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  1. To be informed of the status of mail sent from Xero
    Purpose: Identify contacts that mail is not getting to, and ability to validate if information has been received by contacts

    33 votes

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    8 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    Hi team, while we intend to explore more controls of notifications long term I want to be upfront that we don't have any plans for changing the existing invoice notifications in the near term.

    There are also factors on the recipients email providers end that could make this notification difficult to provide with certainty.

    Right now, you'll see an event in the history of an invoice when an invoice is sent from Xero, and you could also choose to send a copy to self as a measure to ensure the invoice can be received in your own email inbox. If you'd prefer these not appear in your direct inbox you could set up a filter to route these to a folder.

    We appreciate the interest here but want to be honest and open with you here.

  2. Ability to reuse invoice number if voided, so the next invoice will use the number from the voided invoice.

    Purpose: Ease of reference and to make the list of invoices cleaner to manage

    171 votes

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  3. Ability to issue progress payments on quotes /invoices to percentage claim certain items or expenses.

    Purpose: Users can see the progress of the payments from their customer just from one invoice instead of sending separate invoices.

    251 votes

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    125 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for everyone’s continued support in this idea. We’d like to update here that accepting a deposit on an invoice is now live to all organisations that use Stripe in AU, NZ, UK, US, CA and SG with remaining regions soon to come.

    We know this doesn’t yet cover fuller progress-payment and instalment workflows, and we recognise those are important for many of you. We’ll keep returning here with more news as work in this space evolves.

  4. Ability to add subtotals in the invoices.

    Purpose: Because some clients are questioning and would like to see more details, and having subtotals can satisfy their needs & wants.

    353 votes

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    132 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    Hi everyone, thank you for continuing to share your feedback on invoice subtotals.

    We know this is a feature many of you feel strongly about, and we genuinely appreciate the time you’ve taken to explain the impact on your workflows.

    While this idea has been closely considered by our product teams we want to be upfront that at this point we don't have any foreseeable plans for developing the ability to add subtotals in invoices.

    As previously shared current options that you may want to explore include;

    • adding a description only line for each section where you can reference and explain the subtotals for a section of lines (leaving the Qty & Price blank),
    • exporting the invoice as a PDF and editing it externally, or
    • exploring invoicing tools in the Xero App Store that offer more extensive services

    We know these aren’t ideal substitutes, but they may help bridge the…

  5. Ability to replicate standard invoice branding theme appearance to look like online invoice.

    Purpose: To make the standard invoice appearance better and more presentable.

    35 votes

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    13 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    Hi everyone, we're excited to share that we are in the process of releasing a new experience for branding with the new Invoice template editor!

    Eventually replacing the Standard branding experience, the new editor allows you to customise and personalise the look of your invoices in a simple form, with a side by side view so you can instantly see how changes will look on invoices sent to your customers. This is in the process of rolling out to all regions, already readily available in AU, NZ, US and the UK. 😊

    I'll be back to share once the roll out is complete.

  6. Ability to add 'comment' only lines on invoices that run the full width of all the invoice table boxes.

    Purpose: Users often want to add some comments specifically to a client in the line item.

    144 votes

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    46 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    Hi everyone, understand the difference between a description only line and what's being asked for in the idea here. 

    This isn't something we have planned at present. 

    We do want to highlight the existing option for anyone interested that could benefit from the option mentioned earlier in the conversation (thanks, Paco) 

    Currently, it is possible to 'description' only lines to an invoice (with no Qty or Price) where you can enter up to 4000 characters worth of detail that could help you signal a note within an invoice to your customer. 

    We will continue to assess ideas in the forum here and let you know if there are any changes surrounding this to share. 

  7. Ability to create email templates using HTML.

    Purpose: It’ll make users’ able to edit the email templates easily, especially when inputting their company logo.

    68 votes

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    25 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    We appreciate the interest in more customisation when sending documents from Xero, everyone. Currently in the space of new invoicing we have recently released a new send modal that enables the use of rich text formatting, and allows you to cc and Bcc emails.

    Currently this is limited to send of invoices with new invoicing only, however over time we will look at expanding this to other areas of Xero that you can send from. I'll keep you updated of any further enhancements surrounding this, here.

  8. Ability to add interest for the late payment. This includes part-paid too

    Purpose: Save time by adding the interest without having to delete the existing one and remake a new one with the additional interest.

    1,114 votes

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    274 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    Hi everyone, a year on from my last engagement we wanted to provide an update for you all here.

    As many will be across we're in the midst of making a lot of iterations and improvements to new invoicing leading up to the retirement of classic invoicing in September (2024).

    We have a fair amount of work lined up in the teams schedule over the coming months and to give an indication there isn't any committed plans around a function to add interest to invoices.

    That said, we do have a team that have picked up and are considering how we might solve this with the technology in new invoicing - It's early days on this yet, but I'll share if there's any progress on this for you all here.

    In the meantime, as has been shared by others over time there are a few ways you could accomplish this…

  9. The ability to recognise future revenue from the invoice.

    Purpose: To find out the future revenue, because for some businesses the invoice that they’ve issued to their customer is the revenue for the future month.

    108 votes

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    Hi all, appreciate the interest and rationale in wanting to be able to recognise revenue of a sale at a date different to that of the invoice or payment date.

    While this maybe a function we look to explore in the long-term we want to be upfront that this is not something we'll be developing in the near term. In the meantime it may be best to look into connected apps that can solve for revenue recognition. We'll be sure to let you know if there's any change around this, here.

