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Simply be able to schedule any invoice on a specific date and time.

There is already a feature request for repeating invoices but small businesses often have single emails/invoices to send and it would be great to schedule one-off emails.

Eg. It is the 30th of November and you have a non-repeating invoice that will be due on December 15th and you would like to send it on the 8th of December. It would be nice to be able to schedule it be sent out on the 8th automatically and not have to log in again on the 8th to send it. It would be great to schedule it.

I would dearly love to be able to create December 2023 invoices before Christmas to be sent on the 2nd January, so that I wouldn't have to come back from holidays early just to ensure continuity of cashflow later.

I'd also dearly love to be able to create the payroll that's due for automated payment during the EOY break before I left to visit family, and have the payslips send on the day that it's scheduled for payment! It's not a break if I have to log in to send payslips, it's technically illegal in Australia for payslips to be sent that early (under the Fair Work Act 2009 they must be sent within 1 working day of the date of payment), and it's definitely illegal for them to be sent after I get back from holidays.

Option to set the time (as well as day) that invoice reminders are emailed out. At the moment emails will be sent just after midnight which is inappropriate for customers (if they don't have their email alerts set to silent).

Option to set the time (as well as day) that invoice reminders are emailed out. At the moment emails will be sent just after midnight which is inappropriate for customers (if they don't have their email alerts set to silent).

A very important and currently missing feature. Can't understand why this isn't already enabled?

Sorry Joe, That doesn't work on a one off invoice. There is no choice for a preference date.

As per Xero's own comment in this post in 2012 (over a decade ago!):

Ability to schedule invoices to be sent at a future date

Purpose: Users can set up a preference date to send their invoice, and to make sure that invoices aren’t sent during the weekend. As it makes them look unprofessional.

Please add this feature!

I don't think it's very professional that all my invoice reminders are sent at midnight to clients. Can this be added to the build list.

This is business critical for admin and bookkeepers, and it's inexplicable that it is not just a standard function from Xero already.

Clients complain all the time and we would to to choose the time of day that reminders are sent.

It would make life easier

Scheduling a time to send invoice and quotes would make a great feature. My husband and I do most of our bookwork at night and would love the function that you can schedule a time the invoice or quote is sent to the customer so we are not sending them at 10pm when people are in bed.

It would be a useful feature to be able to set the actual time of day that email invoice reminders are sent to clients. Many clients do not turn off their mobile phone devices and the reminder can arrive to their inbox as early as 4-5am AWST which can be annoying to some clients. Sleep is precious.

Would be very beneficial

It would be really great to be able to set the time auto reminders of overdue invoices are sent. Customers do not appreciate receiving these emails at 4/5 am and it would be preferred if they could be sent during business hours.

Would be an enourmous help for us busy small business owners!

I often write my invoices late at night but don't want them to send then as I don't want to disturb my clients at that time with an email coming in. But if I approve and then don't send, I have to remember to send later. I could download the invoice and then send it from my email (which has a schedule send option), but this is cumbersome. Please add this feature!!!

Ability to preschedule invoices to be emailed out

This request is categorized wrong. Its currently under For small businesses » Settings & user roles

Should probably be under Contacts & Communication

The ability to send a future dated invoice, in current time i.e. if an invoice is dated in the future, to have an option for it to automatically be emailed to the client on that date of the invoice, rather than the date you are raising the invoice.

An additional button should be created, saying 'send in future' and selecting the date you want it to be sent out on.

This would help save time, as you can pre-record invoices, which you want to be sent out on a particular date.
This is different from using the template, as this would be useful, for invoices that are constantly changing, but need to be sent on a particular date.