Email to Credit Note
Draft Bills - Ability to create Credits from Draft Bill sent directly to Xero email
Suppliers email credits as well as Bills, why not have the ability to process a bill or credit through this area, a supplier is not going to invoice credits to one email address and invoices to another. Why can we not select if it is a bill or credit and process.
Purpose: to allow processing of credits through the Draft Bills seamless
cost effective: reduce the need for additional software such as dext or hubdoc, use xero.
Current process: open the Draft Credit, download the attachment, delete the draft bill, create a credit and attach the credit note emailed through in the first instance.
 Paula Leggatt
    
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Paula Leggatt
    
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    Hi community, thank you to everyone who's shared and supported the ability to email credit notes to Xero.
We understand why you'd like to be able to automate the flow and entry of Credit Notes in Xero, however this isn't something we have plans of developing within Xero right now.
As mentioned in my last update it's possible to currently automate entry of Credit Notes in Xero, by publishing these through Hubdoc -You can find steps to connecting Hubdoc to your Xero organisation, or detail on publishing Credit notes, on Xero Central.
If there are any changes put in place for this, we'll let you know.
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       Paul Russell
    
 commented Paul Russell
    
 commentedI have monitored about 15 of these features over the last 5 years over a few subscriptions. None of them ever get implemented. It's like they half arsed the software and will ride the money train into the ground. 
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       Tara Lieschke
    
 commented Tara Lieschke
    
 commentedAfter watching the updates for the new improvements to Xero for May. It is disappointing that after years, this still isn't been done. I too have had clients move to MYOB for this simple function. That and the inventory. But at least the inventory is improving. Trying to do retail clients with a lot of inventory and credit notes is a nightmare weekly. 
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       Dominik Rinsche
    
 commented Dominik Rinsche
    
 commentedI think I would like to also extend on this: I have a client who is notoriously chaotic when it comes to substantiation, so we said to him: Just send everything into Xero. 
 Point 1) This discussion: Convert Bill (from Email) to Credit note is a MUST (I am sorry but I prefer MYOB here which allows for negative values in a bill)
 Point 2) I would actually like bills to also be convertible to Invoices: i.e. my client receives a lot of RCTIs whcih he sends to Xero for me. But then I have to download it, delete the bill, and start the invoice from scratch.And to Xero admins: Don't even bother telling me to use Hubdoc - I hate it. Looks awful, and sometimes less is more. My client is so busy, he'd be fuming if I told him to use yet another system. I think just a more allround flexibility would be much needed. 
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       Matthew Thornton
    
 commented Matthew Thornton
    
 commentedYou are correct Alison, they are to busy fixing things that aren't broken and then forcing the fixes onto people. There was nothing wrong with the old invoicing and the new one does nothing that the old one didn't. 
 The new invoicing looks like it was from 2 decades ago and still no email to credit note.
 All in all, a total unnecessary waste of subscriber fees.
 Remember people, Xero will do what it wants and to **** with the subscribers.
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       Alison Langdon
    
 commented Alison Langdon
    
 commentedThe answer is simple people - Xero doesn't have staff that are capable of understanding how frustrating it is that their system doesn't do simple things that it should, and even if they do understand everyone's frustrations, they don't have the desire to do anything to assist with sorting these issues out. 
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       Paul  McNulty
    
 commented Paul  McNulty
    
 commentedHow does such a large organization like xero not get this simple thing right? 
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       TINA PACKMAN
    
 commented TINA PACKMAN
    
 commentedThis would be really useful, or at least the option to copy with any attachment to a Bill Credit 
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       jason buckwalter
    
 commented jason buckwalter
    
 commentedthis is a no brainer if I can import pdf invoices then, if they are negative (ie a credit) then they should be approvable what is frustrating is it lets you go all the way to the approve stage 
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       Ceri Gorton
    
 commented Ceri Gorton
    
 commentedXero is so great it many ways I can't believe this hasn't been sorted yet! 
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       Alison Langdon
    
 commented Alison Langdon
    
 commentedHi Kelly Thanks for being so open. I am just wondering it Xero is ever going to do anything that its' current customers ask for, which would make their lives easier, and the product sooooo much better, or if "Xero Product Ideas" is just a forum where people can ask for stuff and Xero gets to say "We are listening to you, we just don't care about you"? I have been to several product demos (field-days etc) where the Xero staff don't actually know about any of the requests that have been asked for the past 10+ years, and are oblivious to the fact that the product does not do quite a few basic functions. If you could get back to us, it would be great. 
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       Amanda Noble
    
 commented Amanda Noble
    
 commentedWould really like this to be a feature as you need to download the invoice to load it as all our invoices are automatically emailed to bills. Would save a lot of time. 
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       Stuart Cameron
    
 commented Stuart Cameron
    
 commentedHubdoc works but its a work around surely it cant be that difficult to make the system import a credit not like a bill its the same principle except a minus amount. 
 We can import credits notes that have been posted from a 3rd party system we use and post bills and credit notes ok to xero so I dont see why Xero cant make it work posting from emails
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       Rebecca Wright
    
 commented Rebecca Wright
    
 commentedThe ability to switch a draft invoice to a draft credit note would save so much faffing about having to re-save the attachment, save the credit note to add manually and delete the draft invoice. 
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       Helena Fisher
    
 commented Helena Fisher
    
 commentedHave raised this today with Support and they have said this can't be done at present. I hope this will be resolved soon as I spend alot of time downloading credit notes then having to entering them manually attaching the cn download. This surely is a quick issue to resolve so I look forward to it being resolved 
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       Steve Barwick
    
 commented Steve Barwick
    
 commentedI believe that being able to do credit notes via the bill system is a critical item that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Having to move it onto your computer and then having to redo as credit note wastes so much time. As mentioned below this needs to be streamlined to make things a lot more efficient. 
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       Doug Weir
    
 commented Doug Weir
    
 commentedWould it be possible to enable Xero to process supplier credit notes in the same way as supplier invoices, i.e. use the e-mail a PDF function bur select it as a 'bill credit note' and process it like you have sent Xero a pdf invoice. 
 This would save some time.
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       Anita Pelacchi
    
 commented Anita Pelacchi
    
 commentedAgree, this should be a basic functionality of platform like this. Would vote this to be a development. 
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       PATRICK BAGULEY
    
 commented PATRICK BAGULEY
    
 commentedThis is very frustrating to me that it still isn't resolved. It's a really important concept to me to be able to just convert a bill into a credit note when a negative bill comes in, such that Xero doesn't recognise it as a CR and puts it in as a Bill. Having to actually download the attached files, recreate a CR, re-upload the attached files and input all the information manually is absolutely attrocious. 
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       Maria Kallio
    
 commented Maria Kallio
    
 commentedA drop-down menu to change from Bill to credit note would be such an amazing and streamlined option. 
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       Scott Prideaux
    
 commented Scott Prideaux
    
 commentedAn option to change an emailed credit note to a credit note rather then xero thinking its an invoice, by having it as a choice in a drop-down menu, is vital to streamlining the process. Thank you. 
