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New invoicing is a HUGE downgrade for those of us using it to enter multiple invoices from a previous period (day/week/etc.). Any change that results in more key presses or mouse clicks is a functional downgrade. Mouse clicks require you to move your hand, find the cursor and the button which takes way more time than a few key presses. That is UI design 101 people. You've made tabbing between fields harder. If I want to enter a new customer I now have to execute a mouse click instead of just a tab press. If I want to save/approve and add another, also now a mouse click. What if I want to add a payment after approval? Now a couple of mouse-clicks and dialog that is not keyboard friendly. And the new date widgets are not nearly as navigable with the keyboard as the old ones. I would challenge your designers to a race: let's both enter 5 invoices using either classic or new invoicing. Classic will beat new hands down.

The fact that I'd have to go into my inventory balance in reports to make sure that I have enough stock to sell, instead of the old system where I can view it seamlessly when I select the quantity to key in, is such a downer.

In FMCG, the ability to see how much inventory is left on hand while keying in an invoice is a life, and time saver.

Instead of optimizing our workflow, this new invoicing system has made it much more complicated and time consuming.

Please do not change something that has been working fine just for the sake of changing.

If the devs feel that these are vital and necessary QOL upgrade, please give us the option to decide that the said "upgrades" and changes are not for us.

Also the new UI for after approval seems so much bigger and clunkier.

At the very least, have the classic invoicing available and the new one as an option if people really did want it; instead of discontinuing the classic completely.

Agreed!

There are too many clicks to do the simplest things.

1. I want to change a due date on an invoice, now I need to click twice instead of once to "choose date"
2. I can't simply drop a file on the window to attach it, now I need to click on files first, thus also needing two steps instead of one
3. can we upload files BEFORE selecting a client, why does it have to be afterwards? this also leads to more clicking between programs
4. the billable expenses tab - in order to "add as separate items", this also needs two clicks now instead of one. There's plenty of room on the pop-up window to have them as two separate buttons. I use this function a lot and that is going to get really annoying!
5. approve and save are now needing me to scroll up the top after completing my invoice, thus not flowing nicely. I used to be able to finish my invoicing then just select approve without having to move the screen, making the overall flow of work smoother and therefore quicker

I really hope these features don't transfer across to the billing section if that ever gets changed too. This will make everything I enter take twice as long and be increasingly frustrating!

I'm not one to complain, I usually go with the flow; but the fact that I've spent the time writing this means that I'm extremely annoyed by the above changes and the flow of work has well and truly been interrupted for me and I'm not happy about that.

Please allow us to set the default one-click method. I *never* use the Xero email feature. I just want to click approve on the invoice; not "approve and email".

I don't even have emails in any of my xero contacts.

PLEAE DO NOT DELETE Classic Invoicing. Listen to the users below the flow of the invoice may be ok for the people who are stuck to a Mouse. But some of us use the Tab key to jump from field to field so we can work faster through multiple entry of Invoices. Avg time for 1 invoice for me in Classic is under 10 seconds. Average time per invoice in so called New and Improved is 40 seconds. That is no improvement in anyones book.

Hi Kelly,

The classic Invoicing which you are planning to retire in November is much clear and requires less steps, and faster!

The new one you are introducing is slows down the process...

As paid subscribers we would like to highlight that this is disappointing..

We need the discount to be default as Percent. We would maybe one in 200 invoices apply a cash discount. It is taking so long and I'm chasing staff up all the time so the remember to do this. And tis is just the first day. God help us.

We need Approve not approve and email. you have to find the approve only which again takes more time.

The there's the copy to a PO feature, Where is it?

Why do you not listen XERO, we are all under the pump to get work finished and now you have foisted this on us today with no thought for the extra work required just to get to where we are in old invoicing and charge us for the privilege, joke.

You are fast becoming the elephant in the room here, and I suggest you stop your developers from deciding what's best for YOUR CUSTOMERS rather than what we require. This is a step back to the 90s when developers gave us what they thought and to **** with us if we said it doesn't work.

Xero needs to bring back the "Copy to" feature that the old invoicing had. We use this feature multiple times per day - where an customer invoice is raised first - once approved / paid by client we then generate a Purchase Order for the items. It was such a great feature to be able to copy the invoice line items over to a Supplier PO and remove the lines not relevant and then send off to the supplier - 30-secs to 1min max step in the ordering process!

The new invoicing doesn't allow this... WHY????

It has now added multiple additional steps to what should be such a simple process. I have to have 2 windows open, one open to the customer invoice, one with a new PO generated, then copy and paste the items one by one over, as well as entering the qty, price and tax fields.

This now adds extra time to my day... will we be compensated? Seems unreasonable our subscription price has increased substantially, yet we have now lost features crucial to our business operations.

Could the approve U& email button be moved to the bottom, as once you've done a 25 line invoice you have to return to the top, it's as pain.

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

Any updates for repeating invoices? Of course not.

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??

It does take a lot longer to enter an invoice and it includes a lot more movement between the mouse and keyboard