Skip to content
← Share and support customer ideas for Xero

Purchase orders, bills & inventory

Customer ideas for purchase orders, bills, inventory(products and services) and making supplier payments.

Learn about the forums, how to contribute and create a good idea on Xero Central

Purchase orders, bills & inventory

Categories

Enter your idea

(thinking…)

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

If a similar idea already exists, you can support and comment on it.

If it doesn't exist, you can post your idea so others can support it.

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

  • Hot ideas
  • Top ideas
  • New ideas
  • My feedback

2 results found

  1. Batch Payments - Reconcilation options

    Batch payment

    2 Have an option to either:
    2.1 - record batch payment as 1 line in bank recon
    (good for multiple bills from same supplier)

    or

    2.2 - record batch payment in multiple lines on bank recon
    (good for multiple suppliers in same payment)

    4 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    0 comments  ·  Paying bills  ·  Admin →
    Existing functionality  ·  AdminDavina Roper (Admin, Xero) responded

    I'm happy to say that Xero can already work with statement lines as they are provided, but whether a batch payment appears as one line or multiple lines is usually determined by the bank and how they generate the statement output.

    That means this is generally bank-side behaviour rather than a Xero setting that can be changed within the product.

    The best next step would be to check with your bank directly to confirm whether they offer different statement output formats for batch payments, or whether the one-line or multi-line format is fixed as part of their bank feed or statement file design.

    Once the bank confirms what they support, that will clarify what can flow through into Xero. 😊

  2. Supplier Payments - adding onto supplier account

    It would be helpful if the supplier account showed a clear payment history including payment date, payment amount and related invoice number. A summary of total payments made to each supplier over a selected period would also be useful. Currently we have to review batch payment files and manually calculate totals, which is time-consuming when a supplier has phoned up. When looking at the batch file, all invoices are listed individually rather than bulked together by supplier name.

    1 vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    0 comments  ·  Paying bills  ·  Admin →
    Existing functionality  ·  AdminDavina Roper (Admin, Xero) responded

    You can already review a supplier’s payment history in Xero using the Supplier Bill Activity report.

    To access it:

    • Go to Reporting → All reports.
    • Find and open Supplier Bill Activity.
    • Select the supplier and the date range.
    • Click Update.

    The report shows bills, credit notes, overpayments and prepayments for the selected supplier and period. You can also use the report settings to include or exclude prepayments and refine the results.

    If you need to see specific payment dates and amounts, run the Payable Invoice Summary report, filter or group it by supplier, and add columns such as Last Payment Date and Payments/Debits.

    We hope this helps provide the supplier payment history you’re looking for directly in Xero.😊

  • Don't see your idea?