Contacts - Different default email addresses for different transactions in Xero
Ability to allocate different transactions to different email addresses.
Purpose: Because it’ll make users’ workflow easier when they’re dealing with the contacts that have different departments.

Hi community, we appreciate your continued feedback on having different default email addresses for various transaction types in Xero contacts, and the manual steps involved to ensure you're communicating with the right person for different purposes.
Currently, one way of managing this in Xero would be to include every additional person on a contact record in emails, and then removing those that aren't required when sending each transaction. However we totally get this isn't the ideal solution.
While being able to set different email addresses for differing transaction types is something we want to address longer term, like the idea for multiple addresses work for this feature requires cross-collaboration between teams in order to achieve.
Once the multiple addresses feature is live this is something we'll be able to consider more closely and provide further updates on.
We do regularly review all ideas here, and your input is vital. We'll update you if anything changes. Thanks
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Jo Russell commented
The work-around of setting every additional person to appear in emails only works for the initial transaction. For the automated invoice payment reminders, that would mean that everybody would receive these.
The other thing with setting every additional person to appear in emails, is that their job title doesn't appear. Unless the Accounts person knows who all of a client's contacts and their position within that client, this suggestion adds no value.
Large organisations are moving towards having an automated email address for receiving invoices, and only invoices, with statements needing to go to a different email address. Again, setting the default person to the invoicing mailbox creates issues when the automated reminders go out as they are going to the wrong address and causing issues in clients' automated systems. -
Archie Cadman-Jones commented
This function would also be helpful as I work with a client that has 20+ Project Managers that need to be CC'ed in on the invoices relating to their project so I have to go and find their email and copy it in every time depending on which one it is. Having multiple contacts per customer would be great.
They also request that all invoices be sent to accounts as well (the default contact email) so it would be great to have just a good autofill or dropdown for secondary email (in this case the relevant PM).
This should be a priority to add this feature!
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Denise Lynch commented
A tick box to determine what email addresses should be used for. I have multiple customers who request statements are sent to alternative email address. Without going into each customer account and checking, this is not possible. It’s all or nothing, and when doing a statement run, this is practically impossible. I want to be able to click send statement on an account and it automatically gets sent to the correct email address.
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Lyndsay Strong commented
The ability to link a contact for sending quotes to only, or invoices. Within organisations it will normally be a manager who needs to receive the quote, who has the authority to accept and the accounts team don't want to see the quote, only to receive the invoice.
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Karman Cheung commented
Option to set multiple contacts on a supplier profile for difference purposes.
For example, 1 contact to send/submit the sales invoice and a different contact(s) to receive the automated reminders.
depending on the supplier's payment process, the email address to submit the invoice might be an automated inbox (unmanned) or a different department from the account payable team which needs to approve the invoice first.
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Jo Russell commented
The only way to get all of a Contact's people/emails addresses to appear in the Invoice Send function is to tick each person as "Included in emails".
If everybody is marked as "included in emails" then everybody listed on that contact will receive all automated payment reminders. This is a worse solution that the current problem.
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Edward Kay commented
Hi Xero,
Before any work on this, please address https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/44960536-xero-mail-send-as-company-name-com-not-message first.
Email sending features in Xero are useless until this is resolved.
(If you are following this issue, please upvote the linked email issue.)
Thanks
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Brian K. Hlady, CPA commented
Add a billing email address under Billing Address - this would allow invoices to be sent to a separate email such as Xero's bill up load, Hubdoc, Dext, a clients accounts payable, or literally anybody other than the owner.
Yes, you can add people to send to in contacts, or in the repeating invoice email, but this would the first email address looked/used when sending an invoice.
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Anita (BLETCHLEY TURF CO LTD) commented
I agree - tick boxes for invoices, statements, remittances for each contact as many companies have separate email addresses for their accounts payables and remittances
I've attached the email (redacted) which I received this morning requesting that my remittances were sent to a different email address.
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Leanne Reid commented
When putting in contacts email, would be good to have tick boxes of what that email can receive.
Invoices
Statements
BothWe have a lot of customers wanting the invoices sent to their site contact and their accounts email and the statements sent only to the accounts email.
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Jessica Hall commented
We are still having so many issues with this. PO's accidentally sent to accounts.
Invoices accidentally sent to services team.
We also note that even though we have all the emails saved in the contact under other emails. When we go to send an email in Xero it doesn't populate the emails in the drop down option.
Xero this is such a critical function!!! Please rectify!!
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Julie Richardson commented
I cannot believe this basic function is not available!
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Barry Gondaria commented
Hey,
Any chance of having multiple email selections for sending PO, Invoices, remittance etc.
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Melissa Joneshart commented
This is a constant issue for our business, more and more organisations..
(generally government or medium to large businesses) are using automated invoicing / pay systems to streamline their purchasing activities.
Xero DOES NOT allow for this feature.
Instead has the email address needs to be entered in manually for each customer... This is not Accounts or time friendly especially if there are quite a number of customers now using these systems. -
Leigh Spinney commented
This functionality is vital for scaling businesses. Very time consuming and a pretty basic requirement for accounting software.
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Jane Mitchell commented
Invoices, Statements, PO's & Remittances - these should all have their own email contact option.
Should be simple enough??Xero please provide an update?
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Accounts Quinnys commented
This should a simple fix, other accounting software does this, I don't see why this can't be sorted now.
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Emma Suhonen commented
Xero Team, please prioritise this matter
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Steve WILKINSON commented
Hi Xero
What is the point of circulating everyone who has liked this idea if you are not going to do anything about it? -
Kelly Jones commented
What is the update on this? This is very time consuming and annoying.