Thank you everyone for engaging about the need for a discount column in Bills with us here.
While there isn’t a direct column for adding a discount atm, there are a few ways you could look to reflect this in your bills right now;
Use Xero’s inbuilt calculator in the Price field, and add a note to the description of that line e.g $5 item at a 20% discount you would enter 5 x 0.8 in the quantity field and could add a description “including 20% discount”
Reduce the Quantity field to reflect the discount e.g 20% discount enter 0.8 in the Quantity and use a descriptor as above
Use a separate line of the bill to enter a whole amount discount with a negative Price amount
If you use Purchase orders, when you copy the Purchase order to a Bill though the discount column will not show the Subtotal will show “includes a discount of ‘x’”
As we continue to uplift areas of Bills this is a feature that our product team are aware of, and would like to solve for. Though we can’t provide any time frames as yet, we'll keep you updated through this thread as soon as there's movement to share.
Thank you everyone for engaging about the need for a discount column in Bills with us here.
While there isn’t a direct column for adding a discount atm, there are a few ways you could look to reflect this in your bills right now;
Use Xero’s inbuilt calculator in the Price field, and add a note to the description of that line e.g $5 item at a 20% discount you would enter 5 x 0.8 in the quantity field and could add a description “including 20% discount”
Reduce the Quantity field to reflect the discount e.g 20% discount enter 0.8 in the Quantity and use a descriptor as above
Use a separate line of the bill to enter a whole amount discount with a negative Price amount
If you use Purchase orders, when you copy the Purchase order to a Bill though the discount column will not show the Subtotal…
I am new with XERO. When entering a bill from a supplier I discovered that there is no quick built in option in a column (there is this option in creating an invoice) for applying a discount to that item. My supplier offers 10% on some items and 5% on other items in the same bill. XERO already includes this easy option when creating an invoice. It seems like a no brainer to add this IMPORTANT option for entering a bill. How soon can this be actioned? Tinkering with the number of items or create fractions of an item this will create a nightmare for my inventory numbers. Creating a separate line for a discount is a time wasting exercise. PLEASE find the way to include this easy improvement ASAP. This would save time for users.
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I am new with XERO. When entering a bill from a supplier I discovered that there is no quick built in option in a column (there is this option in creating an invoice) for applying a discount to that item. My supplier offers 10% on some items and 5% on other items in the same bill. XERO already includes this easy option when creating an invoice. It seems like a no brainer to add this IMPORTANT option for entering a bill. How soon can this be actioned? Tinkering with the number of items or create fractions of an item this will create a nightmare for my inventory numbers. Creating a separate line for a discount is a time wasting exercise. PLEASE find the way to include this easy improvement ASAP. This would save time for users.