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  1. Back button from the New Batch Payment window should take you to the Awaiting Payment window with the purchase invoices still checked. This has been lost with the upgrade to the Purchases window.

    Now, the "back" button from an open batch takes you to the Purchases Overview, so you lose everything you've done

    4 votes

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  2. When editing a paid bill, for example, changing the VAT rate, where you have to Remove the Payment first before editing line items, could there be a function to Remove all Payments rather than one by one clicking remove and re-do.

    We often have bills paid in installments, or electricity bills paid by Direct Debit, so we have to remove 10 payments one by one in order to make any changes to the original bill.

    1 vote

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  3. I refer to the Customer/Supplier Bill Activity reports which shows transactions as positive and negative figures. Could you *** create a report to show bill activity in Debit & Credit separate columns format instead of positive and negative figures in 1 column? Thank you

    8 votes

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  4. Show the document button on the reconciliation page without having to click "add details" so documents can be dragged and dropped

    24 votes

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  5. On the new bills screen you're now unable to open other areas (awaiting payment/draft etc) in a second tab without first opening the purchases overview window in a new tab.

    On the old bills screen you could either middle click or ctrl+click the options at the top of the list to do this and it was rather useful.

    5 votes

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  6. When you create a new transaction you have 2 fields which identify the nature of the transaction - "Description" and "Details".

    I find myself constantly copying one to the other. It would be really useful if Xero could auto-copy description across to details, and if you don't want it the same you can overtype the details.

    Having content in both fields helps identify the item, and usually the same content will do.

    3 votes

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  7. Currently bill costs are not posted to the accounts until it has been approved. It would be beneficial if once a bill was entered/submitted for approval in xero the costs were shown in the accounts. If the approver is not available to approve the bills it holds up finalising month end accounts.

    5 votes

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  8. Locking Invoices and Bills so they cannot be deleted once Finalised.

    We often see clients raise invoices, or bills in their Xero file, and then later delete them if a change is required, and then raise another invoice or bill.
    From an accounting perspective, this is a huge sin.
    Once an invoice or bill has been finalised, the only way it should be altered is by raising either a debit or credit note against it. Xero allows a user to raise debit or credit notes, but the average non-accountant does not understand what these are, so they do the easiest…

    1 vote

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  9. Short cut for payment date to be equal to transaction date.

    For example, you have entered a bill say 20/3/2023. The client has also paid it on the day. Rather than entering 20/3/2023, would be great to just enter say "s" in the date field and uses the transaction date for the payment date.

    2 votes

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  10. It would be great to be able to select the account on a repeating bill as 'CIS Labour expense' (I don't understand why it won't let you in the first place when you can select all other accounts by the looks of it?..)

    8 votes

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  11. I haven't yet been able to determine what order checks print selected bills in, and they seemingly change their sort order if you select them to print again. Is there a way to control the order they print in to come out alphabetically by payee, so that we can more efficiently match them up to the letters they need mailed out with? Or, have a way to select how you want them sorted (i.e. by payee, memo, etc.) on the Pay by Check screen when printing multiple bills?

    13 votes

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    ✨ Thanks for the thoughtful feedback on the check printing order. We understand that when checks print in an unpredictable sequence, it makes it harder to match with backup documentation and to reissue in a consistent order if needed. We’re tracking requests here for the ability to sort (for example, by payee) and to keep the order predictable and repeatable across print runs. This idea is open for community support (Gaining Support)so others can add votes and any details to help us gauge impact.


  12. Xero to copy billable expense lines when copying a bill or entering a new bill using 'add last items'. At the moment, the nominal lines and split detail are copied but if each line has previously been allocated to a customer as a billable expenses, this is not copied and needs re-entering line by line.

    12 votes

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  13. It would be great to have the ability to mark a bill as already paid when being entered.

    We use the bills email address for employees with company credit cards to submit receipts/invoices for purchases however, when these go into bills and before they can be reconciled, they get mixed up with bills actually needing to be paid. This is also the case for invoices we receive that are then direct debited, before the amount is deducted from our accounts, it's easy for these to be confused for bills that need to be batched and paid. If multiple people are…

    21 votes

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  14. After adding a bill to pay, there is an option to add another bill. I suggest another option, "Add another bill from this vendor". I often process more than one bill from the same company.

    3 votes

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  15. When entering a bill or invoice, you enter the total at the top then add statement lines, would be great if it showed remaining amount to be charged/ reconciled to reach the desired total. This would cut down admin time when reconciling bills after entering gst amount could show the total remaining as the non gst amount so you do not need to calculate the remaining amount.

    9 votes

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  16. Fix the Bill Total field to allow regular number input ability.

    Specifically, allow the ability to enter .01 instead of having to enter 0.01 which is very unnatural. So, disable/remove the logic that requires the Bill Total entered to start with a number.

    Use Case
    - We get numerous invoices with a $0.01 total where the product may be an allocation or new line incentive. I constantly get a Bill Total mismatch because I enter the Bill Total as .01 which results in $1.00 bill total instead of the expected $0.01 bill total.


    Secondary to this primary fix - Allow…

    1 vote

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  17. Tick boxes on the awaiting payment bills screen to remain after editing a bill in Xero.

    Before the new update to Xero, it was possible while ticking bills in the (Bills - Awaiting Payment Tab) - for a batch payment, to edit any that might have a slight error. For instance if you had ticked about 100 bills and noticed one had the wrong amount, it used to be possible to edit it, use the back arrow to go back to your Awaiting Payment Tab and all the bills you had previously ticked, were still ticked (or highlighted in blue).…

    3 votes

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  18. There used to be a feature that you could zoom into a bill that had been uploaded when putting the information into Xero ( when the bill shows at the left of the Xero page ) This has gone and now I have to keep popping bills in and out to see details. Please could it be re-instated

    1 vote

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  19. When bills have had payments added on incorrectly from a non-bank account (i.e. enabled payments to account)
    enable a function to remove payments in a bulk action

    9 votes

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  20. Is it possible to add GST and Account columns to the draft bills screen in Xero to check the account and GST total before approving?

    11 votes

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