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Invoices - Date columns for individual line items

Ability to add date columns for individual line items.

Purpose: To make users easily put a date for each item. The scenario that can benefit users is for them to show a specific date of when the product/service is delivered.

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submitted  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi everyone, we appreciate the interest in being able to add dates to individual lines of an invoice. Currently our team are focused on improvements to new invoicing and we want to be upfront we don't have any plans for adding a date column to the details grid within an invoice atm.

Right now if you do require dates for individual line items we'd recommend adding these within the Description field of the line.

We will continue to review this as we continue to evolve the product. If there are any updates or changes, we'll share this all with you through the idea here. Thanks

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  • Susan Francis commented  ·   ·  Report

    Our company has multiple entries to all invoices and I need to be able to enter the 'date' of service in the first column of the invoice line items. I have edited an invoice and customised however it doesnt work when I upload the template.

    Please consider adding this option to templates.

  • Andrew Tingley commented  ·   ·  Report

    Xero obviously does not value their customers. Time to move to another provider.

  • Jason Hamer commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is an essential part of every one of my invoices, and my clients expect to see it.

  • Narelle Vallence commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have had the chance to go back and look at when this feed started.. Surprising is has been over a year and there is still no change. So what is the point of writing this post if it doesn't get read or anything change with the system. This is and essential part that is needed, and by not having it blows out my invoicing time by and extra 5min per invoice. I think i will switch back to MYOB just for the ease of use.

  • Narelle Vallence commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is essential. I have switched from MYOB for ease of use... Well that is what i was told Zero would be. This is a simple request and i am baffled as to why it is like this. It is just a date.

  • Chris Benson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I find it quite telling that there is only customers of Xero commenting on this. I can only imagine how may people who have move to Xero from QB or similar have found this limitation but not read or logged an issue.

    It is costing businesses in double handling, perhaps if there was a way to backcharge Xero our bookkeepers and our own time it would make the developers more responsive.

  • Trevor Robotham commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes this is critical.
    I use hours tracker and Life 360to track my movements
    Pity I cant list the dates on XERO

  • Evan Pardington commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seems a basic invoicing feature is missing. Having to add the date of service to a description line is taking so much time and is an illogical process. Please add a date column for individual lines.

  • Glen Little commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very Very Critical that this date time is available

  • Timothy Eslick commented  ·   ·  Report

    running a services business this function is needed for clients to cross match days services are delivered

  • David Bradley commented  ·   ·  Report

    Trialling Xero with a view to changing from QB - can’t believe this feature doesn’t exist.
    As an education service provider it is vital invoices show the date of service provision, and reports showing lesson counts and dates are essential.
    Are you really trying to force users to keep duplicate records in excel to keep track of this?

  • Sara Stafford commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree we require this function and it's simply not available Come on Xero! This should be a staple for your software. Service Date require.

  • Alyssa Albertson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add this feature ASAP! This is a necessity for service based businesses.

  • Paul Storrier commented  ·   ·  Report

    When will Xero be adding additional columns for multiple dates and docket numbers on the same invoice if your not sure how have a look at the reckon invoice I have fourty to fifty docket’s for the same customer on one monthly invoice you need to address this

  • Jennie Ross-King commented  ·   ·  Report

    Also transferring from QB. Essential to have services dates as many of our customers get multiple things during the week and require a weekly invoice. As a more expensive product you would think you would have a service date as an option.

  • Richard Ing commented  ·   ·  Report

    just come over from QB on accountants advise. no date column? what? might have to head back to QB.

    get on it Xero!

  • Emma Molineux commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is essential to my business that our invoices show individual service dates. We would love for there to be an option to add dates. At the moment we have to manually type the dates on each line. Automating this as a drop-down would be very beneficial and save a lot of time when invoicing customers.

  • Jaedyn Weimer commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm not sure we can even use the invoicing without the ability to add new columns like the date or service type. Hard thing to find out after set up.

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