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I appreciate not every idea can be incorporated, but this was originally proposed in 2015 and still nothing has been done about it.

Surely Xero doesn't believe the validity and value of an idea is based solely on the number of people who vote for it here? I know many Xero users who don't even know the forum exists, let alone are bothered to contribute.

An idea like being able to schedule invoices shouldn't need thousands of votes as it's a basic simple function (not necessary in implementation, I appreciate that, but from a user's perspective) that should come as standard. I mean I can schedule emails to send on my free email client software, which is rarely needed, yet on something as potentially valuable as scheduling invoices to send, I can't do that on a platform I pay for.

Can someone at Xero PLEASE respond/acknowledge this thread and give us some idea of whether or not, after 8 1/2 years, this idea will ever be implemented?

Doesn't look professional sending emails for invoices over weekends or late at night which often happens working in a small business.

I would love to be able to schedule an invoice so it sends when I'm on leave!

Scheduling just like gmail does would be fantastic!

100% would be a fantastic update!

Simply be able to schedule any invoice on a specific date and time.

There is already a feature request for repeating invoices but small businesses often have single emails/invoices to send and it would be great to schedule one-off emails.

Eg. It is the 30th of November and you have a non-repeating invoice that will be due on December 15th and you would like to send it on the 8th of December. It would be nice to be able to schedule it be sent out on the 8th automatically and not have to log in again on the 8th to send it. It would be great to schedule it.

I would dearly love to be able to create December 2023 invoices before Christmas to be sent on the 2nd January, so that I wouldn't have to come back from holidays early just to ensure continuity of cashflow later.

I'd also dearly love to be able to create the payroll that's due for automated payment during the EOY break before I left to visit family, and have the payslips send on the day that it's scheduled for payment! It's not a break if I have to log in to send payslips, it's technically illegal in Australia for payslips to be sent that early (under the Fair Work Act 2009 they must be sent within 1 working day of the date of payment), and it's definitely illegal for them to be sent after I get back from holidays.

Option to set the time (as well as day) that invoice reminders are emailed out. At the moment emails will be sent just after midnight which is inappropriate for customers (if they don't have their email alerts set to silent).

Option to set the time (as well as day) that invoice reminders are emailed out. At the moment emails will be sent just after midnight which is inappropriate for customers (if they don't have their email alerts set to silent).

A very important and currently missing feature. Can't understand why this isn't already enabled?

Sorry Joe, That doesn't work on a one off invoice. There is no choice for a preference date.

As per Xero's own comment in this post in 2012 (over a decade ago!):

Ability to schedule invoices to be sent at a future date

Purpose: Users can set up a preference date to send their invoice, and to make sure that invoices aren’t sent during the weekend. As it makes them look unprofessional.

Please add this feature!

I don't think it's very professional that all my invoice reminders are sent at midnight to clients. Can this be added to the build list.

This is business critical for admin and bookkeepers, and it's inexplicable that it is not just a standard function from Xero already.

Clients complain all the time and we would to to choose the time of day that reminders are sent.

It would make life easier

Scheduling a time to send invoice and quotes would make a great feature. My husband and I do most of our bookwork at night and would love the function that you can schedule a time the invoice or quote is sent to the customer so we are not sending them at 10pm when people are in bed.

It would be a useful feature to be able to set the actual time of day that email invoice reminders are sent to clients. Many clients do not turn off their mobile phone devices and the reminder can arrive to their inbox as early as 4-5am AWST which can be annoying to some clients. Sleep is precious.

Would be very beneficial

It would be really great to be able to set the time auto reminders of overdue invoices are sent. Customers do not appreciate receiving these emails at 4/5 am and it would be preferred if they could be sent during business hours.