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1. Bills - Apply discounts on accounts payable invoices

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   41 comments  ·  Purchase orders, bills & inventory » Bills  ·  delete…  ·  Admin →
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   Accepted  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

   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… more
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   SHIRENE PETZER commented  ·  17 November, 2025  ·  Edit…  ·  delete…

   Hi, thank you for your reply, total understand. Please if you guys can push it up to the front of the quey. It is quite time consuming, to have to go do a credit note each time for the discount on a suppliers, one suggestion is that when we were doing the payment in the bank recon, we could apply the discount there as well. which is quite nice too. This is the only feature that i have found missing in Xero, otherwise all is good so far. Shirene

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   SHIRENE PETZER commented  ·  12 November, 2025  ·  Edit…  ·  delete…

   Hi, please if you can we really need discount applied to accounts payable, as we have alot of suppliers that offer discount to us. I would be so nice to be able to do it on bills level and not have to capture credit notes each time. It can be time consuming. Please this is one feature that is missing from Xero, I am a new user to Xero we use to use pastel, they had that feature. We are really missing it. Thanks

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   SHIRENE PETZER supported this idea  ·  12 November, 2025

2. Invoice - Prompt Payment / Settlement Discount

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   128 comments  ·  Invoices & quotes » Invoicing  ·  delete…  ·  Admin →
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   Accepted  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

   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

   We'd recommend connecting with your Xero advisor… more

   SHIRENE PETZER supported this idea  ·  12 November, 2025