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I often whip up an invoice a few days before it should be sent. It would be wonderful to have the option to "Schedule" or "delay" SEND, like with Outlook...
Click schedule send, pick the date, confirm and forget about it because it goes out to the customer when you want.

This shouldn't be confused with repeat invoicing... just a once off invoice.

Really looking forward to having to jump on in my holidays to send payslips and invoices because you haven't sort ted this yet - elementary! 🤬

We are considering changing to another platform. Do not understand why this was not a priority considering most of the competition has had this feature for a long time.
Please make this a priority...

Frustrated new customer, just finding out this feature isn't included in xero yet??? Coming from another much cheaper platform which had this feature I'd say it an essential requirement for any new-age invoicing app!

The ability to schedule email invoicing would be invaluable.

This is a very great feature to have. I would like the ability to schedule my invoices to be sent on a specific date and time.

Particularly in light of the new legislation regarding contacting staff outside of working hours.

I have eight separate client payruns that are due between Christmas this year and when I get back into the office again. I'd really like to be able to schedule the sending of payslips so that I don't have to log in while on annual leave (which is illegal for an employer to require in Australia) to send the payslips within one day of the various paydays (which is a legal requirement in Australia).

Scheduling when emails go out will be very helpful in the modern flexible work world. Invoices, payslips, etc often need to be prepared in advance and then sent out a pre-determined date & time. Often our work requires preparation of invoices/etc in advance due to travel, working remotely, unreliable internet, etc.

Schedule when payslips can be emailed. Allows payroll to be done in advance (eg, when payroll person goes on leave they could do payroll for a few weeks in advance) but only send payslips when the payroll payment is made.

Need the ability to schedule emails (similar to how some email clients, like Apple mail, can do it). While I might reconcile customer payments or produce invoices outside normal business hours I want to be able to schedule my send of emails to the clients (e.g. invoices, receipts, statements etc) so I can have it send 8.00am the next morning or 8.00 next monday etc..etc.

This would be great so I can schedule progress invoices to go out on the correct date

Delayed sending would save me hours please. Thanks

Yes, this would be a great improvement. I send out invoices weekly and some customers grumble if they get sent invoices too early. I am about to go away on holiday for 2 weeks, during which time no invoices will be sent, although they are all on the system ready to go. All these invoices will be sent when I get back, meaning a delay in our company getting paid.

@Derrick Murphy not to mention that logging in to send one invoice can trigger minimum shift payments from one's contract - I know my own contract has a provision that I get paid a minimum of four hours worth when I work for less than four hours in a day (it's very common here in Australia, where the legal minimum shift under most Awards is 3-4 hours). And it's really not worth it to my boss to pay me for four hours when I'm doing less than 15 minutes work on my day off!

This would save a lot of grief and missed invoices.

This seems like such a basic feature I'm very surprised it doesn't exist! It's extremely frustrating having to set manual reminders to do a task that could so easily be automated.

YES! I need this! I don't have any recurring invoices that are exactly the same, so I can't use that feature. But I have about 30 invoices that I need to send on the last day of the month. I would love to be able to create these invoices ahead of time and schedule them to send on the last day, instead of having to work on a Saturday or whatever it ends up being.

@Derrick Murphy, correct, the situation at present is as follows:

You can create an invoice and set an "Issue date". At first glance, it appears that this would control when the invoice is "issued/sent". Instead, the "Issue date" merely controls the "Invoice Date" on the invoice. Moreover, when you click the "Approve & email" button, after making any adjustments to the editable email template, you click the "Send email" button, which sends the email and attached invoice immediately.

To clarify, are we saying that as things stand, you cannot schedule an invoice email routine within Xero itself for a predetermined date and time i.e. you can only create/approve an invoice but have to login still to send it manually?

I'm surprised that a modern accounting system like Xero will not allow you to send invoices at a future date as part of an automated workflow. I'm due away on holiday, and don't want the hassle of having to remember to login on a certain day and time just to send one important invoice. In my case, I don't want to batch send invoices on different dates, merely send one invoice on a specific day and time that's within normal business hours. Thanks.