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Steven Kent
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291 votes
Hi everyone, the ability to attach files when sending purchase orders from Xero is in the process of rolling out and live with 50% of users already!
If you have attached files to your purchase order you will see these shown when sending, with a check box to choose whether they are attached to the email 😁
I'll be back again to confirm once it's live to all users.
Steven Kent
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302 votes
Thanks for the response and continued support in this idea, everyone.
Work for partial billing of a purchase orders is taking shape. ✨
To give a taster of what this'll look like - when you create a bill from a purchase order you'll be able to enter the amounts of each item you'd like to bill, and your Approved purchase order will show the amount of each item Billed.
I'll come back to share as soon as the feature begins roll out!
Steven Kent
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24 votesSteven Kent
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69 votes
Hi community, we want to update you that we've recently released the ability to include Purchase Orders (PO) through Payable Invoice Summary report. If you expand the side panel on the left of the report and select the 'Outstanding purchase orders summary' report, this will automatically display all Bills, Credit Notes and Purchase Orders and group them by Contact for you. You can use the total row of each contact to infer the remaining balance.
We're aware this may not directly show the information that you’re asking for here, so we'll keep the status idea as it is and we’ll let you know if there’s any further updates.
Steven Kent
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56 votes
Hi community, thank you for sharing how valuable this feature could be for your workflows and we can see the benefit this would have for businesses that have regular recurring trade with suppliers.
While this is something we'll keep front of mind as the teams plan their roadmaps we want to be honest that this isn't on the roadmap right now.
If there is any wind of plans for this we'll let you all know here.
Steven Kent
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87 votes
Hi team, work for negative inventory is well in development and we really value all of your inputs here as we've picked into how we solve the needs of backorders in both the purchase and sales flows.
We look forward to being able to share more updates soon with detail of how this works within your Xero organisation. Thanks!
Steven Kent
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8 votesSteven Kent
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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 🙂
Steven Kent
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9 votes
Thanks for sharing this idea about filtering purchase orders by tracking codes. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know how this could help organise your purchase orders.
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.
Steven Kent
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7 votes
Hi Tony, thanks for raising this idea. We can see how being able to view document attachments side-by-side while working on Purchase Orders would help make reviews more efficient.
I’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can track interest and help our product teams understand the value of bringing the side-by-side attachment view from Bills into Purchase Orders as well.
Steven Kent
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17 votes
Hi Kim, thanks for your feedback here.
I want to be open that we don't have any intentions of reverting back to the old experience - new purchase orders are built on updated technology and allow us to better maintain and release further developments to this feature.
Our product team have been listening closely and are making iterative changes taking on board feedback from our customers.
An examples of this is that, since released we have updated purchase orders to reduce the max width and pixels making it slightly smaller.
We also have plans to reduce this further, so I will keep you updated on this here.
We've also made an update so now when you Approve a purchase order you will remain on the same page where you can then take other actions as needed. We hope these changes help improve your use of purchase orders.
Steven Kent
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19 votes
Hi team, we do appreciate hearing your feedback on the new Purchase orders experience. In order for our product teams to get a good understanding of the direct changes that our customers would like to see, as well as help others in community understand what they've voting for we ask that each idea be created as a separate post. I've updated the title of the idea here to reflect the first point that Carl noted around the centring of the product line. We welcome you to each create a new idea for each change you'd like to see.
Steven Kent
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26 votes
Hi everyone, we'd like to get a feel of the support from the community in this idea. If there's any progress or updates to share we'll post to you all here, Thanks
Steven Kent
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258 votesHi team, we appreciate all the feedback this idea has received over time. With our reimagined navigation this is something our product teams considered closely, however there is a bit of work involved to achieve what's being asked and we want to be open it's not in the roadmap right now. However, we're keeping a pulse on the feedback here and will be sure to share if there's any progress. Thanks
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106 votesSteven Kent
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Hi community, thanks so much for all the interest we received. The teams interview spots filled up quickly and they are now fully booked.
Apologies if you didn't manage to sign up to one of the interviews — We really appreciate your enthusiasm and may reopen the link for future research rounds. We will make sure to update here if there's more opportunity.
We will be back to share outcomes from the teams exploration.
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I just want to add my support to those already asking for automated, date-driven reports in Xero.
Being able to set up reports once and have them auto-generate and email out would save so much admin time, reduce errors, and make the platform even more powerful.
It’s not just a convenience — it’s a feature that would help businesses of every size run smarter and make faster decisions.
Really hope Xero takes this on board — the demand is clearly here.
Steven Kent
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213 votes
Hey community, we know how this feature would really help reduce manual work, make reconciliation smoother, and give you more confidence when processing your bills, and managing orders.
Some customers have shared a possible solution for the time being of using the bill’s reference field for the PO number. We know this isn’t perfect, but might help in the interim.
I’m pleased to share that we’re refreshing purchase orders at present, and taking on board all the feedback surrounding the top requests from our customers in these forums.
Linkage between Purchase orders and Bills is a high focus for our team in this space. While we can’t give timelines atm, we’ll move the idea to In discovery and keep you updated as work progresses. 😊
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Feature Request: Linking Purchase Orders with Bills and Invoices
The ability to link Purchase Order numbers directly with Bills, manage quantities received, and carry these through to Invoices as recharged items would be a major improvement.
This would provide end to end visibility from Purchase Order through to Bill and Invoice, while also allowing quantity tracking so partial deliveries and supplier billing can be matched correctly. Supplier costs could be recharged to customers without messy workarounds, saving significant time through reduced data entry and fewer reconciliation errors.
It would also strengthen reporting on committed spend, margins, and recoverable costs. This functionality would streamline workflows for existing users and attract new businesses in industries such as construction, trades, logistics, and consulting, where purchase orders and cost recovery are everyday requirements.
The result is Xero staying simple and easy to use, while adding the management tools that growing businesses really need.
Steven Kent
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THi Steven 👋, thanks for raising this idea. We appreciate its not straightforward calculating the percentage of invoices paid to contractors, which we know creates extra manual work. Although this is not on our current roadmap, we will monitor this idea for votes and other comments. However, for now, a workaround would continue to be to export the report and use a spreadsheet application to calculate the percentages. 📈
Steven Kent
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682 votes
Hi everyone, we’ve taken time to review the suggestion to include custom fields for both invoices and contacts, and recognise the value it'd bring in helping users capture more detailed information and avoid manual processes.
However, with other focuses drawing the teams attention such as multiple addresses this idea is not on our current development roadmap.
As we continue to plan future roadmaps, being highly supported this idea will continue to be considered, however we want to be open about it's current position with you all here. We appreciate you sharing your feedback and for your ongoing participation in the Xero community. Any changes to this status will be shared with everyone on this idea.
Steven Kent
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I believe this should be standard.
We often do this in spreadsheet to make it easier to know what list is what.
Great idea, this will just help to cement my thoughts with continuing to use Xero.