Xero Mail - Send as @company-name.com not message-service@post.xero.com
Ability to make an email sent from Xero appear as @company-name.com instead of message-service@post.xero.com, when users send an email to their client/customer.
Purpose: To provide more validity when sending communications from Xero out to clients/customers and avoid items ending up in Spam/Junk mail.
Hi community, thanks for sharing your continued interest here. We appreciate the importance of having assurance that mail you send from Xero is being received, and that being able to send from your own company email would increase confidence in this process.
I can confirm this idea has been continually reviewed by our product teams, and being able to send from your own company email is on their radar. Currently there are other priorities, and platform work that requires their attention, before they can consider this more deeply.
When there is opportunity to pick this up, I will share any news with you all here.
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Neil Farnham-Smith
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IT professional here.
What a load of rubbish. Leave the complex to those willing to do it, for everyone else they can use the current as the default.
What are others using? - time to move platforms.
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Chris Apperley
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Bit of a no brainer really
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Jeremy Cooper
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+1 - Please, We are an IT Comapany and our own software is flagging the emails as impersonation, The messaging-service@post.xero.com email has been flagged as spam in many systems because anyone, Even scammers, can purchase a xero subscription and send invoices to whoever they want
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Edward Kay
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+1 (more if I could)
It seems many company firewalls are now explicitly marking messages from messaging-service@post.xero.com as spam, or in some cases deleting them without even reaching the recipient's inbox. I have examples of both from my clients. This is despite the Xero address passing SPF / DKIM / DMARC checks.
PLEASE give us the option to set up DKIM records on our own domains so we can authorise Xero to send email using our own domains.
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Perry Paolantonio
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First, it's not that complicated for them to implement. They're just not interested in doing it.
We're switching to Zoho books. It supports DKIM/SPF authentication, and also addresses two other big issues we have with Xero. The only reason it's taken us so long to do it is that we're a small company and moving 2 years worth of records over is a bit of a process. I'm hoping to get to it before the end of the year so we can ditch Xero. Zoho is slightly less expensive for us as well.
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Nathan Peacher
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Yeah, this is sad and could truly be the end for a lot of customers using your service, including myself. I've been a customer for over a decade.
All of us are trying to get paid by our clients, and since Yahoo and Gmail made authentication a requirement early in 2024, we can't get paid if our emails end up in our clients spam folders.
I understand its complicated but putting the burden on us to notify our clients, and then have our clients pay an IT person to add the domain to their safe senders list is unprofessional and inconvenient.
Since this is closed we might as well start recommending some other services that are comparable to Xero. Anybody have any recommendations of where to move to?
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Laurent Bangil
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As other have said, this is an extremely critical and urgent feature.
I spent an awful amount of time chasing prospects and customers alike because quotes, invoices and purchase orders, more often than not, get stuck in their spam folder.It looks extremely weird to our customers when the payment links and emails from Stripe use our domain but somehow the invoice and quote don't.
Please make this feature a priority.
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Griffin Granberg
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Not sure why this is closed to vote?
This is something that needs not only be placed into your roadmap but should be prioritized high.
Please discuss the use of entri for help with dns entries.. (see: https://www.entri.com/products/connect ) which makes developing an internal product that requires customers to edit dns records.
Also, deliverability would be better with well setup subdomain (@inv.company.com).
I'm sorry but this just seems like a great way to advertise Xero.. but the fact is a lot of people that we may send invoices to may not know Xero and i don't want to educate them on what it is, and that "yes it is ok, the invoices are real"...
I am new to Xero, but I won't use the invoice system until this is updated.. and honestly, I may just switch.
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Maynard van Gend
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I make use of external email sending services that comply with SPF, DKIM and other email sending requirements that are configured on the domain DNS servers. Either allow us to make use of and external email sending service, or integrate the same features into your product so that our emails do not come from Xero.com and end up as SPAM or Junk email.
This is a critical feature that needs to be added.
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Adam Vann
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The fact every other accounting software can do this, and I pay a fortune for Xero to only then go and chase all my customers as it's in their junk box. Please can this be sorted out
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Perry Paolantonio
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@David Boshoff: their “solution” doesn’t work if all mail coming from post.xero.com has been blocked at the server level. The IT departments at two of our customers have done this. So it never even gets to the recipients inbox.
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David Boshoff
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It's funny you say for spam control, as my invoices sent from Xero's email service are increasingly ending up in my customer's spam. The solution I received from Xero is to have my customers add the address to their safe-contacts list but getting new customers every day this solution is ridiculous.
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David Hyde
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I would like to see that Xero supports proper email aliasing. That way even though the email is coming from your server, it appears as though it came directly from me. SO many services are providing this as a standard feature.
Customers are not expected to keep an eye out for emails coming from mail accounts that don't make sense to them (e.g., messaging-service@post.xero.com). In this modern age, it looks like junk or a phishing scam (and corporate IT departments are training their employees to look out for suspicious and unknown emails). Unfortunately, invoicing emails are being trashed, filtered and ignored.
Thanks!
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Maylen Arroyo Alvarez
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Please this is extremely important. I have to chase people to pay me because their invoices are in the spam folder!
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Luke Kroon
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Can't believe they are not reconsidering this.
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Severin Roos
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Please implement this feature! If a customer has a e-invoicing system, I can not register the Xero E-Mail address as a verified sender and need to sent the invoices manually by E-Mail again.
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Teck Fuh Chin
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My organisation is uisng gmail server. My workaround is to create a Google group, add all the intended recipients to the group. The invoice is then sent to that Google group whereby all recipients in the group will get a copy of the invoice. This works for me.
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Tim Bowen
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Without being able to send invoices from Xero your competition is looking very good. Even QuickBooks offers this!
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Tim Bowen
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This is very important since currently we are unable to send invoices from Xero since they all get marked as SPAM.
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Derek Middleton
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With the implementation of Google and Yahoo email security please enable the ability to send out invoice, quotes and statements using our own domain.
We are seeing more emails that are sent from within Xero being flagged as Spam or put in Quarantine, especially if the recipient is using Outlook 365.
Xero needs to implement the ability to send from Xero from our own domain.
Please furnish us with SPF sending ip/include host name and DKIM certificate. This will reduce the number of email blocked/junkmail, and increase the security of mail sending.