Email Settings - Specify date/time to send transactions
Ability to specify date/time when users’ want to send emails from Xero.
Purpose: So clients/customers can receive the email during the working hours and not at random time.

Hey everyone, we've seen all your votes and comments, and we totally get it – not being able to schedule one-off invoices or pick specific send times is a real pain point. Your feedback makes it clear how much time it costs you and how it can affect your client relationships.
Right now, repeat invoice templates go some way to providing some automation. But we know that's not quite what you're asking for when it comes to those one-off invoices or more precise timing for all your emails.
The good news is, our product team is digging in to the work that'd be needed to develop a solution, and figuring out the best way to make this happen. While we can't give any promises just yet, please know that your feedback is a huge part of this discovery process. Keep those comments and votes coming!
We'll post another update here as soon as we have more news to share.
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Annie Romanos commented
Hullo, Xero?
Is there anybody out there?
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Accounts Communic8 commented
I'm so confused by Xero's inability to delivery on this feature. This isn't rocket science, people. And I'm not making an uninformed statement as I'm in the software business, and I know this isn't too difficult to implement. Combining this with another feature request which makes for a very unintuitive solution seems rediculous. Being able to schedule the sending of an invoice ahead of time is such a necessary and basic requirement. Your solution for repeating invoices just isn't appropriate for many reasons. I won't list them as others in this thread have explained the limitations.
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Joe Pettican commented
Desperately needed, one of the most essential tools that Xero is missing at the moment, and its very frustrating not having it!
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Louise Darby commented
Pls ! Come on guys this is basic
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Victoria Hibbs commented
Scheduling of payroll emails, any other client emails and scheduling of invoices is technologically simple in many other platforms. Why Xero cant manage it I dont know. Every month I have to tell people that their payslip arrival does not tally up with the point they get paid. Embarrassing.
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Clive Wilson commented
Am I reading this correctly that 7-8 years after this idea was originally put forward, only now is it even being considered for development by Xero? How many more years will we have to wait for it to come to fruition, I wonder?
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Clive Wilson commented
I send a number of clients a regular monthly invoice for the same amount each month, but with slightly different details each time (such as the month in which the work was carried out), so a repeating monthly invoice is no good for me.
However, being able to create all the invoices ahead of time and have them sent automatically on a specified date - which is also what I would need if I were away, seems like an obvious feature to have.
Please include this feature!
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Jo McDonald commented
Id like a "schedule invoice" feature so it can be sent on a particular date as a one off. Otherwise I have to prep them all and go back in to send them all at the required date. I would use this for annual subscriptions. I cannot just submit as a repeat invoice as the members each year can change. I see others have requested this too so it would be a great added feature to have. Thanks
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Cathy Klouwens commented
Hi Xero team, can your team please provide a response for the queries on this feature? Is this planned to come into place as a tool for users of Xero? Would appreciate an update from the Xero team on this please as I have, and many others have posted their ideas for why this is needed for each of their businesses. Regards Cathy
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Alan Grech commented
Very useful feature to have. Sometimes you find yourself light with work and that is the perfect time to schedule invoices... but I realised that the feature does not exist! Hence my vote.
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Amanda Hesford commented
MYOB has had this basic feature for eons. Many businesses require invoices to be submitted to clients at a certain date to meet contractual obligations.
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Managing Director commented
Seems so basic, why not an option???
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David Gordon commented
would be very useful for us as staff have to come in to the office specialy if the month end/begining falls on a non work day
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Rikka Power commented
I would love this feature!
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Stuart Bennett commented
This seems needed. How long before it’s processed by Xero?
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Jon Howard commented
The ability to schedule an invoice and a quote would be very useful
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Gareth & Colette Oliver commented
Would be a very useful feature for me - how far up or down is this on the XERO roadmap based on the number of requests?
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Sarah Pilling commented
I would love this. I always raise my bills at odd times, but never want to send them at the time. And then forget to send them.
I use the "schedule send" feature on my inbox ALL the time and would love this. -
Lou Clarkson commented
I have two invoices that need to be sent on Monday just this month, not on a repeating basis. I have raised and approved the invoice so just need to schedule the send and I can't - surely this would be a beneficial feature to add?
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David Zhang commented
Please update this function