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This is a real miss from Xero and makes handling expenses double time. Please fix otherwise will need to go with other software

As a consultant, on-charging expenses to clients, this is a basic necessity that is already available in several other accounting packages. hard to believe it has still not been implemented in Xero

This would fit into Xero's 'transparency' and 'efficiency' message. Having proof of reimbursable expenses charged to a client is required. Clients want to see this. We don't want to upload expenses twice.

Can't understand why such a basic feature is not available.
I run a consultancy and we're constantly in need of double scanning everything, because retrieving scans from Xero expenses is a royal pain.

Our clients would never pay a billable expense without the original receipt as in Australia you must maintain proof of GST paid. Currently I have to double save everything in Dropbox and Xero.

Have the same challenge. As its already possible to assign the expense to the client only feels natural the receipts flows through too.
Would be great to get this feature added

This is very important, would save extra work for me. I am very surprised this function is not already set up.

I have always attached a receipt, marked as a billable expense and assigned to a customer during reconciliation. Reconciliation is the right time to do this, right? I only realised there was no proof of disbursement until requested by a client. It's surprising that this isn't part of the invoicing system. The extra process to save a a receipt, track it down (sometimes months later) and reattach is basic double handling.

Please add this important feature asap. I can't believe I have to manually download a copy of a billable receipt and then upload it again to the invoice.

This is critical, spending hours reconciling and downloading individual receipts at month to invoice customers is not good enough. This is a mandatory requirement in Australia as the GST (tax) in receipts has to be verified with a tax invoice so the customer can claim the tax back on their GST returns. Every Australian Xero user passing expenses to customers would need this feature. Do your research Xero, not very beautiful accounting when it comes to billing expenses.

This is really important for me too. The current system is not good enough for my needs. What is slightly worrying is that the Xero support specialist who just emailed me wrote to say that no-one has asked for this. Clearly they've not read this thread. Come on Xero - there are many of us who need this!

Hello, can you please advise if this is an option now? It is very time consuming having to file all theses invoices in client folders in order to only have to reattach them to the invoice when I bill the client.

I am currently doing a trial of XERO. If we cannot pull through receipt images or files (pdf/eps/png/jpg . . .) into an invoice there is really no point in switching to XERO from Freshbooks as we are a fairly small business. I am shocked this feature is not available. Even Quickbooks does this.

There is so much demand for this basic functionality.

In addition to the above I regularly use the Xero app itself to record expenses (that I have paid for with my business credit card) and have taken a photo of the receipt each time and attached it to the expense. However as noted above, there is no way to automatically share these receipts with the client who is being asked to reimburse these expenses. I've just had to spend an hour or so manually downloading the photos of these 50+ receipts in order to forward these on to my client!

it wastes so much of my time having to do this manually! Please sort it out ASAP!!!

Super important functionality. It's an oversight in my view, within Xero's architecture, that this isn't possible currently.

I would like to see this happen - as it would streamline the process, and less margin for error, and a big time saver

When adding reimbursable expenses to invoices, there should be an option to automatically attach (ideally as a combined pdf) all evidence that is already attached to the Xero transactions being included in the invoice.

Contractually our clients require any reimbursable expenses on invoices to have receipts attached as evidence of the incurred expenses. We can add these reimbursable expenses to the invoice as either a single line item or separate line items, however our clients understandably want to see the receipts to match these.

E.g. meals, flights, hotel accommodation etc that we've paid for on our company credit card. We either reconcile these spend money transactions in Xero and then add a photo of the receipt, or if it's an email charge we've emailed the invoice to Hubdoc and then reconciled that way. In both examples, we've assigned the billable expense to a client so that we can add these to the next invoice. The spend money transactions all have file attachments with receipts/invoices.

Xero has the evidence attached to each transaction, but there is no way to export these or add these as another file to our invoice. We have to manually download each receipt/photo from Xero, save to our computer, then manually create a pdf and email that to the client along with our invoice. It is laborious, double handling and wastes so much time.

All of my clients want proof that I have incurred expenses.
The ability for the client to see the actual bill allocated to that line would be invaluable