Sales Invoices - Bulk Delete
It is all too easy to accidentally upload a batch of sales invoices to Xero from the wrong period. It can then take absolutely hours to delete these as Xero does not have the functionality to remove these en masse.
 Sarah  Goddard
    
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Sarah  Goddard
    
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    Hi Sarah, when importing invoices to Xero, these should come in as drafts. You can Delete draft invoices in bulk from the Draft List view. 🙂
Would be good to better understand the way invoices are coming into your organisation if there's a step I'm missing here?
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       Jules Jones
    
 commented Jules Jones
    
 commentedAnd me please! 
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       Darryl T
    
 commented Darryl T
    
 commentedStill need this feature here too! 
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       Clare O'Neill
    
 commented Clare O'Neill
    
 commentedAdding my voice to the request to be able to bulk delete approved invoices. Again, integration with a separate platform means double work when each invoice is imported and approved automatically. I have several clients and have worked out a much simpler and more effective way of accounting for income so have 200+ old invoices to delete! 
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       Kevin  Woolward
    
 commented Kevin  Woolward
    
 commentedThis would really assist, especially if you have incorrectly raised about 500 credit notes!! 
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       Sarah Donovan
    
 commented Sarah Donovan
    
 commentedIn relation to this request - sometimes the value doesn't show therefore you need to open each individual draft invoice to view it and delete it. 
 Desperately need to be able to "arrow forward" to the next draft invoice to view and delete instead of backing out of the individual draft invoice and go back into the Draft List to select the next invoice to view. A lot of wasted time and very frustrating.
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       Darryl T
    
 commented Darryl T
    
 commentedThis would be really helpful, I have over 1000 old invoices that need to be voided and doing this manually will be a really poor use of time. 
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       Peter Monks
    
 commented Peter Monks
    
 commentedAgreed our website came under bot attack over the weekend and so 1000+ unpaid invoices created and I find it incredible there is no way to batch delete/void these when sat in awaiting payment status. Come on Xero you really need to sort this critical missing piece of functionality. 
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       Muhammed Bhyat
    
 commented Muhammed Bhyat
    
 commentedThis is XERO. Xero is about convenience. Making This feature available adds to conveniences within your platform. Why the delay is adding this feature? 
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       Paula Leggatt
    
 commented Paula Leggatt
    
 commentedSuch an urgent requirement, with all these apps being connected by clients because of your terrible advertising suggesting that xero can do everything it's self for your business, they connect their apps and it imports all the historic invoices. To have to now manually go through and delete every imported invoice individually for prior periods is crazy, who's paying for this task to be processed to correct the connection issue to Xero?. Xero has created the necessity for Bulk Deletes due to these app connections, but wont provide the ability, Crazy! 
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       Ashely Feng
    
 commented Ashely Feng
    
 commentedIt's a must to be able to batch delete invoices! Because of this missing function, we are forced to think about creating a new account which is so time-consuming and costly. 
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       Andrew Casal Dominguez
    
 commented Andrew Casal Dominguez
    
 commentedHi Kelly, Some 3rd party integrations such as Link My Books push sales invoices into Xero and are automatically approved by the system. To my knowledge, there is no way to send draft invoices from LMB. It would be great to 'Bulk' delete these sales invoices as sometimes when using a new 3rd party it automatically imports historic sales that have already been reconciled in Xero (in my case over 300!). 
 Thanks,
 Andrew
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       Paul Davis
    
 commented Paul Davis
    
 commentedIt's ridiculous that you can't bulk delete now. How long will it take for this feature to be available? 
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       Giles Belfrage
    
 commented Giles Belfrage
    
 commentedI have 802 accounts receivable invoices that are wrong. I don't think they are drafts. The large balance needs to go. The others are fine. It would take days to void the 802 items. I'll see if I can find the draft list view. The entries were accidentally generated from an app we no longer use. 
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       Dominic Smith
    
 commented Dominic Smith
    
 commentedJust wanted to add my thoughts to this. I've come across a new client recently where the previous advisor has done a dreadful job of importing sales, with around 300 invoices that need to be manually deleted. Not only this but they've made manual payments, into a control account. This means for every single invoice we have to remove the payment, then void the invoice. Whilst I understand you can bulk delete in draft, there has got to be a better way for this. This seems like quite a 'basic' feature that you really would expect a software of Xero's prominence to be able to do. I think most people would be shocked to realise that you cannot bulk delete invoices, and a problem like this can only be solved with literally hours of manual clicking. I know that implementing these things is easier said than done, but if you are going to have a bulk import option (which is obviously good) then it seems a bit crazy to not have a bulk delete option. I realise you'd probably need safeguards around an option like this too, such as the ability to undo your bulk delete. 
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       Dorota Wilson
    
 commented Dorota Wilson
    
 commentedTrying to tidy up the mess after transfer from myob and looks like I ended up in even bigger one! It'll take me days to sort it out now :( 
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       Carolyn Cullen
    
 commented Carolyn Cullen
    
 commentedThis would be a great feature. My client set up a link with their ecommerce platform which has created 425 incorrect sales invoices in Xero which now need to be deleted 
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       Catherine  Panuccio
    
 commented Catherine  Panuccio
    
 commentedSo frustrating that this can’t be done as it’s so easy to upload/sync a batch of invoices. Therefore you should be able to delete a batch of invoices in return. 
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       Nishan Seneviratne
    
 commented Nishan Seneviratne
    
 commented1377 Unpaid Invoices needing to be bulk voided and Xero Support refuse to assist. Just great........ 
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       Sarah Jukes
    
 commented Sarah Jukes
    
 commentedI've got 673 invoices that were uploaded incorrectly and I need to delete them all... doing this individually will take HOURS! 
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       Sarah  Goddard
    
 commented Sarah  Goddard
    
 commentedIt is all too easy to accidentally upload a batch of sales invoices to Xero from the wrong period. It can then take absolutely hours to delete these as Xero does not have the functionality to remove these en masse. 
