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  1. Show purchases orders on the dashboard, as per this thread! Would be really useful to see what is approved but not billed at a glance. https://central.xero.com/s/question/0D51N00004oQgTxSAK/is-it-possible-to-show-your-purchase-orders-on-the-dashboard?t=1652190558049&searchQuery

    75 votes

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  2. Please add the function to add a Projects field on the Bills awaiting approval and Bills awaiting payment page.

    This allows users to select the projects that they manage, thus no need to open every bill.

    8 votes

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  3. Automate the showing of which invoice or bill a credit note has been applied to.

    I work across about 20 businesses who use XERO. All waste time when the customer or supplier allocates credit to a different source document to my client. A way to avoid this is to automate the display of which Invoice or Bill a CN has been applied to, in the email templates and attached PDF's.

    XERO potentially currently works on the idea that a CN is applied to the Bill or Invoice the credit was derived from - but in practice this doesn't always work,…

    2 votes

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  4. When we rebill a transaction to a client that was already paid, if the amount is paid in Euros, for example €5,000, when I issue the next invoice to this customer, the expense automatically shows up to be included in this invoice. The issue is, when I choose this transaction, even though my invoice is also being billed in Euros, the amount is automatically converted to GBP (my company a/c's currency) and then is converted back to Euros so the amount to be rebilled shows us as a different figure either positively or negatively in my favour depending upon the…

    5 votes

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  5. Sales & Purchases Overview Screens
    For invoices which have been (part) cleared by an overpayment or by a credit note Please show a value in the paid column - Never Nil

    7 votes

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  6. Add a feature where you can capture bulk supplier invoices.
    You can select your supplier from a dropdown, type the invoice number, type the description, select to add a file, select account detail (sales account) and type in your amount.
    This will save much more time vs opening the supplier account, add new bill, etc, etc, or copying a recent bill and just typing over it ... it's tedious and time consuming the way it is set up now.

    2 votes

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    Hi Louleen, rounding back to your idea here. From what you describe it sounds like majority of the contents of the bills are the same? If so perhaps a repeat bill template could be an option. If you set this to create a Draft bill you could then just review and make any adjustments.

    Also if you already have existing bills that need entering you can back date a repeat bill template and dependent on the cycle you set e.g 'repeats every x days' you could spin up multiple bills from one template at once.

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

    25 votes

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  8. If I'm paying a bill by monthly direct debit (say Business rate), it would be useful to have the ability to set up multiple payments instead of having to set up 12 separate identical monthly payments.

    3 votes

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  9. Bills - Ability to remove extra attachments exported from emails.

    when forward invoices and delivery docs to Xero, the email signature (which includes the company logo) is also captured and exported to Xero Bill as a separate attachment.
    While this doe does not impact payments, it's still frustrating. There should be a way to prevent logos or email template elements from being exported.

    8 votes

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  10. Invoice templates are editable, but bill templates are not.
    Would like to be able to add searchable fields to a bill without removing those that are already there.

    36 votes

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  11. In the new bills view, compact view on bills awaiting payment has the same spacing as regular view on the all bills page. The padding around the tickybox doesn't change, so the padding in the table cells isn't compacting properly on pages with tickyboxes. Consistency between formatting on different grouped pages is a basic requirement, as is testing all pages within a category for unintended impacts of CSS changes.

    1 vote

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    Hi Freya, rounding back across your idea here I wanted to check if you're still noticing this behaviour? The page should be responsive, so if you're only viewing on part of the screen you shouldn't find contents spilling over the table. Appreciate you trying to share a screenshot here, however if you're still getting the same as you've noted I'd recommend raising this with our Xero Support team so our specialists can investigate and escalate to our team if needed. 

  12. We like the discount column on Customer Invoices.
    We love being able to copy Customer Invoices to Bills.

    But what happens to the discount when we copy a customer invoice to a supplier bill? It appears in the total but it doesn't appear anywhere on the bill and it's impossible to edit or remove unless the entire discounted item is removed and added.

    I've spent many confused hours wondering why the bill doesn't add up.

    Even a flag to state that there is a hidden discount would be an improvement.

    12 votes

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    Appreciate the detail and how this impacts your flow, Robert. 

    It'd be good to get some more understanding of the scenarios in which you're finding you often need to copy an invoice to a bill - Welcome any feedback on this to share back with the team too. 

  13. We use Unleashed (UL) for all of our purchases and sales. The team uploads associated files, proformas, invoices, and receipts directly to the UL PO.

    When the PO is completed and 'pushed' to Xero, the associated documents are lost. I then have to login, find them, download from UL, and then upload them into Xero.

    Is there anyway that these files can be pulled with the rest of the information?

    3 votes

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  14. Add a Pay-To Name that is different than the name of the Vendor. Explanation: I have a handful of Vendors who have hired out billing companies like Wells Fargo to handle their Accounts Receivable. In Xero I only get to name the Contact by the Pay-To Name which is very messy and meaningless when adding invoices and matching invoices to Vendors.For my business this is an urgent matter that needs to be addressed. *As a retailer, I only do accounts payable.

    1 vote

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  15. We need an approval process which includes multiple approvers who do not necessarily access Xero so a share as with an invoice would be ideal to request approval via email

    11 votes

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    Hi community, thanks for sharing with us on this idea. It would be good to get further insight into why the user would not be invited into the Xero organisation if they are a part of the approval process.

    While we don't have plans for developing a share link on bills like invoices at this stage, an option for some right now could be to export bills from your organisation which could be provided to the right person in a CSV format.

  16. 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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  17. 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. 

  18. The cash flow currently picks up bills to be paid on a specific date in the cash flow but if you set up a payment in advance and mark as paid in Xero, the bill disappears all together from the cash flow.

    The manual workaround is to "Add upcoming money in or out" but I would have expected Xero to pick them up as payments already set up on the bank account.

    5 votes

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  19. Bills - Highlight the “Planned date” (in red or bold) as you select the date.
    This would assist greatly when batching weekly and monthly payment batches and working alphabetically.
    The Bills screen is very busy.
    Thank you

    4 votes

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  20. 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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