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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.

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.

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

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

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.

This seems like a flaw rather than a missing function.

Current workflow:

Picture > Email > Hubdoc > Xero. Then the convenience breaks down as I have to download the receipt from Hubdoc and reattach in Xero invoice to the client.

Please update this as an anyone sending an invoice to claim expenses incurred usually has to provide the underlying invoice/receipt to their client/customer.
When assigning an expense, there should be an option to assign attached file with the billable expense.

This is a feature that should be a standard approach to expense claiming. The double handling of receipt images is maddening. (Which is what I tell people when they ask what it's like to use Xero!)

Expand the function of assign to client.can it be possible when you assign to client in purchases that a option to choose to also include a copy of the receipt?
Currently i find i have to create 2 copies of a receipt one for the inputting the receipt into purchases and one for the sales invoice.
Why can it not be streamlined?
I only do accounting on IoS
Thank. You