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Really happy to hear about the return of this ability!! Thank you!

Is there a reason why a contact is needed to be selected first? The current way for my workflow is to throw my file in and then start working on the invoice details.
It does help improve my workflow, and I would love to see files dragged and dropped without a contact needing to be entered first.

(Riding the old invoicing until the sad sad end)
Thanks again!

Huzzah! Thank you, Xero.

Thank you for adding back a feature that used to be there for years! ;-)

Thanks for letting us know Kelly, it is working for me now and will save me time.

One other related tiny improvement that would help me and no doubt many others would be to be to have a setting to default the "include with online invoice" to ticked. I am sure some people want to add an attachment but not send it to customers, but many of us are attaching files like timesheets that we do want to send to customers. I'd bet if you ran a report you'd find that box gets ticked more often than it is left unticked. If that could be default to on by choice in a setting it would make my end of month invoicing process with 200 or so invoices even quicker and easier. There is another thread with lots of people asking for this https://central.xero.com/s/question/0D53m00007tHJXsCAO/invoices-attaching-a-file-automatically-include-with-invoice-when-sending

Also for your info, dragging attachments anywhere did previously work in new invoicing and then was removed. I used to do it and I've never used the old invoicing system. This is not an improvement for new invoicing but brining back a feature you had before.

Brilliant! I am now able to easily add a file to an invoice! Thank you :-)

Thank you Kelly. Looking forward to hearing that drag & dropping .eml files will also be reinstated.

Thanks for the long awaited update, Kelly. I'm glad to see this basic functionality returned. However, I'm curious to know what you mean by upload is relatively quick. Is this comparable speed to Classic or will it take much longer due to the unwanted and time-wasting auto save function?

HI Kelly,

thank you for the update.

However, it is not 100% restoration of the classic invoicing function. In classic we can drop files to the blank invoice BEFORE we know the customer's name. We will see the customer's name when we open the attached file.

Is it possible to make it in new invoicing?

Please also ensure that .eml files (downloaded emails) can drag and drop as they currently are able to now. The new Xero system does not allow it but it is an essential tool. Thank you.

I have pdf receipts stuck as attachments on many emails, just allow the facility so I can drag from the mail to the hit area, this is such a basic function that even your lower cost competitors allow.

Do we have an update on when this will be rolled out. Removing the drag and drop function is frustrating and creating an added workload and time to each invoice. Please bring back to be able to drop anywhere on the page.
We have made the leap forward to new invoicing and do not wish to revert back to classic just to change again. Please make this a priority.

Can we please make attachments easier to upload in new invoicing.

In the classic invoicing you could drag and drop an attachment/file anywhere in the screen and it would upload an include in the invoice.

In new invoicing you have to click on attachments first and you can only drag and drop in the small box at the bottom of the screen. Making it a longer process and more time consuming.

Please change new invoicing so you can drag attachments over with ONE click anywhere in the screen.

This shouldn't be a "working on it" it should have been done from the start. Supposedly there's been over 30 improvements on the new invoicing yet it seems like it's been over 30 useless improvements or downgrades - multiple drop downs to get to what you want, failure with the history side of things, approve & email default is not an improvement either. All the additional scrolling along with everything else that isn't user friendly.

Sorry but new invoicing is not an improvement on the classic. Big fail on Xero's part.

Any update on when this will be done?
It is extremely frustrating opening the box to drag files into, going to find the file and then when I go to drag it into the box, it has closed and I have to do it again. I add multiple files to every invoice. This is increasing my workload immensely.

https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-xero-to-stop-making-changes

Please sign and share this petition.

After a bunch of basic QA-type testing, I've found that the Attach Files box consistently closes when the invoice is autosaved. So if I wait the eternity it takes to save before I open the box then it doesn't close on me.

Takes forever, though. Seriously, today I gave up after waiting 30 seconds, and then it glitched on trying to delete the faux invoice I was using to test!

Good news that Classic Invoicing is being extended. The most frustrating thing for us on the new invoicing is that you have to open the Attach Files box to upload and by the time you click on the document to upload the box has closed and you have to start all over again. It needs to be, as others have said, drag and drop to anywhere on the invoice.

Have you done any further work on this? Or at least ask your developers to test the system before making it live?

Files will not attach to the invoice the first time you try, it sometimes takes three attempts or requires you to 'Approve' the invoice before it will allow an attachment.

Thank you for extending the classic invoicing to Feb 2025. Please ensure to reinstate .eml files being able to be dragged & dropped to anywhere on the page from downloads. The classic invoicing welcomes .eml files but the new invoicing does not. We must be able to upload authorisation emails with each new invoice. Thank you.