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Xero App - Send an invoice via SMS from the app instead
Allow the send invoice by SMS option to be available in the mobile app. Moving the option of sending an invoice by SMS to the top of the page instead of at the bottom would be much better too. Most businesses will have templates set up, so this is why it would be easier to have the option at the top of the page.
4 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand that when you’re working on the go, being able to send invoices quickly can make a big difference, especially when customers prefer receiving updates by text.
The suggestion here is to add a direct SMS option in the mobile app, so users can send invoice links to customers without needing to switch between apps or copy and paste details manually.
For now, you can use your device’s share options from the invoice to send the link through your preferred messaging app. While this isn’t the same as having a built-in SMS option, it can help make sharing invoices easier in the meantime.
We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and gather more feedback from businesses using mobile invoicing workflows.
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Invoices - Adjust margin and header spacing controls within Standard invoice templates
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 itemsOr
Add an option to crunch the line items with none, single or double line spacing between each item listed.
4 votesThanks 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.
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Reporting - Include Quotes and Purchase Orders in Short-Term Cash Flow forecasts
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?
4 votesHi 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.
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Invoices - Retain and save the selected Account Code on line items with a $0.00 amount or 100% discount
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?
4 votesHi 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.
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New Invoicing - New Invoice button
When creating a number of invoices the new invoice link is hard to find. Instead of a text link have a button for new invoice in the header on the invoicing page
4 votesThanks for raising this Idea with us, we can see the value in having the New Invoice button in a position that is readily available from any part of the invoicing process. We have moved this to Gaining Support so we can track interest, now all you need to do is share with friends and colleagues and get them to vote and comment.
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Invoices - Set Recurring invoice date to none
I would like to be able to set a recurring invoice date to no date or none, so I could create the invoice when it is required
4 votesHi Richard, at the moment, recurring invoices requires the "Next Invoice Date" during setup. We understand that being able to set this field to None could introduce more flexibility in the use case.
We'll continue to track interest and help our product teams understand the value of adding a “no fixed date” option or manual trigger for recurring invoice templates.
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Quote - "Copy to draft quote" to copy ALL details
"Copy to draft quote" to copy ALL details from the invoice.
Currently, when a new quote is created from and invoice using "Copy to draft quote", not all details are copied form the invoice.
For example, the currency is not copied from the invoice but from the customer's default currency (which may be different than the invoice's); I am not aware whether other parts of the invoice are not brought over to the quote.I contacted support who confirmed that this is a feature - it is actually done on purpose.
I think this is in fact a bug and…
4 votesThanks for sharing your feedback on this. We understand why it would be helpful to have complete confidence that all details carry over when copying an invoice to a draft quote. At this stage, we’re going to move this idea to Gaining support so we can continue tracking interest and better understand how many customers this impacts and the specific details they expect to be copied across. While we can’t commit to any changes right now, your feedback is valuable and helps inform how we assess possible improvements in this area 🙂
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Invoices - Allow temporary client invoices without creating permanent contacts
In working with a client who uses Xero as their invoicing system, we’ve identified a practical workflow gap that may affect many small manufacturers and custom-service businesses.
The business does not operate a traditional point-of-sale system. Instead, they produce custom, made-to-order items such as signage and magnets for walk-in customers.
These transactions typically involve:
once-off customers
minimal customer details
immediate payment on collection
no expectation of repeat business
The business must provide proof of payment at handover while maintaining proper accounting records.
With increasing compliance expectations and the move toward e-invoicing, a streamlined method to issue a once-off invoice or…
4 votesThanks for sharing this suggestion, Anzelle. For businesses handling walk-ins or one-off custom work, creating a new contact for each interaction can add extra records to manage. A way to generate temporary or single-use invoices without saving a permanent contact could help support simpler record keeping while still allowing proof of payment.
We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so interest can be tracked and shared with our product teams for review alongside other workflow improvements.
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Invoices - Add a quick "Return to Invoices" navigation shortcut on post-payment validation screens
Add a quick button to go back to invoices especially after posting a payment or while reconciling. Invoices are the thing I use most and reference most but I have to go through like three steps to get back to where i was.
