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From my point of view, we need a placeholder for date so that we can add-subtract and provide a range in the invoice for the servicing period.
Example : Weekly invoices need a placeholder in the description saying for which week this is being invoiced for. Giving a week number is fruitless as no one in the payment team will understand this. They need a range like 04 Nov 2024 to 08 Nov 2024 or 04/11/2024 - 8/11/2024 or 4-8 Nov 2024

Please create a placeholder for the last day of the current month. That way our templates will be correct whether there are 28, 30 or 31 days in the month of the invoice!

Thank you.

This suggestion have been helpful, but I beleive Xero should handle the Month & Year combination. Lets say I invoice on 20th December 2024, and the Reference in my Invoice needs to say "Software Subscriptions for January 2025".

I can't really use "Software Subscriptions for [Month+1] [Year]"
as 20/12/2024 would be "Software Subscriptions for January 2024"

It is important that I have the correct month and year in my Reference and in the Email cover letter.

Please add more placeholder options. At the very least we should be able to add today's date to the recurring invoice.
This is important for rent or items billed for weekly dates.

Can we please get an update on this feature improvement. This would be a very simple addition, but make a huge improvement in administrative processing time and effort.

Agreed, this would make things much simpler for recurring invoices and bills.

Please implement this.

This is exactly the info that I was after too. Why is there no (date) placeholder surely there must be a lot of people creating weekly invoices that require "W/Ending Date"

100% agree. You offer +/- feature to weeks and months in XPM, so why not in Xero?

An example: Let's say you want to send out weekly rent invoices 14 days before the rent is due and the rent is due 14 days before the start of the actual week.

At the moment the placeholders for the description can't handle that. You have to manually adjust each repeating invoice. Would be great if you could create a placeholder [week + 14 days]

Please add a placeholder for "invoice date" only "due date" available for email templates.

provide placeholder for date/day because sometimes we want to show timeline for the customers

This has a hugh impact on repeating invoices that we process on a daily basis. It should be quite simple to add another placeholder option to represent the Day. We already have the month and year as options. Or alternative a date option that would reflect "25th March 2024", would also work for our organisation. Having been in the IT arena for the last 40 years, this is not a complicated ask to deliver.

This suggestion have been helpful, but I beleive Xero should handle the Month & Year combination. Lets say I invoice on 20th December 2024, and the Reference in my Invoice needs to say "Software Subscriptions for January 2025".

I can't really use "Software Subscriptions for [Month+1] [Year]"
as 20/12/2024 would be "Software Subscriptions for January 2024"

It is important that I have the correct month and year in my Reference and in the Email cover letter.

I have told from Support [Month Year+1] is not supported.

I am developer and it seem to me that is very easy to implement, (taking in count that week month... etc placerhodler functionality are already codified)

This is critical for our business invoicing time each month could be reduced 10x if we had place holders in the description section of invoices.

Adding a lot more placeholder options would save us a lot of time. As well as the new placeholders noted in this idea already, an [Invoice_Date +/1 no. of days) would also be very useful

A [TODAY] placeholder would make my life so much easier

We have approx. 180 repeating bills (purchase invoices) per month that we process on a self-billing basis. Whilst we use the placeholders available in the reference and descriptions of the repeating bill, it would be great if we could have a placeholder in the "Quantity" box that would automatically set that to the number of days in the calendar month.

Currently, when there's not a 31-day month, we have to manually edit each individual invoice after it's been created and change the number of days, which takes the best part of a day to do.

I'm sure such a feature would also be brilliant in Repeating Sales Invoices for those that raise monthly charges that are invoiced on a daily rate.

Hi,

We desperately need this feature too. Our invoices are issued on the first day of the following month for which services are rendered. The invoice reference contains the month of service. At the moment, we have to type the month manually every time.

For example:

Services are delivered in October 2023.
Automatic invoice is created 01 November 2023. The reference should state October 2023. But the current placeholders do not allow [MONTH-1]. So we have to type the month manually.

Please can this be addressed?

Many thanks.

Placeholders within Repeating Invoices:

The ability to insert text and then a placeholder (like you do with page numbers in word processing documents). Eg. Period "1"