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  1. It would be great if we could add ageing on client/customer statements. (Current, 30, 60, 90 days) Many clients have requested that the ageing be displayed on their statements. Current, overdue and total isn't detailed enough..

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    Hi everybody, coming across from the previous forums we know this idea has a lot of interest.

    There is a way of using Xero's reports to accomplish what you're asking here and save the format so you can easily access and send this report to your customers outside of Xero.

    Running the Aged Receivables detail report you can choose how many ageing periods you'd like to show and set the period to '30 days'. Simply Filter the report by Contact and Update to run.

    • Once you've got it set up, save as Custom so you can easily access this format anytime
    • If you deal with groups of contacts this also means you could Filter for multiple contacts to combine the view into one report rather than multiple customer statements 🙂
    • Export the report to PDF, where you can send to customers from your email system outside of Xero

    We appreciate…

  2. KEEP THE CLASSIC FORMAT FOR INVOICING

    343 votes

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    Hi everyone, appreciate your continued feedback on new invoicing. As mentioned in my last update we've now added a new Xero Central page for new invoicing.

    Along with updates to individual ideas on Xero Product Ideas, this page will become the single source of truth for key feature rollouts including:

    • what’s available in new invoicing right now,
    • timelines for features and enhancements going live in new invoicing, as well as
    • a comparison table between the classic and newer versions of invoicing.

    We'll be updating this page regularly.


    Relating to some of the more recent feedback there are some existing ideas that may also be of particular interest that you can join, like the ability to see the email the invoice was sent to in the history, or being able to see a timestamp, and reducing clicks and steps.

  3. Remove 'Powered by Xero' Advertisement on the footer invoice emails (only recently added)

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    Hi everyone, appreciate this topic has picked up momentum in the last couple of months since “Powered by Xero” was first introduced to our invoice emails.
    Our product team have been working through the next iteration of the invoice email. They’ve reviewed feedback about this email from multiple sources and are planning some changes to address some of the concerns, in particular that the purpose of this feature is for marketing and advertising purposes. This feature was developed, designed and implemented will the sole intention of increasing trust with the invoice emails we generate inside the Xero platform. The data after delivering this has shown that it does just that, increasing engagement with your invoice emails and ultimately getting you, our customers, paid faster.
    Therefore the “Powered by Xero” footer will remain in place, however we will be reducing its size, better integrating it into a redesigned email experience…

  4. The ability to recognise future revenue from the invoice.

    Purpose: To find out the future revenue, because for some businesses the invoice that they’ve issued to their customer is the revenue for the future month.

    95 votes

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    Hi all, appreciate the interest and rationale in wanting to be able to recognise revenue of a sale at a date different to that of the invoice or payment date.

    While this maybe a function we look to explore in the long-term we want to be upfront that this is not something we'll be developing in the near term. In the meantime it may be best to look into connected apps that can solve for revenue recognition. We'll be sure to let you know if there's any change around this, here.

  5. Ability to create multiple price lists for the same inventory items, and be able to set a default for each contact.

    To enable tiered pricing for different groups of customers. Would save time and require less manual checking

    85 votes

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    Hi all, thank you for contributing to idea here. While our Inventory team have reviewed the idea for custom / tiered price lists in Xero, we want to be open that we do not have development planned for enabling more extensive Inventory management like this.

    There are many Inventory apps that connect with Xero and offer these types of services and more - You can explore these on Xero App store. To be transparent we will update the status to not planned - If there is any change to this we will share with you here.

  6. xero to xero Invoicing

    We use the Classic Invoicing version on Xero to send Invoices to our inter-companies and clients who are also registered with Xero.

    On 02 Sept 2024 this version will retire and only New Invoicing will be available.
    We are not able to select "send via Xero Network" from the New Invoicing option (using our Xero Network Key).

    Are the technical teams still working on this to have the option available or will this option fall away?

    Thank you
    Chantelle

    Michael
    Support specialist
    Yesterday 5:05 PM
    Hi Chantelle

    As you’ve found, there’s no functionality in New Invoicing…

    33 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing feedback on your use and needs in the Xero network (Xero to Xero).
    Our team are continuing to review use cases there are alternative options that offer an improved experience and we'd encourage you exploring;

    While we don't have plans for building the Xero network into new invoicing, listening to feedback we appreciate this is a feature some of our customers have grown familiar with and regularly use. 

    You'll find you can still send invoices via the Xero Network using the 'Email' option from the Awaiting Payments list page - where a customer has had a Xero Business Network key added to the Contact record you'll see the option at the bottom of the send modal to 'Send via Xero Network'.

    I've attached…

  7. When generating a batch payment for multiple bills, the reference column of the batch payment is driven from the reference field within the supplier contact.

    When a batch payment is made the reference is automatically set from contacts rather than the reference on the invoice. This means that in the reference column of the batch payment the invoice reference is required to manually added, doing this also updates the contact which means this process has to be completed every month otherwise you end up exporting payments with the previous months invoice reference as the payment reference.

