AI everywhere - Use AI to add details on bills uploaded to Files
Many of my clients upload supplier invoices directly to Xero, where they appear in the Files section.
Currently, when selecting an uploaded invoice and choosing Add to new → Bill, Xero creates a blank bill rather than extracting and pre‑filling the invoice details. In contrast, invoices received via Email to Bills are automatically processed and prefilled using OCR/AI.
It would be extremely helpful if invoices uploaded to Files could be processed in the same way, allowing Xero to prefill a new bill using AI or OCR. This would avoid the need to ask clients to change the email address they use to send documents into Xero and would significantly improve efficiency for practices managing multiple clients.
Please consider adding the ability to apply the same AI bill‑creation logic used by Email to Bills to invoices uploaded directly to Files at the discretion of the person reviewing the file.
Craig Bush
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Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea and explain how you and your clients are working today. While we can’t comment on specific future changes, we’re actively investing in ways to apply AI and data capture across Xero to help automate more of the manual work in workflows like bills and document handling. Our goal is to use AI where it genuinely adds value for customers – reducing data entry, improving accuracy, and making it easier to manage documents regardless of how they’re brought into Xero. Feedback like yours is really helpful in shaping where we focus those efforts, so we appreciate you highlighting this scenario.
