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I have over 35,000 invoices that have been transferred with Movemybooks conversion software. The invoice number has been duplicated and has overwritten on to the invoice reference number (we use this for customer purchase orders) . For auditing and sending copy invoices this is not ideal at all as we need the customer reference number to be included alongside the invoice number.

Is there any way of uploading a file to overwrite existing Sales Invoices via import. We have used Movemybooks to switch from Sage to Xero and all our Sales Invoices references have the same number as the actual invoice. I did try to do one to check if it was possible but unfortunately because the invoice already exists it didn't work.

Is there something else that can be done other than manually going through every invoice and updating?
We have over 35,000 so doing this manually would be far from ideal.

Please allow the ability to click invoices you want to change, and then bulk edit. You should be able to change date, expenditure codes, project codes, description, etc as a bulk edit . This would save a lot of time if you are repeating the same details on each invoice.

With the recent changes in New Invoicing, I've noticed that editing tracking categories and adding additional information to invoices has become more time-consuming. Unfortunately, the current system prevents duplicate invoice numbers from being uploaded, which makes it impossible to use the import/export CSV functionality for bulk updates on approved invoices.

There is also no quick way to perform bulk updates, meaning users are forced to edit each invoice individually, which is not efficient.

It would be incredibly beneficial if Xero could introduce a feature that allows bulk editing of approved invoices. For example, users could export a range of invoices needing updates into a CSV file, make necessary changes (such as adding tracking categories or extra details), and then re-upload the CSV to apply these changes across all selected invoices.

This feature would not only save time and effort but also significantly improve the user experience for many.

Please make this function possible from a csv. It is possible via a POST in the Xero API, and it feels wrong that it is not made available to csv users. Would save lots of time. Please give users the power to do the things they need to do and do not wrap us in cotton wool.

This is a much-needed feature. For now, my way around this is to export all invoice drafts into excel csv make all the changes and updates, delete the drafts in xero and import the updated csv. Better than going through and updating 200 invoices one after the other.

Definitely need this, we now use a .docx template for our invoices. so I've got to go through and manually update over 1100 invoices with the new branding theme which is madness and will take hours! Come on Xero you need to look at simple things like this.

Also just spend hours correcting a small accounting error in my invoices. This would have been great!

22 invoices with the wrong currency... it'd be great to change it in 3-4 clicks

Definitely need this - I have made a 1 letter error in the reference field on 140 invoices. I need to be able to correct this. If someone knows a way to get around having to edit each one I would be extremely grateful.

Definitely something we need. If we have set up a customer's name incorrectly, it is very time consuming to change every single one of the customer's invoices with their new name. We need a global change for this and other things that may affect all of the customers past invoices

Need this to bulk update vat rate on more than 100 invoices.

Need to do this for a bulk amount of over 100 invoices, MONTHLY - Xero, please add as a function!

when invoices are despatched we need to change the invoice type to stop them showing on the list of invoices needing sending. If we could do this as a bulk change then it would save hours of time. Definitely needed as a function

For invoices details, can we please have the option to download the transaction to excel and update transactions and reupload back to XERO without creating a new invoices. (something like contacts)

We have invoices imported from other management system but we would like to add new tracking or references to the invoices which is not available to import from the other system. however, these could not be done in batches if it already import the invoice entries into XERO.

This is very critical as it will save huge amount of time.

I've just imported over 200 invoices and after I approved them realised that I had not put a reference in and then had to manually edit each invoice - 4 hours of my life wasted.....needs sorting guys please!

Very Important

I send out invoices to groups eg Full Subs with email on July 1st. If these invoices are not paid by July 30th the amount on them goes up from $165 to $175 it would be great if I could update a particular group to this amount all at once and put in a message to advise currently I have to go into each individual invoice to update and then resend