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Obviously, a much need feature, Xero please update us when this is likely to be developed. You are moving all expense users onto a new platform is this feature included in the change?

Attach image of expense to client bill

I am sure this has been suggested before but can't see it.

Using EXPENSE app I can take a photo of an expense, log it, charge to client & invoice.
Lovely: very elegant & simple.

*BUT* there is a failing: a really silly & pointless bug thst makes it almost unusable.

Although the system has the image captured, although it generates the invoice and asks if I want o attach files - there is cooption for the Xerro invoice to include the expense image thst was captured within Xero.

Why not?

This is ridiculous.

So I take two photos: one fior the expense>analysis>invoice, then a second as a "dumb" photo that I have to manually upload & attach to the invoice

This is such an obvious basic idea.
I have Xerro expenses avd takes a photo; I have Xero assign thst expense to a customer -- abd yet it has no mechanism to send the image (thst is in Xero) to an invoice (generated in Xero)

This is ridiculous.

Instead I export it from Xero to a folder, then I import it from a folder to Xrero.

Just ridiculous. All it needs is a checkbox "attach image?"

This might be the solution:
https://central.xero.com/s/article/Email-a-file-attachment#Sendafileasanemailattachment

I totally agree with this request, should be a feature when chosing "Billable expense and say save attachmet against this customer also" or based on the recharge GL code you are using. So, when you recharge your client there are two links e.g."16 billable expenses can be added" and "16 bills to be attached".

Such an obvious thing, and we pay extra for the "New Expenses" and this sort of basic capability along with a search function still cannot be provided? Seriously, there are inadequate resources deployed to new basic functionality yet our subscriptions keep going up in price.

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!!!