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  1. BILL OF MATERIALS WOULD BE AWESOME AS MOST OF THE APPS YOU CAN DOWNLOAD COST YOU R900 PER MONTH AND THAT IS A BIT ROUGH ESPECIALLY IF YOU ONLY NEED THE BILL OF MATERIAL SECTION.

    7 votes

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  2. It makes no sense to always automatically change the description, price etc when the inventory code is changed.

    Make this "feature/bug!" optional, very simple to implement and makes XERO more flexible.

    1 vote

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    Hi David, could you provide a bit more detail of where you're finding this behaviour? It might even be best to raise this with our specialists at Xero Support who can get a closer look in.

    Editing an inventory items Item Code can be done independently so you shouldn't have to update the description or price.

  3. I am looking to have the cost price included in the Inventory item details report even though the item is not tracked.
    We sell a service and we cannot track the item as there is no amount to it.
    But when running the report the cost price does not show

    4 votes

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  4. It would be nice to have a few custom fields, attached to a product or service.

    22 votes

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  5. Ability to upload pictures for inventory items into Xero.

    Purpose: To easily identify each inventory that was inputted in Xero.

    170 votes

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  6. Bundle multiple products together within tracked inventory.

    Purpose: To track sales for individual items that are sold together as a bundle at a different cost than the individual items.

    144 votes

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    Hi team, pleased to share another update as progress moves along in this space.

    We'd now doing some early testing of the teams concepts for being able to bundle inventory in Xero.

    With the high interest for this in the idea, we'd like to offer the opportunity to be involved in the process - If you'd be willing to give some of your time to share back with the team, we'd love you to fill in this short questionnaire ✍️

    While this will be limited to a small group, we'll keep you updated on the outcomes, here. Thanks!

  7. Low stock alerts can be set up in the Xero "Product" administration. Each product reaches a certain 'low' quantity and Xero gives an alert accordingly.

    60 votes

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  8. Ability to allow negative stock in Xero.

    Purpose: Users that take orders and receive payments from their contacts before placing inventory can easily do it in Xero.

    118 votes

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    Hi community!👋

    Thank you to everyone who contributed to the team’s research in this area. Your input has been invaluable. The discovery phase has given us rich insights, and we’re excited to share that we’ll be moving ahead to design and build a solution.

    As we begin development, we’ll transition the idea into this next stage. We look forward to coming back to you when there are new opportunities to be involved and to share further updates along the way.🙏

  9. Ability to have multi-currency for inventory in Xero.

    Purpose: To make invoice and purchase tracking easier, because this feature will allow users to enter different currencies when they’re buying and selling the item.

    123 votes

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  10. Would be great if you could link cirectly to the live stock levels inside Shopify so if I generate an invoice and sale from Xero then the stock level reduces and adjust accordingly. There does not seem to be functionality that does this currently.

    25 votes

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  11. Ability to have/add assembly inventory in Xero.

    Purpose: Users who are selling parts of the whole inventory can easily manage this in Xero.

    115 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for all your valuable insights of how we could improve Xero inventory to suit your business.

    Atm, we don't have direct plans for providing capability to track assembly inventory within Xero, however our product team are doing some early testing of concepts for being able to bundle inventory in Xero.

    Quite related to your interests here, we wanted to provide you the opportunity to be a part of this,

    If you'd be interested in giving some time to share back with our team on their concepts please answer a few questions through our form here.✍️

    This will be a limited pool, however we'll be back to share outcomes of this work with you all here.

  12. I'd like categories for my products and services
    ie: tees, hoodies, pants etc
    So I can click into the hoodie category and see all the hoodies I have

    73 votes

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  13. Most our clients require Delivery Order. The current packing slip does not cover the clients company requirement.

    26 votes

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  14. Ability to merge inventory items.

    Purpose: Users can easily merge the inventory items when they accidentally created the new same items in Xero.

    91 votes

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  15. Is it possible to filter between active and inactive inventory in inventory reports? All my inventory is listed in my reports but I only want to see active inventory.

    6 votes

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    Is there a specific inventory report you'd find this most useful in? 

    Being open we don't have immediate plans for adding this filter into the reports, but it'd be good to get this detail that could be shared back with the team when considered. 

  16. When you look at an inventory item, it shows that you have that item on order, but it doesn't show you in the history and notes, what PO that the item is ordered on. All it shows in the history is the Bill's and the invoices.

    IT needs to show in the history the PO that the goods on order are ordered on.

    3 votes

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  17. Ability to have a supplier name and link back to supplier contact list from the inventory.

    Purpose: Users can easily have information from which suppliers that they’ve purchased their inventory from, and can easily update any changes within inventory and supplier.

    73 votes

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    Hi team, while we don't have plans for adding a field for supplier to Inventory items, right now you could run the Payable invoice Detail report to see the purchases of items, and which supplier(s) they've been bought from.

    You can also Group/Summarise the report by Item Code or Contact, depending on which you want to see together.

  18. When raising a sales invoice for the part exchange of a vehicle there should be a feature to record the entire sale and then debit the A/r account for the amount of cash payment owed and them debit the remaining balance to a tracked inventory account.

    EG.

    CR Sales 8,500

    DR A/R 3,500

    DR Tracked inventory 5,000

    1 vote

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  19. We operate two Companies on Xero - the manufacturing company sells to the retail company - so we use the Xero to Xero function for this.
    I understand from the support articles that item codes are not transferred from Xero to Xero transactions. Is there any way to enable this, if we were to use the same item codes in each company? When the sales invoices are shared and received as draft purchase invoices the Item codes and COGS/expenses codes have to be re-entered - we would process about 500 per annum with up to 50 lines per invoice -…

    3 votes

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  20. Offer First-In-First-Out (FIFO) accounting within Tracked Inventory as an option.

    Purpose: Established US Companies tend to use FIFO for inventory valuation, so Xero would widen its scope of clients by offering the option. Plus, the option adoption would make reporting of its current US clients so much more straightforward.

    27 votes

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