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Purchase orders, bills & inventory

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  1. Ability to change the date of paid bill.

    Purpose: To make it easier for users rather than going through the process of unreconcile the transaction, change the date and reconcile the bill again.

    12 votes

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  2. Ability to show partial amounts within purchase orders.

    Purpose: Because in some industries, showing partial bills to their clients can improve the workflow when doing ongoing projects.

    264 votes

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    Hi community, we totally get why you'd like to easily track partially received goods or services against a single purchase order, and to see the remaining balance within Xero.

    With the new Purchase orders experience that’ll be coming soon, our team has paid close attention to the flows and different needs in managing supplier goods that have been expressed through product ideas.

    Our team is looking to solve needs for tracking partial amounts received, so we’ll keep you updated of progress surrounding this here. 🙂

  3. Ability to track raw material inventory for manufacturing.

    Purpose: To make it easier for users to find out the amount that their business is using to convert raw material into sold products.

    93 votes

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    36 comments  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for your interest and sharing how improvements to Xero Inventory could enhance your experience using Xero.

    Tracking of inventory for manufacturing isn't something we have direct plans of right now, however as you may have seen from my update on this idea we have started exploring development for bundling of inventory in Xero.

    At this point, our product team have some early concepts and they'd like to engage our community for feedback on these.

    Knowing your interests here, we'd like to invite you to share back on the teams work for bundling inventory. If you'd be able to give some of your time, please fill in this short form.

    Depending on interest we may not be able to involve everyone, however we'll come back to share any further progress of this with you here.

  4. Ability to copy bills into a new draft bill

    Purpose: This would save time having to re-create purchases from scratch

    14 votes

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  5. To have the option to export BACS file type.

    Purpose: To get BACS file type, so customer can import it directly to bank system

    35 votes

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    Hi everyone, appreciate this idea has been in a state of Under review fro some time. While it was something our teams we're looking into, this work has had to be put down with other priorities that have transcended. 

    For now, we'll shift back to 'submitted' where we can continue to track appetite. We'll be sure to let you know if there's any change in this space. Thanks 

  6. Ability to include an attachment with an emailed Purchase Order

    Purpose: Because there may be additional specifications or plans that need to be sent to the supplier through PO

    269 votes

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    Hi everyone, we thank you for your support on the idea here. We understand the needs of being able to attach documents when sending Purchase Orders, however we want to be transparent that this is not planned work at this time.

    To begin, purchase orders need an update and this will be a focus for the team before enhancements like this can be considered. We will keep you updated of any related changes, here.

  7. Ability to export Bpay payment batches.

    Purpose: To save user time in exporting Bpay batches, as currently they have to do it one by one.

    111 votes

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    We want to thank everyone for the attention this idea has drawn. It’s clear from the many votes and detailed comments that having the ability to pay supplier bills with BPAY from Xero is a high-value feature for our Australian customers.

    We understand the desire in this and see how this functionality would enhance your use of Xero, and it is definitely on our radar.

    As you may have heard, our product team's current focus is on developing our bill payment solutions like we’ve delivered in the UK to more regions, with sights currently set on AU.

    Your feedback here is valuable to the team as we explore what this experience will look like. Though we can’t commit to any timelines as yet, BPAY is a feature that we’ll be aiming to support through our new solution. We’ll keep you updated on further news and progress for this, through the…

  8. Ability to approve bills by more than one user in Xero.

    Purpose: Because some companies have more than 1 directors/managers, so this feature will improve users’ workflow in approving the bills within Xero.

    132 votes

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  9. 70 votes

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    Hi everyone, we understand why people would want to be able to apply a credit note within a locked period however we wanted to provide more context on the purpose of lock dates and reasons for the way they work at present.

    Basically put lock dates prevent users making changes to the accounting records prior to the lock date. Their role is to prevent unintended changes which would alter reporting outcomes be they financial reports, VAT/GST/Sales Tax reports etc. Lock dates ensure financial data is accurate and trustworthy.

