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What is the progress on this one? Obviously people screaming out for this and still not a feature.

Absolutely essential for effective cash flow management:

* Expected Date: While awaiting payment, why not provide an option to include the anticipated amount alongside the expected payment date? or,
* Short-term cash flow projection: A missing custom prediction feature that would enable selecting an invoice and adding an amount and expected due date.

Xero, as a platform designed for SMEs, you are severely limiting your customer's capacity to effectively manage cash flow and streamline payment plans with both their customers and suppliers.

Given its critical importance in today's market, this feature should be prioritised for immediate development.

This feature is essential, I am shocked it is not already available...

Unbelievable that Xero cannot allow us to raise a single invoice and accept payment by instalment.

Desperately need this feature. Like many others in the thread, I run a business with high ticket items and the customer pays across a number of months. Multiple invoices for one customer is too confusing and it's such a time waster to have to unreconcile the item before adding another and then re-reconciling the same invoice.
Tempted to look for an alternative invoicing because this is lacking in Xero.

we are a weddings business where bookings are made up to 2 years ahead of the 'big day' and then payments are made along the way as plans develop and change, and the event approaches.
we need this urgently in order to make our invoices and paperwork intelligible to our customers, and efficient to our financial managers

This is critical, stop wasting money on making font and/or colour changes to your website and get this done urgently!

Can't believe this is not possible - lagging behind other software

It's unbelievable XERO that this request has been on your "To Do" list for so long with no action. It's a quite clearly a "Critical" feature, which SAGE managed on their desktop software over 20 years ago, which you continue to ignore but your users need.

Yet in the time you have spent ignoring this feature request, you have managed to increase your fees, change your CEO multiple times and spend so much time messing about with the appearance and aesthetics of your software versus the essential functionality.

When will you realise that no matter how much time you spend faffing around with the appearance, it is all pointless if the information behind the scenes is not accurately captured and represented.

Will someone who is quite clearly overpaid at XERO finally wake up, listen to what your users are requesting and get this essential feature set up!

critical for clients who need a payment plan

This is critical to our business. Without it being implemented we will need to move onto a different accounting programme.

This is essential to predict cashflow using the cashflow xero add on and to not burden ourself and out clients with multiple invoices.

We too are still looking for this capability and are finding it increasingly important for our business.

1) adding multiple invoices drastically increases the possibility for error and/or time consuming cross checking (missing a date etc.)
2) We depend on a projected P&L for our Board to make decisions throughout the year and cannot do this unless we create multiple invoices rather than one invoice with multiple payment due dates which is what we need.
3)This would provide a cleaner statement for our clients
4) Better reports could be generated for me to provide Calendar year statments (which our clients need for tax purposes, but our fiscal/academic year splits on July 1st, creating the need for manual letters for statments for clients - again, leaving room for error.
5) We are a not for profit, charitable org with limited resources, so many aspects of getting this fixed would save us time and money better spent helping students or fundraising.
6) It would allow greater flexibility in billing clients in a climate where finances are tight for many and there is a greater need for non-standard payment requests.

Ability to enter multiple shapes for amount and due dates would be such useful functionality and save so much time when processing instalment plans against tuition fee invoices. The number of instalment plan requests are increasing greatly in this current financial climate and the manual effort to process multiple amendments impacts efficiency and response times greatly.

Could really use a feature in Xero to allow customers to use payment plans or paying partial payments

We are selling boats, worth hundreds of thousand of dollars with long production cycles.
The customers have a detailed payment schedule and our books cannot reflect this reality.

Absolutely need payment terms to allow for payment plans over time.

We Critically need this function to deal with a variety of International customers and ways product is sent to them.

Our clients in the tourism industry desperately need this function! Deposits on booking and final payment before travelling. This is needed for invoicing and bills. They cannot get realistic cash flow predictions without this. PLEASE implement a.s.a.p. Thank you.

Please implement this ASAP.