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  1. 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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    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.

  2. 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.

    8 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. 🙂

  3. As we have to load bills into Xero to reconcile, (and I use hubDoc to do this now) it would be great if we had the option to send certain bills to Workflow Max to assign them to a job and include them on a client invoice. This would top off this suite of programs for me!

    4 votes

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    Xero is retiring its WorkflowMax product on 26 June 2024 and has entered into an agreement with tech-led business advisory firm, BlueRock, who are acquiring the brand. As part of this, they have commenced plans to offer a new product. BlueRock’s intent is that their new WorkflowMax product, WorkflowMax by BlueRock will be available to customers in early 2024. You can read more on the blog and on the WorkflowMax website.

  4. 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

    13 votes

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  5. 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.

    58 votes

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

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

    557 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.

  7. Ability to edit Inventory adjustment.

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

    49 votes

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  8. Ability to assign multiple bills into single purchase orders.

    Purpose: To improve the users’ workflow rather than having to create multiple purchase orders.

    127 votes

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  9. 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.

    214 votes

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  10. 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.

    309 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.

  11. Ability to produce supplier remittances that include all the credit notes against any payment as unallocated.

    Purpose: Because some of the credit notes do not relate specifically to an invoice, e.g. marketing aid, retro discounts.

    208 votes

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

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

    54 votes

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  13. Ability to add a mark-up in the billable expense.

    Purpose: Because some clients will ask additional expenses to users’, this will help them easily add mark-up price in their expenses.

    72 votes

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    Hi team, appreciate your interest of this idea. While we don't have direct development for this planned right now we wanted to share a workaround that may help you here. 

    When adding the billable expenses to an invoice, you can override the unit price. Using Xero's inbuilt calculator, you include margin/mark-up by multiplying the unit price by the percentage you wish to mark up. 

    We understand this doesn't cover all situations of needs expressed. We will continue to monitor this idea and share if there's any progress. 

  14. Ability to send receipts and remittance advice when allocating a payment as a prepayment.

    Purpose: Users’ can easily send the customers receipts of their deposits.

    46 votes

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    Hi community, thanks for your continued input to the idea here. While this isn't something we have planned in the near term, we wanted to share a possible

    alternative where you could send the prepayment transaction to your customer.

    Unallocated customer prepayments can be found on the Awaiting Payment tab on your sales screen. You could add a separate invoice template to use with receipts for prepayments and consider making the following changes.

    • Change the 'Approved Invoice title' field to Receipt.
    • Deselect the Show unit price and quantity columns.
    • Deselect the tax column.
    • Deselect the Show payment advice cut-away

    We'll continue to stay tuned to the idea here, and let you know if there's change.

  15. Ability to allocate credit notes to a customer.

    Purpose: To save users’ time rather than having to manually go into the Billable Expenses, outstanding report, find the original invoice and edit it to remove from recharging the client.

    50 votes

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  16. Ability to merge multiple bills from one supplier into one bill.

    Purpose: To combine bills related to a single source or event, and show a link between. Also saves time from having to recreate lines from an existing bill in another.

    41 votes

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    Hey community, thanks for your sharing and supporting this idea.

    We wanted to share for those that may not already know - right now you can combine multiple bills to mark them as paid in a single batch payment? Bills display separately in Xero, but bills for the same supplier are combined in the payment file, so each supplier receives a single payment and reference.  Appreciate that this may not help for all workflows of those who voted for this idea so we'll continue to monitor interest and feedback on the idea.

  17. 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.

    13 votes

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  18. 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.

    277 votes

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    Thanks for the response and continued support in this idea, everyone.

    Work for partial billing of a purchase orders is taking shape. ✨

    To give a taster of what this'll look like - when you create a bill from a purchase order you'll be able to enter the amounts of each item you'd like to bill, and your Approved purchase order will show the amount of each item Billed.

    I'll come back to share as soon as the feature begins roll out!

  19. 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.

    96 votes

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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.

  20. 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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