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Email to Bills - Have the same data extraction as Documents
I love the new data extraction feature in Documents (previoulsy files) so now I email my bills to inbox instead of bills.
but doing this creates an extra step, as from documents it only makes a draft bill, so then i have to go into bills window to approve.
It would be good if i could go back to emailing my bills to our bills email address and have it perform data extraction then approve in one go instead of having to go back and forth between windows.
1 voteHey Kristen thanks for bringing this to us. We really appreciate hearing how you're finding the new Smart Document Capture and how extending this to the Bills workflow would help reduce the extra steps in your process. We're excited to let you know that we're in the process of updating our other extraction services to use the same process as Smart Document Capture. This work is already underway, and we'll round back here once it's completed to let you know. I can also see that you have voted on a few other Ideas around adding another reference field in Bills, this is the best way to support the ideas and we will also post any updates on these Ideas.
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Bill Upload & Linking Feature
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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3 votesHi Sianan, thanks for your feedback here. Great to hear you're forward thinking and how more control within the automation would be helpful for you.
You may have seen on our website that we're in the process of releasing a new feature 'Smart Document capture' that will achieve most of what you've asked here.
The Files inbox will hold files that have recently been uploaded which will move to archived once attached to a transactions.
While you'll be able to first review files, you can then use Smart Document Capture to create or match to transactions in your organisation 😊
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Bill Payments - Improve sync between Melio and Xero for bills
Make Melio payments work as well in Xero as embedded bill.com payments used to work. make it half as good.
3 votesHi team, we're pleased to share an update as we are working on some improvements to the Melio and Xero sync to enhance this bill payments experience and save duplicated efforts in Melio and Xero.
Recently we released the first part of this, so now bank details and billing address sync through from the Xero contact record to Melio.
We're continuing work to develop this into a two way sync.
I'll return to keep you updated. Thanks
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Bills - Assign planned date when entering bill
Please add the option to assign a planned payment date when entering bills / within the individual bill, not just from the overview tabs.
43 votesHi team, we wanted to share an update as we have released Smart Document Capture that can analyse and help auto create transactions(including bills) from the files inbox. Along with the upload bills feature mentioned in my last update, these tools can help reduce the manual data entry for you, saving you valuable time.
Right now, we're currently working on a redesign of the individual bill View and Edit pages, that'll have the ability to add a Planned date directly on the page. When released, if manually entering a bill from scratch, once you add a contact all you'll need to do is click Save to update the page where the option to add a planned date will be available.
I'll come back to share when these pages are released.
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Xero Accounting app - Change camera icon
On the mobile App for Android.
When you enter a bill and want to take a photo of it, the 'take photo' button has recently become a black camera Icon.
This is alomost impossible to see if you're taking the photo on a dark coloured background like your black car seat or dark desk.
Please change to a black and white icon or even better a normal red button.
Definitely a case where a designer has had too much input to make it look pretty, I'm afraid.
Functionality first please.
1 voteThanks again for sharing with us, Paul. Having connected with our product team I'd like to update that this is something they're currently working on an improvement for - I'l round back to let you know as soon as an up[dates been released and what this looks like 😁
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Billable Expenses - Assigning items to customers, make clicking "OK" act like the "Assign" button
I regularly forget to click "assign" before "OK" when assigning a customer to a billable expense. In the attached screenshot, I've identified an expense, found the customer, and the line item is ticked. It's infuriating to have to remember to click "Assign" before "OK", when the rest of the interface is telling me that everything is all set and saved. While I try to remember to press the wretched "Assign" button first, could you please change the default so that clicking "OK" has the effect of clicking "Assign" automatically? There shouldn't be a separate "Assign" button.
8 votesHi community, thanks for your engagement and sharing your feedback on assigning billable expenses with us here.
We're in the process of developing a new experience for the individual bill Edit page, that'll make this process much simpler! Rather than a separate action Assigning to a customer or project will be an additional column within the table of your bills from which you can simply click, search and select.
Recently we also rolled. out an update to the Table so you can now drag contents of one cell up or down the a column, meaning if multiple rows of your bill need to be assigned to the same customer you can quickly fill this detail in without having to select in each row.
These features are already available when working with bills using the quick view(eye icon) on the list, but I'll return to confirm once the individual bills page…
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Bills - Notify the submitter when a bill is not approved or requires changes
If a bill is submitted for approval and it is not correct; I should be able to send it back so the responsible person can fix it.
2 votesHi everyone, we appreciate you highlighting the need for clear communication when a bill is incomplete or incorrect, and how your current processes can require a bit of back-and-forth.
At the moment we’re actively working on a bill approval workflow, in which an approver will be able to reject a bill with a reason. This’ll return the bill to Draft so the submitter can make corrections and resubmit.
The submitter will be notified by email, and the reason for rejection will be shown as an event in the bill’s history so the team can see what needs attention.
