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  1. Would love to have the ability to filter purchase orders by tracking code from the new PO menu

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    Thanks for sharing this idea about filtering purchase orders by tracking codes. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know how this could help organise your purchase orders.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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  2. Bill payments - allocate directly to supplier account without having to match to a particular bill/s. Also allow allocation and creation of bank rule that allocates payments to the relevant supplier account from the bank reconciliation

    5 votes

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    Hi Ziaad, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We have moved this idea to gain more support from the community.Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  3. We can no longer attach any files at the creating stage of a purchase order, the PO has to be saved or approved before anything can be attached, then it throws you back to the purchase order listing and you have to go back in to save anything. In the old version, we used to be able to attach files during the initial creation. Please could your developers look at this and fix this.

    2 votes

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  4. It would be great if the inventory levels showed both items in active quotes and in draft invoice. displayed when clicking on your stock items it currently shows several info line, an additional line similar to the "in committed quote" option but also in active/draft invoices. this will give a more live feed into what stock has been booked out.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea here Terrence. Can appreciate how this would be useful for other users wanting to know which quotes or invoices have the items assigned to get a better idea. We'll move this idea to gain more support from the team. In the mean time feel free to share this with your friends and colleagues who might also benefit from this feature! We'll monitor this space for any further updates.

  5. On the make payments page of batch payments allow for a split screen so you can review submitted invoices to either check bank account details or add bank account details of new contacts without having to jump between pages/screens.

    7 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We appreciate you explaining how a split-screen view could help when processing batch payments.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  6. Add a "add Bill" button to enable you to add a bill after the batch has been created without cancelling the batch and redoing.

    11 votes

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    Hi christine, is this a common situation you find yourself or business running into? It'd be good to understand more detail if there are common circumstances that lead you to needing to edit a batch payment after it's been created.

    For the time being we'll start to feel out the interest in this from community. Thanks!

  7. Building on the product feature implementation of "Approve and Vie Next", it would be good to also be able to Submit Bills for Approval and view next, please.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how you'd like the bill approval process to be more efficient.


    We've reviewed this idea, and now it's up to the community to get behind it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit, so they can add their votes and comments to support this too!

  8. The ability to Submit for approval & view Next when working through draft bills. Sometimes I need to submit all the bills for approval before they are paid and it is quite time consuming that each time I submit for approval you need to go back to drafts to select the next bill. Like with Approve and Next - Submit and Next would be very handy

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  9. viewing subtotals of approved and paid purchase orders (currently only purchase orders awaiting approval show a subtotal at the top of the page)

    4 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback! Your idea is now live and ready for the community to get behind.


    To help gain momentum, share the link with any colleagues who would benefit so they can cast their vote.


    Along with voting, the community can now provide extra context in the comments on why this change is a win for their Xero workflow.

  10. There should be the option to delete the duplicate bill instead of void option in xero.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  11. Reduce clicks in bill review by making "Approve and View Next" a sticky option.
    I push batches of bills from Veryfi and then need to review each to assign a custom property. Currently, I have to click the dropdown arrow on the "Approve" button and then click "Approve and View Next". Instead, change the default button option to be "Approve and View Next" after it has been selected once. Revert to "Approve" when the user leaves the screen.

    2 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  12. Could inventory item fields be increased to allow extra information to be added.
    This would be extremely useful to be able to add data such as: Item Weight; Alternative item/part number; Purchase and Sell currency - we buy in one currency and sell in another, would be useful to see this clearly; Specification data - keeping this distinct from description is very useful.

    3 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  13. manage permission - I would need my crew to see inventory quantity without seeing the cost.

    3 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for raising this. It’s clear that being able to show stock on hand without exposing cost price is important for many teams. Right now, the lack of that level of permission control can mean choosing between giving staff the visibility they need and protecting sensitive financial information.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can track interest and highlight to our product teams how valuable a dedicated permission toggle would be. Please keep sharing your use cases and voting—this context really helps demonstrate the impact.

  14. Purchases Tab: would like to see Billable expenses not billed.

    12 votes

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    We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    Our Community have reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  15. Hi Xero Team,

    At present, we can generate packing slips, however it would be extremely helpful to have the option to generate a separate Delivery Slip document, clearly titled “Delivery Slip” rather than “Packing Slip”.

    In our field, once orders are packed and staged, our warehouse team needs to quickly distinguish between:

    Orders that are ready for customer pick-up

    Orders that are scheduled for delivery

    Having a document with a clear “Delivery Slip” heading would significantly reduce confusion, improve dispatch efficiency, and minimise loading errors. It would also allow us to issue the correct paperwork to drivers without modifying packing…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  16. There are similar post about single click bills being requested, but I'd like to add Credit Notes to this...

    I really dislike not being able to just click a single button to add a new bill or CN, from the Bills screen.
    99% of the entries on this page will be new bills, and credit notes. Why are the options to create a new bill or credit note lumped in with Import from CSV, New Repeating Bill, or the ridiculously useless upload or email options for bills? Those last 2 add nothing to our productivity, as whatever is uploaded will…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  17. You have today added a great new feature - the ability to upload Accounts Payable invoices to generate the Draft transaction.

    Can I suggest that you have a look at the options available after the invoice has been approved, to then quickly navigate back to the Draft Bills.

    This is because it's likely that we upload in batches then approve, however to navigate back to Draft to pick up the next invoice takes quite a few steps!

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how the workflow could be improved for you, when you're importing and approving bills.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!

  18. Emailing POs to every email in the supplier contact details does not make sense.
    We should be able to select emails for each supplier to connect to each type of document or email.
    For some suppliers, one email may be used for all, for others, each email is for a different department. Remittences go to accountsreceivable@, Purchae Orders to orders@, bills to accountspayable@ - you get the idea.

    The new layout have made this worse by making deleting all the existing emails harder, but let's fix the root problem... allow selecting a PO email for each suppliuer and using this…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  19. Just need to increase the delivery instructions window so all the message can be viewed at once. Current tiny line by line view is painful.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for starting this as a new idea, Carl. 🙂 Have just shared this back with our product team - Totally understand if you have a few instructions you'd like to be able to view the full message to ensure it's accuracy before sending.

    I'll share if there are any updates for you here.

  20. You can set your company preference to tax exclusive or tax inclusive, but the Xero email bills to Xero function does not follow the company settings and always puts to tax inclusive. Can this be as per the company settings? Eg we would like it to always be tax exclusive.

    6 votes

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    Thanks Dominique, for submitting your idea!

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now open for the community to support.

    Other Xero users can now vote for your idea and add comments to share how it could enhance their own Xero experience.

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