Contacts - Allow multiple addresses for a single contact record
Ability to create and save multiple addresses for a single contact record
Purpose: Allow customers to map customer & supplier details against a single contact record
Hi everyone, we know this remains a highly important request, and we appreciate the volume of detail you’ve shared around billing, delivery and contact management workflows in this idea.
As shared in our last update - our team has been progressing the next phase of work needed to bring this more meaningfully into invoicing.
We know many of you are looking for clearer timing, and while I’m not able to confirm a release date at this stage, I do want to reassure you this remains an active area of work for our product teams.
We’ll continue to return here with further updates as we move through the next stages. Thanks again for your patience and for continuing to share the workflows that make this so important.
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Richard Fishenden
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We link Xero to a shipping label creator and the amount of times we have had deliveries going to the incorrect address is embarrassing. We are forced to not even add the delivery address to customers accounts in which is the only way it can save us from errors - and this creates manual input which is prone to errors as well. It really is such a basic function and I don't see how our company can scale up without moving to a similar but different platform that has this function. Does anyone know if Quickbooks has this function? Or a different one that is similar to Xero that has it please? Getting these messages in my inbox makes me realise that Xero will never deal with this and so I believe we should all look elsewhere. Moving accounting packages it probably fairly simple I would think and I have no loyalty to Xero anymore.
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Tony Tay
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just to add in a space for us to input delivery address and printed on the invoice. so many years of waiting. they just ignore.
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A/R A/P
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Ben Smith - they do not care.
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Ben Smith
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Absolutely useless...
As of 3 YEARS AGO "Multiple addresses has been enabled in the back end of contacts", how on Earth has Xero not been able to link up the front end?!Completely laughable, anyone considering Xero should absolutely NOT switch to Xero if you need this basic, basic core function.
It's abundantly clear that Xero does not care about their user base, only about maximising new signups to feed revenue.
My Xero account is now overflowing with multiples of the same contact, in order that I can deliver to more than one location per contact...
Stop forcing pointless, inaccurate and unreliable AI features on us.
Prove us all wrong Xero.
Show us that you actually give a **** about your users.
Apparently you've done what you need to on the back end.
Activate this basic functionality on the front end ASAP.Or do you simply not care?
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Iain du Pon
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I think that we should bombard Xero with positive comments supporting this and make sure it gets back to the top of the pile…!!!!
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Adam Greco
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As Xero starts to shut down the comments, would like to throw in a final comment on here that there is no reason this could should or had any reason to possibly take this long. Crazy.
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A/R A/P
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Honestly, Xero doesn't care about this. If it did, this would already be done. This thread is YEARS long - the lack of ability to allow multiple addresses for a contact means Xero will not do it.
In 2023 Kelly Munro posted the below - It has been THREE years - and it's still not done.
This thread is an exercise in futilityMar 6, 2023
Hi everyone, appreciate wanting more of an update from us here. To share on our progress – Multiple addresses has been enabled in the back end of contacts. As mentioned in our previous update this is a complex piece of work, as we need to now build this into other areas of Xero where it’ll add value.For this reason the work within Contacts is not live yet, as without building this feature across these other areas it wouldn’t have much practical use. But to confirm, work’s moving along and we look forward to being able to share more.
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Artcuts Team
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We moved from Quickbooks to Zero as a recommendation and it is probably the worst move ever!
This function of having to edit each invoice to change the delivery address (multiple addresses) is too time consuming as a business.
One disppointed customer!! -
Davina James
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I need it to function so you can have one contact, but with multiple addresses. Our customers have to be quoted to and invoiced to the site where the work is completed. We are currently having to do this manually and I must admit we have only been using Xero really since February and to now find this cannot be done is really disappointing.
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Bobbie-Lynn Denham
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@Paul Kamps
Curious as to what you moved to? Feeling inclined to start the painful process pf moving given the lack of Xero's commitment to existing customers.
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Paul Kamps
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This is bananas hahaha. You guys have been in the works on this for 15 years. I was able to find a historical community request for this from 2011.
We had to quit Xero over this lack of functionality and move into a better software
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Richard Fishenden
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Our business has grown well over the last few years but is now being haemorrhaged by this function. I for one am looking for alternatives as this causes us so much additional time. There really is no workaround for it and nothing can be automated as a result.
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Peter Or
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I don't think any word from Kelly's update is meaningful unless an assurance of implementation in a week or so.
If you really know the audiences want a precise response, I'd rather not to post these junk words here so everyone won't jump out and remind that THIS IS ALREADY A DECADE LONG REQUEST.
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Greg Bickert
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Absolutely insane that this is still only in development with no meaningful update.
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Sandra Fleet
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@David Faulder, love it!
Completely baffling that this idea and necessary function has kicked around for so long. If I still lived in Wellington NZ (I'm now in the South Island), I'd have visited them in person. -
Adam Greco
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@David Faulder, lol. That's why I'm still here as well. I think Kelly has the worst job on earth. Defending why nothing really gets done despite continuing to charge more and more every few months. And if they do commit to doing something, not giving a timeline. Xero, is your internal roadmap just a thousand question marks?
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David Faulder
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To be honest the only reason I haven't unsubscribed to these updates at this point is so I can keep looking for recurring commenters who arrived full of confidence, assertively demanding improvements and watch over time as the hope of an implemented solution slowly drains from their soul
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Lee James
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The fact that this is the most voted "idea" by over double, but there has been no progress that can be commented on since it was clicked into development in March 2023, other than .. we understand you are frustrated
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Graham Tottle
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More kicking of the can down the road and trumpian false promises. Beyond a joke now after over 10 years. Clearly, whilst this forum is great for venting genuine frustration, Xero do not take any notice of it whatsoever. I have posted many times but (like many others) have only ever received Kelly's annual corporate nonsense-speak which is nothing short of insulting. Xero spend a fortune on Media advertising in order to attract new clients and make changes to the appearance of pages which were neither asked for or necessary (in my opinion) but do not respond with a solution to a genuine problem with which thousands of their existing users are struggling. I will therefore be posting on Xero's Social Media pages about this in the future, warning potential clients about this fundamental failing in basic functionality and as an aside, Xero's appalling lack of genuine customer service. I would encourage other contributors to this forum to do the same.
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Josh Buesking
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@John Wyllie is 100% correct.
This basic function has been requested for over a decade and we've all been told to be patient they upgrading the underlying technology so they can implement things like this faster in the future. Meanwhile third party integrations and payed add ons continue to get implemented.
When I got this email saying it had been updated I just knew before reading it that it would be more gibberish. It's comedy at this point.