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  1. It would be nice to be able to have our company name on the check voucher so the vendor will always know who the payment is from.

    8 votes

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  2. I would LOVE a link back to draft bills & invoices from the approved bill or invoice. When using email to bill and repeating invoices, after approval there is a link to add a new 'whatever'. But there is no single-click option to go straight to drafts to keep processing these. Instead you must click twice to purchases overview and then drafts.

    When processing a large queue of draft bills and invoices, this would be a huge time-saver for me, and I'm sure many others.

    23 votes

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    Hi team, reviewing this idea we appreciate there is feedback both in relation to Invoices and Bills here.

    On the bills front, there is actually now functionality that can solve the flow here - Using quick view you can review, approve and move onto your next bill all without even leaving the list.

    You'll also find that the default in this view is 'Approve & next' making it a direct option rather than having to pick from the drop down.

    Right now, we're also in the process of releasing new View and Edit pages for bills that'll also have this option set as the default.

    This view option isn't available in Sales right now, however we have an idea you may like to also add your support for this.

    Similarly, there is another around having Drafts added to the Sales menu that some maybe interest in here.

    For the time…

  3. 13 votes

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  4. 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?

    19 votes

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  5. 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.

    13 votes

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  6. 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…

    23 votes

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  7. I will like an option that will force customer to register to Auto Pay.

    All our customers agreed to use Auto Pay and most of them "forgets" or "don't see" the Auto Pay checkbox option. So, what happens, they pay thinking they have subscribed to Auto Pay.

    This option will make our billing management so much easier.

    A quick fix to that issue could be the following:
    When they select the button "Set up auto pay", then the Auto Pay checkbox should at least be already selected.

    9 votes

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  8. CPA005 compliant so that a payment file can be uploaded to a Canadian bank instead of having to manually input payments.

    10 votes

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  9. 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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  10. Currently when editing a batch payment we can only tab across to the next cell, it would be good if we can use the arrow keys to move around and edit instead of using your mouse to get to the cell below, or the previous cell etc.

    6 votes

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    We appreciate how this could be more intuitive. To confirm how this currently works - Within the body of a batch payment you can use Tab to navigate forward through cells, pressing Enter will enable you to edit the cell and then pressing Enter again will confirm the cells contents(highlighted).

    When the cell is highlighted you'll be able to use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate up, down and across within the body of your batch payment.

  11. Converse of the ability to copy multiple bills into one invoice.

    9 votes

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  12. HI
    we work in wine retail & record our product &service on xero (we have moved from sage 50 2 years now)
    we cannot use track inventory option as this doest work with our current setup
    please can we simply have like a small box under each inventory saying quantity on hand for e.g 2 or if its negative like - 2 ( as this is really trouble some for me to all the time go to report & manually set my filters all the time with dates,& other details.
    ) please like on sage50 we had always a number…

    9 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Inventory  ·  Admin →
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    Hi community, while we appreciate some customers may want to rack quantity on hand for untracked items in their products and services this isn't something we have plans for. Tracked Inventory is the feature within Xero that will enable this capability and while we understand this may not work for all customers flows we want to be transparent with you through the idea here.

  13. Bank Accounts Cash Coding problems:
    xero auto enters "unknown" if payee not used
    No Quantity column for shares or livestock transactions
    Posted entries disappear which does not allow easy scroll up and down scrutiny of work done
    account code does not show for coded entries
    bank account description/particulars does not show as per bank statement
    ie simply make the bank statements screen like Banklink so I can move my practice.

    9 votes

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    Hi Brian, appreciate your feedback here. However, in order for others in community to understand the specific idea they're supporting and to also share back with the right teams here at Xero we ask to keep one idea per thread. 

    We have an idea started that you can support for livestock calculations 

    I've adjusted your idea here specifically for showing the account code in the cash coding screen, and you're welcome to support others cash coding ideas or start others for ideas that are represented. 

    If you're having any trouble with conversions, I'd recommend coming directly into our team at Support for 1-on-1 help from our specialists. 🙂

  14. Prepayment automatically be created for the combined total of the "Income in Advance" lines.

    Purpose: To save users time from having to prepayment invoices manually by adding a payment to the invoice from Income in Advance

    15 votes

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  15. Ability to show the supplier’s bank account details of payment in the remittance advice.

    Purpose: To easily let the supplier know where the user sent the money to.

    70 votes

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  16. Ability to assign purchase orders to a project in Xero.

    Purpose: To make Xero projects overview shows everything ordered/billed & invoiced to the customers.

    618 votes

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    Hi community, we appreciate everyone's engagement here. To confirm we have intentions of developing the purchase order experience, however developing Projects into this does have some complexities and requires work across both purchase orders and projects to deliver.

    Right now our initial focus is releasing the new purchase order experience to all users.

    While we don't have a timeframe for assigning PO's to Projects at this stage, this is top of our product teams radar and we'll communicate here as soon as there's an update.

  17. Ability to edit Inventory adjustment.

    Purpose: Because it would allow the accountants to reverse the effect of any wrong adjustment.

    57 votes

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  18. Ability to have a copy of billable expenses to the sales invoice.

    Purpose: Save them time from having to send another email of copies of the expenses.

    241 votes

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  19. Ability to duplicate a line item for invoices/bills.

    Purpose: To make users easily enter similar line items when creating invoices/bills.

    66 votes

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate all contributions and votes this idea has received overtime.

    There are a few different features we'd like to highlight that can aid in the entry of a lot of transaction entry and solve for many of the needs here.

    • Non tracked inventory can be used as a means to save details for items you regularly purchase or sell and reduce the need to repetitively enter information such as Description, Price and Account
    • Contact defaults can additionally save time from having to enter or update account, and tracking options of your lines
    • Add contacts last items from the previous transaction you entered for them if you have contacts you regularly purchase or sell the same items
    • NEW drag & drop contents of a field up or down the column - hovering over a field you can click and drag from the dot in the bottom right corner…
  20. Ability to customise the branding of Remittance with a DOCX / advanced branding theme

    Purpose: This would allow businesses that are already using DOCX / Advance branding to apply consistent branding to the Remittance advice that is sent to their suppliers.

    329 votes

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    Hi community, we appreciate the on-going interest this idea is receiving and the growing needs in the ability to customise documents that you send from Xero.

    Right now, our position for this idea remains the same - we do have future plans to improve the branding experience across Xero, starting with invoicing which you can read more about.

    As this experience continues to build out we'll make sure to share any updates for customising Remittance for everyone here.

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