Sales Invoices - Bulk remove/void
It is all too easy to accidentally upload a batch of sales invoices to Xero from the wrong period. It can then take absolutely hours to delete these as Xero does not have the functionality to remove these en masse.
Hi community, thanks for sharing the challenges you face around deleting invoices.
Right now in Xero, invoices with a Draft status can be deleted in bulk from the list view - simply select the invoices and you’ll see an option to Delete at the top of the list.
We understand that for many in the thread here you’re referring to the ability to bulk remove invoices that have an approved status(bulk void) and I have just updated the title of this idea to better reflect this.
This isn’t a feature we have planned at this stage, but maybe something we explore longer term as a possible enhancement to the list view. For the time being, while not within the product for those with more technical resources there’s capability via our API that you may like to consider.
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Emma Burmister
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Client's often integrate software's without checking the ramifications first. As BAS Agents we should be able to bulk VOID rather than void individually, or clear through suspense accounts.
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Brenda Frear
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Really need this feature asap :)
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Jules Jones
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And me please!
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Darryl T
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Still need this feature here too!
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Clare O'Neill
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Adding my voice to the request to be able to bulk delete approved invoices. Again, integration with a separate platform means double work when each invoice is imported and approved automatically. I have several clients and have worked out a much simpler and more effective way of accounting for income so have 200+ old invoices to delete!
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Kevin Woolward
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This would really assist, especially if you have incorrectly raised about 500 credit notes!!
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Lucy Burton
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I spent 20 hours this month correcting invoices received from eCommerce sights, there was over 3000 bills and invoices each. This is really critical please please add!
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Matthew Mossbarger
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This would be very useful for our business as well. We do a lot of eCommerce and there are about 15 to 20 invoices per month that need voiding to keep the books straight. We do this work at the end of the year. A bulk "Void" button would be awesome.
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Sarah Donovan
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In relation to this request - sometimes the value doesn't show therefore you need to open each individual draft invoice to view it and delete it.
Desperately need to be able to "arrow forward" to the next draft invoice to view and delete instead of backing out of the individual draft invoice and go back into the Draft List to select the next invoice to view. A lot of wasted time and very frustrating. -
Darryl T
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This would be really helpful, I have over 1000 old invoices that need to be voided and doing this manually will be a really poor use of time.
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Wandy Hochgrebe
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Absolutely agree with Oliver Williams! We have customers who change their mind. Also, we had a glitch, which meant a high number of invoices appeared in our accounts and I had to delete them one.by.one
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Peter Monks
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Agreed our website came under bot attack over the weekend and so 1000+ unpaid invoices created and I find it incredible there is no way to batch delete/void these when sat in awaiting payment status.
Come on Xero you really need to sort this critical missing piece of functionality.
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Muhammed Bhyat
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This is XERO. Xero is about convenience. Making This feature available adds to conveniences within your platform.
Why the delay is adding this feature?
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Paula Leggatt
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Such an urgent requirement, with all these apps being connected by clients because of your terrible advertising suggesting that xero can do everything it's self for your business, they connect their apps and it imports all the historic invoices. To have to now manually go through and delete every imported invoice individually for prior periods is crazy, who's paying for this task to be processed to correct the connection issue to Xero?. Xero has created the necessity for Bulk Deletes due to these app connections, but wont provide the ability, Crazy!
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Ashely Feng
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It's a must to be able to batch delete invoices! Because of this missing function, we are forced to think about creating a new account which is so time-consuming and costly.
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Andrew Casal Dominguez
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Hi Kelly,
Some 3rd party integrations such as Link My Books push sales invoices into Xero and are automatically approved by the system. To my knowledge, there is no way to send draft invoices from LMB. It would be great to 'Bulk' delete these sales invoices as sometimes when using a new 3rd party it automatically imports historic sales that have already been reconciled in Xero (in my case over 300!).
Thanks,
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Paul Davis
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It's ridiculous that you can't bulk delete now. How long will it take for this feature to be available?
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Giles Belfrage
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I have 802 accounts receivable invoices that are wrong. I don't think they are drafts. The large balance needs to go. The others are fine. It would take days to void the 802 items. I'll see if I can find the draft list view. The entries were accidentally generated from an app we no longer use.
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Oliver Williams
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Can you introduce a "void " button please on the invoice listing page. We have dozens of invoices that have not been paid as customer cancelled order but we cannot void them in bulk. We would like to use the checkbox next to the listing of invoices and select "void" to do them all at the same time rather than one by one which we do not have time to do.
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Dominic Smith
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Just wanted to add my thoughts to this. I've come across a new client recently where the previous advisor has done a dreadful job of importing sales, with around 300 invoices that need to be manually deleted. Not only this but they've made manual payments, into a control account. This means for every single invoice we have to remove the payment, then void the invoice.
Whilst I understand you can bulk delete in draft, there has got to be a better way for this. This seems like quite a 'basic' feature that you really would expect a software of Xero's prominence to be able to do. I think most people would be shocked to realise that you cannot bulk delete invoices, and a problem like this can only be solved with literally hours of manual clicking.
I know that implementing these things is easier said than done, but if you are going to have a bulk import option (which is obviously good) then it seems a bit crazy to not have a bulk delete option. I realise you'd probably need safeguards around an option like this too, such as the ability to undo your bulk delete.