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In the creation of a new invoice, you can keep your fingers on the keyboard, except when it comes to the date of the invoice when, if you want to overwrite what's there automatically, you have to reach for the mouse. Please amend the program so this field (date of invoice) can be overwritten without having to be cleared first.

You can now type in the date you require, but first you have to delete the current date, in old invoicing, you just tabbed to the field and entered the required date, which was very much better

Still haven't seen the type-able date functionality roll out to the Payment Date. This is a big time eater for some of our processes.

Not only + number of days, - number of days is also necessary for those invoices that are due x number of days before the invoice date.

Please bring back the "+ #of days" option for the due date. This was very handy. Also can you add a "in 30 days" option in the due date drop down menu.

We are not liking the date function at all. A quick fix for us would be to offer an option of "Previous Day.". Or as others have suggested...for us to type in the date.

Please hurry up and put a data entry field for the date in the Add Payment section, proficient data entry people do not want to click through calendars and just want to keep typing through the fields ! Why make changes like this to the great software package when they are clearly not improvements ?

Previously, day and month could be delimited with a space. Please add this . AND previously simply entering the day would default to current month and current year; now it defaults to the month and year of the invoice date which may be desirable for some but not all users. Please disconnect the invoice date from the due date.In the meantime, be very careful to check all dates on the invoice; they may not be what you may expect from previous experience.

How about Xero holding a webinar explaining the benefits of the "New Invoicing" option and allowing users to feedback on their experiences.

If this is not feasable how about a user poll where the people who actually use Xero an a daily basis and pay the wages of the Xero employees could actually vote on a simple question "Stick with Old invoicing" or "Switch to New Invoicing" and go with the result?

It is painful having to pick the date from the calendar when showing invoices as paid - I hope you can update this very soon?

Come on XERO get back to basics and test, test, test what you do. You seem to be relying on users to find your mistakes rather than doing the job yourselves - and yes - it is your job to test things!

Hi Sam - this is frustrating. It almost seems as if they do not test the changes they make before releasing them which is scary.

They totally lack any form of rigger in the system they develop. As I have said before, the development team seems to be out of control, and this type of thing really undermines the user conference in their work.

Kelly Munro - FYI, typing the date has a bunch of bugs.
Last night, I had invoices with a due date 30 Jun 2024 and I was trying to update to 23 Jul 2024 and no matter what I typed (23, 23/7, 23/07, 23/07/2024) it would change it to 23 Jun 2024, lol.
Today with Xero Support, we found if I type a date and am changing the month but not the day, it won't update at all.
If I type only the day (in old invoicing this would default to that day in current month, e.g. if I type '15' today, the 10 July 2024, it would default to 15 July 2024), it will default to that day in the invoice month rather than this month.
Hilarious.
"You're using an old version of invoicing. Our new version of invoicing is packed with time-saving tools that make it easier for you to customise invoices the way you want, while simplifying the way you get paid." 😂
"You're using an old version of invoicing. Our new version of invoicing is packed with time-wasting tools that make it harder for you to customise invoices the way you want to using your keyboard, while increasing mouse sales."

It's completely absurd that you remove a perfectly functional way of entering a payment, that only requires keystokes with a method that now requires keystrokes, picking up a mouse, clicking little arrows (and missing), more keystrokes, more drop boxes. Making life so much harder for book-keepers. Every 'upgrade' seems to reduce ease of use and functionality.
Please discuss changes with the people who use Xero every day!!!!!

We add invoices daily and this is going to slow us down tremendously. This is not progress this is going backward and is not very user friendly.

Same for choosing payment account. On classic invoicing I type the amount, tab to date , type the 2 digit date, tab to account, type 1 to 7 to choose the right account, then click add. It annoys me I can't tab to the add payment button and enter it.

Now I have to click add payment to get the useless payment overlay up. Then click three times to enter the date. Then click twice to choose account. Then click and change the amount. It's just so much extra work that is not necessary.

It would be interesting to talk with the people who designed the new invoicing system interface and ask them why they would change the interface so much by removing existing functionality?

Users would easily move to a newer system as you're changing the underlying api's to move to a better more expandable and efficient system right?

Well, if that is the case, why have your developers ignored users by removing existing functionality or changing it to the point where it is no longer user-friendly.

Users will resist change - especially if that change is going to increase time to perform a task. The person in charge of the UI needs to be sat down and spoken with.

It would also be great to see a "yesterday" in the drop down as I'm sure a lot of invoicing is processed on the day after the work done.

What's more, requiring mouse input means that this is not Accessible to anyone who doesn't use a mouse (for example, me both times I had wrist surgery. Or someone who uses a screen reader instead)

On the awful new invoicing layout, you can't type the date anymore, you can only click through the calendar. It is so much quicker and easier to be able to type the date like you used to be able to (and in any format... i.e. 03.05.24 or 03.05 or 03.05.2024 or 03/05/24 or 03/05 or 03/05/2024)