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I need this feature on repeating bills too.

Its critical to have the ability to be able to send invoices out ahead of their date. Our fees are due by the first of each month, and customers need time to process these invoices ahead of the 1st to ensure it is paid on time. I also need to be able to use the Repeating invoices function.

In agreement with everyone.
For especially rental agencies or similar type of businesses. You always send recurring invoices that relates to the period coming.
I.e sending invoices on 20 July for effect of August Services (therefore the invoice date for accrual purposes have to be August)

I need to do the same as Belinda Batty

I need to be able to send invoices out ahead of their date. Our fees are due by the first of each month, so we need to send the invoice out ahead of the 1st to ensure it is paid on time. I need to be able to use the Repeating invoices function, but when I do I have no ability to actually generate the invoice to print/save. This can only be done on the 1st. Please include a function to Print/Save/Send a future invoice set up as a repeating invoice.

As others have mentioned this is a critical feature for some businesses and is available in most other pieces of software. As an accountant, I know that sales is the key function for the operation of most businesses and this one area would make me recommend a different piece of software. It seems like being able to schedule a send date for an invoice would be a fairly simple function to bring in.

New to Xero from MYOB (unfortunately) because it seems like Xero takes a similar mediocre stance when it comes to critical 'bugs' / 'serious shortcomings in design' as MYOB does. Serious design flaws need to be rectified immediatly, not months or years later IF enough paying customers compalin about it. One paying customer is more than enough to trigger rectification of serious design flaws! Just get the problems fixed ASAP Xero! When I asked support they suggested manually keying in a 'new' invoice for the customer who has a complex monthly 30 line invoice (who wants a templated invoice early). What a joke! I figure over $NZ 1Billion in revenue should be plenty to rectify the critical design flaws I see on this 'enter your idea' page.

For rent bills and invoices this is a must. All other accounting solutions have this!

Same for us. Rent needs to be paid on or before 1st of the month, so I now have to send invoices a good couple of weeks before the invoice date. In turn, paying VAT a month before it is actually due.

Come on Xero, most other accounts packages have this feature and it is crucial for us business owners.

Life should be simplified!

The business I work for is prone to changes. Sometimes we need to send out repeating invoices early to clients but having to create new ones and void the next automatically generated invoice is a nightmare and can make the accounts confusing

How is this not a thing yet? Xero, please please add this functionality.

Hi All If we really want this feature please encourage all users you know to vote for this. I don’t think 70 is going to cut it. Also QBO does this so no reason Xero can’t provide this functionality

This would be so helpful. We take payment via direct debit which we can only collect once the invoice is generated. So quite often you get customers who forget and then manually pay as well because it hasn't been paid at the point the invoice is sent.

Then you have the ongoing saga of not being able to apply a credit to a future repeating invoice.

Please create this feature, I have a client which like to pay ahead and this is really annoying to have to keep track of manually.

I need to apply a deposit during the bank reconciliation to a future (repeating) invoice, but I can't do that. This makes no sense! Most of my customers pay early.

How is this not a feature yet? Come on guys, a simple button after selecting them all saying "run now" is all that is needed.

This is a critical feature that Xero is lacking.

We create invoices on behalf of clients and therefore invoices need to be sent in advance for review before they can be provided to our client's customers.

Particularly for recurring invoices dated during the Xmas shutdowns, the invoices will need to be prepared manually which is inefficient

I can't believe there is still not the ability to do something as simple as this!

The fact that this critical issue has been a non-issue for Xero since 2013 speaks volumes!

This is critical too for us - we have moved to Xero from Sage and really need the ability to send dated invoices out automatically, earlier than the Invoice Date. I cant believe people have been asking for this since 2013, it will be 2023 in 3.5 weeks!!!