Account Transactions: Receipts - Send automated 'payment received' e-mail when payment is reconciled
Ability to send an automated 'Payment received with thanks' email to the customer
Purpose: To give a professional image to users’ customers/clients, and save time in a current manual process
Hi everyone, we totally get how automating the sending of receipts when a transaction is reconciled would free up time and the manual task involved in this activity.
Though not in the pipeline at present, this is a feature our product team would like to explore more in the future.
We’ll be sure to update you all again when we are able to look into this deeper. Thanks
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Mining Store
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Seems like they're too busy lining their pockets & playing with AI to be able to take 3 devs away & get this done in less than a week, sad.
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John McGauran
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You've been saying the same thing for years, what a useless company and team of developers that can't implement this for us. I reckon AI could code this into the system in no time.
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Ashwin Kasi
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I got fed up waiting for Xero to fix this, so I enlisted the help of an AI expert in my network. He has automated the process for me, so I very rarely need to send a manual receipt. It has freed up so much time. If you need to chat about it, pop me an email ashwin@raddigital.co.za
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Kirsty Scales
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So this request has been out there for 10 years and it is still not on the Agenda. We have all the fanfare this week around JAX automating bank reconciliations for us - yet, we still have to go in to manually send the receipts, one by one, so where did that get us - nowhere. Imagine a world where an improvement was one the users actually needed!!!
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Nick Putman
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They totally get it and yet they totally will not do it.
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John McGauran
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we've been hearing this for years, it's ridiculous that you don't add it.
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Stefania Rochford
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This would be a life saver in our small team...
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Kenneth Schwartz
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While you are working on solving automation, here's something easy Xero could do right now without a lot of engineering: allow the following fields in the Receipt email template:
[Invoice Number]
[Currency Symbol]
[Currency Code]
[Invoice Total Without Currency]
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Stefania Rochford
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This would save soooooo much time! Please do this ASAP!
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John McGauran
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This is beyond ridiculous that this feature is not available. Even a tick box when you reconcile, saying, send payment receipt.
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Jignesh Buddh
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Dear Xero team, could you please update on this topic? For us this is Must have features. You can start with simple email notification saying payment amount, payment date and Invoice (if any) against which payment is applied. where payment amount is less than invoice amount, it can send partial payment confirmation and remaining amount pending. Where it is reconciled but it is over paid the email will can just say payment amount received without other details of invoice.
In case remove and redo, if it is difficult to notify the correction you can leave it to manual for the user to act as of now. but if email confirmation works other than the case of remove and re do it will automate 95% of the manual work.
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Nathan Kershaw
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I'd like this to be an option when reconciling payments, as that is the only time I typically interact with an invoice after it has been sent out.
This would markedly improve the workflow for me, as at present I have to manually click through to invoices, find the specific invoice, payment, options, and then Send Receipt.
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Edward Kay
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Hi Xero,
Before any work on this, please address https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/44960536-xero-mail-send-as-company-name-com-not-message first.
Email sending features in Xero are useless until this is resolved.
(If you are following this issue, please upvote the linked email issue.)
Thanks
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Homeward Bound
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I submitted this idea 3 years ago!
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Tony Lamberton
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Just checking back in 2025- i still think this feature would be valuable (idea originator).
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Vicky King
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We have a lot of members and I need to send receipts daily, but not to all - please add this feature!
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Shaun Killian
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Any news yet
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Denym Bird
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While not native to Xero, we have solved this at Paidnice with an email policy that triggers when the Xero invoice is marked paid (so reconciled, either manually or via any of your payment methods). Wrote a quick blog about it incase anybody wants to try it out: https://www.paidnice.com/blog/setup-automated-payment-received-email-xero
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HRBK Strategies
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This is a fantastic idea and would hugely improve automation and efficiency in invoicing.
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Clarence Yap
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An Auto-receipt option is very much needed! Allow us the toggle option for each customer at set up.