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  1. Option to generate a Notice of Electronic Funds document to send to suppliers requiring immediate proof of payment. Said Notice to include:

    remittance date
    name/contact details of remitting party
    amount
    reference / description for payment being made
    the bank details of both the remitting and beneficiary banks

    Not an original idea but I received a notice from a customer. Today I was asked to submit one to a supplier as proof of payment so they could ship out an urgent delivery but I could not provide one. See sample document attached for reference.

    6 votes

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    Hi Nina, this is something I'd recommend engaging your financial institution or bank about. While you can set up and create a payment in Xero, the confirmation of funds transfer would come at the point the money is paid from your actual bank account to the suppliers bank account. 

    If your suggestion however is from the Sales side where you'd like to request your own customers provide proof of payment for invoices you send to them perhaps this could be worked into your organisations branding as part of the payment terms

  2. Please allow remittance advices to be sent to clients from a batch payment even if it contains an overpayment. There is something fundamentally wrong for there not to be an option for this. A batch payment of 100 invoices with an overpayment of 1 is not cause for there not being an option to send a remittance advice to my clients. I've had to search the page and manually extract it onto an excel file and then send to suppliers. Very time consuming especially if you make large batch payments for over 50 different suppliers.

    65 votes

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  3. Projects Management - There are instances when a bill line item needs to be apportioned/allocated to two or more projects. At the moment the only way to do this is by splitting this line item across several bill lines (as many as projects to allocate to) and then do the allocation. The idea would be to add a "Split" button to the project allocation form, say next to current search field in the form ( not the search at the top but the one next to each billed item), so that current functionally remains i.e. type project in search box…

    17 votes

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  4. Ability to attach supporting file to tracked inventory adjustment entry

    7 votes

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    Thanks for the response, Joanne. While it's not something we have direct plans for atm, we'll get a better of the interest around this here, and I'll share if there's any changes planned.

  5. Ability to print a deposit slip that shows the subtotals of cash and cheques.

    Purpose: Users can easily see the figure of subtotal cash and cheques in the deposit slip.

    64 votes

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  6. 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.

    32 votes

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  7. Attachments in repeating bills are not attached to the actual bills when Xero creates the bill.
    If the repeating bill is deleted, the link of the repeating bills will be broken and we cannot get the attachment in the repeating bill.

    so I suggest
    1. having the attachment in the repeating bill attach to the actual bill when Xero create the bill; or
    2. have an archive function for repeating bills that are expired so that the actual bill can still be have a link to the repeating bill to find the attachment.

    Attachments such as working or scanned bills…

    39 votes

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  8. It would be great if we could send a remittance on a bill that has been part paid. This means suppliers can reconcile the payment in the same way we have in their own accounts

    15 votes

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  9. When importing invoices and bills, to have the option to import using the Account Number where specified, instead of the Contact Name to avoid the issue of creating duplicate contact records where the name does not match exactly in Xero.

    32 votes

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  10. Invoice numbers to be sorted in sequential order so when you get past 9999 the invoices going to 10000 upwards don't then end up at the bottom of the list and out of order.

    39 votes

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  11. Populate Contact Purchase Defaults when Bills arrive as e-invoice or from 3rd party app.

    As a bookkeeper I was so looking forward to promoting and using e-invoicing, but unfortunately it's not going to work for me (and many of my clients). This is because we often have invoices with A LOT of line items which are brought into Xero just as a total with one line only. However, if we receive an e-invoice all the individual lines would come into Xero and then we are faced with having to click through every individual line to populate the default purchase GL…

    19 votes

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    Hi team, we'd like to jump into this thread with an update for you all. We have made a recent update to simplify bill creation and further automation in Xero. Bill's created from email, web or mobile, will automatically apply defaults that have been pre-set in your organisation such as account codes, tax rates, and tracking categories.

    We appreciate this idea has been raised in relation to eInvoicing and third-party app creation which this functionality doesn't extend to at this time, but wanted to share for those using email to bills, or uploads.

    We will continue to track the interest in these other creation types and share if there are any further improvements.

  12. Some of our customers have set discounts, however, some of our inventory items have very little to no margin and we would like to be able to block that inventory item from being discounted. Also, freight gets discounted on customers that have discounts saved to their account?

    12 votes

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  13. Please add Servus Credit Union to your list of Banks to create CSV files. I have multiple companies with this bank.

    3 votes

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    Hi team, while we appreciate you raising the idea in the forums with us here we want to be upfront that we don't have plans for developing the ability to export batch payment files that meet the differing needs of more banks.

    Instead we are taking the approach of enabling bill payments solutions directly with Xero.

    For examples we have developed a solution with Crezco in the UK, and a solution with Melio for the US. We are continuing to explore other markets as we continue to develop and improve bill payment flows for our customers.

  14. It would be good to be able to see the bank account details (BSB and Account number) on the new bill screen when entering invoices to be paid. By having the contacts bank details on the entry screen you can easily check that the bank details in Xero match what is on the invoice. This would save time of having to go and open the contact to check that the details match - not to mention save time of having to download the invoice so you can view it while checking against the contact. Being able to look at the…

    32 votes

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate the feedback here and are continuing to track the interest.

    While this isn't something we have direct plans for right now, we will continue to consider this as we develop our bill payment experiences.

    I'll share if there are any updates.

  15. i recently got a new phone and all its photos are saved as HEIC format however everytime i forward this type of image to xero for bill forwarding it fails as xero doesn't recognise the format.

    can you please update file formats asap as all newer mobile devices are moving to HEIC as it is a higher quality file and a smaller size overall, and samsung i found out do not offer an auto change of file before forwarding so it will not be easy to convert back to a jpg or png etc. before sending receipts to Xero

    17 votes

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  16. We write paper checks for some of our clients using a blank check style format. It would be nice to be able to insert a scanned signature on the signature line on the check style. This would enable the authorized signature to print on all checks printed.

    26 votes

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  17. It would be great if you could also add a scheduled amount to be paid on a bill when you enter a planned date. This would help when you are paying off a bill in instalments and the cashflow summary would be more accurate. Instead of showing the total amount of the bill to be paid it would show the planned amount to be paid.

    24 votes

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  18. Allocate purchase orders to CIS labour & CIS material account codes. Obviously these shouldn't be included in the CIS report until the purchase order is changed into a bill.

    13 votes

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  19. When you print a batch payment to PDF it currently prints the invoices in a random order (not by supplier name, not by date, not by amount, not by invoice number, not by Details -- completely random by the looks of it).

    It would be great if the invoices on this PDF could be sorted in the following order to make the PDF easier to read:
    Supplier Name
    Invoice Date
    Due Date
    Invoice Number

    If you are trying to use this report to check all invoices from a statement have been included, its currently very difficult/waste of time.

    37 votes

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  20. Option to data-sync Amazon, Ebay, Etsy etc accounts to allow VAT invoices to automatically assign to purchases. This would save so much time each quarter when preparing VAT.

    1 vote

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    Hi Siobhan, I know it's been sometime since you started the idea here. We wanted to share that we’ve recently launched our Etsy integration in the Xero App Store.

    Right now, the integration focuses on helping sellers reconcile payouts, categorise income/expenses, and manage sales tax. We don’t currently have native solutions for Amazon or eBay, though we are exploring opportunities in this space.

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