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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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  • 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.

  • Shaun Barker commented  ·   ·  Report

    Xero - Please, it has been years. This feature is desperately missing. It's getting to the point that it not worth continuing with Xero.

  • Chris Benson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I personally need date, starttime, endtime, ODO start, ODO finish, but just a date for each item is manditory, and unbelievable its not already there

  • Michael Garrick commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why isn't this already included in the invoice processing to speed it up?

  • Keith Siggers commented  ·   ·  Report

    Fundamental requirement for any service or subscription type business. Add options for either 'Service date' or 'From Date' and 'To Date' columns.

  • Robert Taylor commented  ·   ·  Report

    In a service industry, clients need to know the date the service was provided. It makes invoices easy to reconcile. A Date column would make invoice preparation much easier.

  • steven smith commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same as the previous comments.... cant believe this is not a standard feature!

  • Melissa Jones commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just come across from Quick books- can't believe this is not standard ! Please add asap

  • R Jameson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'd really like to see this feature added to Xero it's critical for businesses like ours that invoice on a weekly and/or monthly basis with customers who require us to provide the services provided during the billing period on a day by day line basis. It's so time consuming, unfortunately we will have to move to another platform if this isn't provided shortly

  • Bhawana Dhital commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am very disappointed that such a simple feature is not integrated in Xero yet. It is very critical for my line of work as it would have helped in reducing the workload and time. Xero should add this feature ASAP for retaining their loyal customers.

  • Jayde Darin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Such a simple feature that is needed by so many businesses and yet not available. I Love Xero for so many great features it is disappointing that something as straightforward as this has not been resolved.

  • Andrew Braund commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have just come to Xero from QB online and am shocked to find that this trivial feature is not available and has been requested for over a year! I also just discovered there is no integration with google calendar, a feature I used for every invoice in QBO!

  • Action Waste Collection commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely critical for all businesses that require to provide a service date on invoices for payment.

    We have been using Xero for 2-3 yrs now and I am surprised that for this whole period how many people have requested the Service Date field be added to the invoice templates.

    We for one are now starting to look at other software/company that listen to their customers and are willing to update their system to ensure all users are satisfied with the product.

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