New Invoicing - Typeable dates in Date fields
On the old invoices/bills I could type "18/2/23" and it would auto fill 18th February 2023. Now I have to scroll back multiple months to get there. It would be good if I could type in the date field boxes again. Specifically on "Add Payment"
Thomas Partridge
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Hi team, as you may have noticed we've made a change to the Invoice Date and Due Date fields that now allows you to type in these fields rather than having to select a date from the calendar drop down. It does still require entering delimiters between day month and year such as a '.' or '/' (we understand there are a few situations when entering US date formats and are continuing to look into this).
We're working on also adding this functionality to the Payment date, and I'll keep you in the know of when this is made available, here.
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Yazz Bhatti
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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.
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Bridget Brannigan
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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.
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Freya Pieroz
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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)
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Chloe Walker
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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)
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Yazz Bhatti
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Moving towards inefficient entry methods makes my blood boil.
A developer sets it up, thinks it 'looks nice' and moves along.
Whereas we, the end user, could be entering a large number of invoices in one batch into the system and to have to switch between keyboard and mouse when a simple tab or number entry would hasten input is important.
Time is money.
Each excessive keypress or hand movement costs us time and therefore money.
Please THINK about your end user.
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Sarah Jacobs
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Agreed - being forced to use a mouse to use a dropdown calendar is an inefficiency compared to using a keyboard to type dates.
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Claire Parker
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Dropdown calendar is an additional burden in New Invoicing. Please revert to classic invoicing style for this field.
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Tracey O'Neill
commented
In Old Invoicing for the date field you could type in +0 or +7 for the due date but in new Invoicing you aren't able to do this.
Please bring back this feature back as it saves time -
Sean Yan
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calendar hardly be quicker for a professional, it adds up significant time when deal with repetitive tasks during the day,
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Mandy Carter
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When entering payments on New Invoicing it would be better to be able to overtype payment date rather than selecting the date from the calendar dropdown. It takes too long to do it like this. You can overtype on Old Invoicing.