Sales Invoices - Combine and hide line items for customers
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
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.
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Trina grant
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I agree , I would like to be able to track costs (external) for end of month reporting but not show these line items on quotes and invoices to clients / customers. For us we need to see the estimate, quoted, actual cost and invoiced as line items for financial reporting but not on any invoices. It has been suggested to use folders but there are some holes in this theory. Would love to hear work around for this.
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Jamil Dagher
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There are internal accounts that are billed to offset each other (ie: accounting of retention) These are internal and have no impact on the subtotal of the client invoice and should not be viewable to the client, but are necessary for accounting and billing to the internal accounts on an invoice by invoice instance.
We require that Xero gives the ability to either:
1. Hide line items on a client invoice
or
2. Have a means to select Chart of Account codes that make a line item internal when allocated to these codes and thus are not viewable on a client invoice. -
Hollie Doran
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This is critical for my business. Please make this change.
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Jake Daniels
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Please everyone raise this with your Xero account manager every week / month. Enough noise and they will get the idea eventually!
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Daniel Smith
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I think the Tradify app does it but the extra cost per month was prohibitive for me
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Lorraine Adams
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No & no surprise.
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Lorraine Adams
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Nope - nothing I've ver voted for has been implemented. Waste of time - people I know don't give this 'voting' etc etc the time of day. Too busy implementing workarounds....
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Sophia Phokou
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Cannot believe this still has not been done. Has anyone found an app that can connect and do this as this is critical for us now
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Bob Crawford
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I am VERY keen to have a function where I report one line to a customer but am able to allocate the revenue across multiple accounts within our accounts
I would have thought this function is important to many businesses - for example those that pay a small commission on sales to an intermediary
Or where there are different revenue streams that need to be recognised for management accounting purposes - but only one total amount is to be shown to the client
This function has been requested elsewhere on Xero for well over a year but does not seem to have been considered or actioned by Xero
Please help !
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Rydgeview Contracting Limited
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This would be super helpful to our business and I can't believe its not something that Xero already offer. We have found this feature in the Fergus system which can integrated with Xero, but we are not wanting to run additional programs if we can help it. Definitely something Xero should look into
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Bang on Electrical Services
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This feature would help me out a great deal, as I like to give clients the total without each line item for them to query, and then be able to show them a detail breakdown if they request it
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Georgia Binmore
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This would be really useful, it could be as simple as having an additional field available in Invoices, called 'Summary' or 'Line Item Summary' which could be merged into a custom invoice template and used in the description line for the subtotal.
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Lorraine Adams
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This is second to top of my desperately wished for , for many YEARS now, along with access options in the reporting module reporting for our practice & client data sets. (Oddly, I don't need/want our sales ledger or purchase ledger clerk to see what other staff, directors etc etc earn or what the company's profit is/isn't this month....)
Back to the issue - yes, I need granular structure in my invoices for internal reporting, but a simple subtotalled for example invoice to issue to clients. I need both, from the same invoice, with no faffing or trendy 'workarounds'.
Ever more apps, good revenue stream for Xero, but the product stays fundamentally the same.
But at least we can see 10 instead of 8 items in the bank feed screen now. That was jaw dropping disappointment after all the hype.