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  1. Would love to have the ability to filter purchase orders by tracking code from the new PO menu

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    Thanks for sharing this idea about filtering purchase orders by tracking codes. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know how this could help organise your purchase orders.

    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.

  2. Restore the previous functionality that was available in Xero to "Copy To" Bill from a Purchase Order and not mark the full PO as paid. This enables the workflow where multiple bills are received for a single PO to be linked up with a clean history. The recent removal of this functionality has made a simple process a multi-stage process with manual reconciliation, taking far more time.

    1 vote

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  3. Increase the 25 Purchase Order Limit When Creating a Single Bill (Should be 100+)

    DESCRIPTION OF ISSUE

    When creating a Bill in Xero and selecting multiple Purchase Orders to convert into a single supplier invoice, Xero limits the selection to a maximum of 25 Purchase Orders.

    If more than 25 POs need to be consolidated into one supplier invoice, users are forced to:

    Create multiple separate Bills, or

    Manually recreate the invoice outside of the PO workflow

    This breaks the PO-to-Bill linkage and creates unnecessary administrative overhead.

    THE PROBLEM FOR BUSINESSES

    Many suppliers issue a single consolidated invoice covering dozens…

    4 votes

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    Appreciate the feedback, Anthony. We'l start getting an understanding of our community in others that have this similar situation. While it's not something we have plans of extending right now, we'll share if there are any updates.

  4. When Billing a PO and copying it to an invoice it would be useful to have a connection between the documents.

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  5. Purchase Order Delivery Address -

    The drop down menu is messy and out of order.

    Currently I can see all the old saved delivery addresses (from the old set up) and they are in alphabetical order, easy to scroll through.

    All the new delivery addresses (when you updated the PO's) are saved but saved in chronological order. Very difficult when I want to reuse a delivery address.
    There is also no search function to search the saved list.
    Currently you can only search contact list.

    We have many Suppliers and they have multiple delivery addresses (Example: clothing stores - One…

    1 vote

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    Thanks for bringing this to the community. We understand the request to make the delivery address dropdown on purchase orders easier to navigate. Having addresses displayed alphabetically or in consistent order could reduce the time spent looking for a particular location.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and tell us how you'd like the list to be organised.

  6. Please add these two column options to the "Billed" tab in Purchase Orders:

    1) Marked as Billed

    2) a link to the created Bill(s)

    It is very difficult to find orphaned POs that were marked as Billed, but a bill was never actually created. Right now we have to click into each Purchase Order and look at History to determine this. Adding these two columns would make it instantly visible when troubleshooting.

    1 vote

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  7. On purchase orders that have been submitted, to have feature e.g. a delivered column / check box, so we can track what has actually been delivered, and what hasn't. I've got one right now where we have received a partial delivery despite stating that we want it as one delivery.

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  8. viewing subtotals of approved and paid purchase orders (currently only purchase orders awaiting approval show a subtotal at the top of the page)

    6 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback! Your idea is now live and ready for the community to get behind.


    To help gain momentum, share the link with any colleagues who would benefit so they can cast their vote.


    Along with voting, the community can now provide extra context in the comments on why this change is a win for their Xero workflow.

  9. Include the UPC on the purchase order PDF so that you can communicate the supplier item code when buying, which is often different than the product SKU.

    2 votes

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    Hi Ryan, thanks for sharing your feedback on this idea.

    We can understand why you'd like UPCs to be included on Purchase Orders in Xero Inventory Plus. For businesses working closely with suppliers, warehouses, or fulfilment partners, having UPC information visible on purchasing documents could help with product identification and order accuracy.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback and better understand how UPC visibility on Purchase Orders could support your inventory and procurement workflows.


  10. Manually matching bills to POs is made difficult by the order of items on the PO vs the order of items on the supplier bill.
    The ability on the PO (and the bill creation) to simply reorder the items by both product name/desc, and the Item Code would help to overcome this in many cases, and would also help to find accidental duplicates

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that being able to reorder purchase order lines by product name or description, and by item code, would make matching supplier invoices much easier and help identify duplicate items.

    We’ll move this idea to Gaining Support so other customers can vote and share how important this would be for their workflows. Please continue to add any examples or use cases that would help demonstrate the impact.

  11. When searching a purchase order number in the search bar in the purchase order section, it wont find the purchase order if there is a space after the number. This shouldn't be an issue if there is a space next to it. This happens a lot if I am copying and pasting a number into the search bar and it adds in a space next to the number, I then have to go back in and get rid of the space to find it

    2 votes

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    Thanks for the feedback, Brianna. Can see how it would be easy to add a space that could cause troubles when searching a PO number. Just to double check - is the space you mention in the original PO number field or within the search that you're performing?

