Contact - Having custom fields on invoices and contacts
Ability to add a custom fields to a contact record that is able to be displayed on invoices
Purpose: Ability to include more information that’s unique to customers/business/industry that assist the transaction and relationship between customers

Hi everyone, we thoroughly appreciate your engagement and sharing how custom fields would be advantageous to you here.
With lots of work for 'building on beautiful' underway atm, we want to be honest that custom fields is not planned in the near term.
Some in the idea here, may find the recent addition of Notes that can be added within the Contact Details section of a contacts record useful in being able to record and view specific detail relative to a contact at present - More on this shared here
We'll continue to evaluate the viability of largely voted ideas such as this when there is resource, however this unlikely in the next 12 months.
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Peter Hurley commented
Not all quantities are decimal. It would be very useful for if quantities could include hours and minutes, not just on a 'detailed time' report, but on the invoice. Many business use the concept of billable hours displayed on an invoice.
It is confusing when 1 hour 15 minutes is shown on the 'detailed time' report but 1.25 on the invoice - it just leads to queries from customers. Not a very useful feature of Xero. -
Peter Hurley commented
It is critical is some businesses to be able to provide the authority for an invoice such as a Purchase Order number. At the moment in Xero I have had to find a workaround, insteadt of having a 'reference' field automatically include the reference on an invoice.
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Stephanie Blanksby commented
Credit ratings for customers and credit limits for suppliers
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Auzyco Pty Ltd commented
It is currently very time consuming to individually add Date of Service to each invoice. If I'd known this, I would have never migrated from Quickbooks to Xero
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Jenny Etherington commented
We are now often required to send a commercial invoice with products. Is is now a requirement when sending with DHL. It would be extremely heplful if there was a custom made commercial template that was called Commercial invoice instead of Tax invoice with fields for net weight, gross weight, HS code, dimensions, and place of manufacture
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Penny O'Toole commented
Having a custom field on invoices a great idea.
I need this to ask for deposits. -
Susan Braxton commented
Would be really helpful to have a custom field on purchase invoices where you can record your order number or any other data that would assist you when trying to locate a certain item if not using inventory.
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Tiffany MacKinnon commented
To have Invoice headers, bolded, would be perfect.
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Simon Aldridge commented
Custom field at the top of the invoice,quote that passes through?
Surely this is very simple to implement?
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Paul-John Mudie commented
Is ATO compliant invoicing (ie: displaying customer ABN for invoices greater than $1,000) a feature request? Seriously?
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Rachel Wright commented
I would love to have Industry field so I can see my most profitable clients by industry
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Lisa Beech commented
I would like to add a RR Price column to Inventory and Invoice
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Marion Gosteli commented
This would make a huge difference when a client needs to quote their supplier job number plus their customer's purchase order number - currently one or other ends up buried in the body of the invoice, which can result in rejection/non-payment of the sales invoice.
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Tyler Murphy commented
I work in the disability space, billing participants on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It is required to include the date as part of invoicing.
Competitor programs such as Quickbooks provides a date selection field.
It seems to be a simple and obvious fix.
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Jack Saunders commented
It would benefit many of our clients to have this feature added to Xero.
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Mel Gillman-Davis commented
This would be so beneficial for some of our clients that use more than one referencing when sending invoices so this would be a very useful too to have.
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Mel Vaughan commented
At the moment there is only one reference field on a Bill. Ideally we would want two fields - one for an internal reference number and one for the external document number provided on the bill from the supplier.
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Cristina Napoleone commented
Customer ABN and issuer ABN are both required on invoices to comply with Australian taxation law. Without this field they are missing a key element. Please remedy immediately.
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Chrisna du Preez commented
In addition to "ContactTaxNumber" please include field name to display the "Business Registration Number of a contact" as well. Thanks.
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Georgia Barchard commented
There are three custom fields that my invoices require in order to super charge the invoice/payment claim specific to my industry. These three fields are critical, and now I'm having to come up with other creative ways to get the information onto my invoice.
There fields are: Due Date: Project Ref: Period From/To:Just saying the invoice is due in 7 days does not cover me under the CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS ACT 2002. With the additional fields, it enables me to then use the payment regime under the ACT.