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  1. Ability to flag individual bills as in dispute

    Purpose | To enable review and ensure the business does not make payment for a bill when it's currently 'under query'

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    Hi community, we acknowledge the strong feelings in this idea and why you need a feature to flag bills directly within Xero. We really appreciate all your feedback and the detailed explanations of how this would help streamline your accounts payable.

    We are dedicated to providing a solution for this over the longer term, but this will take some time requiring changes that sit beneath the face of bills.

    In lieu of a direct feature for this we wanted to highlight some of the options discussed by the community here:

    • Add a note to the bill: A detailed note on the bill itself can serve as a clear internal reminder of the dispute.
    • Utilise tracking categories: Creating a specific tracking category like "Disputed Bills" can help you filter and report on these items.
    • Adjust the due date: Temporarily extending the due date can prevent accidental payment while the dispute is…
  2. It would be extremely helpful if a filter was added on the Bills to Pay screens for filtering based on currency

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  3. I regularly forget to click "assign" before "OK" when assigning a customer to a billable expense. In the attached screenshot, I've identified an expense, found the customer, and the line item is ticked. It's infuriating to have to remember to click "Assign" before "OK", when the rest of the interface is telling me that everything is all set and saved. While I try to remember to press the wretched "Assign" button first, could you please change the default so that clicking "OK" has the effect of clicking "Assign" automatically? There shouldn't be a separate "Assign" button.

    6 votes

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  4. I would like easier access for entering multiple spend money transactions with a preview screen

    I suggest either;

    1) a separate email to send spend money receipts to like bills have; or

    2) when entering spend money transaction, after clicking save and add another, allow the preview pane to be available after attaching a file so you can still see the details of the receipt when entering (just like the preview is there when you enter a spend money from the files section) otherwise you have to go out of spend money and back to files just so you have…

    5 votes

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    Thanks for your idea, Katie. Appreciate how you've thought of multiple ways we could help in the process you're after here.

    While we'll gain specific interest in being able to change a bill to a spend money from your idea here, I also wanted to highlight this one for being able to set up separate emails in a contact for different transaction types. I've made sure to add your vote to that too so if there are any updates to tackle this from that view you'll be notified, too.

  5. Can the tracking category be "text wrapped" so that the full description can be seen? I often have to click edit to see the full description of the tracking category which takes takes time.
    - see image attached... The account description has 3 lines, please could the tracking category also have space to see full description.
    Thanks

    5 votes

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  6. Being able to name planned dates would make it easier to manage payments when multiple users are setting up different types of payments on different dates.

    6 votes

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  7. Currently the bill payments from Xero option does not support the Co-operative Bank (business). I would like this to be extended to the co-operative as soon as possible. The co-op bank tells me that they support token.io - can you consider supporting this?

    7 votes

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  8. The option to view the product descriptions when in the Product and Services list should already be a feature.

    Many of our products have an abbreviated item name, with the description containing the expanded product information. Opening individual products to view the description takes a significant amount of time as we have over 1,500 items.

    It is also the product description, not the product item name, that appears on invoices to customers, so it only makes sense to be able to view the descriptions from the P&S list.

    6 votes

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    Hi Community! 👋

    Thank you for sharing your feedback. I’m happy to share that this is now in development.

    With this update, you’ll be able to choose whether to show or hide the sell and purchase description column on the Products and services list page.

    I’ll circle back here again once the change has rolled out. 🙂🙏

  9. It would be really handy when downloading bills if the default file name is the Reference [invoice] number and not a random internal Xero reference or document ID. Even better would be Supplier name + Reference [invoice] number

    2 votes

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    Thanks, Jo, for sharing your idea! We've reviewed it, and it's now live for the community to support. Other Xero users can now vote and comment on how it would improve their Xero experience.

  10. Purchase Orders - It would be most helpful when generating a purchase order, that all fields are made compulsory so that people can't save the purchase order until all fields have been completed. Thanks

    7 votes

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    Hi Tessa, it'll be good to get a sense if there are others in community that are looking for this too.

    Right now, to avoid your purchase orders going out without all the necessary detail you may want to consider giving some users Invoice Only - Draft permission.

  11. Ability to see Header rows and side columns on all screens when scrolling

    As per Microsoft Office where the top and side ribbons remains static.
    e.g. When you're in the Dashboard and scroll down it would be good if the top ribbon is static. It makes it easier to select another item (business; accounting; contact etc) without having to scroll up.

    The same with Bill Payments; Invoicing; reports etc where the top ribbon and column headers - see attached - would remain static as you scroll down the list.

