Hi everyone, we thoroughly appreciate everyone’s interest and support for enabling the ability to apply a prompt payment discount to invoices.
We understand how a direct prompt payment discount feature would improve the efficiency and automate manual efforts currently involved for you all here, but would like to be transparent that this isn’t something we’ve been able to roadmap atm.
Right now, one way to indicate that your business accepts or will apply a discount for prompt payment would be to write this into the invoice payment terms. When acted on there are a few ways you could consider recording this in Xero, such as;
Edit the invoice to apply a discount directly
Edit the invoice to add a negative line that directly draws down the total amount of the invoice
Apply a credit to the invoice for the portion of the discount
We'd recommend connecting with your Xero advisor on how they'd recommend recording this in your org.
Alternatively, there are connected invoicing apps that you can explore through our Xero App store.
We'll continue to track support through this idea, and our product teams will continue to consider this in future planning, so if there’s any updates we’ll share here. Thanks
Hi everyone, we thoroughly appreciate everyone’s interest and support for enabling the ability to apply a prompt payment discount to invoices.
We understand how a direct prompt payment discount feature would improve the efficiency and automate manual efforts currently involved for you all here, but would like to be transparent that this isn’t something we’ve been able to roadmap atm.
Right now, one way to indicate that your business accepts or will apply a discount for prompt payment would be to write this into the invoice payment terms. When acted on there are a few ways you could consider recording this in Xero, such as;
Edit the invoice to apply a discount directly
Edit the invoice to add a negative line that directly draws down the total amount of the invoice
Apply a credit to the invoice for the portion of the discount
This a response I recently received from Xero this may help people
One method you could use for settlement discounts for multiple bills is:
Set up an account for the settlement discount. If you'd like to keep them separate, you can set up multiple for each supplier that offers this.
During reconciliation, use Find & Match to search for the bills.
To account for the difference between subtotal and money spent, click Adjustments, select Bank fee and then allocate the difference to the settlement discount chart of account account created in point number 1. You could set an appropriate VAT rate for it at this time.
Click Reconcile.
The bills will be fully marked as paid and the discounts will show in reporting. Alternatively, you could also:
Raise a credit note for the amount of the discount instead and apply this.
Edit the bill and use the discount field to lessen the amount due on the bill.
This a response I recently received from Xero this may help people
One method you could use for settlement discounts for multiple bills is:
Set up an account for the settlement discount. If you'd like to keep them separate, you can set up multiple for each supplier that offers this.
During reconciliation, use Find & Match to search for the bills.
To account for the difference between subtotal and money spent, click Adjustments, select Bank fee and then allocate the difference to the settlement discount chart of account account created in point number 1. You could set an appropriate VAT rate for it at this time.
Click Reconcile.
The bills will be fully marked as paid and the discounts will show in reporting. Alternatively, you could also:
Raise a credit note for the amount of the discount instead and apply this.
Edit the bill and use the discount field to lessen the amount due on the bill.