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  1. Can we have the ability to automatically have each sales invoice shown as surname first, followed by their first name. Instead of the manual task of having to go into their contact details and changing this manually. In our business (as I am sure many other businesses also do) we reference our customers by surname for their jobs.

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  2. We would love the option to add a variable FAF(Fuel Adjustment Factor) in the form of an added percentage of the total invoice, to the invoices we send to pur customers. Currently we have to work this out and enter it into each invoice manually which is very time consuming. If you could add a component to your invoicing that included an optional FAF which could work out the percentage for you that would be amazing. Considering nearly every transport and logistics company we know has now added a FAF to their charging due to the recent volitility in fuel…

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    Hi Ange, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that having a quicker way to apply percentage-based charges could help businesses manage invoicing more efficiently.

    The suggestion is to add an option to automatically calculate and apply a percentage surcharge or fee to invoices, reducing the need for manual calculations.

    For now, you can use a separate surcharge item or connected payment settings where applicable to help manage these charges. We’ll continue tracking this idea here so the community can share feedback and use cases to help shape future improvements.


  3. Hubdoc App. needs the ability to allocate chart of accounts to the bill when uploading rather than always having to do this on the web platform

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    Thanks for your feedback here, Adrian. We can see how being able to assign chart of accounts codes in the Hubdoc app could make capturing bills and receipts on the go more efficient, especially for those working primarily from mobile.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and share the feedback with our product teams as they review improvements to the experience.

  4. Move the entire template up so the "Bill To", Logo and "Company Info are on the same rows.
    There is too much wasted space up top and could be used for more line items

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    Add an option to crunch the line items with none, single or double line spacing between each item listed.

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    Thanks for raising this, Kirk. We understand that having more control over invoice layouts can help keep customer-facing documents looking clean and professional.

    The suggestion is to add margin and spacing controls to Standard invoice templates, making it easier to adjust the layout to align the logo with address and company information.

    For now, Advanced DOCX templates can be used when you need more flexibility over formatting. We’ve moved this idea along to continue tracking interest.

  5. More & more customers/suppliers are wanting their invoices sent to one email & statements sent to another & suppliers want purchase Orders to one & remits to another. An option to have multiple emails and tick box on what is sent where would be very helpful

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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. 🙂

  6. All my clients are on recurring invoices. Every month they get an "Invoice Due" email & then 5 hours later they get a Payment Receipt email. Why is Xero REMINDING my clients that they are paying me money? I have over 30+ expenses on autopay on my credit card. Not one company goes out of their way to reminder me that I am paying them money. But Xero not only tells my clients that they've paid me "another" $1,000 this month, but they tell my client TWICE. A lot of things are unsavory about life, but this feature, which we're…

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    Hi Sal, appreciate you raising a case with our support team about my response and understand where I have misinterpreted your idea (apologies for this).

    I'll re-open and have slightly adjusted the title of your idea so we can begin to get a sense of the interest in having more control of the emails that are sent for auto pay invoices and payments.

    Being open, right now this isn't something we're looking to support with this being a regulatory obligation in some regions. However we can continue to track interest here and share if there are any changes planned around this flow.

  7. I would like to be able to select a covering statement email as the red box with overdue payments is really annoying our scholars. They see this and think it is the amount they owe. Most of our scholars pay in small instalments this is highly confusing for them. If we had a choice of an alternative template it would be really useful. I have written to support and there is not currently an option for this. Their reply is below for you info.

    I understand the issue is with the red box showing overdue amounts in the covering email…

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    ✨ Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea and explain the challenge you’re running into. We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can hear from more customers who would like greater flexibility in how overdue information is shown in statement emails, including different template options.

    If this is something others in your network are running into as well, we’d really appreciate them adding a vote or sharing their use case too. That kind of detail helps our product team better understand the real impact on day-to-day workflows.

  8. Since Cash flow forecasting is relying on Invoices and Bills input, this is not so helpful in real life scenario especially for Project based businesses. Invoices and Bills are always late. Since they're late, they don't appear in your cash flow forecast. What I'm trying to do is to input all expected Sales and Bills in a project via Quotes for expected Sales and Purchase Orders for expected Bills. This way my forecasting will account for Sales and Bills that are expected but didn't happen yet. Can you please create that Quote and PO forecasting please?

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that having quotes and purchase orders included in Short-Term Cash Flow would help give a clearer picture of upcoming cash movements.

    For now, you can review these alongside your cash flow reports to help factor in expected income and commitments.

    We’ll continue to track interest and share feedback with our product teams to help them understand the value of expanding the information included in cash flow forecasting.


  9. Allow customer to choose payment amount especially in iPhone app tap
    And pay feature. My clients pay a deposit but sometimes pay in instalments. There’s no option to choose a specific amount … it’s all or nothing.

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  10. We send out promotional items and invoice these with a 100% discount. When saving the invoice, Xero is not saving the account code that I applied. I've read this is an accounting simplification. We need to see these invoices - is there a workaround?

