ai invoice detail filling
Use AI to automatically fill in invoice submission fields based on past expense patterns and details on the invoice.
It is so painful to manually fill in everything while it's always the same
Thanks for sharing this suggestion, Qiuyang. We can see how having AI automatically populate invoice details, such as account codes, descriptions, tracking categories, and tax settings based on previous transactions, could help reduce manual data entry and speed up sales invoice processing.
For now, there are a few features in Xero that you can leverage to achieve this:
- Use Contact defaults- this will automatically populate the Tax rates, Account codes, and Discounts on every transactions created for the contact
- Use Untracked item - Untracked items are often used for repetitive data entry, especially for businesses offering fixed services
- Use Repeating invoice template - If a customer repeatedly buy the same product or services, you can create a repeating template that will automatically generate at a set intervals with the same details each time
- Copy from existing invoice - you can copy a customer's existing invoice to a new draft invoice if they are re-ordering the same items/service
- Add last items option - when creating a new invoice for a repeating customer, there will be an option for you to 'Add last items' that will add items from the last invoice you sent to that contact
Alternatively, if you're referring to Bills (purchase invoice), you can consider uploading bills into Xero which will then be processed by our Smart document Capture AI to populate draft bills with details from the uploaded document.
If we've misunderstood your suggestion, or the existing feature is unable to fill the gap, feel free to reach out to clarify why this is not working so we can review this idea again :)
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Sharon Asplund
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This feature would be so incredibly useful and time-saving! I have a number of clients who use weird/antiquated/paper invoicing and rather than having to fill out a spreadsheet to import them, I would love to see a similar setup in Xero for uploading invoices to the process that exists for bills: having AI scan and pre-populate a draft invoice based on a pdf that I simply drag and drop into Xero. This would save me so much time!