    The simplest fix is…

    29 votes

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    Hi everyone, rounding back we appreciate there hasn't been much explanation before now on why this idea is not planned. 

    Coming across from our previous forums this has been reviewed by many of our team in product. To start, and explain logic behind the scenes - Xero allows references to be pulled from either:

    • what's been entered as a reference for the contact, or
    • the bill reference

    Batch payments is designed to cater for businesses that require the same reference for every invoice via the reference entered in the Contact record.

    👉For example utility companies needing an account number entered as a bill reference; so that the utility company knows who paid them.

    If you need to have all the payee references be pulled from the bill instead of the contact record then you can remove the reference from the contact field when processing your batch. Moving forward all of…

  8. Ability to view supplier activity including payments & credits within a period.

    Purpose: Would help with validation and reconciling of supplier accounts, especially where payments are not specific to a bill.

    25 votes

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    We understand and value our community's enthusiasm for Supplier Statements.  Our product team recently engaged directly with several of our partners and customers to provide greater insights into the needs of viewing supplier activity, and how we might provide a solution.
    What we discovered was that the majority of the functionality requests for viewing supplier activity exists within Xero today. However, we haven’t done a good job in explaining where and how customers can use existing  reports to complete the tasks. .
    As a direct result we’ve created this help on Xero Central on some of the reports that you could use, and steps to create and export this view.
    With so much change we want to help our customers re-discover Xero reporting, and you can read all about latest changes through our Blog.

    Along with this there are a few product changes to make reports that support supplier…

  9. It would be good to have the option to update any repeating invoice if the contact email address is changed, whether it could be a pop up reminder to update the repeating invoice or automatically update it if it is the only address against the contact. This would save time and any errors if the repeating invoice is not updated

    16 votes

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    We value your feedback and appreciate everyone that's shared benefits found by being prompted of a change in contact email. 

    While this has been looked into by our Product teams, we want to be honest that we don't have plans for re-developing a prompt on repeat invoices when a contacts email is updated at this time. We'll move this idea to not planned, and if there's change for this down the line we'll be sure to return & update on that, here. Thanks

  10. What I like that you added:
    * Saving as draft!
    * New Due Date drop-down selections (e.g. 14 days)

    What I do not like:
    * No "add another invoice" option after save + print PDF, more clicks now
    * When save + print PDF, now opens a new tab that needs closed, more clicks
    * Cannot "copy" the invoice line "item" - I usually create many lines that I used to be able to copy & paste the "item", now more clicks
    * Too much whitespace and font too large, I want to be able to see the data w/o…

    14 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback on new invoicing. We’re listening carefully to all feedback to make sure new invoicing has the functionality you need, as we prepare for retirement of the classic version.
    We recognise that some things will be different, so we encourage you to spend some time familiarising yourself with the new version. We also believe all small businesses and advisors around the world can benefit from Xero, which is why we’re deeply committed to accessibility. We’re confident that in time, new invoicing will become easy to use and that you’ll enjoy the benefits of us being able to provide much more value on that platform quicker.

    There's some improvements we have made to enhance workflow. For example when you create a new invoice the cursor will begin in the Contacts field, from here you can tab through all fields of your invoice to enter detail. We’ve…

  11. New invoicing version makes me tick 'Include files as attachments' for every invoice I send off, whereas the old invoicing remembered my defaults. I prefer the old way where my preferences were saved.

    New invoicing also cannot preview attachments, it always has to open a new tab to view an attachment. Old invoicing I could preview an attachment on a pop up within the same browser tab. I prefer just viewing the attachment quick within the same screen, I personally don't like having another tab that needs closing.

    Invoicing notes are inaccurate. For example; the system keeps marking invoiced as…

    7 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feedback on how you'd like to see new invoicing developed. All your feedback here is being shared with the team as they continue to iterate and develop this new experience. 

    That said, in order for us to get a better understanding of interest for the different points raised here it's best for us to track and update any progress on these each separately. We appear to have ideas for each of the points mentioned in the thread here and I've linked these below so you can join and follow any updates for each. 

  12. Integration with Wise bank making multi-currencies payments

    Could you please add more currencies on the list for making payments from Xero to Wise? Now is available just GBP UK account. Can you add currencies - AUD, EUR, CZK, USD?

    7 votes

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    Hi all, while we have removed the Pay with Wise feature follow on from our last update we wanted to confirm that we have released UK bill payments in Xero. 

    Customers in the UK can set up direct bank transfer as a payment method for GBP bills to quickly and securely pay bills. Funds are transferred from your bank account by Crezco using open banking. The availability of open banking in the UK has enabled us to offer this on-platform. 🙂- Read more on our Blog

  13. The new bills dashboard has weird oversized fonts and therefore appears busy and cluttered. Most of Xero has reasonable pages which are easier to read - like the invoice lists for example. This new version is not nice or professional. Not sure why there couldn't be an option for different view settings (the 'compact view' button does almost nothing). If this continues as a trend in Xero, we will likely move.

