Invoices - Keep "Add contact's last items" available after saving a draft
The "Add Contact Last Items" link is now only there when a new invoice is created for an existing client however once the draft invoice is saved, the link no longer appears when the invoice is opened again. If the contacts last items are not added before the draft is saved and closed the first time, there is no way to get them back again. This has been REMOVED in the past month so this is not an idea for new functionality, it is a request to put back something that got removed for no good reason.
I dont care if it is a one time only option, ie add last items can only be used once then is disappears but I need to be able to click this link at any time during the month. I could edit a client invoice 10-12 times before it is sent at the end of the month as they are used as my timesheets.
I had to manually re-enter literally hundreds of line items for clients this month which took hours as I was expecting the same functionality I have been used to and using for several years now.
Ben Chapman
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Lisa Miller-Way
commented
I've just emailed them also, I used this all the time when generating invoices. I can't even get it to show up a single time to use it, it just doesn't generate at all!
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Ben Chapman
commented
I requested this a week ago as well, it does affect the desktop browser version too, if the last items is not the absolute first thing you do (before even a single line item gets added), it disappears and cannot be recovered. no response so far. It is a stupid change that makes absolutely no sense and only makes using Xero worse in every way. Obviously no user experience testing ever gets done. Enshittification at its finest.
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Ben Chapman
commented
OK, this is even worse that I realised, or it has been made worse since. Now the "Add Contacts Last Items" disappears as soon as the first line item is entered meaning that it can only be used as the absolute first thing you do with a new invoice. This is beyond **** as a user experience and it is literally enough as a single ***** up for me to look for a Xero alternative. It is that bad. Please listen to your users and fix this as a matter of urgency. Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea. Literally nobody that has every actually used the product in a business would take this away.
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Leeanne Neilson
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"add contacts last", no longer . I used to be able to add a draft invoice on my mobile app and attach photo, then when at desktop recall the draft and add last item which bought up copy of contacts last invoice , of which i could then change as required. The 'add last item' no longer carries over if invoice created on app, if draft created on desk top it still appears. I have updated app and still happening
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Fraser Marcroft
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This is highly highly annoying, I transfer all my invoices from Xero Practice Manager and then edit in Xero before sending out, 90% of my invoices I would use the previous line items and change. Quite often all I am doing is changing the yar which saves typing and a lot of time. I don't mind changes for improvements but this a disaster!!