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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Oisin Kelly
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This is ridiculous flannel. This has been a top user request for many years. There is no reason it should take this long....it's not hard to do.
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Chris Parker
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This could not come quick enough.
It’s critical that we can preset which contacts receive which documents.
invoice, purchase order, statement, packing slip, etc. One simple solution could be a series of checkboxes next to each contact’s details when added or edited, allowing us to select exactly which documents they should receive. Simple and effective -
Ben Smith
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Great... So *another* Xero price increase, and still no update on this extremely basic feature?
I remember Sage waaaay back in the 90's on an MS Dos computer had this functionality!
Simply unacceptable, as usual, from Xero.
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Jessica Hall
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We have saved multiple emails under each contact (not included in emails). When we go to send an email in Xero it doesn't populate the emails in the drop down option. I still have to open another page and manually copy the email address and paste it in the email.
Xero isn't populating the saved emails when they are saved in Xero contacts (not included in emails). And i don't want to include in all emails because they don't need to receive all invoices, PO's, i only want to send relevant emails.
Attachment shows we have contact saved but they don't come up in drop down option.
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Celeste Zanoli
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Product Idea: Multi-Address Dropdown for Client Invoicing and Delivery
Overview
Create a feature within invoicing and order management systems that allows users to assign multiple predefined delivery addresses to a single client using a dropdown menu. This streamlines operations for suppliers who serve large clients with multiple store or branch locations.Problem
Suppliers with clients operating multiple locations (e.g., retail chains, franchise groups, regional warehouses) often struggle with:Manually entering delivery addresses on each invoice or order.
High risk of errors, missed deliveries, or misallocated stock.
Wasted time in repeatedly typing or copying addresses.
Solution
Add a “Delivery Address” dropdown menu to client profiles in the invoicing/delivery system. Each client can have a list of saved delivery addresses tagged by location name (e.g., “Downtown Store,” “Warehouse #2”).Key Features
Client profile enhancement to store multiple delivery addresses.Dropdown field on invoice/order forms that auto-fills the selected address.
Custom labels for each address to easily identify locations.
Optional default delivery address per client (with override option).
Export/reporting support to track deliveries by address/location.
Target Users
Wholesalers and distributorsManufacturers supplying chain stores
Any B2B operation with clients owning multiple locations
Benefits
Saves time and improves accuracy.Reduces administrative burden and manual errors.
Improves client satisfaction through smoother logistics.
Scales efficiently with growing client needs.
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Jill Fechner
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We now have new invoicing, where is the ability to add more contacts? If it was available in the back end in April 2024 why has it not been pushed out with new invoicing?
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Lisa Gaudie
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Kerrydean Ltd, please note that the message you're referencing is from April 2024. This request was submitted more than ten years ago, and Xero hasn't bothered to respond in over a year. They obviously don't see this as an important feature.
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Kerrydean Ltd
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If the change to 'new invoicing' has taken place then what is so difficult that we have to wait until September.....!! surely someone at xero can push a few buttons and get this thing done!
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Anthony Demase
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I too, would like to add our company's name to the list of all these businesses that could really do with having one billing address to multiple delivery addresses. Serving an industry of Professionals who move from Clinic to Clinic to see their patients, being able to deliver to the address they prefer is one of the services that sets us apart from our competitors and one that is preventing us moving from Reckon to Xero due to this function not being available in Xero.
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Conor Callanan
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We often receive order's from one customer(partner) but deliver is to a difference customer(partners Customer) how can do this in Zero?
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Conor Callanan
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We often receive order's from one customer(partner) but deliver is to a difference customer(partners Customer) how can we do this in Zero?
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Conor Callanan
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We often receive order's from one customer(partner) but deliver is to a difference customer(partners Customer) how can do this in Zero?
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Hendrik Jap
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Perhaps, best way forward to post on linkedin and other social media. Xero doesn't really care about this 'community'.
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Matthew Baker
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I was at Accountex at the Excel last week (trade show for accountants) and met Xero's UK CEO and I brought this up with her. I hope something further comes from this.
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Shankkar Suyambulingam
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Guys is anyone working on this feature at Xero? With 1200+ votes surely this must be on somone's to-do list.
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John Wyllie
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I asked for this "Improvement" over 10 years ago in this thread (or a previous one). I don't believe anyone at Xero actually takes any notice of this forum. its just here so you can vent and think that something will get done. Xero is far too busy developing "New" features to entice new clients rather than supporting existing clients who they have already "Captured"
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Lisa Gaudie
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Still waiting. Not holding my breath. No response from Xero (Kelly Munro Apr 9,2024) in over a year on an issue that's been ongoing for over a decade.
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David Faulder
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It's obvious to anyone in business that two key features are missing from Xero.
The ability to have multiple addresses in one contact for customers that have multiple sites.
The ability to have multiple persons selectable within a contact for customers where you send quotes to numerous separate persons within a customers company.
This has been ongoing for years with little to no progress. I have no confidence that it is a genuine priority for the development team, they seem to spend their time "fixing" things which in my opinion were not broken to start with.
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Diane Ormston
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Not sure they will do anything as all it gets from Xero is generic email. I hate the new invoicing I find a bit clumpy and I have to do more workarounds to get the invoice raised and emailed.
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Laura Klemencic
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Adding a comment here in the hopes that increase activity on this thread will push Xero to address this issue. It is clearly important to a lot of us, and I'm not sure why it hasn't been rectified? Even just adding a site address field where we can manually input an address would be enough.