Repeating Invoices - Generate invoice before invoice date
Ability to make repeating invoices to be generated to an earlier date without having to change the setup.
Purpose: Users’ can sometimes ask their customer/client to pay the invoices earlier.
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James Mackenzie commented
Also, great if they could allow us to choose the specific day for the repeating invoice - like every 3rd Tuesday of the Month rather than only a date of the month/year.
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Graeme Northcott commented
Have had complaints, should be an option in settings in my view.
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Stephen Ross commented
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!
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DESKTOP MD LLC commented
Xero users are being discouraged from using repeating invoices by queueing notification emails to be sent at unreasonable hours. 00:35 - 00:48 EDT in my experience. Automated notifications have to go out during business hours or you may as well not notify at all. makes you wonder how many of these Xero customers have switched platforms waiting for this bug fix
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Bee Hesketh commented
This really is a must. Even if you can only set a single time/window for all repeating invoices in general. Anything to stop them going out at night would be helpful for us. Seems really unprofessional to get an invoice in the middle of the night.
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Fay Wallis commented
It feels really unprofessional to be emailing customers their invoices at midnight. I'd be extremely grateful if you could enable us to set the time that repeating invoices are sent out. Thank you.
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Michaela Spencer commented
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
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Dakin Parker commented
How is this not a thing yet? Xero, please please add this functionality.
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MAUREEN HIPWOOD commented
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
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Bee Hesketh commented
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.
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John Wu commented
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.
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Iwona Tucholska commented
Definitely, this would be fantastic! Invoices are frequently sent at odd hours, like one in the morning or on the weekend, and customers frequently complain that they get lost in the general spam they receive overnight and on the weekends. As a result, this may affect cash flow.
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Richard Mackie commented
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.
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Duncan McHaffie commented
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.
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Amanda Lim commented
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
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Michael Fox commented
I dont need it to send, but we print our draft invoices at the beginning of the week.
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Chenelle Robertson commented
This definitely would be great! Our customers often complain that invoices are often sent at say 1am, sometimes at a weekend and are often missed, in amongst the general spam received overnight and at weekends. Hence, this can impact cashflow. No invoice = no payment!
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Liz Willis commented
I can't believe there is still not the ability to do something as simple as this!
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Jackie Townsend commented
The fact that this critical issue has been a non-issue for Xero since 2013 speaks volumes!
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Michelle Milan commented
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!!!