Accounting > Bank Accounts > (list of bank accounts to choose from).

    Most things at the moment take too many clicks. Once your hand is…

    8 votes

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    Hey team, thanks so much for sharing this idea and the detailed examples – this is really helpful. We’ve move it into the gaining support stage so it can be considered alongside other potential navigation improvements. Please encourage your friends and colleagues to vote and comment to support this idea ✨

  6. When entering or editing a bill I need to be able to enter and see the account code. At present, you can only see the account name.

    14 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Paul.

    We've reviewed your idea regarding the account codes visibility and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Feel free to share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  7. That would be great to make the Contact group field visible on the Bills to Pay screen to let us filter to certain contact groups when we are preparing a payment file.

    We use the contact groups for example to mark suppliers that are paid by Direct Debit, so this would be a useful feature to filter them out and do not pick their invoices up for a BACS payment.

    We also have another group of suppliers within the contact groups that we pay at once on the same day of each month so we would be able to easily…

    30 votes

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    Thanks, Marianna for submitting your idea.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  8. Fix the Xero App that your programmers broke, please.

    When approving bills in the app it removes any decimal places beyond 2 and changes the final bill amount. The notes against the bill don't show this. I have marked up screen shots attached.

    The Xero App has been broken for year now and having to manually change thousands of bills in a year because you broke your own program is a joke. Asking a business owner who works 60-80 hours a week to log in to his computer instead of the app on his phone to approve bills is not…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing images, Fiona.

    Taking a look into your communications with our support team it does appear there was a bit of confusion and oversight by our team when you first got in touch. We apologise for this and I'd like to provide some clarification around the idea you've raised here.

    What is currently possible within the Xero Accounting app does differ between Sales and Purchases.

    While it's possible to view Sales credit notes that are awaiting approval, this hasn't yet been built into the Purchases side. To approve a Supplier credit note, you'll currently need to log into the web version of Xero.

    We're working to develop the Xero Accounting app to add more functionality with growing needs from our customers in what they need to do on the go. We'll start to get a sense of interest from the community in this here, and I'll update if…

  9. New Bill Button - Please bring back the single click New Bill button. Anywhere I click on the New Bill button gives me a dropdown menu, requiring mouse movement and a second click. I would expect this to function in the same way as the new invoice button where you can click on the button to generate a new bill or you can click on the arrow down to see the dropdown menu. Bring back the single click efficiency.

    17 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback on this change, Patricia. Out of interest is there a particular reason or workflow for why you prefer to enter your bills manually rather than via an upload?

    Appreciate, will take a little getting used to a different flow. A couple of other options for navigating to the new bill screen could also be;

    • Using the keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shift+N) from the bills screen
    • Using the '+' icon in the navigation header to quickly Create a new Bill from any screen
    • Using '/' and typing 'b' in the global search where you'll get the option of New bill from any screen

    While we'll get a sense of interest in this through your idea, we want to be open that there aren't any plans for changing this back.

  10. There should be the option to delete the duplicate bill instead of void option in xero.

    5 votes

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    Hi Khem , thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.Cheers!

  11. MY e-invoicing requires a tracking category in Xero. As we have clients which requires 2 tracking categories for their businesses, it is impossible to free up 1 tracking category for e-invoicing. Please look into this matter by considering adding a new tracking specific for e-invoicing.

    41 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the appetite in this idea for being able to add more tracking categories to suit the needs of eInvioicing in Malaysia. We want to be open that while we have improvements planned for eInvoicing in Malaysia, increasing tracking categories isn't in our plans right now.

    I understand some in the conversation here may already be doing this however to highlight for others - Right now, if you use a Tracking category for this purpose you can also look to add a default tracking to a contacts record which may help with auto assigning these codes for customers you trade with frequently.

    We will continue to watch the interest through this idea closely, and share if there are any updates.

  12. You can set your company preference to tax exclusive or tax inclusive, but the Xero email bills to Xero function does not follow the company settings and always puts to tax inclusive. Can this be as per the company settings? Eg we would like it to always be tax exclusive.

    12 votes

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    Thanks Dominique, for submitting your idea!

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now open for the community to support.

    Other Xero users can now vote for your idea and add comments to share how it could enhance their own Xero experience.

  13. Before this latest upgrade, when you created a Bill from a Purchase order, the PO number was up at the top of the screen, so you could add it easily to the Bill, now it's not there!!! This is annoying have to write it down. Love this to come back PLEASE.

    4 votes

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    Hi Kim thanks for sharingthis idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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  14. It would be fantastic and much more efficient if the bulk uploading of bills allowed for the bills to be entered by individual line item.
    At the moment it gives one line, without a description- with the grand total of the bill which defeats a lot of the purpose of being able to bulk upload bills, as they still need to be manually adjusted.
    Xero have already shown it has the ability to extract data from a bill but haven't taken the feature to it's full potential

    8 votes

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    Hi Michelle thanks for sharing this with us here, can appreciate having the ability to itemise the bills on upload instead of just the one line. Currently this is possible via Hubdoc, you can read more about it here. We recommend raising a case with our support team for more details.

    For now, we've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  15. Make Melio payments work as well in Xero as embedded bill.com payments used to work. make it half as good.

    3 votes

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    Appreciate the feedback on the Melio bill payments solution within Xero here team. I have shared this back with our product team and we will keep a close eye and share if there are any improvements around the syncing of data planned like you've noted here.

  16. It would be useful to add supplier bank account details when creating a bill.
    This would save time from having to edit the newly created contact after creating the bill.

    2 votes

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    Hi team, this idea has been created from feedback on this larger thread.

    We're keen to get a better understanding of the interest in being able to add supplier details when creating a new contact during bill entry.

    This isn't something we have plans for the time being but will keep a close eye on the support this idea receives here. Thanks

  17. When receiving a Xero customer statement from a supplier, it would be great if we could select all the invoices and add them to our company's Xero in bulk.

    Our supplier sends paper invoices during deliveries, and only sends a digital Xero customer statement at the end of the month. Rather than having to scan all the paper invoices, being able to add them IN BULK from the Xero customer statement directly into our Xero account would save a lot of time. Currently, the invoices have to be opened in a new window and individually added as drafts.

    1 vote

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    Aaah gotcha, good to hear you're already across the Upload bills feature and appreciate the extra work you've mentioned.

    Not something that we have plans around at this time but we'll track interest here and I'll let you know if there are any updates. Thanks!

  18. Purchases Tab: would like to see Billable expenses not billed.

    14 votes

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    We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    Our Community have reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  19. You have today added a great new feature - the ability to upload Accounts Payable invoices to generate the Draft transaction.

    Can I suggest that you have a look at the options available after the invoice has been approved, to then quickly navigate back to the Draft Bills.

    This is because it's likely that we upload in batches then approve, however to navigate back to Draft to pick up the next invoice takes quite a few steps!

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how the workflow could be improved for you, when you're importing and approving bills.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!

  20. Instead of uploading bills and credit notes separately, how hard would it be to upload them all the same, then you can choose in a drop down box or similar as you approve them if they are a bill or credit.

    3 votes

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    Hi Hayden, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero. Cheers

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