    The same as when you might have a lot of columns…

    60 votes

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  12. Automation of remittance advices being sent once payment batch is approved with Xero pay. Currently they are sent individually once the batch is approved and shows up on the bank account transactions list. It would be great to be able to send them out as a batch once the batch payment is approved. Also would be good if you could deselect any that you don't need to send out should that be the case.

    8 votes

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  13. It would be nice to have a reminders function for Suppliers just like with Customers.

    We work with a very long list of Suppliers in some of our clients' companies. It could be a nice feature to have scheduled reminders go out to some suppliers that you always have to chase down for invoices/statements.

    4 votes

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    Good to understand the needs of our different customers an that some times you may need to chase a supplier for an invoice, Lezelle.

    This isn't something we have plans for atm, but we'll get a sense of the interest from community through your idea here.

  14. A big request to please increase bank account, Invoice and Bill transaction limits per month (i.e. from 2/4k to 10k+ at least).

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  15. I would like to be able to drag and drop supplier invoices as PDFs into the JAX chat window as attachments.

    JAX should allow me to include additional prompts before processing the invoice.

    For example, how to handle different situations such as shipping and taxes listed in the supplier invoice.

    It would also be great if JAX could support currency conversion.

    For example:

    • Please import these bills and update the supplier contact details.
    • Assume the bills are tax exclusive.
    • Assume that the amounts on the invoice are MXN pesos and convert these to USD assuming the following USD exchange rate.

    5 votes

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    Appreciate you separating out the different ideas you have for JAX on the site here, Mark. This has also been shared back with our team.

    We'll begin to track the interest from the community in being able to use JAX to import supplier bills here.

    In the meantime you may find the Upload feature in Bills handy for this sort of entry - however just to note it doesn't support currency conversion atm so will still require manually updating to reflect the correct currency.

  16. If a client has overpaid an invoice, or paid an invoice that has been voided/credited, when Ihave reconciled the incoming payment as an Overpayment, I would then like to be able to create a Bill from this payment so that the refund it sitting in Bills Awaiting Payment.

    10 votes

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  17. Xero decided to limit the number of billable expenses one can view at a time when invoicing to 10, as was explained to me, because some organizations have a large number of billable expenses and it taxes the system and slows down the process of invoicing if more than 10 show. The exact opposite effect happens, however. Now, one has to page through dozens of windows to find the billable expense, instead of simply scrolling through 100+ bills. Even worse, there is no way to sort the bills, so the target of the invoice may be on page 36 taking…

    2 votes

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    Hey Scott, really appreciate your feedback on our update here. We want to be transparent that the change to billable expenses in invoicing was something that we implemented due to lots of feedback that we received, and we don't have intentions on returning to the previous behaviour. On review, we first marked this as feedback based on it being a removal of a new feature, however we will shift this to Not in Pipeline to set expectation.

    This means other members will still be able to vote on this idea, and we can track if this is still an idea that trends.

  18. When you go to add a bill it does not give option to upload.

    Can shortcut keys not go on top to show add new bill upload new bill? it would be much handier

    5 votes

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    Hi Patrick, just returning to your idea we appreciate with the new upload bills feature you'd like to be able to use this from more places throughout Xero. I've slightly amended the title of your idea and just wanted to highlight that Upload bills is now available from the Bills to pay widget on the new Homepage 🙂

    If there are any plans for more shortcuts on this I'll share with you all here.

  19. In instances where a contact is both a supplier and customer, can the system merge all transactions onto one statement for ease of reconciliations for the contact.

    11 votes

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    Hi team, while this is an idea we'd like to track interest in demand for, I want to be upfront that there are no plans for developing a consolidated statement of account that encompasses both bills and invoices at this point.

    Right now, if this is a view you're after an option may be to run the Contact Transactions Summary report that'll provide a summary of your receivable, payable and cash transactions for a contact over a period, that you could then export to provide your contact.

  20. Hi Xero Team , Kindly find attached file for your reference. I am sharing video file and screenshot that feature very useful for all user and copy above cell during invoice and bill generate. I am suggesting to IT team if they unlock drag and drop copy cell from above cell from mouse that feature would be very appreciated and may help to all user to easy invoicing and bill that help to time saving while enter multiple similar details in invoice or bill. I have also mentioned how to prevent accidental drag & drop cell with using ON/OFF button…

    10 votes

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    Hi community, we appreciate your engagement as well as sharing attachments of your needs through the idea here. We understand the benefits this would add to your workflow and our product team are currently reviewing this capability. While we can't commit to change atm, I'll be back to let you know what comes of their review. Thanks

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