Contact - Having custom fields on invoices and contacts
Ability to add a custom fields to a contact record that is able to be displayed on invoices
Purpose: Ability to include more information that’s unique to customers/business/industry that assist the transaction and relationship between customers
Hi everyone, we thoroughly appreciate your engagement and sharing how custom fields would be advantageous to you here.
With lots of work for 'building on beautiful' underway atm, we want to be honest that custom fields is not planned in the near term.
Some in the idea here, may find the recent addition of Notes that can be added within the Contact Details section of a contacts record useful in being able to record and view specific detail relative to a contact at present - More on this shared here
We'll continue to evaluate the viability of largely voted ideas such as this when there is resource, however this unlikely in the next 12 months.
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Luche Ponce commented
Our client wanted to have a line item (like additional fees) after the Subtotal amount line. But as per Xero, it's not possible. Please implement.
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Trung G commented
Other Accounting Systems have opitons to create Custom Fields for contacts, customers, invoices, payments received, etc..Please implement ASAP
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Raymond Taylor commented
We need a few custom fields to be able to make the most of Xero. Adding references like vehicle reg, milage, machine ID, service date, etc. means we can offer so much more efficiently, information and power to our clients, and also then generate more business for ourselves.
I have spent hours "programming" invoice templates for clients to allow them to be slightly more efficient, where a couple of custom fields would simplify and resolve theses issue over night.
I get development priorities are always an issue, but this is an easy win, come on Xero, take the win please!! -
Jana Auton commented
Hello, we currently post our order number in the "reference" field. However, we still need a field for the customer's purchase order number and their sales contact person details. At the moment, I have to enter it in the item section. It would be very handy and look more professional if new fields could be created. Thank you
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Madhu Warrier commented
Is it possible to add a custom field - Date field - to capture the "Goods/Services Delivered Date" under the Supplier Invoice and Sales Invoice sections or is this functionality already available in Xero under some other area?
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Christina Tan commented
Important to have another field as we do have to quote purchase order number, delivery order number & also project details on invoices to customer. Even on purchasing side, we also need to include the person ordering the items & the project involved
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Gavin Smith commented
In reply to Angela Cooke. DON'T DO IT. So many customers are currently looking to take their clients AWAY from Xero
Make sure you have a read of the over 400 comments on the following discussion (https://central.xero.com/s/question/0D53m00009n36b9CAA/petition-for-xero-executives-regarding-alleged-improvements)
Also have a look at the product ideas forum and the hundreds of requests for improvements that are ignored in favour of "enhancements" to an existing functionality (New Invoicing) that has made it worse and users want it reversed.
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Angela Cooke commented
is there any further update on this idea since Kellys response in Mar 2023 ? i am looking into the viability of moving one of my clients to Zero from sage and having custom fields, esp ones that can be added to quotes / invoices would be very important. is there any way of having a manual entry / free form text box by default on the invoice so we can at least record some of the information we need on the invoice?
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Ann Cox commented
I just want to add an extra column to the invoice, surely this cannot be that hard. Or offer a selection of different templates in invoice settings. You really are only offering one setup. Advanced invoicing as far as I can work out does not allow this either.
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Siti Khadijah Neddy commented
It would be great if you could add the date of payment for Less Payment on Xero
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Alex Tunnicliffe commented
when looking at contact summary and the list of invoices created for that client it would be really helpful to have a second field to be able to type stuff in - we have to use the PO obviosuly for their records but for us its all about the site name and to be able to see that would be so much easier as there are loads of places we go to!! like a second reference box - it cant be that hard to add surely
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Alize Hough commented
It will even be great if the tracking category can be used to print on the pdf of a sales invoice
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Laura Turfrey commented
For every invoice we usually need to include some 'Notes' that we want to run through from the Quotation, i.e. the shippers details if transporting overseas so we can follow up later on with certificates of shipping etc
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wayne dunning commented
I need this. Similar to when you use email software with custom fields "DATE" and "FIRSTNAME" etc this would be a gamer changer for xero.
This is the only reason we cant set invoices on automatic and is desperately needed for this software
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Maxyne Smith commented
Hi,
We have an issue with the invoice system as we require additional fields like the following:
- PO number
- "Description" Box under the invoiced entity or individual for specifics (Be able
to change the position)
- Be able to change the "ContactPostalAttentionTo" to different individuals without updating all invoices once person has been changed.
- There should be additional fields where you can change the invoice to suit each
company's needs as there are many factors to include with some clients and specific structures. Therefore to simplify the system the custom docx file should have additional inputs which can be hard coded not to update as you cannot rely on just the downloaded PDF that was not updated once you load a new invoice for the same contact. This includes the above and many more varieties of information.Kindly assist us in creating a more advanced and detailed invoice structure.
Thank you.
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Anura Ranasinghe commented
Please , Please we need this to compete in the market where other software vendors even offer this
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Joanne clark commented
The option to have additional custom fields is essential for all different business needs.
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Jack Lockspeiser commented
It is important to have 2 custom fields on contacts with the option of whether we want to add them to the invoice.
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Carien Loubser commented
Having the option for custom fields for invoice would be very beneficial. as fore same fields are required for each invoice, but obviously with different details.
Or it will be a beneficial if we can add a note for customers to see as for some customers long for attritional information that needs to be show on an invoice, same customer different details for example "Order number" + "Reference number" + "Equipment number." -
Arthur Young commented
There should be fields for subscription offerings which identify the term, e.g. From: Date; To: Date