New Invoicing - Reduce number of steps and clicks
New invoicing has introduced more clicks, taps, steps at almost every level.
Please remove the added friction as it increases processing time.
The "new invoicing" messages are full of comments regarding where these pressure points have been added.
We are paid subscribers, and beta testing/seeking feedback is wonderful, but being forced onto an inferior model is.. suboptimal.
Hi everyone, some time on since my last update I wanted to give you more of an idea of the work we have going on to help reduce the number of steps and actions in new invoicing. Along with the changes mentioned in my last update, we've since released a change to the view of an invoice to shift details back into their own columns (similar to classic), while a small change we know it's improved visibility for some of our customers.
We also have other work in development atm that’ll further help here like a new line item grid when editing your invoice - wrapped up in this we’ll be introducing changes you’ve been asking for like the ability to create a new tracking option or account code without having to navigate away from the invoice, we’re increasing the number of items that you can view from the drop down, and we’ll be bringing back the ability to view the number of stock on hand.
As mentioned in my last post, our team is developing shortcuts for the drop down actions like Approve and Save so you have more ease of selecting the option that's best for you.
We also have some updates coming to;
- The Contact card, so you’ll be able to add more details without having to go to the contact record, like more address lines, ability to look up addresses, and entering an Attention to all items we’ve heard lots of feedback on
- Issue and Due date picking where we’ll make it quicker to simply select a calendar date and we’ll be adding more keyboard shortcuts such as the ability to enter +0 for today’s date
- Ability to drag & drop files that we’re enhancing so you’ll be able to do this anywhere on the invoice rather than a specific area
Again, thank you all for sharing and continuing to let us know the improvements that make a difference for you when working with new invoicing. We'll update you as items I've mentioned above are released.
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Charles Hewitt commented
Notes History no longer includes emails and addressees.
This is a _serious_ retrograde step from old Invoice.
Having the email and the addressees included in the Notes History is essential for establishing the evidence for late payment claims. -
Kathy Skinner commented
They can't even get the correct due date on their own invoices for Xero subscriptions - invoice shows due the date of issue, the cover email then tells you it will show as overdue for up to 15 days but payment will be taken by DD on the correct date - bad from a bookkeeping side when entering a due date - I change it to the actual due date otherwise it would throw out any reports for the month.
If they can't fix this then no wonder they can't get new invoicing correct or fix what everyone is asking for. -
Pyroclassic Fires commented
I agree with the saving, Printing and emailing. It is now taking extra time which I don't have to complete invoicing and not in the best interests of our business. Time is money so is XERO going to pay us for the extra time needed to complete tasks that took little time before? Or is it time for us to move away and find another user friendly app with support who listen to us?
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Susannah Morgan commented
Agree with this comment. Now you have to create the invoice, save and exit, go back into the draft to approve and then email. Before you could do this all on the same page. Quite frustarating!
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Ted Stovin commented
Refusing to use new invoicing for as long as possible. Tell the people in charge there's no need to change something that's already working. I need to know inventory, new invoicing is completely ignoring this... will get a new software if you force new terrible invoicing on me.
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Kathy Skinner commented
Time Xero admitted they have STUFFED UP BIG TIME with the new invoicing and stop the conversion over to it till it actually works like the classic with maybe some improvements.
Your users are telling you what's wrong but you are basically ignoring that and doing what suits you with these so called fixes or upgrades.
This is even worse than the new look GST reports and the fact you took away the ability to Publish them was a big failure as well.
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Paul Fowler commented
Based on today, The new invoicing is a downgrade. It's hard to imagine who this new version benefits and how it got released. They removed the ability to tab though fields, tab now sends you to completely non helpful areas and we have to move to the mouse to select the next field. I'm really baffled that we'll have to use it soon.
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Bee Hesketh commented
Any updates for repeating invoices? Of course not.