4 votesHi Courtney, thanks for the suggestion. We understand that when processing a high volume of payments, being able to move quickly between invoices could improve your workflow.
At the moment, after adding a payment directly to an invoice, you’ll be redirected back to the main invoice list. From there, there’s a “View invoice” link available in the list, which lets you quickly reopen the invoice the payment was applied to.
We can also see how having a more direct navigation option from the payment confirmation screen could help streamline the process further. We'll continue tracking interest and share an update if this progress.
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Sales invoices - Option to delete invoices <6 years past
Under GDPR, customer data can only be kept for a reasonable period of time.
In the UK, businesses must keep tax records for at least five years from 31 January following the end of the relevant tax year. In practice, this means records need to be retained for 5 years and 10 months.
Your GDPR policy can therefore state that records will be kept for 5 years and 10 months. After this period, continuing to store invoices (for example, in Xero) could put you in breach of GDPR.
To help businesses stay compliant, Xero could offer an optional feature that…
4 votesAppreciate wanting an automated means to simply this process for you. Right now, as I'm sure you've found you can manually delete draft invoices, or Void to remove Approved invoices in your organisation.
It's not something we have direct plans around atm, but we'll get a better sense from the wider community here of others that'd find an automated tool useful for this type of scenario. Thanks
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Repeating Manual Journals - Provide more frequency options
Once upon a time when we used TAS for our bookkeeping services, they had a very useful feature when processing recurring journals. We could choose separately months to correspond to the days clients being charged for. For example, we would pick January, March, May, July, August, October, December to process invoices for 31 days; February for 28 days; and April, June, September, November for 30 days. Once you have that set up initially, you don't have to think about adjusting recurring journals every month. At the moment, it takes me about half a day just to update over a hundred…
4 votesHi Anna, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We understand that having more options in terms of how often the journal should be repeated would be helpful and prevent extra admin. We'll open this up for the community to share their thoughts and vote on it. In the meantime, we'll monitor this space for traction.
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Contacts - Ability to turn off initial icon
Can you please get rid of that annoying image that appears when I'm typing in a new contact on a sales invoice. As I'm typing the image is flashing away on each keystroke and giving me a headache!
4 votesThanks for sharing your idea Jeanette! Appreciate that the contact suggestion popping up at each keystroke can be difficult to navigate and confusing. This is why we will move this idea to gain more support from the community. Feel free to share this with your colleagues so they can share their thoughts on this too! We'll monitor this space for more traction in the meantime.
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Linking timesheets approved by the client to invoice generation
The clients that I provide services to seek as supporting documentation a timesheet that has been signed off by an authorised representative of the client. At the moment I use an excel spreadsheet to do this then manually generate an invoice on the total agreed hours. It woud awesome to have feature where you prepare a timesheet in xero, xero sends a link to the approver to sign the timesheet then xero pulls the hours into a invoice + any agreed expenses (with supporting invoices and signed off timesheet)
4 votesHi Harpal, thanks for sharing this idea!
To make sure we’re heading in the right direction, we’d love a bit more information on your specific workflow.
Could you please confirm if you are looking for:
- The ability to add project time to invoices using Xero Projects?
- Or, are you asking for an integration with the AU version of Xero Payroll, so you can more easily link employee timesheet hours from Payroll directly to your invoices?
Knowing which tool you're currently using (or would like to use) for this process will help our team better understand the request. Thanks!
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Multi-currency Invoice - Do not update exchange rate on invoice after due date has been changed
Currently, when you raise an invoice in a foreign currency it will take the exchange rate as of that hour. If you later change the due date of the invoice, the exchange rate used to convert will change from the hour you raised the invoice, to the closing exchange rate on that day. This causes an issue for reporting where we have reported a revenue figure for a previous month. The invoice on a due date has been changed and therefore the revenue recognised in a previous month has changed. This makes our reports incorrect and could cause issues if…
4 votesHi James! 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
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Invoices - Add payments from the invoice overview
If we could have a receipting screen where we don't have to go into every invoice to receive money would be great.It would save us valuable time
4 votesThanks for sharing this idea about streamlining payment receipting. We appreciate you explaining how a receipting screen at the invoice overview level could help save time in your workflow.
