Email Settings - Specify date/time to send transactions
Ability to specify date/time when users’ want to send emails from Xero.
Purpose: So clients/customers can receive the email during the working hours and not at random time.
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to share that we're moving forward with the ability to schedule the send of an invoice from Xero.
We're in the early phase of releasing our new invoicing scheduler to customers, and appreciating the direct interest you've all shown here we've included everyone that's voted on this idea in our initial rollout!
You'll see a tool tip on the invoice page for email scheduling, and be able to choose the right date/time when you go to email an invoice (from the send email dropdown). 😊
We're really keen to hear your feedback.
We appreciate there are asks within this idea for being able to schedule the send of other document type such as payslips and want to be upfront that this isn't in the roadmap at present. However, once our invoice scheduler is out to all, we'll be monitoring it's use closely and consider how this feature may be expanded to other features overtime.
I'll be back to let you all know when the invoice scheduler is live to everyone.
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Paul Cowling
commented
This feature should be standard.
I would like to see this implemented asap so that I can raise invoices that will be sent to my clients on the date as stipulated in our service agreement/s.
We use the repeat-invoicing feature for static billing, but for dynamic services, require this feature so that I am not sat building invoices on a weekend when the dates fall that way. -
Annie Romanos
commented
Notice this idea was flagged in 2012. Any progress a decade on? This is a fairly standard capability in most apps these days.....
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Robin Zaragoza
commented
Please add this! It's pretty standard to be able to schedule things like emails to go out in other platforms. This should be pretty straightforward, and super helpful for those of us that have invoices to send out on a monthly basis that don't have the same charges every month.
And just to be clear, the use case for me is NOT that that I look unprofessional. It's that I know in advance of a month finishing how much I need to charge a client, but it's not the same as the last month. It's hard for me to predict exactly when I will know the charges for the month - sometimes it's at the beginning of the month, sometimes the middle. To get it off my plate, I create the invoice the minute I know, but given my contract says I will send invoices at the end of each month, I need to send it according to that timeline. So I'd like to be able to create and approve the invoice in the middle of the month, and then schedule it to be sent according to the contract terms.
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AdminXero Team
(Admin, Xero)
commented
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.