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    16 comments  ·  Purchase orders, bills & inventory » Purchase orders  ·  Admin →
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    In development  ·  AdminKelly M (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    Hi community, we'd like to provide an update for you all here with backorders for tracked inventory now in the process of rolling out to customers.

    As this rolls out, customers will be able to approve sales invoices for tracked inventory even when there isn't enough available stock.

    Your stock on hand will be allocated straight away, and the remaining quantity goes on backorder. Incoming stock is then automatically allocated to the oldest approved backorders.

    This coupled with the ability to track the receiving of goods from a Purchase order through to Bills will help solve for needs shared in this idea.

    We throughly appreciate all your input through this thread and will come back to confirm once this roll out reaches 100% of users. 😊

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    Anne Astorino commented  · 

    So frustrating not having a back order system. Using draft invoices re badged as BACKORDER is our current workaround. Stupid to not have this feature.

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    Anne Astorino commented  · 

    Go take a look at the backorder capabilities in MYOB - excellent.

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    Anne Astorino commented  · 

    Aside from not allowing for backorders - incredibly frustrating - you cannot attribute payments to a purchase order. Our factory requires payments in advance on goods to be made up and shipped. Duh!
    Furthermore: when looking into a line item from the 'products and services' list (AKA inventory) and when you click on an item (opens up the details of that item) and you can see in the top right there's a 'quantity on order', you would think if you clicked that phrase 'quantity on order' it would open a page or box that showed which PO or PO's that item is included in. Especially when you have a few containers lined up.
    Yes, if you buy more subscriptions from XERO you would get these features.....but these were standard in MYOB.........hmmm back to MYOB?

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    Anne Astorino commented  · 

    We used MYOB for over 10 years, before moving to Xero, and even when we used the CD rom version it STILL accommodated for backorders. Get with the page XERO.