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.

Appreciate the interest here, everyone. Being open this isn't something we have current plans for.
Thanks for noting the optional paths atm, Paula! Understand it's not the solution being asked here however for those that haven't already we'd recommend looking to connect Hubdoc to help automate the process. 🙂
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TINA PACKMAN commented
This 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
this 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
Xero is so great it many ways I can't believe this hasn't been sorted yet!
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Alison Langdon commented
Hi 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
Would 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
Hubdoc 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 -
Rebecca Wright commented
The 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
Have 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
I 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
Would 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.
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Anita Pelacchi commented
Agree, this should be a basic functionality of platform like this. Would vote this to be a development.
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PATRICK BAGULEY commented
This 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
A 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
An 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.
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Barbara Malicki commented
This feature is logical. I would have thought it was a no brainer to have it included because most bookkeepers would consider it essential
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Alissa Collingwood commented
Agree that not being able to process a credit note is time consuming and seems very backward. It'd be good to have an option in the bills area to convert to credit note.
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Siobhan Martin commented
We have started using Xero's auto bill which is great. However, when there is a credit note you cannot create this from within the drafts. Instead we are having to download the credit note, create a new bill credit note and attached the download.
We have had to stop using Hubdoc as we kept finding errors where it was automatically posting things. However, we now find adding credit notes extremely time consuming and frustrating.
I can't imagine it is a huge addition to make so I would really urge Xero to take a look at this as a priority if you want people to be using everything in house in Xero and not looking at other softwares.
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Yvette Woodall commented
Please allow us to use Xero links sent from Suppliers to "Log in to save invoice as a credit note" just like we can bills, I am sure we used to be able to.
Sometime credit notes are completely different to the invoice you are applying it against and why type all the information when it could be saved exactly like bills can with Xero links. -
Nicola Crowther commented
When you email a credit note direct to Xero it doesn't pick up that that is what it is, creates a normal bill
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Janne Nash commented
I have real issues with the accessibility of Xero's credit note procedures.
The roundabout way of even accessing a credit note is very backward, when I receive an invoice by email I just send it to Xero which goes into a list of draft bills, but credit notes need to go to files ( which I forget about, because it's not an area I usually need to go) this process really needs some work Xero team!
But the main reason I am contacting you is, when I process a credit note and the original invoice is assigned to a customer, the balance doesn't change in that customers billable expenses?? so the customer ends up paying the full amount unless you are aware that there is a credit applied to the invoice. So much double handling!!
Sorry for the rant, but when we are paying for a premium subscription I expect a premium product!