Notifications - Email/notification when items are Awaiting Approval in Xero
Ability to notify an approver within the Xero org when items are in the Awaiting Approval status.
Purpose: Approver can approve or decline the transactions faster.

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Tania Bogle commented
ASAP! please!!!
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Bhavpreet Minhas commented
This should be basic functionality, not an improvement request.
Honestly sorry who are these creators of Xero
These are basic operational requirements for a company (small or big) -
Amaia Yeregui commented
I would like to have an approval workflow in which 2 employees in Xero have to approve a bill before we can pay it. One employee raised the bill in xero, it is sent for approval (in Xero), so the second approver will receive an email to approve that bill in xero, once approved will move to status Awaiting payment. Thanks
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Samantha Higginbottom commented
Please can this be added ASAP, this would save our organisation so much time!
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Tim Stainthorpe commented
This should be basic functionality, not an improvement request.
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Maria Harrison commented
This would save so much time!
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Anna Bayliss commented
100% seems like a logical requirement to have approval workflows and it would be great to set default approvers for different things e.g. invoices vs expenses
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Katie Leeman commented
This would be a great idea as saves a separate email to my line manager asking them to approve the PO
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Lewis Froggatt commented
We cant do this.. Really?
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Miranda Mills commented
Extremely important to be notified when there is a Quote or Invoice awaiting approval when it's sat in draft - this has been requested since 2022! Why has it not been actioned yet?!
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Deidre Vollenhoven commented
Can you please include in Xero as an additional feature, will save a lot of time to email users
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Barbara Lockyer commented
Can this please be set for bill and purchase order approvals.
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Gemma Hogg commented
Please can this be set for POs and invoices to be paid?
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Michele Munson commented
Can we have a feature added that auto-notifies "Invoice Only" Users that there are bills or invoices submitted for approval, so they know when they need to log in to approve something. It would be nice to be able to choose either an app notification or an email notification (as some users may not use the app)
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Angus Knight commented
Please can we have this feature added. It's 2024, notifications are available on every app and software program ... Except for Xero. A notification via the app would be fantastic, it can be approved on the go.
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Chava Berrill commented
This would be a fantastic feature so that items awaiting approval, such as invoices, are not missed; currently, there are no warnings or notifications from this. It would be great if you could specify which user this is meant to go to or if it show up on the dashboard when you log in as a notification.
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Malcolm White commented
I support this idea so long as each invoice can be approved by a relevant person, but surprised it is not a standard start up function.
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Jessica Menezes commented
When you create a draft PO - there should be an option to send an email to the person approving the PO to notify them to approve instead of now having the approver to have to sign in via the website and then find PO to approve. This would be way faster as they would just recieve an e-mail with a link to click and then review and approve the PO
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Jacob Jacobson commented
This seems important to notify that bills are waiting approval.
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Chloe Healey commented
Was just googling how to do this and then found this thread and realised it’s not a feature yet but one that has been demanded for so long and would be so basic to implement???
Assumed it would be a feature. Shame.