  12. I hold inventory for a large number of products, many of those products can be made by more than one manufacturer.

    At the moment, if I want pricing from a supplier, the only real option in Xero is to raise a purchase order. That doesn’t work well in practice, because quite often I need to request prices before I’ve decided who I’m buying from, or before I even have an existing supplier relationship set up.

    For example, if a new manufacturer opens nearby, I might want to send them a list of specific items from my inventory and ask for…

    4 votes

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    Hi team, 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.

  13. Date selector in Purchase Orders should be Sunday to Saturday

    I’d like to request an update to the New Purchase Order date selector so the calendar can display Sunday–Saturday instead of Monday–Sunday, or at least follow the same week-start setting used elsewhere in Xero.

    Most US calendars and business workflows use a Sunday–Saturday view, so this change would make the Purchase Order date picker more intuitive and consistent with other Xero transaction screens (like invoices and bills), reducing date entry mistakes and improving usability for US-based users.

    1 vote

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    Hi Lara, 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.

  14. Action Bars across all views should be sticky so that scrolling up and down is eliminated.

    For me...
    - Purchase order/Bill/Invoice actions.
    - Bill Batch Payment Actions

    Comment where this would be good for you...

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    Hi Andrew, appreciate your sharing the idea for us here and how you'd like consistency across all Xero, however as features across Xero are developed separately it's best for us to get a sense of the interest in this for each place in Xero users would find this most helpful. I have updated the title of your idea to represent this for Purchase orders, you are welcome to start new ideas for each other feature you would find this helpful. Thanks

  15. Is it possible convert/change a bill to purchase order without previous order

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand why having the option to copy an existing bill into a purchase order would help streamline purchasing workflows, especially when managing supplier records and inventory processes.

    The idea is to allow users to create a purchase order from an existing bill, carrying across details like supplier information and line items instead of re-entering the same data manually.

    We've moved this to Gaining Support to continue tracking engagement and support from the community.


  16. I would really love a small button in the purchase orders drop down menu to download all attachments because now that it opens a full screen view and you have to click at the top right of the screen to download then go down to the bottom right corner to go to the next, it's just not efficient.

    2 votes

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    Hi Tiana thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We understand that it is not convenient to click into each file to download individually.

    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! Cheers

  17. When adding a transaction via Spend/Receive Money in the Accounting section, it would be really helpful to be able to change the amount of VAT manually when there is a +/- 0.01p etc. This can be done when entering a New Bill but not a quick Spend Money transaction therefore when the VAT needs to be manually changed, the Spend Money needs to be voided and re-entered as a New Bill then a Payment Made once the bill has been saved. Very small adjustment but would save time!

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    Hi Chloe, we can see how being able to manually adjust tax amounts on Spend and Receive Money transactions would help when supplier receipts include small rounding differences.

    I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can track interest and help our product teams understand the value of adding manual tax adjustment functionality for these transaction types.

  18. Good day.
    The cursor in the Purchase Orders as well as in the Bills screens in Xero is invisible when typing. The fields accept input, but the cursor does not display, which makes data capture difficult.
    Kindly assist with resolving this issue.

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    Hi Natasha, could you share more detail about the field you're in within a Bill or Purchase order where you're unable to see the cursor?

    We've recently released a new Purchase orders experience and can confirm the cursor should be visible when typing in fields here, and similarly when testing Bills quick view and Bill create or edit pages the cursor shows in each field.

    It does sound like this maybe an issue best investigated with our Xero Support team directly.

  19. MULTIPLE PURCHASE ORDERS FROM ONE INVOICE

    We produce invoices for customers which can have over 40 line items... a lot of the items could come from many different suppliers and at present, when placing a purchase order, you have to go to "invoices", then "draft" or "awaiting payment", tick the invoice in question, select "copy to", then select "purchase order"... you then have to repeat the whole process to select another supplier FOR THE SAME INVOICE.
    What would be easier, after you had "sent" the PO, would be for xero to have remembered the last invoice you selected when raising…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, Troy. Can understand how being able to create multiple po's at once from an invoice could streamline your workflow.

    We'll start to get a sense of the interest in this from others in the community and I'll share if there are any updates.

  20. Xero to xero network - send purchase orders. Want to be able to send my regular supplier a Xero Purchase order via Xero network, who can then create a bill in their Xero, who can then send me their Invoice via Xero network. Would be super helpful given the start of the workflow is typically the purchase order.

    7 votes

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    Thanks for your idea, Paul. Great to hear you find using the Xero network helpful in your workflow.

    We'll gauge the interest from the community in expanding the use of the network to send purchase orders. This isn't something we have plans for at this stage but we'll let you know if there are any updates.

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