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Rachel Osborn commented
I am trialing your new invoicing and every time I do, I wonder who in the world you have working for you to make changes that create more key strokes and therefore take more time to process and potentially create errors.
I am just sending invoices out to be paid - your screen says they are awaiting payment. They can't be awaiting payment as they haven't been sent. So, please change this.
Then if you chose send an invoice, please send it. Don't bring up another page that you then have to hit send invoice on again to send it. A complete waste of time and effort.
It makes me laugh when your GM releases a press release on our data saying we need to work smarter not harder in NZ to get efficiency gains and yet you continue to make changes that create more work and take longer to process??
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Jane Phillips commented
It does take a lot longer to enter an invoice and it includes a lot more movement between the mouse and keyboard
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Keith Tan commented
I have tried to work with the new invoice that will be in full implementation soon and I immediately noticed it adds a few more steps for me when I input amount paid in the invoice. On the new format, I still have to click "add payment" on the upper right corner of the page and wait for a (slow) window to pop up and finally put in payment details such as date, etc.
With the previous format, I just scroll down the page to find the payment info and options are already there before I finally click "Add payment". It is not as fluid as the previous format. Also, after putting in amount paid, the page goes to the the main page / list of invoices. And then I try to search the page for the next invoice to me to update an invoice that was already paid, it won't instantly search under the "All" invoices tab but under "Paid" tab. So again it's another step for me to click on the "All" invoice tab and then search for the invoice number before I can make payment updates on it.
I hope you can make the new format as fluid as the old one. It simply takes longer to do work and is a step back.
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Helen King commented
The point made by Leanne McCormack, Jill Fechner and others, regarding the missing tracking of an invoice when it's been emailed, has not been addressed. This is a vital feature and you are running out of time to fix it before September. Please advise when this will be fixed.
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Antony Parsons commented
Edit exchange rate!!
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Jill Fechner commented
FYI
https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198/suggestions/45640063
Requested email addition to new invoicing notes in March 2023 !! -
Jill Fechner commented
Yes, Belinda. Post to LinkedIn and here. I think this thread is hidden until you become a customer, but it's too late by then.
Xero, an update on the thread for these requested fixes would be appreciated.
Our firm builds applications, and our response time if an issue like this was found would be immediate, with an apology, as it would negatively impact our clients. -
Belinda Johnson commented
Exactly Jill. It's beyond embarrassing Xero seems to have ignored the fact tacking correspondence is imperative for auditing and debt collection purposes.
This isn't something that should be in their "we'll get to it later with everything else we don't deem important".
An entire team of incompetent programmers who clearly aren't bookkeepers or accountants and have no idea what we actually do.....I'll say it again, we MUST openly declare these issues on their socials as they as ignoring our complaints and investing their resources in marketing and luring in new business trapping them here with us.....
See you all in the comments section!
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Antonia Barbic commented
I was pleasantly surprised today when I went to create a new draft invoice and
a 'keep the previous Contact when using Copy' was now an option. Unfortunately dismay followed rather quickly when Xero advised that 'Contact and Item defaults will not reapply to the new invoice. If you want to reapply defaults, remove and reselect the Contact or Item after the invoice is copied.' So in short my whole point of copying and keeping a contact is to also keep all the default settings/preferences for that contact. I don't quite understand the logic behind the change. -
Jill Fechner commented
Thanks for noting that issue, Leanne, I confirmed by doing a test that this is the case. Note displays as edited not set and no email. Tracking when an invoice is sent and to whom is crucial.
What an embarrassing oversight, Xero!!
The correct information displays if the send occurred from old invoicing.
This must be fixed asap. -
Leanne McCormack commented
The new invoicing no longer records when an invoice is sent and who it is sent to. It incorrectly records this action as invoice edited. This is a critical function for accounts receivable. All tracking is lost. Will this be fixed? Also please bring back the old email button, rather than requiring extra clicks to send an invoice.
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Zak Labanca commented
Creating a credit note from a previously paid invoice/bill really needs to be addressed.