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
Thanks for your continued engagement and valuable feedback on this long-standing idea, everyone. We've been carefully reviewing your comments and want to acknowledge the clear sentiment of frustration regarding the current limitations around managing multiple addresses for contacts, particularly for invoicing and delivery purposes, and that this is a critical feature to many of you.
We want to share an update on our progress here - We're pleased to confirm that the foundational work for handling multiple addresses has been completed within the Contacts area of Xero. This was a crucial first step. Building on this, now that all customers are on the new invoicing experience our product team has moved into the discovery phase for adding multiple addresses directly within invoicing. This means they are actively exploring the best way to implement this functionality to meet your needs effectively.
We appreciate your patience as we work through the complexities of adding this to ensure a robust and user-friendly solution. We'll provide further updates as we move forward with the development.
Thank you again for your passionate feedback and for helping us prioritise the features that matter most to your businesses.
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Michelle Papamichael
commented
When viewing invoices that have been entered using "new invoicing", it would be extremely useful to have the Delivery Address appear on the New Invoice Screen in a similar manner to New Bill Screen. Saves time when having to go back through multiple invoices for one customer with different delivery addresses, to more easily resolve invoice dispute or delivery address enquiry!
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Courtney Leslie
commented
What Toni is suggesting below is exactly what we are looking for as well. If the address could be tied to the individual invoice rather than the client level, that would solve many of the issues we are having. As others noted, it causes issues when needing to resend the invoice and/or send invoice reminders if the invoice address is different from what's under the contact defaults.
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Toni Garrigos
commented
Hi Kelly Munro,
Why the delivery address has to rely on contact data? Why not creating an additional field in the invoice page and the delivery address gets linked into each individual invoice like other fields (Reference, items, description of goods,....) That way the invoices won't change.
I am sure that won't take too long to implement...
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Toni Garrigos
commented
Very disappointed after been sold Xero as very intuitive and easy software and turns out that one of the most basic fields on invoicing is not been implemented from the start. I cannot believe that every time we have to resend invoices we have to type manually the delivery address and save it in the pc doubling the work and making other functionalities on Xero worthless.
This is a very basic functionality and the fact that changes the invoice details based on the contact address is just very poor.
I hope you can resolve this very soon as I can see people are been asking for a few years already and nothing is been done yet.
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HENDRIK JAP
commented
It's very basic and much needed features!
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HENDRIK JAP
commented
I have contacts with more than 5 addresses! Please add this feature!
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Peter Riddell
commented
I've just had a customer question an invoice reminder as it had the incorrect delivery address on it. This is a direct result of having only one delivery address per contact. The original invoice was sent out with the correct delivery address, but we then had to change the address to accommodate the next order. The invoice reminders default to the current delivery address not the original. So what I thought was an inconvenient but doable work-around doesn't really work after all. Once more, I implore Xero to take the request for multiple delivery addresses per contact seriously and put some resource behind fixing it.
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Alan Hughes
commented
Recently discovered this issue as we have been asked to provide services to multiple sites for an international group with one invoicing address. Yes, documents can be manually adjusted to reflect the site where the services were delivered but shouldn't have to do it that way. Especially considering one of the reasons for selecting Xero from the start was the ability to create branded document templates.
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Emma Offord
commented
This is a much needed feature. We often have once finance company that we need to bill but for multiple customers and delivery details.
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Jill Fechner
commented
Data Relationship 101 - create 1 company (type = Customer or Supplier) with many contact records allowed
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Pauline Jewsbury
commented
We have multiple delivery addresses for each customer so this would be very useful as at the moment we have to re-enter the delivery address everytime we raise a new invoice
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Bianca Davitt
commented
@ Lisa Gaudie @Sue-Ann Griffiths
You can vote for the contacts feature to be fixed (to be put back on one page) here :
it has 179 votes already in less than a month!
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Sue-Ann Griffiths
commented
I have to agree with Lisa, the process for setting up a new contact or changing/updating details is a lot more complicated and time consuming than it used to be.
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Lisa Gaudie
commented
Hello Kelly,
This feature was requested over ten years ago. The recent "upgrades" to contacts has actually made contacts more time consuming, confusing, and difficult to use. It would be great if Xero could continue to move in the direction of making the product better without making it more difficult to use in the process.
12/09/2022 -
Bianca Davitt
commented
I have been waiting for this feature since it was first requested in 2012..... don't hold your breath......
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Emma Porter
commented
When will this be sorted?
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Richard Tan
commented
How much longer?
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Yolande Erasmus
commented
This could be done 2 ways - 1 - multiple delivery addresses on 1 contact or 2 - allow multiple contacts to be linked to a Parent Contact which would collect all transactions & be the Contact which shows on the Summary trial balances & be the contact which either receives the statement or the payment is made to
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Kim McQuarrie
commented
Hi there, please make this available in WorkFlow Max also.
Also an address book function so you do not have to add the same contacts manually against different clients. -
Titirangi Baptist Church
commented
The person ordering is rarely the same as the person handling the account payment.
We need a minimum of two contacts, their names, numbers (office and mobile), emails, and position in the organisation.