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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

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working on it  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

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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  • Emma Offord commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a much needed feature. We often have once finance company that we need to bill but for multiple customers and delivery details.

  • Jill Fechner commented  ·   ·  Report

    Data Relationship 101 - create 1 company (type = Customer or Supplier) with many contact records allowed

  • Pauline Jewsbury commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have multiple delivery addresses for each customer so this would be very useful as at the moment we have to re-enter the delivery address everytime we raise a new invoice

  • Sue-Ann Griffiths commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have to agree with Lisa, the process for setting up a new contact or changing/updating details is a lot more complicated and time consuming than it used to be.

  • Lisa Gaudie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello Kelly,

    This feature was requested over ten years ago. The recent "upgrades" to contacts has actually made contacts more time consuming, confusing, and difficult to use. It would be great if Xero could continue to move in the direction of making the product better without making it more difficult to use in the process.
    12/09/2022

  • Bianca Davitt commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have been waiting for this feature since it was first requested in 2012..... don't hold your breath......

  • Yolande Erasmus commented  ·   ·  Report

    This could be done 2 ways - 1 - multiple delivery addresses on 1 contact or 2 - allow multiple contacts to be linked to a Parent Contact which would collect all transactions & be the Contact which shows on the Summary trial balances & be the contact which either receives the statement or the payment is made to

  • Kim McQuarrie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi there, please make this available in WorkFlow Max also.
    Also an address book function so you do not have to add the same contacts manually against different clients.

  • Titirangi Baptist Church commented  ·   ·  Report

    The person ordering is rarely the same as the person handling the account payment.

    We need a minimum of two contacts, their names, numbers (office and mobile), emails, and position in the organisation.

  • Colin Malam commented  ·   ·  Report

    Multiple delivery points are very common and having just moved from a competitor a single delivery point in addition to the billing address is very inconvenient.
    As Xero expands its customer base there will be an increasing need for multiple delivery addresses, it should not be delayed.

  • Stockshed Limited commented  ·   ·  Report

    Many customers have multiple shipping addresses. It's very annoying that these cannot be stored so you can choose the shipping address for a particular order. I know that Sage allows for this and it seems crazy Xero as advanced as it is does not. Please sort it out Xero. All I can do currently is save the addresses previously used under notes for the customer.

  • Leonie Osborne commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's frustrating when dealing with multiple contracts and departments within the same company. Currently each contract with the same client is set up with a new debtor record with new contact details. It makes reporting time consuming if you have to go through and add them all together to get anything meaningful around your debtors. Other software packages can deal with it - how do they do it? I appreciate your time in looking into this.

  • Roxanne Conroy commented  ·   ·  Report

    A few clients need this , one reason the won’t come to xero

  • Samantha Manning commented  ·   ·  Report

    Personally can't believe this functionality hasn't been created given the amount of businesses that have multiple shipments locations for the same business.

    customers want a statement for all stores combined and to manually type in an address each invoice just show PO's can be matched and paid is silly. Given Xero generally improves efficiency though automation rather than manual entry

  • Kim McQuarrie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi - can you tell me if this is possible in WorkFlow Max also? Thanks

  • Carole Redhouse commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have numerous solicitor's companies which have the same name but different addresses but under the new set up if we already have e.g Fred Blogs and Co in it will not allow us to add another fred bloggs and co with a different address - very annoying and inconvenient. Advise I got was to add a special character in to the company name which works but not overly practical.

  • Anna Chiera commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Kelly, any update on this?

    Our current work around to deal with multiple delivery addresses is very time consuming especially now with the new Contact layout and tabs.

    Double checking all the right info has been entered for a contact is also a hassle now with all the different tabs.

    Can Xero please go back to the old 'Contact' layout on the one page and have the ability to add multiple delivery addresses before we have to jump ship.

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