Billable Expenses - Files to copy through to the Sales Invoice
Ability to have a copy of billable expenses to the sales invoice.
Purpose: Save them time from having to send another email of copies of the expenses.
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Nick Rakis commented
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
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Ian Gee commented
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
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Dale Edney commented
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. -
Ryan Bates commented
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.
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Steve Chambers commented
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.
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Gareth Baston commented
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.
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Admin Rep commented
How is this not a thing... Horrendous UX design from Xero
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Ben Dunlop commented
PLEASE MAKE THIS UPDATE ASAP!
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John Burke commented
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.
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James Howey commented
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!!!
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Rowena Morrow commented
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
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Roy Summers commented
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.
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Steven Berkman commented
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??? -
Cassandra Scott commented
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
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Ben Dunlop commented
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.
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Ben Dunlop commented
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.
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Ben Dunlop commented
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.
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Rachel Ivic commented
I agree. Also have a client oncharging expenses to their customer and want to attach the supporting bills as evidence. Would be great to have this as an optioin
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Vicki Lowther commented
When creating a billable expense invoice from a Bill, often the source document needs to be attached and sent to customer. Would be efficient to have option to transfer the attached source document from the Bill to the Billable expense invoice
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Louis Notley commented
This is a basic requirement of book-keeping and accounting and you are ripping us off by claiming you provide a proper accounting system when it does not include this feature. It's clear to me that there has been demand for this from your customers for many years, but Xero continues to do nothing. As a businessman who was advised by my accountant to bring my three businesses to Xero I feel particularly let down. I'd like to raise a formal complaint and receive a deduction from the subscriptions my companies pay to Xero until you have implemented this essential feature.