Contacts - Different default email addresses for different transactions in Xero
Ability to allocate different transactions to different email addresses.
Purpose: Because it’ll make users’ workflow easier when they’re dealing with the contacts that have different departments.

Hi community, we appreciate your continued feedback on having different default email addresses for various transaction types in Xero contacts, and the manual steps involved to ensure you're communicating with the right person for different purposes.
Currently, one way of managing this in Xero would be to include every additional person on a contact record in emails, and then removing those that aren't required when sending each transaction. However we totally get this isn't the ideal solution.
While being able to set different email addresses for differing transaction types is something we want to address longer term, like the idea for multiple addresses work for this feature requires cross-collaboration between teams in order to achieve.
Once the multiple addresses feature is live this is something we'll be able to consider more closely and provide further updates on.
We do regularly review all ideas here, and your input is vital. We'll update you if anything changes. Thanks
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Alice O'Sullivan commented
This is essential as 90% of our customers require statements to be sent to a different email address to the invoice. Having to go though and manually change this and not having these email addresses in the system is time consuming and inefficent.
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Sam Morris commented
The ability to have separate email addresses for our Customers for Quotes and Invoices .
A few customers have asked for Quotes to go to standard company email address but Invoices to go direct to the account departments.
With a lot of invoices and Customers its hard work remembering to change email address between the two -
Leanne Campbell commented
We are looking at moving to Xero and need to have a different email address for ALL our invoices and statements.
If this has been an issue for 9 years (so far), how much longer are we to wait?
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Janne Nash commented
We do most of our work for councils, with multiple contacts that we invoice (20-30 different contacts) I know that I can add their email addresses to contacts using' include in emails' but each time I send an invoice/quote I have to unselect all emails that don't apply to that particular invoice/quote, which is very time consuming.
I then tried leaving their email addresses in the contact but deselected 'included in email' hoping that if when sending the email, when i start to type the email address required may populate, but this didn't work.
Surely there is a way around this, similar to any email program, when starting to type in the recipients email it just appears??
Hopefully this is works in progress for the Xero team?? -
Magda Kulbicka commented
Please disable the auto-generating contact group function or at the very least do a lot more testing before implementation! It's sending emails with an incorrect recipient title because it remembers it from another invoice so the same recipient from my own team is being tagged by the name of another totally different client whose invoice he was previously copied on. Really bad look here!
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Bronnie Burgess commented
Xero is very cheap and therefore good value for what you get. But unfortunately that means there is almost no Support/response on any requests, even if you contact their helpdesk by phone. This particular request which is a basic expectation of an accounting program has been requested for years now but no response. The main consideration when changing to Xero - take the value for money approach and put up with the frustration around some missing basic things, or pay a bit more for better program with more support and development.
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Alannah Presland commented
Looking at changing to xero from a competitor but this is pretty much a deal-breaker.
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David Barker commented
Especially invoices and statements to different e-mail addresses
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Alice O'Sullivan commented
This is a basic function that has obviously been an issue for your customers since 2015 when this was first posted. It's now 2024! I am currently researching moving my two companies away from Xero.
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Jessica Black commented
Please Xero....add a separate field for statement emails! Majority of our customers request invoices are sent to a specified invoice email and statements are sent to a different statement email. We manually have to adjust the email addresses from a hardcopy list when issuing statements to make sure they're sent correctly.
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Elizabeth George commented
Yes! Jan McDonald... having the ability to send activity statements to a different email (compared to the invoice/default email for the contact) is a must for my business! Please make this change Xero. We have multiple customers asking for the monthly statements to be sent to their AP (accounts payable) departments yet the invoices to be to the primary contact (so they can approve the invoice). Please vote for this one to be in the new update!!
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Erika Feuz commented
This is a basic requirement for every business no matter how big. I am using Xero for multiple businesses and really need the ability to have separate email addresses for different departments for our suppliers. This feature is simply keeping up with technology in business and is well overdue in Xero.
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Brad Field commented
And of course we have all those customers who use Xero and send a copy of everything to every email contact for us in their system and create waste for us wading through emails that aren't relevant...
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Emma Rosenblatt (Accounts) commented
This is a massive problem! We need to be able to send invoices to accounts payable and remittances to accounts receivable (often not the same email address!!) And quotes to another person, often the purchasing officer.
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Alan McCaig commented
I don't understand why something so simple can't be sorted. we really need this feature to be added or will have to consider another solution and move away from Xero.
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Leanne Nelson commented
This is critical to our business
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David Black commented
This is a fundamental business need - really disappointed Xero does not do this out of the box & clients are having to request fundamental business accounting functions from premium accounting software
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Adam Greco commented
Any company ordering parts from vendors (plumber to a warehouse) has to reach out to different parties for support. There's no excuse for not having this feature. It's just sloppy and bad priorities on Xero's part.
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Brad Field commented
Guys,
If you're a large enough user to think this is important, you aren't in Xero's target market.
Small business running their business from their ute is who they want.
This will never be fixed as Xero are too busy finding new small customers and their accountants who hate the shoe box of invoices (sorry, bills) these small businesses currently dump on their desk.
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Vanessa Beverley commented
Very critical to our business.