    When a credit note is allocated to an invoice the allocation date is dated the later of the two documents, the first day where both exist. Credit note allocations require creating journals on both a cash and accrual basis, which is why if both the invoice and the credit note are in a locked period, the allocation can’t be done. Those journals…

  10. Ability to restore voided checks in Xero.

    Purpose: To easily get the checks back when a user accidentally void it.

    10 votes

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  11. Ability to make Physical address as default delivery address when creating Purchase orders.

    Purpose: It’s saving users time rather than change the address manually.

    76 votes

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    Hi team, thanks for continuing to engage and share support in why setting the physical address as the delivery address would be most helpful in Purchase orders.

    We know it's been sometime since our last update here and want you to know that this idea has not gone unnoticed. With works moving along in the Purchase orders space we now have a team that'd like to dive deeper into the potential of this idea.

    We'd love to hear more insight from you in the idea here to help their discovery;

    • What are you currently doing in Xero to achieve what you need in correctly communicating with suppliers on delivery of goods?
    • If this feature was developed how would this change your use of Purchase orders? What impact would this have for your business and purchase workflow?

    Our product team will be paying close attention to all your feedback on this…

  12. Adding default tracking option for inventory items in Xero.

    Purpose: To make users don't have to think about or forget to add the correct tracking.

    92 votes

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate your detailed feedback on how default tracking options for inventory items would improve your use of Xero. Atm, it’s possible to set default tracking on a Contact, however do understand why this isn’t suitable for all of you.

    At this stage there’s no set plans to develop tracking in Xero inventory.

    This is something we may consider in the longer term and we’ll continue to monitor votes and your feedback. We’ll update here if there’s any progress.

  13. Simply formalising the blog comments from others to have Import functionality added to PO's and Xero's "if there is sufficient demand".

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    12 votes

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    We appreciate the passion and feedback we've received from customers about the ability to import and export purchase orders.

    We want to be open, that we do not have a direct plan to build export and import functionality in Purchase Order any time soon. 

    Our Product team in this space are currently focused on modernising our underlying technology so we can build new features, faster in the future.   

    To give a clear message for anyone coming across the idea, we'll close this idea.

  14. Ability to automatically create a sequential numbering.

    Purpose: To make filing invoices quicker.

    35 votes

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  15. Having another field for supplier reference.

    Purpose: User can check duplicate purchase orders easier by having another supplier reference field.

    49 votes

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  16. Ability to make the invoices that have been ticked in the previous page stays ticked.

    Purpose: Because it’ll save users’ time when they’re doing batch payments, especially when they have to tick all the invoices across multiple pages.

    199 votes

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    Thanks for your contributions and voting on this idea, community. While we're seriously taking on board your feedback for how and why being able to hold selections across pages would be helpful when processing batch payments, we want to be open that this isn't a focus area for product at this time.

    We'll continually reassess ideas where there's opportunity, so please keep adding your votes and interest, here. If there's any development planned we'll be certain to share this with you all.

  17. Ability to set up a default bank account for bills payments and invoice receipts.

    Purpose: To save time from having to select a bank account.

    47 votes

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  18. Ability to add a second reference field.

    Purpose: Because when importing invoices from another system, it generates a unique invoice number, and the actual supplier's invoice number is used as the second reference.

    204 votes

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  19. Ability to add all contact details needed when creating a contact from a bill

    Purpose: Ease of use being able to create, and send invoices all within the transactions screen

    19 votes

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    Hi everyone, currently our product team in the bills space are focused on the modernisation of Bills, upgrading technology. 

    Over the coming months you'll see some visual changes as we build and release these updates to Bills. 

    While entry of a Bill and contacts will come this is not the core focus atm. We'll move the idea here back to Submitted and will let you know when there's movement. 

  20. Applying discount on account payables invoices.

    Purpose: User doesn’t need to manually recalculate the cost of each item

    96 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for feeding back to us here. Understand the rationale for wanting to be able to apply discounts on bills in Xero, similar to how you can with Sales invoices. This is something our team would like to develop into bills, however there are a few other important pieces of work that need attention first. So, for the time being we'll leave this as Submitted but as soon as there's movement we'll update you of any change through the idea here. Thanks!

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