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A Vote to keep classic Invoices (Pretty PLEASE!)

The new version is clunky and it takes so much longer to input an invoice.

Please keep classic until feature-parity is confirmed. "New" invoicing should do 100% of what classic does—with the same number of clicks—before sunsetting the existing system.

New invoicing just does not work the way we need it too, The classic does the job we need it to do.
It doesn't work when copying from a PO to an invoice. Can't see who you've sent it too either. And auto-saving is terrible and unworkable.

Please keep classic invoicing. The new version is far inferior. I've tried it time and time again and always revert to classic, before completing even one invoice!

Please keep Classic

The new invoicing platform does not suit small businesses. It time consuming, clunky and ugly. Leave Classic Invoicing with us please.

Give Customers the choice to keep Classic Invoicing. Its not perfect but it is 100% better than the new invoicing platform that you are insisting on forcing us to use from September. An backward step for Xero.

Completely agree with this. I switched to the new invoicing system and gave it a go for at least 2 months. I have switched back to the classic invoicing. I can input my sales invoices in half the amount of time.

Cant drop and drag a pdf to an invoice...
When copying the last invoice to a supplier -you have to select the supplier again even though you are coping from their last invoice
should have kept the approve button separate from approve and send - always view invoice before sending it...

Does the updated invoice layout include the option to add an extra internal reference field? We already use the existing reference field for customer purchase order number.
I know this change has been requested for years.

@Peter Lepper

I had the exact same issue when they updated Bills.
Used to be able to sort by supplier name etc and work your way through each bill and choosing Approve and Next at the bottom of each bill once finished to work on the next bill in the order selected. Now, after it had been fine for years, it sorts by the bill date, which is not always correct.

When I raised this as an issue with Xero, because I couldn't work out what was happening and they wanted feedback, they told me that was how it was designed to work. If I needed to work in alphabetical order, for example, then I should ...

"Alphabetically sort the Draft bills screen using the From column heading
Right click to open one of the Drafts in a new tab on your browser
Approve the Draft in the new tab
Close that tab
Go back to the tab with the list of Drafts and Refresh the page
Repeat steps 2 through 5."

This is so time consuming and just annoying when it was perfectly fine before.

Clearly no one at Xero actually uses their own product, otherwise they would be facing the same issues we do and surely be pushing back for usability/functionality over all the whitespace and perceived improvements.

I'd love to know what their in-house accounting team uses, as it's obviously not Xero.

I've been trying to use the new invoicing - major issue for me is that my tasks schedules for my invoicing are created alphabetically by client last name, and under the new invoicing I can't get the draft invoices to edit in the same order.

My clients are saved as 'Last Name, First Name'. Repeating invoices generate monthly invoices for each.

The old invoicing appears to be set so that the sort order of the draft invoices, carries through to the editing of them - if I sort draft invoices by the "To" column (=client last name/first name), when I edit the first invoice and go to 'Approve and view next', the next draft invoice is the next client alphabetically; similarly sorting by invoice number, the next invoice number sequentially is what comes up.

The new invoicing seems to pull invoices at random from my draft list, regardless of the sort order.

Previously I had a nice, alphabetically ordered stack of schedules from which to enter my invoicing data. Now I'm shuffling the stack with every invoice, to find the one I want - massive increase in time and mess (and stress).

Edit - Plus, after entering a large number of lines on the invoice, I now have to scroll to the top of the screen to select the Approve button, where previously the button was there at the bottom (right below the bottom line...)

Although we welcome the extension of the new system to Mid November Please keep old system indefinatly as it suits us better than the new one or do we have to leave and find a completely new supplier ?

You can no longer drag and drop documents into the invoices like you could before, You can save the document, and then upload it - YES, but its not as quick as being able to just drag and drop your PDF from an email attachment, into the invoice for evidence of a PO - Can you also make it that you can drag and drop an email from outlook into Invoices, like you can with a Purchase order - you can simply drag it across *(if your working on 2 screens like i am) but you cant do it on the invoices or Bills, BUT you can with a PO ?

The new invoicing format is useless me as I need to upload the file in order to see which contact it relates to. How can I add the contact first?? Classic case of " if it ain't broke, don't fix it" Such a shame when Xero changes things that are working just fine. I also preferred the previous contacts page.

Please keep the classic invoice. The new version invoice is absolutely a disaster. The fact that only the first 50 products is picked up when invoicing is terrible. And the answer
from Xero just to add manually the rest of the products is ridiculous.

I would rather keep the old invoicing.
The drop down item list doesn't include all our items and the quantity tracking is not there.

Hi Xero. The new Invoicing looks terrible, is a clunky U/I and is not the product I originally signed up to purchase. Can you please keep the classic as the standard, you're going backwards with this apparent new upgrade. Going by the dumpsterfire of comments in here, looks like you guys should listen to the customers - if you even read this.

To look at the lightspeed link - you have scroll all the way to the bottom of the screen.
If you want to attach files - again you have scroll all the way to the bottom of the screen. Very annoying!

Just let your customers decide which version they want to use please