New invoicing - Option to use Xero Network
xero to xero Invoicing
We use the Classic Invoicing version on Xero to send Invoices to our inter-companies and clients who are also registered with Xero.
On 02 Sept 2024 this version will retire and only New Invoicing will be available.
We are not able to select "send via Xero Network" from the New Invoicing option (using our Xero Network Key).
Are the technical teams still working on this to have the option available or will this option fall away?
Thank you
Chantelle
Michael
Support specialist
Yesterday 5:05 PM
Hi Chantelle
As you’ve found, there’s no functionality in New Invoicing to use Xero to Xero invoicing, as this option is being retired.
However, you can raise a suggestion directly with our product team to suggest they implement this functionality in the New Invoicing functionalities, as they're still developing additions and improvements to New Invoicing.
I’ve included a link to Xero Product Ideas where you can view and support current ideas or create a new one to share your thoughts.
Xero Product Ideas: Xero to Xero
Kind regards
Michael
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Hi everyone, thank you for sharing feedback on your use and needs in the Xero network (Xero to Xero).
Our team are continuing to review use cases there are alternative options that offer an improved experience and we'd encourage you exploring;
- eInvoicing in some regions,
- Hubdoc, or
- the ability to save an online invoice as a draft bill in your organisation.
While we don't have plans for building the Xero network into new invoicing, listening to feedback we appreciate this is a feature some of our customers have grown familiar with and regularly use.
You'll find you can still send invoices via the Xero Network using the 'Email' option from the Awaiting Payments list page - where a customer has had a Xero Business Network key added to the Contact record you'll see the option at the bottom of the send modal to 'Send via Xero Network'.
I've attached an example to show where you can find this.
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Jason Denham commented
What a joke, you want to increase fees all the time & supply less functionality, how much is being saved by not coding this in? pretty soon you wont have anything vs paper & pencil.
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Michelle Somerston commented
PLEASE PLEASE find a fix to do XERO to XERO its a wonderful feature and a must for me and my many clients. I'm gutted if you dont get this fixed. - I'm going back to old invoicing until you get a fix for as long as I can .
Also - why does it take so long for the address on an invoice to populate, when you open an already sent invoice - this is so annoying and a time waster. Please fix this one too
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Charles Wyn-Davies commented
This is crazy - are your retiring Xero-to-Xero invoicing then? The option to send via the Xero network is not appearing for me in the UK.
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Daryl Tan commented
It's important to me that this feature (Xero Network) Please added to New Invoicing. Please do it.
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Kenny Munro commented
This is a joke. You are forcing us to move to a new invoicing mechanism by retiring the old one but that move removes functionality that some of your customers rely on. Either make the new invoicing feature equivalent of the old one or don't retire it!
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Danielle van Dijk commented
Very disappointing this has been changed to "Not Planned"!
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Bradley Bush commented
HELP PRODUCT TEAM!!
We absolutely need Xero network invoicing, we are US clients and eInvoicing will do us no good. Please either leave old invoicing an option or add Xero network invoicing to the new view or we will leave Xero and move to QBO. We love Xero but come on, this seems like a no brainer! -
Spencer Clarke commented
It's important to me that this feature (Xero Network) is added to New Invoicing. Please do it.
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Heather Palmer commented
This is not good enough the xero to xero function is critical and needs to be available in the new invoicing - I will not move to new invoicing until all the classic invoicing options are also available in the new invoicing WHY are you putting the xero to xero functionality into the new invoicing. I have lived with the missing functionality with xero to xero for the past 6 years and have waited patiently for you to allow it to work if an invoice has a discount. What functionality are you going to use to replace this, I am thinking maybe einvoicing but the issue with that is not many people have registered to use einvoicing, I registered as soon it became available and it was pushed at last years xerocom but the only invoice that come through there is the XERO subscription invoice. Xero really need to look more at what their customers want
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Alice Ncube commented
Please add the Xero network invoicing functionality to new invoices, this makes my life easier. Will you please enable thei function on the new version.
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Freya Pieroz commented
I used to use Xero-to-Xero to get inter-entity invoices from one entity I deal with to another, related entity. I now _have_ to use e-invoicing. Where Xero-to-Xero was close to instant, e-invoicing takes all night for the invoice to arrive as a bill in the entity being invoiced, and that is waaaaaaay too slow to make the same day bill payment run. I'd like to pay those inter-entity invoices using an .aba file to reduce the possibility of typos; I'm not willing to wait a week until I'm doing the accounts payable for the related entities again.
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Aleesha Haines commented
Would really like to see this function kept as it saves so much time. We are unable to use the e-invoicing as we have 1 ABN that runs 8 costs centres in seperate Xeros. The e-invoicing only allows to link one of the xero entities per ABN so this does not work for us.
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Min Ma commented
Please add the Xero network invoicing functionality to new invoices or give people the option to keep classic invoicing. By removing it, you are just taking away a great feature that initially drew people to Xero and kept them there. Maybe it's time to explore QuickBooks online or move accounts to a cheaper plan since that was the feature that kept us paying for a more expensive plan.
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Becky Blair commented
We can't use this feature of einvoicing as we want to send an invoice from our Australian branch to our UK brand and we don't have an ABN for our UK branch so it wont let us do einvocing. Shame such a useful function has been taken away without an appropriate replacement
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Michael Watson CA DFP BCom commented
Please add the Xero network invoicing functionality to new invoices or keep classic invoicing. Every client I have spoken to says they prefer the classic invoicing, not one person I have spoken to prefers the new invoicing layout. Why change invoicing to a layout that no one likes and which has less features. It makes no sense!
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Heather Palmer commented
This is a comparison with what the classic invoicing and the new invoicing features are and it is really NOT correct at all. There are many features in the classic invoicing that are not shown
XERO you need to ensure all features are in the new invoicng that are currently in the classic invoicing you are causing more issues for your user base by not allowing things to happen.
firstly e-invoicing - I ensured all my clients registered for this and checked the box to receive xero invoices via e-invoing, it has worked for the last couple of months and now has stopped working WHY - please DO NOT remove the xero to xero invocing and please put it into the new invocing system
This is the link to the comparison of both new and classic invoicing
https://central.xero.com/s/article/Xero-new-invoicing-releases#Newandclassicinvoicingcomparison -
Thomas Kuehn commented
Xero support appears to be a dead end.
There is a blog post from "Darren Alvares" (https://blog.xero.com/product-updates/retiring-classic-invoicing/) which promotes the supposed great new features of invoicing but fails to recognize the deprecation of features.
I've sent a LinkedIn message in hopes of a clear response.
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Eric Tay commented
also kind of silly that if i am handling interco company billings, send via xero network is pretty efficient and straight forward. with the new invoicing screen, i am effectively being handicapped back to manually keying for intercompany billings.
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Thomas Kuehn commented
Impacted by this. CX0014876878
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Denise Abbott commented
The new invocing is a backward step, I have wasted so much time today trying to find a way to do something which was readiliy available prior to the "upgrade" to new invoicing.
This is the second time a change to an existing feature has been a retrograde step.