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Our products are custom made overseas. We definitely need this function for our business, as the majority of our customers are required to pay a deposit before we can order the product.

Yes, this feature is very important. I represent both construction clients and motor body repairer clients that works for insurance companies that has to deduct a co-payment (called "excess" in SA) and adding it as a item is not an option for insurances strict invoicing protocol. So the deposit feature can be used for the co-payment received from clients. And the building industries 90% take deposits before starting any job. The bells and whisltes is nice (like the reporting feature) but the deposits must be seen as a basic function and not a nice to have.

Exactly! Xero is a premium service and the fact they are choosing to omit this feature is not acceptable. We are in the construction industry and collect deposits on every job. This feature needs to be implemented or continuing to use Xero doesn't make any sense unfortunately.

It doesn't seem like an advanced feature to add - Xero is a premium service, this should have been sorted already!!!

Xero this has been raised for years and I’m shocked it hasn’t been added yet. Pretty poor form from the Xero crew.

Pretty shocked this doesn't exist and absolutely essential in my line of work and won't be sticking with Xero if it is not possible. Can't think of anyone in construction trades who would not want this

Anyone that contracts with staged payments requires this feature.

Amazing that in 2022 this issue of partial payment/deposits has still not been addressed.

The old board was full of requests for this to be sorted. Nice sidestep Xero. The old board disappears so the problem never existed so you can all start again.

Some transparency about why this is difficult to implement may help us understand your situation Xero.

How is this still not available?

Agree this would be a really beneficial addition. We have had clients ask for this exact option. Instead they have to process many individual invoices to complete what could be a very easy process.

How about the ability for the client to just be able to edit the amount of payment line on the invoices so they can at least make partial payments? Is that feature available or can be implemented?

Both functions should be implemented.
Deposits in invoices, incremental and split payments. The deposit is important before starting the job, but at the end of the job, in recent times, many clients don't have enough money, and they have to be "forced" to pay in instalments to clear the balance

This feature would be incredibly useful. Like others we raise an invoice in full but initially require a 50% deposit. We have to manually type in the invoice body the deposit required and also change the email template to reflect this.

this is incredibly critical - it is annoying to have to raise two invoices for one project, one for the deposit and the other for the remaining balance due. If we want to have customers pay online, the only option is to pay the full balance of the invoice, not the 50% deposit due upon acceptance.

Pls add this feature if it’s not available yet

This is an important feature to enable automatic calculation of deposit amounts (eg 50% of amount quoted) and also have the Pay Now function give you the option to pay the agreed deposit amount of the full amount. Please fast track this feature! For some of our clients using Xero, this is a critical function so I've marked it as such.

This is a no-brainer requirement. We need to receive partial payments. If QB can do it so can we, surely!

This is a critical feature. Customer often have to pay deposits against an invoice before work commences. At a minimum, you should be able to enter the date you want to apply a prepayment to an invoice.

Allow customers to pay a deposit towards an invoice instead of paying the full amount.

Allow customers to pay a deposit towards an invoice instead of paying the full amount.

Purpose: Because some businesses start to do their work when the customer pays the 50% amount in advance first.