  10. Ability to combine and hide line items in the invoices.

    Purpose: To have good accounting and tracking of sales without showing the client the breakdown of all the items involved

    263 votes

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    112 comments  ·  Invoicing  ·  Admin →
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    Hi everyone, thank you for your continued passion, and sharing how having the ability to group or combine line items within an invoice would give you the control to present information to your clients in the best way for your business.

    In lieu of a direct feature, while I appreciate it won’t fit all needs here, the inbuilt calculator may help in some cases to combine costs of multiple lines to one, and we appreciate there are some customers that have explored third-party apps with more extensive functionality for the time being to full-fill their needs.

    We’re updating the status of this idea to Accepted - While this isn’t on our roadmap atm, we see the value in this suggestion and it’ll be considered as we plan our future roadmap. We’ll update this thread if we have any more news to share.

  11. To have the ability for customers to pay deposit through invoices

    Purposes: Business can just send one invoice to customer/client, so they don’t have to send multiple invoices when it comes to part payment.

    514 votes

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    Hi everyone, we’d like to round back to share an update that the ability to accept deposits has now rolled out to all AU, NZ, UK, CA, SG and US organisations, and we expect to make this available to remaining regions soon.

    Staying close to feedback from its release, our team have recently added a due date field in which you can select a specific date that payment of the deposit is expected if this differs from the Invoice due date.

    I look forward to looping back to finalise once we’re at 100% roll out of deposits, and give you a hint of where we’ll be expanding functionality next!

  12. Ability to add date columns for individual line items.

    Purpose: To make users easily put a date for each item. The scenario that can benefit users is for them to show a specific date of when the product/service is delivered.

    254 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for continuing to share your feedback and explain how important it is to be able to add dates to individual line items on invoices.

    While this specific idea isn't directly in our pipeline at present, we're looking more broadly at how we may extend documents to better suit more of our customers' needs. We'll be taking this idea into close consideration as part of that work.

    For now, as noted in my last update the best option to accommodate this in lieu of a direct field is to add the detail to the Description field of the line.

    If there's any progress, we'll be sure to let you all know here.

  13. Between a quote and sales invoice option to create a sales order acknowledgement

    Purpose: To confirm to the buyer that the business agreed on the sales, before sending the invoice.

    152 votes

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    Hi everyone, understand there are some businesses that have other processes in their sales flows that we don't currently have direct features for. Being open we don't have any plans for developing a Sales Order Acknowledgement atm. 

    In lieu of this, we wanted to share how you might be able to create a new branding theme and edit the Quote template for this atm. 

    You could create a separate branding theme for Order Acknowledgements. Editing the title of the Quote template. 

    Once the quote is accepted and you want to send an acknowledgement, you'll want to edit the quote and select the 'order acknowledgement' branding you've created. 

  14. Ability to add units of measure (UOM) and weight to line items.

    Purpose: Customers can have clearer information. Because some of the items that Xero users’ sell are having these.

    180 votes

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    Hi everyone, apologies for the gap since our last update.

    We appreciate your ongoing feedback and additional detail that’s been shared in this thread.

    A dedicated units-of-measure field for line items isn't something we've committed to building as a standalone feature, though it's one we're actively considering as part of a wider look at extending invoice documents to better serve our customers.

    For now, connected apps in the Xero App Store remain an immediate option to meet needs expressed. We'll post an update here as this broader work develops.

  15. To make the credit card fee or online payment fee visible in the invoice.

    Purpose: Vendor/customer will be able to see how much exactly they’re being charged.

    43 votes

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    Thanks everyone, we understand the interest for being able to pass on credit card and payment service fees to your customers.

    Atm, as some of you have noted - if you're using or set up Stripe as a payment service for your organisation you'll have the ability to pass processing fees onto your customers. This'll be included in the Invoice total when the customer clicks on the Pay now button in your invoice - you can read up on and follow steps on this here.

    Outside this service, while not automated there are ways to represent and pass on fees to your customers;

    • Add detail to your invoice payment terms so this is clear to your customer
    • If there is a default fee that'd be charged you might like to set this up…
  16. When reconciling accounts, it would be good to have not only the option to "Search by name or reference" but to also be able to search by account number that's in contact details. For example when we go to reconcile the payment using the the 'Find and Match' option, we can't search by the account number. Even though when we put the name in, it will show the name with the account number in brackets 'Fancy Lollies(1234)' but we cannot search 1234 for it to come up, even though it's showing the 1234 (account number).

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  17. Ability to save / backup branding themes.

    We have set up several branding themes since the update, so we do not want to lose these changes. Is there a way to save them or back them up should there be a problem with branding themes in the future.

    1 vote

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  18. I had a search and can't seem to see anyone asking for this, apologies if they have!

    We use Xero’s repeating invoices for monthly services and have them set to automatically publish and send to save administrative time.

    However, because the invoices are automatically published, nobody is manually reviewing or updating the invoice reference before it is sent. This makes it difficult to quickly see where we are in a fixed-term series of invoices and also makes the existing references quite inconsistent/messy.

    Would it be possible for Xero to introduce a dynamic sequence placeholder for repeating invoices, so that the…

    1 vote

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  19. I use envelopes with windows in them and I am finding the name and address are not clear. They are too far over to the left of the invoice. Could the address be printed slightly over to the right so it fits in the window of the envelope clearly. Also I don't like the customer phone number and email being on the invoice - this too is visible in the window. Can they be removed from the invoice?

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  20. for bill that are posted to the wrong GL account, or wish to reclass to prepayment/accrual, can we have a function to do a reversal/journal on that bill posted instead of having to screenshot and go to manual journal and do a reclass. it will save a lot of time and reduce the effort of having to attach documents.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

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