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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

Definitely something wrong when it's easier to attached a file to this comment than it is to attach a file to an invoice with billable expenses. Surely most businesses have one customer that requires receipts to be attached to their invoice.

It only seems logical that when charging a billable expense to a client that they would require the evidence.........i.e. an attached copy of the tax invoice/receipt

It's SUCH a time waster having to do this twice. For example, a large trip that is client billable will have many receipts for expense claims - it doubles the admin required, which seems odd as most of Xero is so logical and intuitive

If an app doesn't save the small business owner time and effort they won't use it. Xero Expenses is a great app in my opinion just little tweaks like these will make it magic.

I agree and would add the same feature should exist for project related expenses that have receipts attached to them. When invoiced, it would be awesome if the receipt automatically attached to the invoice.

Client uses Xero Expense App - then tag in Customer as "billable" expense but the actual receipt does not attach to the invoice. Client need to drill back into each expense claim, download the receipt then attached to invoice. Also limited to 7MB - not enough.

Billable expenses is a great feature but could be even better for small businesses needing to on-charge to their customers.

When I add a billable expense to an invoice, I would like any attachments associated with that expense to also be copied to the invoice.

Use case:

My billable expense generally will have a copy of the taxi/ airline receipt. My client would like to see a copy of that receipt with my invoice. Currently I add the billable expense, but then have to manually locate the receipt and manually upload to the invoice.