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Can we please have this feature? My clients always need copies of receipts and this feels like such a simple fix for a clunky and time consuming process.

Thank you!

With so many NDIS Support Workers setting up their own business, they need to be able to provide receipts for expenses incurred on behalf of their client to oncharge to the service provider. By allowing the receipt to feed through from hubdoc, to billable expense, to then the actual invoice, it will save a lot of time. They won't need to separately attached the receipt to both hubdoc and the sales invoice.

I signed up for the top tier to take photos of receipts and send them through with the invoice to my customers. Instead, I take a photo of a receipt, and it enters it as a line item without attaching the copies of the receipt. I don't know a single business that blindly pays expenses without being provided copies of receipts.

Instead, I take photos of the receipt in the Expenses app, then also have to pay for an additional third-party app so that I can send copies of those receipts to my customers. This process is unnecessary so I hope you'll build the ability to pass receipts to the invoice. In the mean time, I'm searching for a billing solution to replace Xero.

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This really should be part of the expense functionality that we pay $5 per user per month. There is no point having expenses claimed when there is not an ability to link these to invoices. Especially when you can link the expense claim item to the invoice.

Would appreciate prioritising this where possible in your backlog

Very difficult to believe this isn't already a feature given how fundamentally basic it is to any one claiming business expenses from a client.

Clearly Xero understand this use-case given the ability to assign expenses to a customer and add to an invoice.

Super disappointing that this has been an open 'idea' for 8 years and no comment or progress

Come on Xero. QBO has provided this functionality for free for 10 years. You're making up pay $5 per user per month and not providing this basic functionality.
Not providing this functionality makes Xero a more expensive product for our business because of the man hours require to collate and attach receipts.

Very frustrating to add a receipt PDF to a reimbursable transaction and not have it flow through to the invoice when the transaction is marked billable.

This feature request is almost a year old, and I'm sure I've seen raised in the past before this.

It is really frustrating that Xero forces a work flow that wastes so much time when the use case is obvious and it is surely a releatively simple enhancement, given that all the data/files is already available in the system and the link with the customer already established.

Finding the image of the expense to manually add to each invoice costs me probably 30-60mins per invoice depending on the amount of expense I on charge.

How is this not a thing... Horrendous UX design from Xero

PLEASE MAKE THIS UPDATE ASAP!

To be clear, the request here is to automate the process of adding images of billable expense receipts to Sales Invoices. There should not be a need to manually download or copy images between system modules/areas after they have been added as part of the process of recording expenses.

I've got 20 expenses added to the invoice in a couple of clicks, now I've got to go back through the transactions and find the receipts to add to the invoice, which will take me 30 mins at least. What a pain!!!

Great idea and would save me at least 30 mins per month in stuffing around - should have already been built and the lack of this automation makes the additional cost for the expenses modules questionable

100% - this is why I did not become a Xero user. All other feature beat other software hands down, but this is a deal breaker.

This is RIDICULOUS that you can't do this.
So I submit an invoice to a customer with billable expenses on it and the FIRST THING THEY ASK FOR is, "Can I see a copy of these receipts?"
How else to prove to a customer you didn't just make a number and charge them for it???

My support x 1000 for this request - this would turn a great function in Xero to a bloody awesome function in Xero, and cut out a lot of duplication of effort

To be specific, when choosing billable expenses to add to an invoice, in the same way that we are given a "check box" to select which billables to include, we should be given a second column and "check box" to "include billable expense attachments", whether the attachment is pdf or image isn't important.

If I was to select say 10 billables to include on the invoice, I would also then be able to select the attachments that go with those 10 billables. I would expect these attachments to be grouped together either into a single zip file which can be email with the invoice, or perhaps they are all compiled into one pdf attachment.

To be specific, when choosing billable expenses to add to an invoice, in the same way that we are given a "check box" to select which billables to include, we should be given a second column and "check box" to "include billable expense attachments", whether the attachment is pdf or image isn't important.

If I was to select say 10 billables to include on the invoice, I would also then be able to select the attachments that go with those 10 billables. I would expect these attachments to be grouped together either into a single zip file which can be email with the invoice, or perhaps they are all compiled into one pdf attachment.