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I agree - TOO many clicks to create a new invoice compared to the old invoices. The 'today or tomorrow' feature is not necessary - just revert back to the calendar drop down which was a much superior feature.

YES! I would LOVE to be able to use my scroll button in a useful way again!

I also find the new version slow, with too many clicks. I prefer to tab from the client name to the date, and manually type in the date. The new way requires too many clicks and slows the process down.

I like how with classic invoicing the date could be chosen by clicking the calendar and scrolling. Often our invoice date isn't today or tomorrow. It may be several months in the future, or yesterday. Without scrolling we need to make multiple clicks to find the month we are looking for rather than simply scrolling through.

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Please return the drop down calendar to new invoice. Please return the save/approve button to the bottom of the page. Please reduce the amount of clicks required to complete an invoice.
MAYBE JUST KEEP CLASSIC INVOICING AS AN OPTION!

Currently new invoicing requires extra clicks to get the correct date. I need to pick a date in the past when creating invoices (usually within the last 1-2 weeks). Old invoicing allows me to do this with less clicks. Please don't make us go backwards and become less efficient!

I really wish we could have the option of whether we use the classic invoicing or the new invoicing. I keep trying the new, but switch right back to classic because the new slows me down and makes creating large item invoices unbearable to do

Hi.
Can we have a yesterday button?

If you are operating on a +1 day (tomorrow), why not -1 (yesterday)? I've never raised an invoice for tomorrow.

Thanks

Why can't we just write the date in ie 30 9 then tab as it was. Incredibly annoying when you're adding monthly invoices for clients and there are extra unnecessary clicks.

What's the latest on this, please? The current pop ups and drop downs are a nightmare! So much time wasted, when it was so super simple before.

Please, please revert to the easy-peasy calendar view. Or at least give customers an option to default their preferred format.
The 'new' pop ups, drop downs, and then eventually 'pick another date' function is tedious at best, maddening mostly.

I am at my wits end. Every day I make an effort to use 'new' invoicing. Every day I get more and more furious with it. You've had seven years - seven years!!!! - working on this, and it's an utter shambles.

Xero's commitment to "feature parity" (which is a cleverly worded way of saying you don't give a s**t about what your customers say and think, you're doing it anyway) should include improving the date selection experience, which is currently woeful.

And yes, I'm salty about this. Super salty, in fact.

Just lots of extra clicks to get the same job done.
Why change what worked so well?
It is becoming an accounts system for dummies NOT professionals

As well as make the default due date work.

Hi Kelly
Great to hear that the product team are reviewing this. Agree with the point behind what everyone is saying on this thread, the new invoicing has created an extra click for me every time I enter a non-repeating invoice, which is pretty much a daily task for me.
I truly love the benefit Xero adds to my business, but still want to see new releases enhancing that love rather than diminishing it, especially around such core functionality as invoicing.
I see it was two months ago that the date picker issue was marked for review, do you have any update from the product team on when they are going to fix this please?
Thanks Kelly, love your work :)

In Classic invoicing, tabbing in to the date field defaulted to today's date but it was highlighted allowing immediate overwriting.
Now I have to change to mouse to "Pick another date" or mess around with tab and shift+tab to be able to enter another date.
Can we highlight for immediate overwritiing please?

New Invoicing - I get it—you’ve got to keep your employees busy, so they end up "improving" things that don’t need improving. But what exactly is the point of forcing users to go through extra steps? Take the invoice "Due Date" selection for example. We used to get a simple pop-up calendar that let us pick the due date in one easy click. It worked perfectly. Now, we have ridiculous options like 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, and so on. And to top it off, if we want to select a specific date, we have to click an extra button for "See Extra Dates." Are you kidding me? Why add an unnecessary layer of complexity? How does this benefit anyone? It only serves to create frustration and increases the chance of making mistakes. Just leave it as the straightforward calendar pop-up it was before!

And another thing—when you’re creating an invoice, you naturally work down the page. So, logically, you’d expect the "Save Invoice" button to be at the bottom. But no, someone thought it made sense to make us scroll back up to the top to save. Why? How does it make any sense to go down the page just to go back up again? These might seem like trivial complaints to you, but they weren’t broken before. So what exactly is "improved" about these changes? Nothing, if you ask me!

I get it—you’ve got to keep your employees busy, so they end up "improving" things that don’t need improving. But what exactly is the point of forcing users to go through extra steps? Take the invoice "Due Date" selection for example. We used to get a simple pop-up calendar that let us pick the due date in one easy click. It worked perfectly. Now, we have ridiculous options like 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, and so on. And to top it off, if we want to select a specific date, we have to click an extra button for "See Extra Dates." Are you kidding me? Why add an unnecessary layer of complexity? How does this benefit anyone? It only serves to create frustration and increases the chance of making mistakes. Just leave it as the straightforward calendar pop-up it was before!

And another thing—when you’re creating an invoice, you naturally work down the page. So, logically, you’d expect the "Save Invoice" button to be at the bottom. But no, someone thought it made sense to make us scroll back up to the top to save. Why? How does it make any sense to go down the page just to go back up again? These might seem like trivial complaints to you, but they weren’t broken before. So what exactly is "improved" about these changes? Nothing, if you ask me!

The date picker is meant be be more efficient yet it is at least 50% less efficient for me. All my invoices are dated for the last day of the month, regardless of when they are created so now it is three clicks for every invoice instead of the previous two just to set the date. How about a customisation option for additional quick selections, eg "the xth of the month" or "Last day of the month". It is programatically simple to do.

Why have you removed the calendar from invoicing? I have already seen how it works so no need to say pick another date. Previously when clicking the issue date it had all of this month plus the last week of the previous month. Very easy to click on the correct date. Now the only option is today or tomorrow. Most of the time the date is previous days as well so you could at least have that as an option. Then the copy function from a previous month takes way longer as well. Then the approval, email functions take longer as the old system it was all around the same area for the mouse. Now its go to the top, then the bottom then back to the top. All of these changes means my employer will be paying more for wages as 100 transactions now takes me an hour longer! I note youve still left the calendar in bills to pay the same so why change invoicing?