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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Invoicing - Add another Status under Paid | Paid Awaiting Pickup
Please add a tab in the invoices category for "Paid Awaiting Pickup".
Right now under invoices there is a tab for "All", "Draft", "Awaiting Approval", "Awaiting Payment", "Paid" and "Repeating". Our business often has invoiced paid but the customers have not picked up their products. When they come in we have to search to see if what they are picking up has been paid for. A tab for "PAID AWAITING PICKUP" would really help.
4 votesHi there, 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! We can keep monitoring this idea in the meantime to see if it gains more traction.
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Bills - Lock the Attachment preview section when scrolling up and down invoice lines
Attached preview window to stay in locked screen on the Left, with line items to be on the right on a scroll screen. Because if you add attachments to work from, the screen will be ready to view from the top left and if you have more than 20-line items inputted and you're working from the bottom. You can't see what the attachment is to work from. Look at pictures to see the mark up of issue. This issue is same as the bills. The bills attachment is on its on screen, but you can move it where you want…
4 votesThanks for sharing your idea, where you'd like to freeze the attachment preview side of the page, and keep it in view when you're scrolling up and down for entering larger bills.
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 votes and comments about how this would be helpful for them, too!
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Multicurrency - Support for zero-decimal currencies
I would like to suggest adding functionality to better support zero-decimal currencies (such as JPY, KRW, IDR) within Xero. Currently, the system assumes two decimal places for most currencies, which can lead to rounding issues and inaccuracies for currencies that do not use decimals.
Key points to consider:
Currency Settings: Allow users to define certain currencies as zero-decimal so that calculations and display formats automatically adjust.
Tax and Rounding Logic: Ensure compliance with local tax regulations by applying correct rounding rules for zero-decimal currencies.
Reporting and API: Update reports and API outputs to handle zero-decimal currencies consistently, avoiding integration errors.…
4 votesThanks for sharing this idea about zero-decimal currencies might be improved in Xero.
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 also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments about how this would help them, too.
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Invoicing - Send multiple invoices to a custom email address
Currently, in order to send multiple invoices at once, each invoice has it's own email address box to enter the recipient's email, there is no selection available to send multiple invoices to a custom email address in one click.
This would be most helpful, especially when multiple invoices are required to go to a different email address (from the default contact email). At the moment this means entering a different email into each individual address box, even if this means entering the same email up to 50 times for each invoice selected.
4 votesThank you for sharing your vision and highlighting the changes that matter most to you.
Your idea has been reviewed and is now live for the community to rally behind! To give it the best chance of success, be sure to share it with colleagues so they can add their votes.
We’re excited to see the community use the comments to explain how this update would level up their Xero experience
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Inventory - Option to Lock the default Sale Price on invoices
PREVENTING INVENTORY UNIT AMOUNTS FROM BEING EDITED IN INVOICES.
ON A COUPLE OF OCCASIONS NOW I HAVE ACCIDENTALLY TABBED TO THE AMOUNT COLUMN AND ENTERED A QTY. WHICH HAS OVERWRITTEN AN ITEM AMOUNT FOR THAT INVOICE - AS I HAVE MANY SIMILAR INVENTORY ITEMS FOR A CUSTOMER I OFTEN USE " LOAD LAST ITEMS " THAT HAS CAUSED ME MULTIPLE INCORRECT INVOICES AS IT LOADS THE EDITED PRICE NOT THE STD ITEM PRICE LOOSING ME $100s OF DOLLARS THAT HAVE BEEN PAST PAID. CANT SEE A WAY OF MAKING THE INCOICE AMOUNT COLUMN UN EDITABLE -
WHILE PROTECTION OF AN…4 votesThanks for sharing your idea about making this change to prevent accidental (or unauthorised) changes to the sales prices on invoices.
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