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 community, we understand your needs in this feature and want to assure you were taking on board all your feedback.
As many of you accustom to this idea will know, multiple addresses requires a complex solution. It's been something we’ve been moving towards for some time and we’ve done a lot of back end work that will allow us to bring it to you in the future.
We have 12 different products within Xero that rely on contact data, as well as many of our app partners. This means that contacts need to seamlessly flow across technology, products and all connections on Xero. And that’s exactly what we’ve been working on.
One of the reasons we announced the retirement of classic invoicing is because many of the features being asked for, just can’t be brought into classic invoicing. The old technology has too many technology limitations to enable this. Change to new invoicing is key to being able to enable us to build features like multiple address details. Between now and September our invoicing team are focused on prioritising the features from classic invoicing that need to be brought across to the new version. Multiple addresses is one of the key features they want to work towards but includes many steps. For example, we enabled it in the back end of contacts last year, but now need to be able to build it into our new invoicing solution. We will keep you updated here of any progression.
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Lynda Glasbergen commented
It would be useful to have an area within contacts where extra information can be loaded on which does not appear anywhere else!
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Antony Walker commented
Great to hear that this basic (on the face of it) functionality is being implemented, it needs to be done thanks.
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Antony Walker commented
This is a very basic functionality that needs to be implemented please.
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Ebba Gillard-Rosier commented
I want one account/customer who I then can pick from their multiple (up to 10) delivery options.
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Ebba Gillard-Rosier commented
I find it appalling that this is not an option. I have one client with 8 different stores and I cannot save their delivery addresses under the one account. Xero get your act together!
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John Wyllie commented
is Xero ever going to fix this???
seems like a fairly basic requirement and yet no comment from Xero on when a fix will be implemented. I asked for this over 5 years ago and was told it was being done then. so far silence! happy to take my money though. -
Accounts Admin commented
How many more years do you require to have this issue resolved? you may end up loosing clients to competitors over this issue. This issue become more crucial as time goes on.
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Yanik Tremblay commented
Good morning,
In our case, we would need multiple addresses and multiple contact. For 1 big ORG, we have multiple addresses and in each of these addresses, it is most of the time, another contact responsable for payments/invoice. These features are essential for us. Thank
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Gordana Majeric commented
I agree, as I find it difficult to remember that some customers have different delivery address to billing address. Also, I don't find practical ticking the box every time to include the delivery address. The tick box option could be used to exclude the unwanted address.
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Stewart Elsegood commented
we have noticed the recent change in Conacts to allow Deliery addresses as well as billing addresses...great start...but unworkable as the delivey address becomes part of the Invoice address...just with the Itlaicises ATTENTION and the details..
Why cannot we just select the Billing Address or the seperate Delivery addresses as some of our customers have delivery to different addresses. -
Tomislav SARDELIC commented
This is a major flaw in Xero, that when you edit the delivery address for a contact that it changes the address when the client uses the link for all previous invoices. There needs to be a separate field (similar to the field where the invoice number is entered) for a unique delivery address to be added for each invoice.
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Pablo Moya commented
This is a must. We have clients with different contacts for different branches. Also more than 2 addresses are required.
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Michelle Papamichael commented
When viewing invoices that have been entered using "new invoicing", it would be extremely useful to have the Delivery Address appear on the New Invoice Screen in a similar manner to New Bill Screen. Saves time when having to go back through multiple invoices for one customer with different delivery addresses, to more easily resolve invoice dispute or delivery address enquiry!
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Courtney Leslie commented
What Toni is suggesting below is exactly what we are looking for as well. If the address could be tied to the individual invoice rather than the client level, that would solve many of the issues we are having. As others noted, it causes issues when needing to resend the invoice and/or send invoice reminders if the invoice address is different from what's under the contact defaults.
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Toni Garrigos commented
Hi Kelly Munro,
Why the delivery address has to rely on contact data? Why not creating an additional field in the invoice page and the delivery address gets linked into each individual invoice like other fields (Reference, items, description of goods,....) That way the invoices won't change.
I am sure that won't take too long to implement...
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Toni Garrigos commented
Very disappointed after been sold Xero as very intuitive and easy software and turns out that one of the most basic fields on invoicing is not been implemented from the start. I cannot believe that every time we have to resend invoices we have to type manually the delivery address and save it in the pc doubling the work and making other functionalities on Xero worthless.
This is a very basic functionality and the fact that changes the invoice details based on the contact address is just very poor.
I hope you can resolve this very soon as I can see people are been asking for a few years already and nothing is been done yet.
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HENDRIK JAP commented
It's very basic and much needed features!
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HENDRIK JAP commented
I have contacts with more than 5 addresses! Please add this feature!
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Peter Riddell commented
I've just had a customer question an invoice reminder as it had the incorrect delivery address on it. This is a direct result of having only one delivery address per contact. The original invoice was sent out with the correct delivery address, but we then had to change the address to accommodate the next order. The invoice reminders default to the current delivery address not the original. So what I thought was an inconvenient but doable work-around doesn't really work after all. Once more, I implore Xero to take the request for multiple delivery addresses per contact seriously and put some resource behind fixing it.
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Alan Hughes commented
Recently discovered this issue as we have been asked to provide services to multiple sites for an international group with one invoicing address. Yes, documents can be manually adjusted to reflect the site where the services were delivered but shouldn't have to do it that way. Especially considering one of the reasons for selecting Xero from the start was the ability to create branded document templates.