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This is critical for my client and their business. Currently they are having to go into each payment to send receipt.

I agree with this. You could have a button saying "Send Receipt" or a pop up dialog - just the same as you do when making a payment.
This would improve workflow especially as we operate on negative inventory

Its poor that Xero doesnt offer a) an automatic sales receipt function, and b) a receipt template. The receipt template is a modified invoice template but the instructions on how to create a receipt requires a PHD

Situation: During Reconciliation, a Received Money line item from the Bank Feed is matched with a known Xero transaction for an outstanding invoice, either automatically by Xero or manually with an outstanding invoice.

Issue: Right now, there does not seem to be a way to send a receipt to the customer during reconciliation. The only way seems to be to go back into Invoices, find the Paid Invoice, and manually send a receipt, which is impractical for multiple payments that have been reconciled.

Solution: My suggestion is to offer a Receipt During Reconciliation setting to either:
(a) ASK - when OK'ing an item for reconciliation: a pop-up asking "Send a Receipt?"
(b) ALWAYS - a default setting to Always Send a Receipt when Reconciling
(c) NEVER - a default setting to Never Send a Receipt when Reconciling

The current way of sending receipts is too long winded and is too easy to miss an invoice especially when lots of invoices are going out.

Add the functionality to send a receipt directly from the reconciliation screen - a prompt perhaps to save clicking through to the bank feed?