Email Settings - Specify date/time to send transactions
Ability to specify date/time when users’ want to send emails from Xero.
Purpose: So clients/customers can receive the email during the working hours and not at random time.

Appreciate your input here, everyone. Our team is looking into this idea however, they don't have any dates planned on when they’ll develop the ability to schedule emails.
Totally understand how this feature could benefit your workflow though, being able to schedule an email to send during acceptable hours, so you don’t have to remember!
Rest assured that our eyes are on the ground monitoring your feedback and votes here, so please keep adding them in this thread. For the time being, I’ll move this idea into ‘Under review’ status. And if there's any movement, we'll make sure to come back here and let you all know.
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Astrid Beyers commented
I'll gladly trade the new AI thingy (JAX?) any day for scheduled email functionality. (BTW I tried to get JAX to schedule an invoice. Sadly it wasn't able to)
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Victoria Hibbs commented
In addition to below's post about pointless additions, let's not forget the removal of the ability to drag docs into a bill/invoice and then the reinstatement and the useless quick option to add a new contact when drafting an invoice but not being able to add contact names AND business names meaning you have to jump into contacts to create anyway rending that function useless. Seriously - why cant you sort the scheduling of emails and invoices - rudimentary
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Gavin Smith commented
@Youssef Abouelnasr - just take a look at any of the community suggestions they are all 5-10 years old and no action from Xero.
Xero does not give a **** about it's users or implementing changes that would actually benefit us , rather they spend time and money on implementing things like the "New Invoicing' that no one asked for and is hated by majority of users. -
Mary O'Connor commented
Is Xero even working on bringing this feature to life anytime soon?
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Youssef Abouelnasr commented
Surprised this has not been implemented yet - am I reading correctly that this was raised in 2015?
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Giselle Gonzales commented
+ Bumping so that this is a feature that is prioritized. This is a critical feature for my team and I keep checking to see if it has been added.
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Marek Wielgosz commented
This idea was originally raised in 2012! its been 13 years!!! How does something so simple take so long? Please Xero team, I think its about time you looked into this.
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Stevie Kirk commented
My first time using Xero and this was the first thing I looked for! I want to schedule my invoices, then have the system remind me they are good to go (make any last minute edits like adding expenses), then approve and send. Surely this is something that can be done and should be done soon? Any response since last year Xero?
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Beth Marriott commented
Message for Xero Team:
Given the number of people that have voted for this, is it possible to put this higher up on your development list? It seems like a pretty standard feature that should already exist!
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Kellie White commented
would be the most helpful tool they could add to date of me using Xero for 10+ years
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Giselle Gonzales commented
+1 this is an incredibly important feature for those invoicing customers in multiple time zones. This feature would help us send invoices at a time that is most convenient to them (without working irregular hours ourselves). Not having this is a major pain point that other platforms address.
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Sheri Boutilier commented
This is a critical feature. Many small business owners are working later in the day or on weekends and the clients/customers do not appreciate email being sent over the weekend. Many recipients have apps on their phone, receive notifications, and feel compelled to reply. Please add this schedule send feature.
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Lanre Gbolade commented
It would be helpful to have the ability to auto send invoices at a specific date and time.
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Erin Martell commented
Agreed, this is an extremely simple functionality that is included out-of-the-box on every other software I've used. I want to send invoices at the same time on the same day each month. Randomly sending looks unprofessional and desperate. I've been using Xero for two months now and this is kind of a deal breaker.
Update: How has it been a year since this was responded to by Xero? This should have been an out-of-the-box feature, not something we have to ask for. To note, I have to get up at 8am tomorrow to click send on invoices when it should be an incredible simple thing to schedule. As I said above, this tells me a lot about Xero's priorities and where customer needs fit into it.
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Nathan Kershaw commented
This is indeed pretty basic functionality that is lacking in Xero - I had it in PayPal before switching. It has been requested for a long time!!!
My use-case is that it is highly convenient to do my invoices at the time of doing my work; however, it is politically awkward to send them at that time! Being able to delay them several days (variable depending on the work) is very advantageous.
At present I save them as drafts, but have to remember to come back to them and actually email them at a non-weird time. While an okayish workaround, this adds unnecessary difficulties.
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Leisa Brenchley commented
This would be so amazing!
Our clients pay off our services so this would help schedule this so much!
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Rafail Dimitriou commented
This would increase the invoice settling rate, significantly, without having to chase people as much.
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Anastasis Kokkinos commented
We are going to incorporate in the new year and when we do we have to set up a new account and it wont be xero unless they get scheduled invoicing, stages payment invoice and phone support sorted before then.
We are going to go back to Quick Books which has all of this and for half the price.
Xero was touted as the way to go and against our better judgement we signed up.
Big mistake, do yourself a favour and check out Quick books because Xero just pay lip service to these items which should be no brainers.
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Gavin Smith commented
The ability schedule payslips to be emailed at later date - for example I'm on holidays over the Christmas break so I have had to do all the payroll before I finished.
It would be good to set a date to email the payslips.
I was able to schedule the bank and EFT payments but there's no way to schedule when payslip or Remittance Advice is emailed out -
Rode Filgueira Ponce commented
Hi, this is even more useful when your date for sending invoice is a on a bank holiday or if you are a freelancer and you want them to be sent while you are off/annual leave. It is a necessary feature and it seems silly that we will have to prep invoices and download them in pdf and then schedule emails to be sent.