Contacts - Allow multiple addresses for a single contact record
Ability to create and save multiple addresses for a single contact record
Purpose: Allow customers to map customer & supplier details against a single contact record

Hi community, we understand your needs in this feature and want to assure you were taking on board all your feedback.
As many of you accustom to this idea will know, multiple addresses requires a complex solution. It's been something we’ve been moving towards for some time and we’ve done a lot of back end work that will allow us to bring it to you in the future.
We have 12 different products within Xero that rely on contact data, as well as many of our app partners. This means that contacts need to seamlessly flow across technology, products and all connections on Xero. And that’s exactly what we’ve been working on.
One of the reasons we announced the retirement of classic invoicing is because many of the features being asked for, just can’t be brought into classic invoicing. The old technology has too many technology limitations to enable this. Change to new invoicing is key to being able to enable us to build features like multiple address details. Between now and September our invoicing team are focused on prioritising the features from classic invoicing that need to be brought across to the new version. Multiple addresses is one of the key features they want to work towards but includes many steps. For example, we enabled it in the back end of contacts last year, but now need to be able to build it into our new invoicing solution. We will keep you updated here of any progression.
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Hendrik Jap commented
Now we have the ability to add multiple emails per contact. I don't see see why this has not been implemented yet!
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David Faulder commented
The solution I am using is different branding themes with the recipients name written into it on the template. This allows me to get by to a certain extent but there is a limit to the amount of branding themes you can have.
I have one large customer with two addresses and over ten different individuals I need to send quotes to on a regular basis. This is very frustrating
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Brendon Farrell commented
To me, this is a crucial matter because I need to send invoices to numerous departments at the same company, each with its own unique contact person and email address. Currently, the only solution I have found is to create multiple versions of the company with slightly different names.
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Emma Rosenblatt (Accounts) commented
Another way Xero could design this is to have multiple sub contacts under a main contact. For example McDonald's is the main contact but then you have McDonald's - Brisbane CBD as a sub contact. Just a thought...
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Charles Hewitt commented
Really helpful to have a customer field for how to present an invoice.
Many of our customers use various supplier portals (each with their own url and login details etc) others require invoices to be sent to a specific email address. It would be very helpful to have a free text field in the Customer attribute to allow us to record how invoices should be presented to the specific customer. The field should be large enough to support a URL, username and password and some free text if necessary. -
Graham Tottle commented
378 votes and 10 months and still nothing from Xero. Kelly Munro stated in September that Xero are working on it, but nothing since then. This is unacceptable in terms of basic customer service in A) sorting out an issue that so many are being inconvenienced by and B) updating their clients as to progress. I am really not interested in excuses from Xero about how complex their systems are, we need solutions not excuses and platitudes. I find it inconceivable that Xero do not have coders / IT specialists who could sort this out quickly if there is there is actually the will to do it.
Maybe it's time to take to Twitter (@Xero) to advise potential new clients how poorly their customers are treated...... -
Excel Pumps commented
Quite a critical issue in my opinion. Running a small business we have to be as efficient as possible and use our time wisely.
We have several clients with multiple delivery addresses, and each time we invoice, we have to change the delivery address- which is INCREDIBLY time consuming and hinders our work efficiency.
I am fully aware we can make an individual 'Contacts' list for the same customer and allocate individual addresses, however this will then require separate monthly Statements etc, which again is not the most effective and seamless way to run a business smoothly. -
Nathan Mullenbach commented
The only workaround I can think of for the time being is to create a group per customer and add contacts into that group. It's a little bit frustrating to have to do this, especially after switching from Quickbooks Desktop, which has an even more frustrating contact structure.
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John Wyllie commented
Can we get an estimated date when this might be available, this is very frustrating for a significant number of users and has been on the to-do list forever.
I have read the statement above that suggests it's being looked at, but it's still very non-specific as to when we might actually see something. -
Anne Norman commented
Greg, I totally agree with you. Regretting moving from Reckon Desktop. Xero has created twice as much work for me, without the basic functionality that even Open Source packages have. We have one customer that may have 100 different site addresses in one year, and Xero is creating a nightmare.
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Greg Rostron commented
Just spent ages trying to figure out why I can't have multiple customer names/addresses for the same business. Now I find out this isn't supported!!
Sorry but this is a pathetic oversight. I'm now regretting migrating to Xero from MYOB.
This is a MUST HAVE FEATURE! -
Accounts Admin commented
Hey Xero,
This thread started in March 2012. this will be the 11th year. Xero would you have an explanation for such a delay on this??
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Hendrik Jap commented
Hello XERO! Please make this possible by this quarter! This feature is very critical! There is an option to choose multiple addresses in Purchase but NOT in SALES. How come???
I am looking forward to this feature very soon!!!
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Peter Duggan commented
I agree, it’s ridiculous that this isn’t an option. Looking through google search results this has been requested for many years. What’s the hold up?
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Peter Williams commented
Have a customer with 60 site addresses - have to work outside Xero to keep customer accounts dept. happy.
This subject has been talked about for a long time - when wiill we see some results?
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Peter Williams commented
Have a customer with 60 site addresses - have to work outside Xero to keep customer accounts dept. happy.
This subject has been talked about for a long time - when wiill we see some results?
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Freya Pieroz commented
I've had to workaround this issue with separate contact cards for each site (and in some cases, for each project with a different person that invoices need to be marked attention to)... That then requires custom reports and statements.
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Anne Norman commented
New user to Xero here (2 months) and, from coming from Reckon Accounts, I am less than impressed that this basic functionality is not available. Even open source packages such as GnuCash has the ability of Customer:Job functionality.
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Yanik Tremblay commented
Good morning XERO,
Could we have an ETA for this request. It appears to be a feature that has been asked for years.
In resume: Providing us with the capacity of entering multiple addresses per ORG with also the possibility to put 1 person responsible per addresses.
This use case is a reality with many businesses.
We really need this feature.
Thank you for
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Henrik Maier commented
Again I like to voice my frustration about Xero's present "simple" address management. We just prepared a quote to a client and client requested on the quote the address to be for branch B. So we had to change the client's address to address B and then issue the quote.
What I did not expect is that this procedure also changes the address on all former and accepted quotes to this client. Quotes are important contractual and legal document forming part of the purchase contract and once a quote is accepted it should never change. At least not unintentionally.