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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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  • Jin Lim commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE ADD THIS IN. it's a dealbreaker for my line of work.

  • Emma Johnson commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a really basic feature that Xero really should have. I can't believe it doesn't.

  • JOHN HASSALL commented  ·   ·  Report

    How have only 37 people voted for this? Switched from Quickbooks, assumed this was possibly the most basic column inclusion for an invoice. Can Xero not just deliver this? Xero team admin response above from 2012 is woeful.

  • Martine Mcgurgan commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is super important for our service based business. Please add this feature as soon as possible.

    Why does Xero not have this??

  • Tonia Cox commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very important for my service bases clients!!!

  • Gregory Michael commented  ·   ·  Report

    I just signed up for Xero after a lengthy debate on if I should leave my previous book keeping solution.

    This feature is a necessity for me. Please implement this as soon as possible.

  • Rodney Apps commented  ·   ·  Report

    Most personal services businesses need this!!!

    Every other accounting software has this, how is it not a thing in Xero???

  • Shobhit Baadkar commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a consulting company, we are often required to add a date for when we delivered a particular line item within an invoice. A typical monthly invoice may have up to 20 line items with individual dates of when those services were delivered. This helps the accounting department of our clients reconcile which business unit will pay for our services.

  • Hayden Nikolaison commented  ·   ·  Report

    Add mergefield for cost date so the date can be shown next to each cost item

  • Raz Ritherdon commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don’t understand how this isn’t part of Xero already.

    If I invoice my customers for a service I provide, it needs to have the date I provided that service.

    And yes, we can go into the details and add the date into the description manually, but that doesn’t work for recurring invoices.

    Why is that my calendar on my iPhone has more functionally than Xero?

    We should not only be able to set a date, but we should also be able to set recurring dates for recurring invoices.

    Eg. My gardener mows my lawns on the first Monday of every month, or a Monday every two weeks, or the 14th of every month.

  • Raz Ritherdon commented  ·   ·  Report

    For invoices related to services provided (rather than products sold), invoices need to have the date a service was provided.

    If I get an appointment with a healthcare provider, their invoice will list the date of my appointment. However I can't do the same for my customers when I provide a service for them.

    Yes, I can add the date into the description, but that doesn't work for reoccurring invoices where I wish to invoice a client for a service provided every "Monday and Wednesday" of each week.

    I'm kinda surprised that having a date a service was provided isn't part of Xero's system already. Really hoping this can be added ASAP to all individual invoices, and then added to reoccurring invoices later on once you figure out how to do it.

  • Kyal Bones commented  ·   ·  Report

    absolutely paramount in the disability sector for the individual dates we attend a client

  • Chris Harpley commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having a 'use date' against line items would avoid customer confusion when receiving my invoices. I run an activity centre, and invoice visiting schools once after their visit. Have one line item covering multiple days of 'camping', or an activity, isn't clear.

  • Paul Storrier commented  ·   ·  Report

    How hard could it be ? The option for this and a seperate column for docket numbers. Surely it would be easier for users to delete unwanted columns than simply not to have them

  • Anthony Goddard commented  ·   ·  Report

    In food industry we have to record mft date & batch nos on our invoices for tracking.

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