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  1. Auto update last cost price when entering from last bill/receipt received (irrespective of Inventorised or not), not having to manually go to item & update, should be automatic.
    It makes double handling to ensure the correct prices is showing on the item.
    Should also have to option of additional columns so show who the supplier was rather having to click into the bill.
    Then the correct price will auto populate into purchase orders. Then if want an average you run a report.

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    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. 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!

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  3. We started using Melio bill pay, and it keeps posting the spend money transactions for Melio fees to an account it creates (550, not at all the format we use) and a vendor "Payment Fee." Every time I have to change the vendor to the one I want Xero to use ("Melio"), the account I want to use, and then archive their contact and GL account again. The user should be able to set the contact and account to be used for Melio fees.

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    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. 🙂

  4. Has the ability to add new delivery addresses been taken away again? We have lots of saved delivery addresses for previous / current projects and finally had the 'add new address' button added back in and now everything has gone!

    Can only add one off addresses - can't add new addresses to be saved, can't select any old ones.. does everything need to be raised as a contact again? it's a massive pain in the backside.

    I don't know how it's gone backwards when it was fixed..

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    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. 🙂

  5. Batch payments should be increased to a minimum of 500, as the current limit of 200 is insufficient.

    Additionally, when creating a batch payment, it would be beneficial to allocate the payment to both the supplier invoice and the credit note. This allocation ensures that the payment is reflected on the remittance.

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    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. 🙂

  6. It would be nice to be able to post a receive money overpayment directly against a supplier and have it go to trade creditors in the instance where a supplier has refunded money and an credit note has yet to be issued.
    Similarly it would be nice to be able to a post a spend money overpayment directly against a customer and have it go to trade debtors.

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    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. 🙂

  7. Inventory Item List.

    Included in this report is the unit cost which is manually set. Would it also be possible to please add another cost field to the report ? I would like to see the last PO unit cost. Any variance would be used to update the unit cost if in NZD

    7 votes

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    Hi Graham, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you when tracking inventory costs.

    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!

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  8. When drilling into a payment applied to a bill, I'd love to see the GLAs that payment posted to.

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    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. 🙂

  9. For businesses who have invested in equipment and generate an income from the hire or use of the equipment. The ability to calculate (through analytics or a report) the % 'Return On Investment'.
    The data is already in Xero (cost of good/equipment purchased VS total sales), just needs a simple way to display this info and calculated in a % and/or just view the data simply and easily.
    Currently have to create your own Excel spreadsheet and input that data from Xero manually. Seems a simple report/statistic to generate and would be incredibly useful for business who need to know…

    6 votes

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    Hi Simon, it's great to hear how automated ROI calculations would help your business.

    We’ve reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining support, which means others in the community can now vote, comment, and share how this would benefit them too. The more perspectives added, the clearer the picture for our product team, so feel free to expand on your workflow to help spark that conversation.

    In the meantime, the best way to calculate ROI is to pull the relevant figures from the Xero Analytics dashboard and work it out manually.

    Thanks for getting the discussion started and we’ll keep you updated on any progress.

  10. Purchases Tab: would like to see Billable expenses not billed.

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    We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    Our Community have reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  11. Add a credit notes section on the Supplier account for ease of searching for the credit notes received.

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    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. 🙂

  12. 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.

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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!

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  13. When you approve a bill it pops up with a notice saying add another bill, it should say back to (whatever screen you were on) i.e. I tend to upload bulk to the the ai section to which they then enter drafts. I have to manually go back to drafts each time to enter the next bill whereas it could automatically just take me where I need to go or at least offer the function

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    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!

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  14. Currently, users must reconcile the payment and then navigate back to the bill or payment record to send a remittance advice. This creates unnecessary extra steps and increases the risk of remittances being missed.

    Having this option available during reconciliation would streamline the process, save time, and ensure suppliers receive timely payment notifications.

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    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. 🙂

  15. why don't Xero have the same date format when entering the date across all aspects of the system.

    Invoice format - DD/MM/YYYY
    Projects format - DD/MM/YYYY
    Bills format - DD/MM/YYY

    BUT

    New Purchase Order format - MM/DD/YYYY

    PPPPP.

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    Thanks for sharing with us here, Nicholas - Is it possible your browser language is currently set to English(US). This maybe causing the formatting you're mentioning here and changing to English (UK) or (AUS) should help.

  16. It would be great to have a Direct Debit flag on the Bills area. Especially on the ones waiting payment.
    That would allow us to know if a bill that is waiting payment is Direct Debit and we don't need to act, just wait to reconcile.
    I created a (terrible) mockup and attached it.

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  17. As a Xero user, I regularly upload supplier invoices and receipts as attachments to Bills. While the attachment is stored correctly against the Bill, it is not visible when viewing the related bank transaction, account transaction, or reconciled payment.

    This creates a challenge when working with accountants and bookkeepers. During month-end reviews, audits, and reconciliations, accountants typically review transactions from the bank account and transaction listings to verify that every payment has supporting documentation.

    When they open a reconciled bank transaction and cannot see an attachment, they often assume that the invoice or receipt is missing. I then have to…

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    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. 🙂

  18. Bills:

    1. For Credit notes, when you click the 'Save' drop down, there is an option for 'Save and add another' like there is for regular Bills.

    2. Being able to lock a supplier/ 'From' when adding Bills, so we don't need to search for every bill, for when we have multiple bills under one supplier.
      Maybe a lock button next to the contact name which can be clicked to unlock it when no longer needed.

    2 votes

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    Hi Diamond, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We have split your idea into 2, as they are both great ideas but require to be raised separately so people know what they are voting for Here is the idea. 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!

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  19. Increase the character limit for product/item codes from 30 to at least 50.

    Our suppliers use a minimum of 8 characters, up to 12 characters. We use 4 suppliers regularly, which all use different SKU's; This means we can have 36 characters for standard products, even more if there is a supplier we don't purchase too regularly from or if there are 2+ similar products that get grouped under one item.

    13 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Idea's, Tasha. We appreciate you taking your time to share changes that would be most meaningful to you.

    We will monitor and track support your idea receives from the community.

    You can find out and stay updated with Xero releases on Xero Central.

  20. Hello Xero Team,
    I’d like to suggest an enhancement to the way attachments are handled when sending bills into Xero. At the moment, when bills are forwarded via email, Xero captures not only the invoice PDF but also every image embedded in the email—such as logos, footers, signatures, and other graphic elements. This results in several unnecessary files being attached to a single bill.
    Currently, these attachments have to be deleted one by one, which is time‑consuming and inefficient.
    It would be extremely useful to have the option to select multiple attachments and delete them in one action, similar to…

    3 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback, Analise. Perhaps something you've already picked up on in relation to your note about bulk actions elsewhere however you can currently bulk delete files from within the Files library > Archive.

    This includes files that have been uploaded directly to a transaction rather than from the files library.

    There's an Associated with column so you can click through to check the bill you're deleting a file from

    We don't have plans for adding a bulk delete option from within a bill itself atm, but we'll begin to track the interest for this here.

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