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  1. please add automatic numbering to bills. I have to keep trying to remember what my last bill number was!

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    0 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →

    Sorry to hear the troubles you're running into here Lorraine.We do have the facility to have automated bill numbers assigned, you can find this in the Default settings of Invoice sittings. If some thing isn't working as you'd expect it to, it's best looked into with a closer lens. Please raise a case with our Xero Support team on Xero Central and our specialists can investigate with you 1-1. Thanks!

  2. I often create credit notes as bills in error. It would be good to be able to change a credit note to a bill or vice versa rather than having to void and re-enter.

    This could be expanded to other areas of manual data entry.

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    0 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →

    Hi Gary, thank you for sharing your suggestion regarding quote functionality. While quotes can currently be copied to Bills, direct conversion is not supported. To accurately account for payments that differ from the invoiced amount, please note: payments received or paid in excess of the invoice or bill should be recorded as an overpayment, and any payments received or made in advance must be entered as a prepayment. If you require further assistance with these processes, we recommend raising a case with our support team.

  3. 5 Bills for small business is extremely low. If Xero won't increase this to 10, then offering an add-on feature would be key. When comparing the price of Xero to QBO, it is getting more and more difficult for me to transfer new clients that are in QBO over to Xero. The value of QBO is exceeding Xero plans, coupled with the live chat and telephone support, many new clients don't want to leave QBO and I can't blame them. 5 bills for $25 is unreasonably low. Jumping up to the next plan at $55 per month isn't warranted for…

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    We appreciate your feedback, this will be shared with our teams. Just to clarify, we do not accept Product Ideas about Xero pricing plans or plan structures, so we can’t make commitments in this space.

  4. A slight nuisance when creating bills, that seems to have started happening as part of the new invoicing 'updates' as I never had these two issues before.

    1) There is a certain bill transaction that I add monthly, usually 10-15 per month. The lines are always the same so for speed I always copy one bill to another and so on. Once I add the payment Xero sends me back to the home screen and a pop up appears in the bottom left hand corner to 'view bill'. I click on this to then copy the bill for the next…

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    1 comment  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →

    Hi team, returning to this idea the new quick view and edit bills option may resolve some of the trouble here.

    In the list view, from the eye icon you can view and use the Copy option on your bills. Saving you from having to click in and then back to the list.

    If you get interrupted in between entering bills, when you return to your screen just navigate to the relevant tab (Draft or Awaiting payment) where you'll be able to quickly view the bills you've created and click the eye icon to see the details and where you last left off.

    Not getting a lot of traction on this idea over time this will soon be removed from the forums, however your feedback has been shared with our product teams and if you still feel strongly about this idea you're welcome to start it again to see if…

  5. Direct Payments - Change of status - Scheduled to Paid

    Currently within 'Manage direct payments' the Status doesn't change on future dated payments once they've been paid. ie. Once a scheduled payment is made change the status to PAID.

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    1 comment  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much support within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  6. Xero made a change when adding bills at some point last year.

    Before, when you clicked to add a new bill, it would automatically open in a new tab, really handy when adding multiple bills to a specific supplier.

    Now, you have to right click on add a new bill to open a new tab otherwise you have to keep going back to contacts to re-find the supplier in order to add another bill.

    Not sure why this needed to change as it was far more user friendly and was quicker to add bills before.

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much support within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  7. When paying bills through Xero there should be some warning box to state this will not take money from your bank account. This will be recorded in Xero however you will need to make payments from your bank account.

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much support within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  8. Having the option of when adding a purchase invoice which is for a hire purchase or a loan agreement, then Xero automatically removes the aged payable balance from the listing and posts to a Hire Purchase/Loan nominal code to avoid having HPs/Loans in the payable listings - I know that this is a feature that other accounting systems have, such as FreeAgent.

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much support within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  9. Sort "Bills you need to pay" Invoices by Supplier, then Due Date.

    When I make payments to suppliers, I first sort invoices by suppliers name (A-Z) and then by due date, however, the new update does not keep the A-Z order which means the list is not neat and easy to follow for payments.

    I can currently sort by due date, however it does not group automatically by supplier, so is very chaotic and requires streamlining, especially if there are lots of invoices due on the same date.

    Are you able to amend the programming to allow for this feature?

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    1 comment  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much traction within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  10. With the "new look" bills having been implemented, all the different bill options are under a drop down where you select new bill, new CN, new repeating etc.
    I appreciate that this looks tidier or something, but when you're inputting about 20 CNs, having to go through the dropdown for each of them is really tedious.
    Also: after approving a bill there's an option to add another bill directly, but that doesn't happen if the bill is submitted for approval or saved as draft. Can this be implemented?

    There is also no option to go straight to a new CN…

    2 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much traction within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  11. Short cut for payment date to be equal to transaction date.

    For example, you have entered a bill say 20/3/2023. The client has also paid it on the day. Rather than entering 20/3/2023, would be great to just enter say "s" in the date field and uses the transaction date for the payment date.

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much traction within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  12. There used to be a feature that you could zoom into a bill that had been uploaded when putting the information into Xero ( when the bill shows at the left of the Xero page ) This has gone and now I have to keep popping bills in and out to see details. Please could it be re-instated

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much traction within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  13. Record time to a customer with a billable or non-billable item only WITHOUT a task or project link.

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much traction within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

  14. When a business has multiple branches or divisions, it would be great for the system to recognise who (from which division or branch) is entering the Bill or Invoice or Journal, and would automatically assign the correct cost centre to the transaction based on that (with the ability to override allowed or not in the user setup). It would also be good to be able to only allow reconciliation/viewing of that branch or division bank account instead of all bank accounts.

    3 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback via Xero Product Ideas. Because this suggestion hasn’t gained much traction within the community, this post will soon be removed. Your feedback has been shared with the relevant teams. If this remains a high priority for your business, we recommend re-submitting the idea to see if it generates renewed interest from other members. Thanks.

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