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For me, most of the other differences from the classic invoicing have been pretty average.

This sort order issue is pretty close to the last straw.

With the classic invoicing, the order I sort my draft invoices by, carries through to the editing. If I sort by "To" (i. e. in alphabetic order), after editing and clicking on 'Approve and next', it picks up the next invoice in the same order.

ALL of the data to enter into my invoices is supplied alphabetically by client surname.

The new invoicing has completely removed this functionality. I now have to wait to see which invoice appears then sort through hundreds of pages to find the right schedule... literally adding hours to the process.

Please make the "next" option be the next invoice and not the last or back to the first in the list
It is vital for us to process invoices in sequence like it did in classic invoicing as we run large batches of 100+ invoices and it is important they stay in order when I am approving them.
I will continue to use the classic invoicing until it disappears in September. Hopefully by then the new invoicing "next" will be fixed.

Produce various keyboard short cuts for tile within Xero rather than using the mouse click all the time. ie "appove and next" in the draft bills could be clicked through with a keyboard short cut.

There should be an option or settings to make "Approve & view next" the standard rather than always having to click on the drop-down for bills, etc.

I raised this with "Customer Support" & their response was laughable but sad.
<This is working as currently designed, but we've passed your feedback to the Product team for their review. . . In the meantime, the only current workaround for your desired behavior is using classic invoicing. Alternatively, if you approved draft invoices from newest to oldest rather than the reverse, new invoicing should carry through that sequence in order.>

In other words continue with something we are going to withdraw in couple of months or stand the world on its head & rise your invoices in reverse chronological order - SERIOUSLY?

My suggestion is to allow the user to select the Order of "Next" as sorted in the Drafts listing. Thus if somebody really must work backwards in time they can & the rest of us can work the way we NEED to & Not the way some spawny-eyed-spotty-faced programmer "decided".

This is a critical function of the way we process our invoices - and it was a major hurdle for us when testing out New Invoicing in a live environment earlier this month.

It simply does not make sense - in any processing environment - to have 'next' mean 'last' and not to run sequentially.

Your UAT team on New Invoicing need to be made aware of this feedback and log it as a Critical Issue asap. Xero should be verifying that the application will meet the needs of the end-user, with scenarios that are representative of actual usage in the field. And, in this development, they are not.

As a small business, we wished to move to new invoicing as soon as possible, in order to have our our processes locked in place, and our operators comfortable by the switchover but this is a deal-breaker for us. It's simply not possible to efficiently operate our business without this scenario at least being an option for us to select.

Please add this function IMMEDIATELY to new invoicing.

Yes please fix this, it is critical for us

Please bring the old version of approve and view next as i sick of closing the last invoice which i do not want to approve to go to the one i need to approve.

So yes i agree to "view next should be the next not the last in line

Agree, 'view next' should be 'next' not 'last'.

In the old system it didn't matter which order you had your invoices in, ie number or name, if you missed out an invoice then it would still automatically take you to the next invoice in line. The new system just takes you back to the beginning. It was a great easy feature to use at the end of the month. Please bring it back.

Also would love it to stay in sequence like it did in the classic style invoicing as it is important they stay in order when I am approving them otherwise it can make it very complicated.
I will continue to use the classic invoicing until it disappears in September. Hopefully by then the new style will stay in sequence by then.

This would save a lot of time!

When you click into an invoice or bill awaiting approval to review it, it would be great if, once you hit approve, it will automatically go to the next item in the queue. At the moment you have to re-find the list of invoices awaiting approval. I open them a batch at a time all in new tabs but when I start the next batch I have to refresh the page to see where I got to.