Allow quotes to be marked as paritally invoiced.
Currently a quote can only be marked as invoiced or not invoiced. This doesn’t reflect how businesses actually work, and it’s causing real problems with money management and predicted income.
On longer-term projects it is very common to invoice in stages, either by invoicing some items in full while others remain outstanding, or by partially invoicing individual items
At the moment, if any element of a quote hasn’t been invoiced, the whole quote has to stay marked as uninvoiced, even when large portions of it have already been billed. This makes it very difficult to see at a glance what is genuinely still to be invoiced, and makes the quotes list unreliable for forecasting and tracking work in progress. It’s frustrating and creates extra manual tracking outside Xero.
This seems like it should be an easy fix to vastly impove functionallity. It would just require:
A Partially invoiced status for quotes
The ability to invoice selected items, or a percentage/amount of a item, directly from a quote
A view on the quote page showing amount invoiced to date and remaining balance
The quote to update automatically to Invoiced once everything has been billed
This would make Xero far more usable for project-based businesses where staged invoicing is pretty standard
Brooke Waites
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