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To have an invoice feature that allows deposit payment (at or by a specified date) would be very helpful especially for our business where we engage customer at booking stage with a payment request and a final payment at end of the delivery.
Rather to set up a deposit invoice, and a balance of payment invoice it would be ideal to show all in one invoice. Surely XERO invoice development team must have contemplated this being a crucial element.
Kenneth Lim
SLSNR

Would like an option to request a % deposit for a job when creating a single invoice. I know it can be done in Job/projects, but my jobs are not large enough to have to create a project in Xero for each job. I would like to just create a single invoice which requests a deposit and then final payment when required.

It is super disappointing that Xero doesn't support this feature. Its not preferable to create two invoices as we want to streamline the way we work - this would cut admin for us by a considerable amount if we were able to set up partial payment upfront and the rest later. Really disappointed as I've spent a lot of time setting this up to fall at the last hurdle.

We require a deposit before we can secure a booking for the customer. I was looking for a way to accept partial payments from XERO since 2017, it is now 2024 and it's unfortunate that nothing has changed. I continue to have to call the customer over the phone to get their credit card number so that I can manually charge a 50% deposit and process it on Stripe, then manually enter the deposit on XERO. This tends to be very time consuming and does not allow for an efficient payment process. Even Quickbooks invoicing accepts partial payments and has had that function for a while.

This would be very helpful.

We cannot process invoices smoothly without this function and we are looking at alternatives. If Xero can provide this, we will be satisfied!

yes please being able to have deposit paid from the same system would be great.

Yes a deposit payment and balance payments would be helpful for customers paying by cc.

Come on Xero - this is basic common sense

As Nikey would say - Just do it Xero!!!

Here's two videos that show how I process Customer Deposits. It maybe useful...

https://www.loom.com/share/7b221bb33b834db3a51ba40ed98f7baa?sid=96b121b3-e941-4b61-9e56-50490af4d1b5

https://www.loom.com/share/b0251e54657e4d82b189a6780d0dc79d?sid=b3c08ff4-994a-41bc-b53f-14548c3c6850

@Rudi Moritz. You will not be the only one to leave Xero. Xero become very distant from accountants' requests.

This is actually really poor from Xero. Im going to leave because it is now the only accounting software of any note that doesn't have a facility for deposits request as standard. Deposits aren't unusual and in fact in many sectors it is the norm. The lack of functionality seems to reflect a lack of commercial experience/acumen by the Xero Team/Corporation. I am sure most customers would give this a wide-berth if they realised before purchase that this wasn't a standard feature. It seems there is a complete reliance by Xero on locking customers into Xero rather than product innovation and development. Going back to Quickbooks

I could not find anything in Stripe that allowed anything but the full amount of the invoice to be accepted.
How can you allow Stripe to enter the amount to be paid that is less than the invoice amount?

How does that work? How do i set it up on stripe?

Hi, Is this has been updated in the current verison?

There are so many situations where a customer is required to make several payments on the one invoice. This is making business operation so difficult to the point I am looking at moving to a different operating system

Please add this solution to xero invoices. Most Quickbooks invoices that I see have a partial payment option.

Well it turns out Xero already had a solution, but of course, you gotta pay more. We transitioned to Xero Projects and it's been great since then.

Please add this feature, it is essential to our business. Thank you