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Critical feature for an accounting system. Not having the ability to record an invoice process date is preventing me from migrating other businesses to Xero because we can not close out a month without changing dates on future invoices that may be received late.

Basic and Essential for accrual accounting. The lack of this creates multiple issues around reporting and creates uncertainty around the competency of the financial function when the numbers you report on a monthly basis, ends up changing each month due to late invoicing from suppliers.

Agreed - Absolutely basic requirement thats blatantly missing

With accrual accounting we need to account for expenses in the period they were incurred, not invoiced.
This seems to be a fundamental requirement missing from Xero.
It would be great to hear from the Xero team about whether there is a workaround or a plan to release this feature.

This is a basic requirement - not sure really why it hasn't been required from day one.

I rasied an accrual with a reversing journal in the month of July to be reversed out in August , the invoice for July was received in September but dated July , why does Xero not allow me to process the invoice in September with the invoice dated July ? this is simple accrual basis of accounting , my prior months reporting and aging is affected , cant do a month to month trend anaylysis without this being fixed.

Dear Xero Team

I have been using Xero for a year but because Xero does not have a posting date for my invoices, every month end closing, i will have to do manual journal entries for all my sales. Its getting too much for me! This is a basic essential every accounting system must have. ... pls get this up ....if not i will have to look at other alternatives!

Agree - this is absolutely essential

Run reports by date the bills were entered into (posting date) XERO.

We are running various reports but have no way of knowing which invoices may have been added after the report was run.
Critical need for us,

Hi,

For bills and invoices, can we have a 3rd date field please? The 3 dates will be for:

1. Bill/Invoice Date
2. Due Date
3. Period Date

This way, when a period is closed, the bill or invoice date will not need to be change to fit into the open period.

Thanks,
Mary

I'm amazed that this is not a feature- given the control around cutoffs of fiscal periods being an essential process of book keeping. All other systems I have worked on and extensions of Xero have this feature but not Xero itself.

Please ensure there are 2 fields - posting date and invoice date. I think Xero is wonderful for small customers but this is a major feature of larger systems which has not been incorporated. I am currently having to re-run all my reports each month as contractors consistently submit their invoices 2, 3 and up to 12 months after completing the work.

This is critical for us and making us seek alternatives

Not having this feature is making me look for alternative providers as it’s key.

This feature is critical for us. Please add!!!!

Can the Xero team please advise if this critical change can be implemented and if so when?

Thanks in advance
Adriana

This is a critical standard accounting practice. A document date should never be altered and should be able to be posted to the general ledger, the day it is keyed into Xero, not by the document date. I find it hard to believe that Xero does not accommodate this.

Agree - needs to be added

This feature is critical for us, hope it gets added soon.

Has this feature been added? Just found out Xero doesnt have this, and I'm baffled for an accounting software