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

    Hi community, thanks for continuing to support this idea and share the situations where it matters most to your business.

    We’re now rolling out backorders for tracked inventory, that enables you to keep selling and invoice customers even when you don’t currently have enough stock on hand.

    When this becomes available in your organisation, you’ll be able to approve a sales invoice for tracked items even where there isn’t enough available quantity to fully supply it. Xero will allocate any stock that's available straight away, place the remainder on backorder, and then automatically allocate incoming stock to those outstanding backorders as inventory increases.

    We’ll continue to monitor feedback as this rolls out more broadly, and I’ll return to share another update once the release is complete.

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    Stefan Huber commented  · 

    Dear Xero team,

    I cannot understand why this takes so long. it is standard practice for us and many other businesses to sell without stock.

    Please please, get this implemented now.

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    Stefan Huber commented  · 

    I fully agree Tim, the inability to having negative stock is the biggest downfall of Xero, compared to Quickbooks in my eyes.
    Would be interesting to know what Xero has to say on this subject.

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    Stefan Huber commented  · 

    We operate an online shop with several items that are not stocked, but will be ordered from suppliers when baught by a customer. Quickbooks allowed negative stock, which helped us to process these sales. As we moved to Xero, this feature is not allowed and causes us incredible problems, to such a degree that we are tempted to move back to Quickbooks.

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