    5 votes

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    Hi James,

    Thanks for sharing your feedback around the new bills screen.

    I can confirm it’s not possible to revert to the older bills screen, and there are no plans to introduce this as an option.

    The changes to the look and feel of the bills list are part of a wider technology upgrade that allows us to deliver new features more quickly in the future.

    Just to confirm, I’ve attached a screenshot of the refreshed bills experience from my test org. 

    I wouldn't say any of the text here appears weird or oversized, if you’re experiencing something different on your end, can you have a chat with our support team?

  14. Xero has the sell price and cost price of our products. When my sales team create a quote or invoice, why isn’t there a display of the profit margin on invoices and quotes to help them see their profitability?

    4 votes

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  15. how can I revert back to , or can I revert back to the old quote system ?

    4 votes

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    Appreciate your idea, Peter. Right now, we’re currently building a greater consistency between Xero experiences. And one of the projects that supports this is the quote modernisation - Read our blog here for more information. 

    We understand that these changes might take a little time to get used to, and we don’t have plans to revert back to old quotes. But rest assured that we're committed to continuously upgrading our technology. So we’ll move the status of this idea as ‘not planned’. 

  16. Custom Reports on Xero are not really true custom reports as they are limited to only some data.

    On some other accounting packages you can include almost any financial or labelled data or contact.

    We recently had to recall a product - we could report on which clients had purchased the product but could not draw up a report that included who purchased the item with their contact details or email alongside.

    The info is all sitting in the Xero database but we had to individually look up over 50 email addresses to write to them about the recall.

    This…

    4 votes

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    Hi all, while we appreciate feedback from you all here I want to be open that we don't intend on enabling the ability create a complete custom report that could include any data field across Xero. 


    That being said, our Reporting team have put a lot of focus into Xero's new reports to provide more visibility of activity and transactions, and flexibility to our users in the way they set these up. 


    Appreciate the specific details you've noted here aren't currently available in Xero - the closest would be Smart Lists however this is limited to customers at present - if this is something you'd often look up I'd recommend adding your support to the idea here. 


    We'll keep developing on Xero's reports - so if there is specific detail/results you'd like to see in a report welcome to start ideas for these that we can gather interest on. 

  17. Simply formalising the blog comments from others to have Import functionality added to PO's and Xero's "if there is sufficient demand".

    +1 here

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    We appreciate the passion and feedback we've received from customers about the ability to import and export purchase orders.

    We want to be open, that we do not have a direct plan to build export and import functionality in Purchase Order any time soon. 


    Our Product team in this space are currently focused on modernising our underlying technology so we can build new features, faster in the future.   


    To give a clear message for anyone coming across the idea, we'll close this idea.

  18. As we have to load bills into Xero to reconcile, (and I use hubDoc to do this now) it would be great if we had the option to send certain bills to Workflow Max to assign them to a job and include them on a client invoice. This would top off this suite of programs for me!

    3 votes

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    Xero is retiring its WorkflowMax product on 26 June 2024 and has entered into an agreement with tech-led business advisory firm, BlueRock, who are acquiring the brand. As part of this, they have commenced plans to offer a new product. BlueRock’s intent is that their new WorkflowMax product, WorkflowMax by BlueRock will be available to customers in early 2024. You can read more on the blog and on the WorkflowMax website.

  19. Currently if you create a bill, it credits the Accounts Payable liability account and there is no way to change this.

    Why isn't it possible to record payments due under different (more specific) liabilities?

    3 votes

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    Hi team, looping back it'd be good to explain a little more of how Xero works to help in the understanding here. Xero handles a lot of the double entry bookkeeping for you. 

    Accounts Payable is a system account that Xero doesn't allow direct posting(manual journals) too. The only way to impact this account is through posting Bills, Supplier Credit notes and Payments to these transactions. This ensures the account is always in balance. 

    At an individual level, Xero keeps a record of supplier debts based on the Contact entered on the transaction, and you impact the expense account based on the account selected for each line of your transaction. 

    I do want to be upfront that we don't have intentions of changing the behaviour of how this works in Xero. However, it'd be good to hear more detail if there are specific reasons or other ways in which you'd…

  20. i was importing invoices raised in Simpro Software to Xero Software, most of the information are not present. Only invoice date, Ref no, invoice no, and amount is present. Description is considered to be important information but that is missing (Job No. is present in Description field).

    Its like double work. While integrating information form other software, xero has to provide nearly all the required necessary information.

    I hope there could be a solution for this issue.

    2 votes

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    Hey Tim, thanks for sharing this idea! We actually have a dedicated forum for API suggestions, similar to Product Ideas, over on our Developer Centre.

    This is one that'd be better suited to that API team, and you can share it here. In the meantime, I'll close it off as 'Not Planned' here on Product Ideas 😊

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