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    Hi Vanisha, thanks for sharing this suggestion. Retaining the selected account code on zero-value or fully discounted line items could be useful for reporting and analysis, particularly for tracking promotional or non-charged allocations.

    Keeping this mapping in place would help preserve useful context in reporting, even when the line has no financial impact on the ledger.

    We’ll keep an eye on the feedback and interest in this thread.

  11. Notify the client that a Customer has reached (or is reaching) their credit limit automatically via email - the prompt when invoicing is useful but when doing a virtual finance function for a client, an automatic notification to be produced when a customer is reaching the credit limit would be beneficial and would reduce the need for additional external communication

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  12. Your NEW credit note is no use to us as it does not show the client account number (not the bank the contact account number). If you are re-designing a layout at least keep the info you could previously see! Update before this is mandatory please

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    Hi Sally, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

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    Hi community, we appreciate the continued traction this idea's received, and do want to provide clarity and set expectation.

    Your feedback has been valuable in understanding the needs of using description only lines to; add subheadings, provide context for grouped charges, and ensure your invoices are easy for your clients to read and understand.

    To reconfirm, atm - You can add one-off description only lines as you enter an invoice. However, if you add detail to any other field the line will be treated as a 'financial' line and you'll need to include Qty, Unit price, Account and Tax rate.

    • We know some users have set up and saved inventory items for description only lines they commonly use, however as the item code field is used for inventory items the line of the invoice is treated as 'financial' meaning you'll then need to include Qty, Unit price, Account and Tax…
  14. Invoices - Please could we have an option for due date to calculate 45 after the invoice date and then end of the month? EG invoice date 1st May 26, due date is 1st May 26 plus 45 days = 14th June, EOM = 30th June (due date). This is a common way to calculate due date in Southern Europe. Thank you!

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  15. Please can you update the Cashflow Manager so that you can show customers/suppliers by their contact group.

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    H Emma, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too! Cheers

  16. Include a tick box or similar to allow a customer accept some line items and reject others within a single quote. This is helpful for offering a choice of materials with different price points so the customer can choose how much they want to pay.

    Example -
    Line 1 - option 1 cost to build a path with high end materials eg paving
    Line 2 - option 2 cost to build a path with lower cost materials eg gravel
    The customer would select either line 1 or line 2, not both.

    Our quotes often have several options so at the…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We can understand how allowing customers to accept selected line items within a quote could make it easier to manage proposals that include optional services or products, without needing to create and send revised quotes.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this capability would improve your quoting workflow, add your vote and share the types of quotes or scenarios where line-by-line acceptance would be most useful.

  17. Hi Xero Team!,

    Small request....
    Can you please add the option to highlight text or bold text in line items on the quotes page. We often have multiple people working on/adding to a quote, which is sometimes built over several weeks or even months. It would be great to be able flag another staff members attention to an item or a note left in the line item by highlighting or changing text to bold.

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    Appreciate your suggestion, Claire. We can understand how being able to format text within quote line descriptions could make important information stand out and improve the overall presentation of your quotes.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this formatting capability would improve your quoting workflow, add your vote and let us know how you'd like to use it.

  18. Currently, there is no path to follow to an overpayments origin. We need to be able to see which transaction this overpayment came from when there is disputes over the account.

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    Thanks for sharing this idea with us, and for letting us know this change would be helpful for you 😊

    We’ve now moved your idea to Gaining Support so that other customers can vote on it and add their feedback too. This helps our product team better understand how many people are looking for this and the impact it could have.

    If this is something others would also find useful, we’d encourage them to add their vote and share a little more about how this would help their workflow.

  19. Currently Prepayments can only be posted directly to the bank line and so the actual payment must be processed manually in your online banking. We use Batch Processing for our supplier payments, so being able to add it to Accounts Payable instead would make things a lot easier for this saving both time and the risk of a mis-type for bank details. I appreciate this means both sides of a transaction would be in Accounts Payable (for a short while) but it would only be until the Batch Payment process has selected the relevant invoices for payment. This would also…

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    Hey Monica, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

    We’d like to make sure we fully understand the workflow you’re asking for so we can review the idea properly.

    Can you confirm whether the main request is to allow prepayments to be posted to Accounts Payable, rather than directly to the bank line, so they can be included in a batch payment?

    If so, it would also be helpful to understand whether this is mainly for:

    • supplier payments processed through batch payments
    • pro-forma invoices
    • situations where you’d want the audit trail to still be visible through a tool like ApprovalMax

    If you can share more detail about the steps you’re following now, what’s not working well, and what you’d expect the ideal workflow to look like, that’ll make it easier for us to review the idea and move it to the right status.

  20. Hi all,

    I would like to float the idea of including an 'Order' button/tick box on the invoices.

    The 'Order' flag would indicate that this Invoice is still 'In progress' and has not been fulfilled. In this situation the invoice has been created as the Quote has been accepted, however the invoice is not sent for payment until the order has been completed. This would also mean that this invoice is not included in the statement that is sent to the customer..

    This would help with the customers that have terms and/or have agreed to not pre-pay, however pay on…

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    Hi Matthew, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

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