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I don't believe this critical feature is not currently possible. Please add this feature.

The ability to revert approved bills to a draft is an essential feature to have along with the ability to add interest for late payments, or at least the ability to add additional line items to an approved invoice.

Unfortunately, I get the feeling that Xero is more interested in kick backs received from plugins rather than their customers requirements. This is giving me second thoughts as to weather I should keep Xero or go back to MYOB as the above is general accounting that is included in MYOB.

Suggest this -> https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/45224872-bills-ability-to-return-an-unpublished-bill-to-d be merged into this idea.

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I'm relieved to have stumbled over this idea, as the similar one I originally had found (above) had what I thought to be an amazingly underwhelming level of support for what I think is a fundamentally essential feature.

This would be **EXTREMELY** useful.

Please add this feature.

This feature is a must. At times invoices are approved by accident and need to be reverted to drafts or unapproved.

This should be a basic function within Xero.

I would love this feature.

This seems to be constantly requested, it seems crazy that it's not already a feature

All, please remember to click "Vote" at the top and score how important it is for you, not just comment. Xero team is looking at vote proportions.

This feature would be very helpful when it has been approved in error or if you need to add a line to it for interest charged on late payments.

This is never going to happen. People have been talking about this problem ever since xero first started ~15ish years ago. They ask us users for feedback on using this system, but it seems like the more people ask for something the less likely it is to happen. It seems like some sort of stubborn aversion to making any changes unless they think of it first.

This function is a must for Bills & Invoices - the copy & void workaround does not work - it is time consuming and leaves room for user error.

This would be very helpful in cases when goods haven't been shipped yet!

Yes agreed , certainly a very useful facility for the situations explained by Nadine.
We are not live in Xero yet and lack of this feature will certainly cause problems.

Yes I need this option! So many times I've accidentally hit the Approve button instead of save!
I use the awaiting approval as editing draft invoices that get more added to them before the end of the month (such as weekly corporate contracts) cause then I'm not creating a new invoice every single time.
An alternative would be to swap the save and approve buttons, so the 'Save' is in the green on the right side.

The suggested 'copy' workaround doesn't seem to include attachments

reverting bills incorrectly approved would be very useful if you accidentally push the wrong button

It's so easy to accidentally go from "draft" -> "awaiting payment" (skipping "awaiting approval"),
so it would be nice for it to be easy to go from "awaiting payment" -> "awaiting approval".

Copying and editing a new invoice, and deleting the accidentally-approved one, is not a clean solution; very error-prone.

This is really, really important and seems like very basic functionality - can you please look at it asap?

I agree. Anything that needs approval needs the ability you un-approve or revert to draft.
It is too time-consuming to have to copy and void an invoice approved in error.

This raises the risk of not voiding the invoice correctly, having a messy accounting system, double handling, and extra time taken for the whole process when a button or dropdown can be added to revert the approved invoice to a draft.

Hear, hear - come on Xero, what's the timescale!!!