We’ll be back to share more information as this rolls-out. 😁
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Bills - View file attachments on a separate browser tab
I work with 2 screens - when entering a bill it would be really useful to be able to view the xero transaction on one screen and view the attachment on the second screen. Currently the bills sometimes have such small print you have to really zoom in and move around the screen to be able to read it. I am aware you can open it as a separate document, but this wastes as much time trying to zoom etc. Many people now work with 2 screens so I think this would be a really useful function.
4 votesThanks for your inputs here team. We're currently developing a new experience for the individual bill View and Edit pages that'll provide the ability to view attachments in a separate browser tab.
This feature is already available from the quick view of a bill on the list screen - Clicking the square icon with the top-right arrow will open your file in a separate browser tab. 🙂
I'll come back to share once the new individual page experience is available, too.
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Bills | NZ - Manually adjust GST for each line
Ability to edit GST line by line on bills in order to agree balances to supplier invoices (Due to rounding issues)
24 votesHi everyone, thanks for continued engagement here. We understand the needs expressed in being able to accurately reflect the supplier invoice you've received.
We're in the process of releasing a new bills experience for the bill edit and view screens, which is currently being rolled out to organisations.
When entering bills using tax-exclusive amounts, you’ll be able to adjust the GST on individual lines in the Tax amount column to help resolve rounding differences and match your supplier invoice totals.
Thank you for continuing to share your feedback and I'll come back to confirm when this has been released to all NZ organisations.
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Bills - Display attached Invoice to the left not on top of the bill entry form
When creating a new Bill, and after uploading the invoice then viewing the attached invoice, the attached invoice displays on top of the bill entry form. This is very frustrating.
Please change to display the attached invoice to the left of the form, same as is the case when opening a draft Bill that was created by emailing Xero.
See screenshot for example
6 votesHi everyone, we'd like to share there are a few improvements that'll help with the view and entry of bills here.
Right now, if viewing an attachment on an individual bill there is a left side arrow that when clicked will shift placement to the left of the page.
You can also currently use quick view(eye icon) from the bills list where the default behaviour is to show attachments on the left side of the screen.
We're also developing a new experience of the individual bill View and Edit pages that will adopt the same behaviour as quick view. I'll roll back to confirm once this is available to you all. 😊
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Bills - Resize the PDF doc preview
The preview window that pops up when entering new bills is a bit small and you need to almost always zoom in on the pdf to read it.
It would be great to be able to resize the different page components to make things a bit more readible.
45 votesHeya community👋 thanks for the discussions and input through this idea overtime. I know it's been quiet on our end but want you to know your feedback has been getting back to the right places.
We have a couple of features I'd like to highlight here, as well as let you know our product team are currently developing the Bills View and Edit pages in which the pain points here will be solved. 😊
- Simply upload files to bills to automatically extract and create your bills in draft for you. You can upload multiple files at once and let Xero do the grit work. Once they're ready simply review
- Smart document capture - You can simply upload your files to the inbox and Xero will take the effort out of things by extracting key data and auto suggesting create transactions for you (Invoice, Bills, Spend and Receive money)
I'll return…
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Bills - Show GST/PST amount per tax type/name
Sales Tax lines in Suppliers bills - CAD
When a bill is posted as draft, Xero displays the sales tax based on the percentage of the tax and not the tax type/name. This makes it harder to review and compare and confirm with the supplier's invoice which always displays the federal tax (GST) and provincial tax (PST) in separate lines. It is even more problematic when there are more than one taxable portion in the same invoice (a portion GST and another portion GST/PST). It would be great to show the tax type in the draft mode too.6 votesHi team, we appreciate the interest and feedback through this idea.
As some may have seen we have released the ability to quick view bills from the list view, from which you'll see a Tax rate breakdown shown beneath the subtotal of the bill. Like you're after here.
Right now, we're also redeveloping the bill View and Edit pages. These'll also adopt the experience from quick view in which you'll be able to see a breakdown of each tax rate.
When released, if creating a bill from scratch all you'll need to do is click Save to update the page and be able to view tax amounts by tax type.
I'll come back to confirm once this is rolled out.
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Xero to Xero - Send the attached files on the invoice
When sending invoices from Xero to Xero it doesn't attach the actual invoice in the draft bill as an attached so we don't have this invoice for record keeping purposes and can't even see if there's VAT or No VAT charged on the invoice as it is not attached to the bill. This needs to be added.
12 votesHi team, apologies as we have jumped the gun a little - While it's currently possible to include a PDF of the invoice when sending via the Xero network, including attached files is not available just yet.
However, I want to confirm this is something the team are currently working on and we will share as soon as there is another update on this.
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Invoice/Bills: Notifications - Reminder Invoice/Bill becomes due
To have an option to set up e-mail notifications to receive a report when an invoice payable becomes due
Purpose: To easily be reminded when invoices/bills due through email.
