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  1. I would like easier access for entering multiple spend money transactions with a preview screen

    I suggest either;

    1) a separate email to send spend money receipts to like bills have; or

    2) when entering spend money transaction, after clicking save and add another, allow the preview pane to be available after attaching a file so you can still see the details of the receipt when entering (just like the preview is there when you enter a spend money from the files section) otherwise you have to go out of spend money and back to files just so you have…

    7 votes

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    Thanks for your idea, Katie. Appreciate how you've thought of multiple ways we could help in the process you're after here.

    While we'll gain specific interest in being able to change a bill to a spend money from your idea here, I also wanted to highlight this one for being able to set up separate emails in a contact for different transaction types. I've made sure to add your vote to that too so if there are any updates to tackle this from that view you'll be notified, too.

  2. On Xero bills, as well as being able to filter and search for purchase invoices by contact or invoice reference, being able to search by a nominal code would be helpful. For example, making a payment run for all of one type of cost; finding any invoices that have not been allocated properly or for finding amounts that need to be included in management accounts.

    3 votes

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    Hi Mike, we appreciate your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    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.

  3. I have wasted HOURS of my time trying to figure out how to get repeating bills to show up. Would be extremely helpful if instead of "Next Bill Date" you say "create bill date" or "generate bill date" which is what I finally figured out it actually IS. "Next bill date" in this instance is very confusing; it's natural to put in the bill date for the following month.

    3 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 comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  4. It would be really handy when downloading bills if the default file name is the Reference [invoice] number and not a random internal Xero reference or document ID. Even better would be Supplier name + Reference [invoice] number

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    Thanks, Jo, for sharing your idea! We've reviewed it, and it's now live for the community to support. Other Xero users can now vote and comment on how it would improve their Xero experience.

  5. It would be nice to have a reminders function for Suppliers just like with Customers.

    We work with a very long list of Suppliers in some of our clients' companies. It could be a nice feature to have scheduled reminders go out to some suppliers that you always have to chase down for invoices/statements.

    4 votes

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    Good to understand the needs of our different customers an that some times you may need to chase a supplier for an invoice, Lezelle.

    This isn't something we have plans for atm, but we'll get a sense of the interest from community through your idea here.

  6. In instances where a contact is both a supplier and customer, can the system merge all transactions onto one statement for ease of reconciliations for the contact.

    12 votes

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    Hi team, while this is an idea we'd like to track interest in demand for, I want to be upfront that there are no plans for developing a consolidated statement of account that encompasses both bills and invoices at this point.

    Right now, if this is a view you're after an option may be to run the Contact Transactions Summary report that'll provide a summary of your receivable, payable and cash transactions for a contact over a period, that you could then export to provide your contact.

  7. When you go to add a bill it does not give option to upload.

    Can shortcut keys not go on top to show add new bill upload new bill? it would be much handier

    5 votes

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    Hi Patrick, just returning to your idea we appreciate with the new upload bills feature you'd like to be able to use this from more places throughout Xero. I've slightly amended the title of your idea and just wanted to highlight that Upload bills is now available from the Bills to pay widget on the new Homepage 🙂

    If there are any plans for more shortcuts on this I'll share with you all here.

  8. Xero subscription - Have a way to turn the e-invoice into a new repeating bill so that it can show up in the bills you need to pay widget. I know I could create a new repeating bill but I can not see an option that will let the Reference and the line description update to what is on the e-invoice.

    6 votes

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    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.

  9. For invoices received, allow settings to open the invoice for processing, especially for repeat bills. Invoices received from e.g. Municipalities uses the account number as pwd to open their invoice. Settings for this would be useful for automation of invoices received

    2 votes

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    We really appreciate you sending in your idea and letting us know which changes matter most! We've reviewed your submission, and it's now ready for the community to get behind it.

    Why not build momentum by sharing this with any colleagues who would find it useful so they can vote too! Other users can now comment to expand on how your idea could enhance their Xero experience.

  10. My company operates from multiple sites. Would like the ability to customise the purchase overview page, so you can filter on the sites

    2 votes

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    Hi team, returning to the idea here, while not available in the Purchase overview I'd like to highlight Profitability Visualisations within Xero Analytics which may provide the information you're looking for here, including the ability to filter by Tracking.

    As an example,you could explore Expenses, and use the Filter to drill into just looking at the Tracking options you're interested.

    You'll find if you hover over the results of your graph you can get a quick pulse on the Trends, Top transactions, and Top Contacts that make up the results.

    It'd be great to hear if this solves for your needs here.

  11. Option to link bill due dates to a calendar, ie iCal, Google, Outlook etc. We use a scheduling program called Flight Schedule Pro for bookings and it has this useful feature.

    17 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the support for being able to link bills to an external calendar and while this isn't something we have immediate plans of will continue to keep a watchful eye on the interest in this idea. I'll share if there is any progress around this to update you on.

  12. Payment processing - when we make a bulk payment on the bills screen they should be sent to a separate tab so that its easy to see when payments are being processed. This would remove the risk of duplication of accidentally processing bulk payments twice.

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    Hi Sherif, thanks for sharing your feedback here . In trying to better understand your idea it sounds like you're using online bill payments?

    Once this is set up you'll be able to view a separate page called Manage bill payments on which you'll be able to view the batch status and can get a quick view of the total # of bills that are being processed in that payment which you can click into to get more of the detail. Does this provide what you're after here?

