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This idea was originally raised in 2012! its been 13 years!!! How does something so simple take so long? Please Xero team, I think its about time you looked into this.

My first time using Xero and this was the first thing I looked for! I want to schedule my invoices, then have the system remind me they are good to go (make any last minute edits like adding expenses), then approve and send. Surely this is something that can be done and should be done soon? Any response since last year Xero?

Message for Xero Team:

Given the number of people that have voted for this, is it possible to put this higher up on your development list? It seems like a pretty standard feature that should already exist!

would be the most helpful tool they could add to date of me using Xero for 10+ years

+1 this is an incredibly important feature for those invoicing customers in multiple time zones. This feature would help us send invoices at a time that is most convenient to them (without working irregular hours ourselves). Not having this is a major pain point that other platforms address.

This is a critical feature. Many small business owners are working later in the day or on weekends and the clients/customers do not appreciate email being sent over the weekend. Many recipients have apps on their phone, receive notifications, and feel compelled to reply. Please add this schedule send feature.

It would be helpful to have the ability to auto send invoices at a specific date and time.

Agreed, this is an extremely simple functionality that is included out-of-the-box on every other software I've used. I want to send invoices at the same time on the same day each month. Randomly sending looks unprofessional and desperate. I've been using Xero for two months now and this is kind of a deal breaker.

Update: How has it been a year since this was responded to by Xero? This should have been an out-of-the-box feature, not something we have to ask for. To note, I have to get up at 8am tomorrow to click send on invoices when it should be an incredible simple thing to schedule. As I said above, this tells me a lot about Xero's priorities and where customer needs fit into it.

This is indeed pretty basic functionality that is lacking in Xero - I had it in PayPal before switching. It has been requested for a long time!!!

My use-case is that it is highly convenient to do my invoices at the time of doing my work; however, it is politically awkward to send them at that time! Being able to delay them several days (variable depending on the work) is very advantageous.

At present I save them as drafts, but have to remember to come back to them and actually email them at a non-weird time. While an okayish workaround, this adds unnecessary difficulties.

This would be so amazing!

Our clients pay off our services so this would help schedule this so much!

This would increase the invoice settling rate, significantly, without having to chase people as much.

We are going to incorporate in the new year and when we do we have to set up a new account and it wont be xero unless they get scheduled invoicing, stages payment invoice and phone support sorted before then.

We are going to go back to Quick Books which has all of this and for half the price.

Xero was touted as the way to go and against our better judgement we signed up.

Big mistake, do yourself a favour and check out Quick books because Xero just pay lip service to these items which should be no brainers.

The ability schedule payslips to be emailed at later date - for example I'm on holidays over the Christmas break so I have had to do all the payroll before I finished.
It would be good to set a date to email the payslips.
I was able to schedule the bank and EFT payments but there's no way to schedule when payslip or Remittance Advice is emailed out

Hi, this is even more useful when your date for sending invoice is a on a bank holiday or if you are a freelancer and you want them to be sent while you are off/annual leave. It is a necessary feature and it seems silly that we will have to prep invoices and download them in pdf and then schedule emails to be sent.

Come on Xero, the earliest comment on this thread is 2012. As a web and software developer I do understand that sometimes things aren't as simple to implement as it may appear to an outsider, but you've implemented a whole bunch of unnecessary things like the new interface in the meantime. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say, "We really don't care about the new interface - the old interface was completely fine." You keep increasing the costs without adding new functionality. Slicker UI's aren't important. How about looking at some of these fairly basic feature requests instead?

In response to Tim's comment, I have already falling into this trap thinking that the all singing all dancing Xero would have this most basic of features.

In the meantime, it's not clear from the interface whether setting an issue date into the future is connected to when it will be emailed.
People could easily assume setting a future date, then hitting "approve and email" will mean it goes out on that date (why *wouldn't* that be how it works, really?)
I had to Google it and find community threads of people asking the same question.

Love to see this implemented!

Hi Hannah G :-) https://productideas.xero.com/users/6244926721-hannah-g

Any chance you have an update for this one?
.... I'm happy to BETA test over Christmas new years :-D just putting it out there....

Rereading all the other comments I cannot believe this is still outstanding.

I also cannot believe Xero was recommended to us as we were using QuickBooks in the UK for many years which for my money is far superior because you get telephone support you can schedule invoices and you can do stage payments.

Xero Is costing us double what QuickBooks costs and we're told to use a third party app to make these things happen, Is this just a cartel trying to milk us for all the money they can.