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  1. We have quite a few suppliers who will invoice on partial claims which all are related to the same Purchase Order number. It would be really good if a partial claim invoice is allocated to a purchase order, only the remaining balance is showing on the open purchase order.

    IE: I provide a supplier a PO for $1000, they bill us $500 against that PO as a deposit. Once that bill is entered, the open PO shows a balance of $500.

    3 votes

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     ·  System responded

    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. 🙂

  2. When selecting notes, cursor to appear in the focus box (like it is for Bills) so you can commence typing immediately

    1 vote

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     ·  System responded

    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. 🙂

  3. When you mark a PO as billed and copy to a draft bill the files attached to the PO don't remain with it and attach to the draft bill. Very annoying that you have to re-save the file and re-attach it to the bill

    8 votes

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  4. Once a Purchase Order is created it would be great if there was a feature to allow you to mark the PO as delivered. Currently there is no way to see what ones are complete and what ones are still outstanding. This may need to be extended to allow individual line items on a PO to be able to be marked as delivered.

    8 votes

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  5. We often receive all or partial items of a purchase order before the supplier bill. We want to be able to mark these items as received on the PO so that our inventory will update the quantity we have on hand.

    5 votes

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  6. Can we add a function to import purchase order from excel file? We have had it as import bill already, but it is not enough because we need to use the PO function in Xero. However, it is time consuming and many mistakes due to manually entering our PO. It would be great if we can import from excel for both bill and PO function.

    77 votes

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  7. The PO number space under Purchase Order View is limited, we cannot view our full PO number, refer to picture

    Please extend the column, else Xero should restrict the maximum allowance length for PO number format.

    9 votes

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  8. Add a new tracking category from the Purchase Order tracking field dropdown

    2 votes

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  9. Have also the change payee option, From copying the Purchase order to Invoice, so the customer from PO will remain in supplier contact lists only.

    2 votes

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    Hi Janilyn, appreciate it's not an option when going through the copy to process. However, once the invoice is created you can click the 'x' next to the contacts name to remove and type the correct customers name.

    If the previous contact has only had purchase transactions entered for them, once you've remove them from the invoice they should not be shown in the customers list in your organisation.

  10. Purchase Orders Send Email Features.
    This is to request the Product team to please also update the Send Email settings for the Purchase Order to make work efficient and clear to multiple recipients if they are only on CC.
    Attached the screenshot of the latest update Xero had made for Invoice Send Email in which the CC and BCC is in the sending option. It is very helpful for the multiple receiver where in the business communication, we need to CC multiple emails than putting every email in the sending to space.

    2 votes

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  11. In Xero I’m able to use my purchase order templates that I created with docx.

    I was hoping to keep things consistent when generating POs from XIP. I don’t see that I can alter the templates.

    3 votes

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  12. When I add text to any of the boxes within a column in a purchase order, it moves the screen down because the box needs to expand to fit the text. This makes it really hard to copy-paste quickly. Please either remove the bug that makes the screen move down (boxes expanding) or add a "copy previous line" feature to eliminate this onerous task completely.

    2 votes

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  13. Set-up an email notification to alert users when their Purchase Order has been approved

    25 votes

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  14. When using the Xero app from your phone, to have the Purchase Order numbers auto generate the number.
    Currently, we have to look back and previous purchases to find the last used PO....unless you have a great memory. And then, while creating a new purchase order, we have to enter the new number.
    Currently, we also need to select as an optional detail, the order number. It would be nice if the app created a new PO number, sequentially from the previous PO issued.
    The two attachments show when creating new PO, the first screen. Then I need to add…

    2 votes

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  15. When creating a new line, auto populate the quantity box as '1', rather than having to type it out each time

    1 vote

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  16. For Purchase Orders:

    1) Able to assign departmental head for approval ( email goes to manager for approval and they can click and approve ) . Can create a approval level all from Xero to email.

    2) Able to see budget against PO , once budget uploaded approver or procurer can see department or nominal account budget before approval.

    1 vote

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  17. To add a function where you can input order confirmations for purchase orders. To enable quick review of what PO's have & haven't been confirmed.

    14 votes

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  18. Send purchase order from mobile app
    Frustrated as the platform needs tons of updates it’s terrible
    Can’t mark off paid jobs
    Can’t search for job name
    No job name on invoicing why simple things that should be available

    67 votes

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  19. I would like to have the option of raising a purchase order and selecting 'Pick Up' from the delivery field.

    4 votes

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  20. I sometimes(Often) do not understand Xero's Developers Logic...

    Purchase Order - Instructions Field. Can someone explain me why, If I change the "Delivery Address", the form automatically clears the Instruction field we just typed?

    I first assumed that it was because I can attach specific instructions for a Delivery address... But I search high and low and I could not find such feature.

    Xero, Please BE CONSISTENT.

    • If there is nothing to fill that Field, Do not erase it just to irritate us.

    • Better: Add an Instruction field to Contact delivery address. And fill the Purchase order Instruction Field automatically.…

    3 votes

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