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New Invoicing - Allow blank lines to make groups of invoice lines

It would be great to be able to group certain lines of an invoice together (for example by adding some spacing between groups), to make long invoices more readable and logically coherent.

It used to be possible to add spacing on the Classic invoicing page by pressing Enter a few times on the description field, but this no longer works on the New invoicing.

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working on it  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi team, thank you for all your feedback. We're in the process of developing the edit view of the line item grid within new invoicing and will be incorporating the ability to manually add a row and the ability to move blank rows within the invoice. Once released blank lines will be able to be saved within the invoice so you can separate lines or groups of lines as you need. I'll keep you updated on when this goes live.

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  • Mark Boyce commented  ·   ·  Report

    The previous version of invoicing had the capability to create a blank line by simply pressing the Return key before then typing the line item. The new version has removed this capability. So an "upgrade" has removed a feature that many businesses view as vital to the professional presentation of their invoices. My suggestion is that Xero's "process of developing" [now two months old] needs to become "released the fix" with acknowledgement that the downgrading of functionality was unintended.

  • Jasmine See commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please don't take away the Classic Invoicing. The NEW INVOICING look messy, lumped all items rows together. This makes it very difficult for the customer to see the description for each billed item. Gave us back the CLASSIC INVOICING.

  • Lyndsay Marks commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is critical spacing the invoices out so it looks professional. Xero needs to listen to its paying clients and fix this issue. this is creating double and tripple handeling of the invoices therefore affective productivity.

  • Pegasus Movers Sales & Finance Team commented  ·   ·  Report

    Spacing at the beginning of each line is essential else the whole invoice will look like a big block of words. Xero need to work on this, else it defeats the purpose of sending the invoice directly from Xero to our clients as we need to edit the invoice using adobe to include spacing in between each line then manually email the invoice out...

  • Leslie Croker commented  ·   ·  Report

    Also, in classic invoicing we can put spaces at the start of a line to effectively indent the text. That doesn't work in new invoicing either. I was on board with giving new invoicing a chance until I noticed that. Switching back to classic now.

  • Accounts SBS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Xero team

    Please and we really need space between different lines

  • Cheryl Posthouwer commented  ·   ·  Report

    New invoicing is not allowing line spacing control. Single line spacing looks squashed and is harder to read but hard returns after text are being ignored. Classic recognised hard returns.

  • Matt Shepherd - Newcastle & Lake Mac DJ's commented  ·   ·  Report

    This has been a feature that actualy worked for me in the new invoicing for the past 2 years until a new update a week or two ago.

    Now any of my approved/paid invoices just big have big blocks of text and are unreadable without the link breaks shown.

    Makes no sense why they removed this feature and needs to be fixed asap

  • chris prior commented  ·   ·  Report

    I think it's useful to be able to do this since it helps to provide clarity when making more complex invoices. One can get round this problem by simply including a full point on a blank line but it would be better if the software didn't freeze and force you to abort an invoice if you forget to do that. This looks to be a basic oversight when coding the new version i can't imagine why you'd stop users being able to do this.

  • Jo-Anne Bates commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having a clear easy to read invoice is very important, I was really surprised adding a blank line in to separate a long list of items wasn't already a thing.

  • Cris Flagg commented  ·   ·  Report

    Additionally, there are times when you need to add text in the description that relates to the project but is not captured by a field. This should also be part of the deliverable - just text in the description field with no associated item or count.

  • Lay Ping Loh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Invoicing - New Version
    1. For the current classic invoicing, after we have keyed in the description and we pressed enter, there will be a blank line spacing shown on the pdf format. Whereas in the new invoicing, there will not be a line spacing anymore, after we pressed enter.

    2. In the new invoicing, we cannot insert a new line item.