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Hi team, work for requesting and accept deposit payments has progressed well. We’re now just entering the stage of rolling out a solution powered by Stripe to a limited group of users.

As mentioned in my last update – we’re extremely grateful to our community here, who have shared their interest and provided feedback on how deposits in invoicing would meet your needs. We’d love to hear your feedback on our developments for this feature early and have included anyone that has voted on this idea and is connected to Stripe in the first group rollout – You’ll receive a banner in your organisation on how to make use of this soon.

I’ll share more again here as the rollout widens. Thanks!

Hey community, we want to acknowledge all the feedback you’ve provided on this idea. We know from your comments here and through other channels that taking deposits or partial payments on invoices is a crucial part of the workflow for many businesses, whether it’s to cover initial costs or to confirm a new project.

In terms of current options, within Xero there is the ability to create prepayments. Alternatively there are some third-party apps that serve these needs, too.

However, we do want to share that our product team is actively working on a solution that’ll allow you to request and accept deposit payments.

While we can’t give specifics on a timeline as yet, please know that this is a priority for us. We’re grateful for the detailed feedback you’ve provided so far, which has been invaluable in getting us to this point.

We’ll be sure to keep you updated on our progress right here on this thread. Thanks for being involved and sharing with us through community product ideas!🙂

Thanks for your continued engagement with us on this idea, everyone. We understand there are many different ways business work and conduct business with customers, and that you need more flexibility in the way you manage and receive payments for invoices with Xero. While pockets of research have been done in the past we’re getting a fresh lens and conducting a broader piece of discovery to deeply analyse and understand where our efforts could be focused in this space to alleviate existing hurdles in receiving payments for majority of Xero users. We’d like to open the invite to be a part of our teams research pool, where you’d get the chance to share more on the importance of managing payments for your business. This may involve being interviewed, or helping answer questions through short surveys or questionnaires.

✍️ If this is something you’d like to be a part of, please fill in this short form ( https://feedback.xero.com/jfe/form/SV_5iEV1kLZ5FKn5z0 ). Our research team will be in touch with many of you over the coming months. Though we won’t be able to invite everyone into every stage, we’ll return to round out on their outcomes and how this forms our next steps.

Thanks for your continued engagement with us on this idea, everyone. We understand there are many different ways business work and conduct business with customers, and that you need more flexibility in the way you manage and receive payments for invoices with Xero.
While pockets of research have been done in the past we’re getting a fresh lens and conducting a broader piece of discovery to deeply analyse and understand where our efforts could be focused in this space to alleviate existing hurdles in receiving payments for majority of Xero users.
We’d like to open the invite to be a part of our teams research pool, where you’d get the chance to share more on the importance of managing payments for your business. This may involve being interviewed, or helping answer questions through short surveys or questionnaires.
✍️ If this is something you’d like to be a part of, please fill in this short form ( https://feedback.xero.com/jfe/form/SV_5iEV1kLZ5FKn5z0 ).
Our research team will be in touch with many of you over the coming months.
Though we won’t be able to invite everyone into every stage, we’ll return to round out on their outcomes and how this forms our next steps.

Hi community, thanks for sharing how deposits are used in your business and adding support for a direct way to apply a deposit to an invoice in Xero.

Bringing this idea over from our previous forums we appreciate interest for this.

Our team have done a fair bit of research to define what deposits could look like. Right now, there’s dependency on work that is being done to upgrade technology ( https://central.xero.com/s/article/Building-on-beautiful ) through sales and payments, and no direct work for deposits.

• As others have mentioned in the thread – there are options through payment service providers like Stripe to collect deposits via their platform rather than directly on Xero Invoices, and you may want to look into

We’ll stay tuned to the support and feedback here, and share any updates.