249 votesThanks for your valuable feedback and for sharing the idea of "Bill payment reminder alerts or emails." It's clear this feature would be a significant improvement. As a current workaround, you can use the existing due date field in Xero to sort your bills and set a separate calendar reminder in your preferred app. While we work on assessing this idea, I want to share that we're exploring bill payment reminders for users with multiple initiatives in progress. We appreciate all your feedback and votes, as they help us better understand the impact and benefits of this feature, and we'll be sure to update this page with any new developments.
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Bills - Option to show lines as Tax Inclusive
When entering bills as "Tax Inclusive" line items, Xero automatically changes it to "Tax exclusive" line items.
When trying to edit the bill to show tax inclusive line items, it again auto reverts to tax exclusive per line item.
I am requesting Xero to allow for having a choice between Tax Inclusive Bill line items, as well as Tax Exclusive. Why? This is because it is easier to reconcile due to the payment being tax inclusive.60 votesHi team, thanks for all the feedback on this request. We understand how helpful it'd be to view a bill as Tax Inclusive if that’s how it was originally entered, especially when reviewing bills in your organisation.
We’re currently modernising the Bill Edit and View pages, and this'll be addressed in the new experience. Once a bill is saved or approved, it'll display in the same format it was created in.
Some of you may have already noticed that this has been implemented in the bill quick view (the eye icon in list view).
I’ll update this thread again once the change is released on the individual bill pages as well. 🙂
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Bills - Show bank details in Bills to Pay screen
It would be good to be able to see the bank account details (BSB and Account number) on the new bill screen when entering invoices to be paid. By having the contacts bank details on the entry screen you can easily check that the bank details in Xero match what is on the invoice. This would save time of having to go and open the contact to check that the details match - not to mention save time of having to download the invoice so you can view it while checking against the contact. Being able to look at the…
32 votesHi everyone, we appreciate this idea has been one many here have desired for some time.
Our product team are currently developing the Bills View and Edit pages that will solve for the needs here.
Once released, you'll be able to view the contact bank account details by clicking on the Contact in the bill. This will allow you to then compare details saved for the contact with the detail of your attached bill file that can be viewed in the side pane.
I'll loop back when these new pages are released so you can try them out for yourself 🙂 Thanks !
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Bills - Draft Bills overview, add GST and Account columns
Is it possible to add GST and Account columns to the draft bills screen in Xero to check the account and GST total before approving?
19 votesHi everyone, right now our team are doing lots of work in the bills space to help you streamline your accounts payable. Soon, we'll be adding a quick view so you can review bills and make changes on the fly without leaving the list view. Read more on other changes coming to this space on our blog.
I'll keep you updated when this is released and you can try it out for yourself.
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Invoices/Bills - Ability to duplicate a line item
Ability to duplicate a line item for invoices/bills.
Purpose: To make users easily enter similar line items when creating invoices/bills.
66 votesHi everyone, we appreciate all contributions and votes this idea has received overtime.
There are a few different features we'd like to highlight that can aid in the entry of a lot of transaction entry and solve for many of the needs here.
- Non tracked inventory can be used as a means to save details for items you regularly purchase or sell and reduce the need to repetitively enter information such as Description, Price and Account
- Contact defaults can additionally save time from having to enter or update account, and tracking options of your lines
- Add contacts last items from the previous transaction you entered for them if you have contacts you regularly purchase or sell the same items
- NEW drag & drop contents of a field up or down the column - hovering over a field you can click and drag from the dot in the bottom right corner…
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Bills - Ability to allow multiple levels of approval for bills
Ability to approve bills by more than one user in Xero.
Purpose: Because some companies have more than 1 directors/managers, so this feature will improve users’ workflow in approving the bills within Xero.
144 votesHey community, thank you for continuing to highlight how important multi-level approvals for paying bills can be for teams of all sizes. We’re currently building a customisable bill approval workflow into Xero that'll let admins set rules based on factors such as amount, supplier, account code or who submitted the bill. You’ll then be able to automatically route bills through selected approvers in sequential or parallel steps. ✨
Approvers will be able to take action in Xero, with a digital audit trail captured in history and notes to identify who approved a bill and when - Helping to keep the approval chain moving. You can read more about our direction in our update on The Long and Short of It.
I’ll come back to share as this begins to officially rollout.
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Bills: Add contact - Enter full details from transaction
Ability to add all contact details needed when creating a contact from a bill
Purpose: Ease of use being able to create, and send invoices all within the transactions screen
24 votesHi everyone, we're coming back to shift this idea to In development as we're in the process of releasing modernised bill view and edit pages that incorporate he ability to add your contact's details on the fly.
Coupled with our other extraction methods(email to bills, upload bills and smart document capture), this should make entering, reviewing and approving your bills quicker than ever 😊
I'll swing back to confirm once this is released.
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