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  1. At the moment, when a bill is sat in drafts, because it has gone through the upload process, it does not match with any unbilled purchase orders. Would be good if you could select the PO it relates to from a list or something

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  2. 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.

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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

  3. This idea ("Bills - Edit contact details (name, email, BSB, Account no.) when creating a bill") has been accepted by Kelly Munro on January 23rd 2026. HOWEVER it does not fix the issue of the inability to input the "first name" and "last name" in the Quick View. It allows "Name" which I understand could be a business name but it also could be an individual name. Currently I have to go and edit the contact details manually after the bill/invoice is created which is cumbersome and frustrating as almost all the fields are available to input via Quick View.…

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    Hi there, thanks for sharing this. We can see there’s a gap between what you’re looking for and what was covered in the previous idea.Based off of the feedback here, we’ll use this as a way to gauge how many people need the ability to edit the contact person directly from a bill. While this isn’t something we have immediate plans to work on, we’ll start tracking interest in this request and will share any updates here if that changes.

  4. It is not functional that Xero is NOT consistently detecting duplicate bills when they are entered.

    This is an important feature for maintaining data accuracy and preventing duplicate payments, At present, the duplicate detection appears unreliable or inconsistent.

    I believe this functionality should be escalated and reviewed for improvement, as users rely on this feature as a key accounting control.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  5. Statements - Set up Vendor Statement Cycle Date

    Update vendor settings to set a statement billing cycle to be offset from a calendar month. I have multiple vendors that cycle bills prior to calendar month end, and that impacts the month the bill is due. Xero's automatic due date will populate an incorrect due date if a bill falls between the statement cycle date and the calendar month end.

    For example, I have a vendor where my statement ends on the 25th of the month, and the bill due date is the 25th of the month following the statement cycle…

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  6. New upload bill functionality is great but would be so much better if you could use you camera

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  7. Allow simple editing of the photo of a bill taken in the Xero app when creating a new bill (draft bill or file \inbox).

    Primarily the ability to crop the image, but ideally some simple AI processing to straighten the bill, crop the borders & perhaps optimise the contrast & brightness

    1 vote

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  8. Allow bills created from the files inbox to use a default VAT rate which could be set in the supplier record, this will massivley speed review of these bill, or where the category is picked up by Xero, use the default VAT rate for that category.

    At the moment it takes longer to process bills through the inbox, than the old way as draft bills, although more information is recorded, I'm not sure of the benefit of a slower process

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  9. allow bills created from the files inbox to be accepted on creation not moved to the draft folder where they need to be reviewed again

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  10. There are currently only two options capturing Hubdoc images using the camera on the mobile app: Single or Multiple. The Multiple option ONLY refers to taking simultaneous pictures and uploading them as separate individual pictures. We need the ability to take multiple pictures and upload them as a single multi-page image using the mobile app. Dext (and other competitors) have had this ability for many years. Can Hubdoc please consider adding this functionality?

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  11. There are currently only two options capturing Hubdoc images using the camera on the mobile app: Single or Multiple. The Multiple option ONLY refers to taking simultaneous pictures and uploading them as separate individual pictures. We need the ability to take multiple pictures and upload them as a single multi-page image using the mobile app. Dext (and other competitors) have had this ability for many years. Can Hubdoc please consider adding this functionality?

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  12. A more streamlined document upload process for supplier invoices and bills would be a valuable addition.

    Useful features could include:

    • A dedicated “Uploads” section accessible from the main header
    • The ability to upload and preview PDF supplier invoices before bills are created or synced
    • A simple “Link to Existing Bill” function directly from the uploaded document
    • Visibility of key invoice details within the uploads screen, such as supplier invoice number, issue date and total amount

    This would significantly improve efficiency for businesses that sync bills from external job management or accounting systems, while also making accounts payable processing more streamlined.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  13. Split-screen (Quick View) bill approval removes rounding adjustments

    Hi team,
    I’ve run into a consistent issue when approving bills using the split-screen “Quick View” in Xero, and it’s starting to create real payment discrepancies.
    Scenario:
    • A supplier invoice includes rounding (e.g. total is $100.01)
    • I enter the bill and include a rounding adjustment (either via line item or total alignment)
    • The draft bill total matches the supplier invoice exactly
    Issue:
    • When I approve the bill using the split-screen preview (without opening the full bill),
    • Xero appears to recalculate the bill from line values
    • The…

    1 vote

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  14. Split-screen (Quick View) bill approval removes rounding adjustments → causes incorrect supplier payments

    Hi team,

    I’ve run into a consistent issue when approving bills using the split-screen “Quick View” in Xero, and it’s starting to create real payment discrepancies.

    Scenario:

    • A supplier invoice includes rounding (e.g. total is $100.01)
    • I enter the bill and include a rounding adjustment (either via line item or total alignment)
    • The draft bill total matches the supplier invoice exactly

    Issue:

    • When I approve the bill using the split-screen preview (without opening the full bill),
    • Xero appears to recalculate the bill from line values
    • The rounding…
    1 vote

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  15. We manage clients on a monthly service model and incur various expenses on their behalf, including subscriptions and operational costs. While Xero allows expenses to be marked as billable, there is no clear way to assign and track non-billable expenses at the customer level.
    This makes it difficult to measure true customer profitability, as not all costs are captured against the client.

    Proposed improvement:

    Allow both billable and non-billable expenses to be assigned to a customer.
    Enable reporting that shows total costs vs revenue per customer.
    This would provide a more accurate view of customer profitability for service-based businesses.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  16. When creating a bill from a Purchase Order the files saved with a Purchase Order carry across to the bill. This will mean all the relevant information can be seen with bill instead of searching backwards to the PO.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  17. When copying an invoice, we need to be able to copy and paste in the item code without it deleting all of the description, qty and cost.
    You can do this in classic invoicing, but when you do it in the updated invoicing it removes all the data on the line.

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  18. Allow Xero monthly subscription invoices to be sent via Xero to Xero using the Network Key.
    The instructions on the "Share your Xero network key with another Xero organisation" saye:

    Xero subscription invoices can't be sent through the Xero to Xero network. You’ll still receive your monthly subscription invoice by email.
    If I've shared my network key with the accountant we purchase our subscription through they should be able to submit via Network Key and it show as a draft bill in my Xero portal

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  19. I would like to see the suburb, state and postcode combined on a single line (in standard Australian address format). With the suburb, state and postcode on single lines, the address can end up being 8 lines or more.

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    Thanks for feeding back to us here, Nerida.

    We want to be upfront that we don't have any plans of changing the formatting of the address to a single line.

    However, if this is the way you'd prefer to format you can manually add all the address into one line of the Address section.

  20. Where the attachment is showing as being there it would be great to be able to hover over it and bring it up in a viewer window to check it rather than having to open the document up and then click into it to load it.

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