  13. Automatically captures each line items as indicated in the bill when sending bills directly to draft using Xero Bills email link provided

    20 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the idea here is more surrounding the ability to create rules to help curate the automated entry of data in bills created via the email to bills process.

    However, I did just want to confirm the existing options that are available to help with the automatic entry of your bills as there are multiple paths you could explore.

    As per this idea, in it's current form email to bills will use the data of your emailed file to automatically create a bill and fill fields.

    There is also Hubdoc that you can connect to your organisation and use to publish bills to your organisation, and most recently we introduced Upload where you can upload multiple files to Xero at once to create multiple draft bills.

    We don't have any plans around expanding email to bills to add the ability to set rules. but we'll continue to…

  14. Love that the sales tax uses Avalara, please add that functionality to bills too, to look up consumer use tax. Thanks!

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    Hi Rebecca, appreciate your feedback here . I see your idea hasn't received any support yet - make sure to share this with colleagues that would find this feature useful.

    In the meantime, there are tools like Upload bills and Smart document capture that might save you time manually entering bills to be able to read and apply the correct sales tax.

  15. Add a 'Projects' column to Bills rather than having to click 'Assign expenses to customer or project'.

    As a company who have many projects that are a similar (or the same) name as a customer's company name, the current process results in expenses being assigned to a customer and not the project!

    A 'Project' column has been added in the new invoice template so PLEASE add one to the Bills as well!!

    12 votes

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    Thanks for the feedback here, team. While we have made some improvements to the Bills list screen we don't currently have plans for adding Projects as it's own column here.

    However, you may have seen you can now quick view bills from the eye icon and edit from the list meaning you can check a bills assignments, edit if you need and then move onto the next without having to move away from the list.

  16. Include Alt+Key options for cursor positioning rather than having to use the mouse or Tab Key. eg Search, Save, Save and continue, Approve, Approve and add, etc

    15 votes

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    Hi team, thanks for continuing to share feedback on this idea.

    We understand that customers have different needs when working in Xero, and we’re continuing to keep accessibility options, including keyboard navigation, front of mind as we develop.

    In new invoicing, you can use Tab to move through all invoice fields and actions, including Save and Approve. We’ve also added keyboard shortcuts for key actions, which you can learn about in-product or in our Tips and shortcuts article.

    For bills, our newer quick view tool (eye icon) uses a similar line item design to invoices, and Tab navigation is available there as well.

    This will be especially helpful if you’re using connected apps, or the upload to bills or email to bills features, to automatically create transactions.

    We appreciate this still leaves a gap if you manually enter new bills, and we’ll continue monitoring interest here and share any…

  17. When converting a Purchase Order to a bill it would be great if there was a way of transferring any PDFs attached to the PO to the Bill. At the moment you need to remember to do this manually.

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    Hi team, we appreciate interest and why you may want to copy documents from a source transaction when creating a bill.

    We want to be open that this isn't something we have immediate plans for developing. For the time being we will continue to watch the support this idea builds closely here. If there is any progress we'll be sure to let you know

  18. The new bills view has totally rearranged the columns and the column widths. I have already added my own vote to adjusting column widths but i really need to be able to sort my bills view columns in an order that is easier on the eye, and neck, instead of bouncing from from one side of the screen to the other unnecessarily.

    26 votes

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    Hi team, being upfront user controlled column widths isn't something we have planned in the near term, however since this idea was initially raised there have been a few improvements that we thought worth highlighting here that may help.

    Bills list experience has been upgraded and is now much more responsive to screen and devices sizes.

    Along with this, you have more control over what columns are shown on the page, and the order these appear. If you click the 'Columns option on the left above the list you can select what data you'd like to show, and use the 6 dots on the left of each data point to drag and drop where you'd like these to appear on the table.

    For now, we'll continue monitoring the interest this idea builds and share if there's news.

  19. Bills - Ability to remove extra attachments exported from emails.

    when forward invoices and delivery docs to Xero, the email signature (which includes the company logo) is also captured and exported to Xero Bill as a separate attachment.
    While this doe does not impact payments, it's still frustrating. There should be a way to prevent logos or email template elements from being exported.

    31 votes

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    🌟 Thanks for raising this idea and for taking the time to share how this affects your workflow.

    We understand that when logos or images from email signatures are pulled through with documents, it can create extra clean-up, clutter the files that are imported, and make it harder to quickly identify and process the documents you actually need.

    We’ve reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining Support, so other customers can vote and add comments to share how this behaviour impacts their experience and why improving it would be valuable.

    The feedback and examples shared here are helpful for our product teams as they build a better understanding of the real-world impact this has on customers using Smart Capture.

    We’ll continue to keep an eye on the support and feedback this idea receives, and we’ll share any updates here as we learn more.

  20. Often companies email invoices but they aren't a PDF - just an email.
    So you have to print the email as a PDF - then send to Xero Bills.
    It would be good if you could just send through the email invoice (no PDF) to Xero Bills and it was processed without being a PDF.

    16 votes

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    Hi team, apologies for the mismatch in my last update and appreciate the feedback we received on this. 

    While our new bills upload feature might be handy for some customers in automating their bills process, reviewing the idea here I can totally understand how this does not solve for where you receive an invoice within the body of an email.

    We'll open this idea back up, and I want to be transparent that this isn't something we have direct plans for developing atm, however we'll continue to keep eyes on the support here and share if there is any progress surrounding this, here. Thanks

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