Sales Invoices - Automatic Invoicing Date options
For when creating an re-occuring invoice, there is occasions, where invoices must be sent at specific times of the month, for example...
- Last Day of the month
- Every 2nd Tuesday
- Last Thursday of the month
The reason behind this, is because some companies who you are invoicing operate specific payment cycles, and in order for a small business to get paid within the terms of their invoice ( Late Payment Act 1998 & your own article on [ https://www.xero.com/uk/guides/invoice-payment-terms/ ] - Payments terms are getting shorter )
More tools we Small businesses have, there better equipped we are in order to meet the requirements to the there businesses who use our services, in order for us to get paid according to our payment terms.
Whilst re-occurng invoices feature that you have is a good start, lets expand on this, and make it excellent. Your Competitor, FreeAgent, is and had been able to do this for years now.
Susan Graves
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Sam Williams
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It would be great to be able to schedule invoices which aren't repeating invoices by having them be sent/emailed on their issue date (a future date) rather than immediately when approve & send is clicked.
I have invoices which are paid regularly but not on regular dates or for regular amounts that I would like to process and approve in batches and then have sent out automatically on the issue date stated in the invoice rather than straight away. Say I create an invoice on the 1st of the month with an issue date of the 15th and a due date 21 days later - I would like to approve this invoice and it be sent on the 15th not the 1st, so I can approve it and forget about it rather than save it and have to remember to come back on the 15th and approve & send it.
Many thanks in advance for any consideration or help.
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Books 2 Balance Ltd Dipti Mehta
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Xero Invoicing - selecting an earlier date is so cumbersome and antique fashioned, having to choose from a calendar!
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Hilary Nightingale
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The option to select up to four specific dates per year to generate invoices. The every 3 month option doesn't allow for office closure periods during holiday breaks and at least one of every 4 invoices per year is at an inopportune time.