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  1. At the moment, when a bill is sat in drafts, because it has gone through the upload process, it does not match with any unbilled purchase orders. Would be good if you could select the PO it relates to from a list or something

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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. 🙂

  2. Add further Bulk Action options to the Draft Bills screen. See image - so many identical low value bills.
    Idealy I would be able to check the bills, and bulk add:
    - Supplier Name
    - Basic Description
    - Default Due Date (revert to supplier default automatically?)
    - Account used.
    - Approve if eligiible after this.

    I find the 'approve' options are useless because the incoming bills never have enough info to approve until edited... therefore - edit options would be more useful.

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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. 🙂

  3. Prevent invoice scanning technology from splitting out the VAT on a bill where the client's financial settings are set to "VAT scheme - None" and all chart of accounts codes are set to "No VAT" (the client is not VAT-registered).

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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. 🙂

  4. The drop down calendar shows a different start day in Bills depending on which field you are using, should be the same across the entire site.

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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. 🙂

  5. In the previous version of Xero, when previewing a sales invoice, the preview clearly displayed how many days the invoice was due in, based on the date the invoice was actually sent.
    This was extremely useful for quick reference when emailing invoices, scheduling follow‑ups, or checking payment timelines. You used to have this feature in the classic version of Xero ?

    In the new invoicing update, the preview no longer shows the number of days until the due date, which means I now need to manually calculate it every time — not from the invoice date, but from the date…

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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. 🙂

  6. Please add the ability to view attachments (PDFs, images, invoices, delivery notes) side‑by‑side within the Purchase Order screen — similar to the existing viewer available on Draft Bills and in New Invoicing.

    At present, PDF attachments can only be downloaded or opened in a separate tab, which breaks workflow and makes data entry or checking details more time‑consuming.
    Xero’s own guidance confirms that PO attachments currently open separately and cannot be previewed within the same window.

    A side‑by‑side viewer would improve accuracy and efficiency by enabling users to compare line items, quantities, pricing, or supplier documents without switching away from…

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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. 🙂

  7. Action Bars across all views should be sticky so that scrolling up and down is eliminated.

    For me...
    - Purchase order/Bill/Invoice actions.
    - Bill Batch Payment Actions

    Comment where this would be good for you...

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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. 🙂

  8. Inventory Item List.

    Included in this report is the unit cost which is manually set. Would it also be possible to please add another cost field to the report ? I would like to see the last PO unit cost. Any variance would be used to update the unit cost if in NZD

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    Hi Graham, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you when tracking inventory costs.

    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.

  9. When entering a new stock item, there isn't an opening to enter opening stock.
    We need to create the item first then enter the quantities in an adjustment tab.
    It makes sense to make adjustments to items already created, but surely we should be able enter an opening stock value when creating an item, this would save us a lot of time.

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    Hi, thanks for sharing this idea about setting the opening stock for a tracked item at the same time you add it.

    Now it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea with their votes and comments about how this would help them, too.

    As for how this is currently done, as well as setting the item's starting Quantity on Hand, there needs to be an accounting record for where the existing Value comes from.

    The current process is to add the item(s) as Tracked and then either:

    • Importing the opening balances for your tracked items. *This option is only for when you first start using Tracked Inventory in your organisation*.
    • Entering an approving a Supplier Bill to record the first purchase of the item.
    • Entering an Adjustment (Increase Quantity-type) to move the value from another account (the adjustment account) to the Inventory Asset Account.
  10. Could we get a customised bill option to add additional field for Purchase Order number (for PO's not created in Xero), so PO and Invoice number can be visible and searchable.

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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. Hello, we use pre-printed checks that seem much wider than the alignment grid for custom check styles. I have the Amount and Date fields set all the way to the right (and the printer has no margins or spacing on the page formatting, etc.) but those two values are still left of the blanks on the pre-printed stock. The check stock is a regular 8.5"x11" format sheet and a regular B&W laser printer.

    Unfortunately, this means the Amount ends up unclear because of the pre-printed dollar sign (see photo of a check I ran today). Thankfully the checks have been…

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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.

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

  12. Allow an user on invoice only to create, view and approved bills & sales invoices but not be able to make payment.

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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. New upload bill functionality is great but would be so much better if you could use you camera

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  14. Mass adjustments should include the ability to increase quantity as well as value - when we run production I currently have to do this one by one or create a bill to bring in the stock, it would be great to be able to bring in production through an adjustment

    Adjustments should show the stock level as at date of the adjustment as we there is always movement between when we do stock count to when we process the count on Xero - hence there is the need to perform an additional recon to current stock levels in order to…

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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. 🙂

  15. Supplier/Purchase defaults should allow a default description.

    I have to copy and paste the same item into multiple bills and line items. Xero automatically grabs the dates, contact, and reference, allows defaults on tax but for some reason ignores the description field.

    Please add this small feature that would save hours of manual inputs.

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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. When amending the account code for a bill, it would be helpful if the whole of the entry was selected when clicking into the box. I either have to click on the arrow and scroll up and down the list to select the account I want or I have to click at the front of the box, highlight the whole entry in blue and then delete to overtype the account code. If I could click in the box and the whole cell was highlighted in blue I could then just overtype the account code.

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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. Add planned pay date automatically as the due date or add a field into the bill entry screen so that you dont have to go back and add it from the bill list view.

    Just a suggestion which i think lots of people would find helpful. It would give real time data from the bill screen and saves going into the bill list to add the planned payment date for the categories at the top to populate correctly.

    I I believe that this enhancement would be beneficial for many users, as it would definitely save time by reducing the number…

    8 votes

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    Hey Sarah, thanks for your suggestion to add a planned pay date field directly on the bill entry screen.

    We're grateful for your engagement and for sharing ideas that can help make Xero more efficient. We can see how this would save time by reducing the number of steps required to set a planned payment date.

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now ready to gain support from other community members. Along with votes, others can now comment to share more detail about how this enhancement could improve their workflow and help them manage their cash flow more effectively.🙂

  18. Inventory activity summary with columns for
    Purchases
    Adjustments
    Sales
    On Hand
    Unit Cost
    Sales (currency value)
    COS (currency value)
    GP
    GP%
    Unit sales price

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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 🙂

  19. For businesses who have invested in equipment and generate an income from the hire or use of the equipment. The ability to calculate (through analytics or a report) the % 'Return On Investment'.
    The data is already in Xero (cost of good/equipment purchased VS total sales), just needs a simple way to display this info and calculated in a % and/or just view the data simply and easily.
    Currently have to create your own Excel spreadsheet and input that data from Xero manually. Seems a simple report/statistic to generate and would be incredibly useful for business who need to know…

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    Hi Simon, it's great to hear how automated ROI calculations would help your business.

    We’ve reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining support, which means others in the community can now vote, comment, and share how this would benefit them too. The more perspectives added, the clearer the picture for our product team, so feel free to expand on your workflow to help spark that conversation.

    In the meantime, the best way to calculate ROI is to pull the relevant figures from the Xero Analytics dashboard and work it out manually.

    Thanks for getting the discussion started and we’ll keep you updated on any progress.

  20. Allow users to remove or hide the memo line on check-style bill payments. Many businesses do not use the memo field, and it takes up unnecessary space on the check layout. Providing an option to disable or remove the memo line would simplify the check format and allow the check stub to display more relevant information such as vendor details, invoice numbers, or payment references. This would make the check layout more flexible and better suited to different business workflows.

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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. 🙂

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