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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. Add the 'Upload bills' feature as a widget on the Dashboard, for convenience.
    At present you have to navigate to 'Bills to pay', then from the 'New bill' dropdown, select 'Upload bills'. It's a great time saving feature, but seems tucked away, and would be great if right from the dashboard I could just drop bills, and invoices, ready to process later.

    31 votes

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    10 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Hi team, pleased to share that this is a feature that will be coming with the new Xero Homepage! Once released it will be an option available from the bill drop down within the Bills to pay widget 😊. I'll round back to share as it becomes available in orgs.

    If you'd like to get more understanding of the new homepage and navigation visit our website and try out the prototype!

  3. Before this latest upgrade, when you created a Bill from a Purchase order, the PO number was up at the top of the screen, so you could add it easily to the Bill, now it's not there!!! This is annoying have to write it down. Love this to come back PLEASE.

    4 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.

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  4. 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.

    5 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!

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

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    Hi Khem , thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    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!

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

  6. When searching a purchase order number in the search bar in the purchase order section, it wont find the purchase order if there is a space after the number. This shouldn't be an issue if there is a space next to it. This happens a lot if I am copying and pasting a number into the search bar and it adds in a space next to the number, I then have to go back in and get rid of the space to find it

    2 votes

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    Thanks for the feedback, Brianna. Can see how it would be easy to add a space that could cause troubles when searching a PO number. Just to double check - is the space you mention in the original PO number field or within the search that you're performing?

  7. Xero treats repeating bills as templates, not real future obligations. As a result, they don’t appear in Bills to Pay, aged payables, or short‑term cash‑flow views until the bill is actually created. This hides genuine recurring expenses and breaks basic planning questions like: “What are my projected expenses and will my cash cover them?”

    The only safe workaround today is to ignore repeating bills and always keep the next instance entered as a normal bill, so it shows in reports and cash‑flow. That defeats the purpose of automation.

    Please allow repeating bills to surface as projected obligations in cash‑flow tools…

    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 🙂

  8. 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.

    4 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.

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

    5 votes

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


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

    13 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!

  11. Make Melio payments work as well in Xero as embedded bill.com payments used to work. make it half as good.

    2 votes

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    Appreciate the feedback on the Melio bill payments solution within Xero here team. I have shared this back with our product team and we will keep a close eye and share if there are any improvements around the syncing of data planned like you've noted here.

  12. Date format currently showing 'Statement balance (Month Date)', instead show 'Statement Balance -DD-MMM-YY'

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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. 🙂

  13. 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.

    8 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.

  14. The ability to mark a PO as sent would be great. Some of our suppliers only require a PO number and I don't have to actually sent the document. There is no facility to do this presently. I can do it for quotes but not for POs.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback, Christine! While there's no direct button to 'Mark as sent' if you select 'Print PDF' you'll see you get an option to 'Mark as sent' however you will need to Print and download the PDF of your device for this action to complete.

    We'll get a sense of the interest in a specific button for this from your idea here, but hopefully this option helps for now. 😊

  15. Need fields for EAN / GTIN / UPC / ITF information. Connecting to shopify and other channels where you have variant skus / similar skus makes each sku unique. Additionally, when generating Purchase Orders, have this information insures that your vendor 100% understands the correct sku.

    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…

    3 votes

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  17. When entering the bills, I would be great that the price that appears is the last one, and that we can add the discount on the bill without creating a purchase order.

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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. 🙂

  18. Adding a 'credit limit amount' to the 'Purchase defaults' section of Contacts would be very useful.

    I have accounts with several suppliers with a credit limit. It would be very handy if I could see that credit limit in Xero and either put a stop on placing orders until I have reduced the balance and/or a simple reminder that I am approaching or over the limit.

    The 'credit limit amount' is available in 'Sales defaults' but not 'Purchase defaults' which seems to be an odd omission.

    2 votes

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  19. Feature Request - Purchases Overview

    It would be great to be able to filter items listed under purchases overview by whether a document is added or not. I have to manually upload documents for certain type of bills as they are created in a third party application that doesn't bring the document forward.

    2 votes

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  20. We need a new report for suppliers that functions as a true detailed ledger with a running balance.

    The Problem: When we need to reconcile an account with a supplier, there is no single, clean report that shows a simple chronological history of all bills and payments. We can run a "Supplier Transaction Report," but it's often not in a simple, statement-style format that's easy to read or send to the supplier.

    We need the Accounts Payable equivalent of the "Detailed Ledger" statement that is also needed for customers.

    The Request (Solution): Please create a new report, "Supplier Detailed Ledger,"…

    5 votes

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    Hi Jasmine, thanks for sharing this idea with us. We can see why this would be helpful for some users. Currently, Xero offers the Supplier bill activity report and the contacts Activity statement. While this information is available on the account transaction report,it is not available in a Statement format. We've moved this idea to Gaining support so that other users who want this idea implemented can vote for it as well. You may share this idea with your colleagues to get more traction!

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