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I have set repeating invoices to repeat at the end of every calendar month. This seems to work fine for 30 day months, however, in a 31 day month, most of the invoices automatically redraft on the 30th, and only some on the 31st. The parameters for each recurring invoice template seem to be the same so I can't figure out why this keeps happening. To avoid the extra work to change most of them to the 31st each time, this feature needs to work consistently, and automatically generate draft invoices for the last day of the calendar month, regardless of the number of days in that month!

Hi there

I want to be able to pull through the months in the description section

Rent for the month of
- <Month>

Is this possible...?

I rent a property and the tenant pays weekly.
They pay a week in advance
I'd like to be able to add specific dates e.g(09/04/2025 - 16/04/2025) that recurr without me having to change them weekly.
There is an option to add a placeholder [week] but it only provides limited information, like week 15 . Which does not work for me or the tenant.
Please add a placeholder from one date to the next.

I have been directed here from help desk as they said they are looking into it. When I look here, it has been requested from 2022, today is 2025 - not sure what my words will do, but I would love to be able to create an invoice on the 2nd week of the month on a particular day. I wonder if there is another company that does this

We are stuck running our direct debit on the 20th of every month because of this. It doesn't matter whether I'm on holiday or it's the weekend, it has to be the 20th because we can't select "the last Friday" (or similar) for our repeating invoices.

If we don't sort the direct debit at this time, then customers start receiving invoice reminders (when they shouldn't) because there is no way to turn those off for specific repeating invoice templates paid by direct debit.

More and more businesses are running on similar subscription models, yet Xero are still in the dark ages.

Repeating invoices desperately needs the option to invoice on the last day of the month. That's possible to do if you create or save an invoice in a month with 31 days, as for the other months, it adjusts automatically. But, if you create or save a repeating invoice that will next run on a month with 30 days or in Feb, you have to remember to reset the invoice date next month.

Come on, surely this is another basic feature that needs attention as a priority to all the other development work that users don't need. Let's get the basics right and your customers happy, then consider making often just cosmetic changes.

is this ever going to happen?

Yes please!! I invoice rentals monthly based on the number of days per month.... what I wouldn't give to be able to set the quantity to [days in current month] !!

needs to be an option

Repeated bill place holder should allow us to set for next month in Reference & Descriptions fields.

The current place holder [month] will pick up current month. We need flexibility to set [month+1].

Is this going to be actioned? as it stands in February my repeating invoice will say 30th !

100% should be an option. Takes away the efficiencies gained with repeating invoices having to manually update the next invoice date

Great suggestion Darren! I have exactly the same problem and it's a pain to have to remember to go in and change the date in the next month when there are so many other more important things to do with my time. I would definitely back a "last day of the month" option. Xero it can't be that difficult or time-consuming to add.

Yes please add the ability to specify frequency in days as well as months / years.
Eg many local authorities who have a 28 day billing cycle
Shopify has a 30 day billing cycle
We have to set the bills to repeat monthly and then amend the date each time, which is a right pain and a really obvious request to have this option please.

If [Day] was available as a placeholder, then we'd be able to use something approximating [Day-1] [Month-1] to get the right reference for a recurring invoice scheduled to create itself on the first of every month.

But it's not.

A last date of month placeholder. For invoices 1st to last day of the month. We are using 1 [month] to 31 [month] [year] but then need to edit to 30/28 depending on the month.

Repeating Invoices - randomly "sorted" within a date. We have clients who deal with a number of sites, and also within those sites are multiple invoices. When putting a date for repeated invoices, appearance on the list is random and not grouped in any logical way. To get round this we have to assign different repeat dates for specific clients and/or sites. Then, "prepare" the invoices by choosing an invoice we want to start with and saving today's date - then going back once the invoice number has been assigned, and changing the date to what it should be.

please set up a function where we can also select an invoice to be 1st day or last day of month (rather than selecting date eg 1st May or 31st May).

if i have invoice set up for 31 May 2023 for example, and i amend it in February, it automatically makes invoice date 28th of every following month. i need to remember to go back and change it once another month comes about.

this throws the whole invoicing system out.

Yes - Please include some flexibility in these fields. - Last day of the Month, third Tuesday of the month, 2nd Friday of the Month, every Tuesday. Not Date specific but Day specific.
Thanks

Agree. We have many bills issued on the last day of the month and have to create them on 28th as drafts and amend them to the appropriate day - only right 3 years out of four so very inefficient.