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why cant we see when invoice have been opened
Would be good to see when the invoice has been opened with date and time. You can see when it's been viewed but none of the above. Would be handy as some customers say they haven't seen it because they are late paying when in fact they have opened it. Think every time they go to it it should be shown.
Might help if a court case or small claims would to happen!
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When you enter an email address in the pop up window when sending an invoice or quote. It automatically saves it to the contact used.
When entering an email address in the pop up box when sending an invoice or quote. It automatically saves that address to the contact used in the invoice or quote.
(Like Xero used to do)2 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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transport invoice with fuel levy
transport invoice with fuel levy included in austrailia
2 votesThanks for raising this idea Paul, we will need more details of what you are actually wanting to see in Xero regarding the fuel levy. We are not able to review this Idea with out further detail. If you can give us as much information as possible that will be helpful for us.
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Xero App - Send an invoice via SMS from the app instead
Allow the send invoice by SMS option to be available in the mobile app. Moving the option of sending an invoice by SMS to the top of the page instead of at the bottom would be much better too. Most businesses will have templates set up, so this is why it would be easier to have the option at the top of the page.
4 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand that when you’re working on the go, being able to send invoices quickly can make a big difference, especially when customers prefer receiving updates by text.
The suggestion here is to add a direct SMS option in the mobile app, so users can send invoice links to customers without needing to switch between apps or copy and paste details manually.
For now, you can use your device’s share options from the invoice to send the link through your preferred messaging app. While this isn’t the same as having a built-in SMS option, it can help make sharing invoices easier in the meantime.
We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and gather more feedback from businesses using mobile invoicing workflows.
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Invoicing - Awaiting Payment list - Display average number of days they pay in
Invoicing - Awaiting Payment list - Display average number of days they pay in
When looking at the Invoices Awaiting Payment list, it would be very helpful to see the average number of days that customer pays in – so I know if it’s time to start chasing them.
Purpose: There’s no point in chasing an overdue invoice if I can see that it’ll likely be paid tomorrow. As it is, it takes 3 clicks to find that stat.
2 votesThanks for sharing this idea 😊. We can see why having the average number of days a customer usually takes to pay visible directly in the Awaiting Payment list would be helpful.
At the moment, this information is available on an individual contact record rather than in the invoice list view. We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can better understand how many customers would like to see this surfaced more directly in the invoicing workflow.
We’ll continue to keep an eye on the feedback and update you here if there’s any news to share.
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Bills - Ability to add Posting Period to manage late bills
Serious limitation in Xero is TB period control. Currently the TB is created using transaction date, so late bills effect prior period instead of falling into the current account period. This is a key feature of any accounting system and a major limitation of Xero for SMEs.
To make this work it feels like a very simple change is required:
- ability to select period when entering a bill, sales invoice or journal (drop down field)
- ability to produce TB by either date (current set up) or period (field referenced above)
This seems like such a simple alteration and would open…
2 votesHi Ben, thanks for sharing this idea. We can see how having separate document and posting dates could provide more flexibility when recording late supplier bills, while helping preserve reporting for closed periods.
I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If you use this workflow, it'd be helpful to know whether you're mainly looking to improve month-end reporting, audit requirements, or both.
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Invoices - Ability to send "Paid" invoices (receipts) via SMS
Would like to be able to SMS fully paid invoices.
2 votesHi Jane, appreciate the feedback here. We understand that payment confirmation is an important part of the customer experience.
Extending SMS functionality to include “Paid” invoice notifications or receipts could provide a quick, mobile-friendly way to confirm transactions. We’ve updated this to Gaining Support so we can track interest and share it with the product team.
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New Invoicing - Add a Print PDF where you can directly print from the invoice (not download)
New Invoicing - I need to print invoices regularly for counter sale customers. Using new invoicing it used to open a new chrome tab when you clicked Print PDF from there you could print or download the invoice easy.
In a recent update (See link https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/47646932-new-invoicing-print-pdf-option) the Print button now only allows you to Download invoices.
Please revert to the old system where printing or downloading took the same number of clicks
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- Change the current Print PDF button to read "Download PDF"
- Add a new "Print PDF" Button that actually prints the invoice.
381 votesThanks everyone for your feedback on the invoice print option. We know how much our customers value efficient workflows, and appreciate you sharing your thoughts on how the current "Print PDF" button works.
For those of you looking for a smoother printing experience, a helpful workaround is to set your browser to automatically open PDFs in your preferred viewer after downloading. This can save you a few clicks in the process.
In the interest of transparency, a direct print PDF functionality that go through the download step isn't in our development plans.
You can continue to vote on this idea so if our position changes in the future we will update you all, here.
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Invoices & Emails - Support Markdown-style text formatting
A simple solution for those that want to format their text when emailing would be to allow formatting that WhatsApp uses, where you simply add * either side of word or sentence that you wish to format as bold, for example.
https://faq.whatsapp.com/539178204879377/?helpref=hc_fnav&cms_platform=web
3 votesThanks Eamonn for the feedback here. We hear that having a quicker way to format text in invoices and emails would help improve clarity and workflow efficiency.
Being able to apply simple Markdown-style formatting while typing could make it easier to emphasise important information like due dates or payment terms. This has been moved to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and share it with the product team.
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E-invoicing - Ability to send e-invoice from US organizations to other countries
US businesses who sell to the EU and other countries where E-invoicing is quickly becoming or is already mandatory would love an integrated solution within Xero.
1 voteHi Kellie, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand how native e-invoicing support for the US region could help streamline invoicing and support businesses as electronic invoicing becomes more widely adopted worldwide.
I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If US e-invoicing is important for your business, we'd be interested to hear which networks or customers you need to connect with most.
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Search - Auto default cursor
Instead of a search button, the search field should be displayed by default and the cursor should default to that field. That way we can just type our search terms without first clicking on a button or a field.
2 votesThanks for sharing, Douglas. I see you've posted int he Invoicing forum and I just wanted to check if you're referring tot he Global search (in the blue banner) or the search bar within invoice lists?
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Invoicing - New invoicing layout is due for an update
With the changes and improvements to the design of the Purchases overview > Bills page and tabs quite some time ago, it would be expected and easier to navigate through Xero if these design changes reflected in the Sales overview > Invoices page. The invoices page (despite the new invoicing experience when opening an invoice) is still the old outdated design that the Bills used to look like.
The bills and invoicing used to be the same design and while it's great to have an improved design in the bills section, it is sometimes not intuitive that the invoicing has…
5 votesHi Cameron, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Feel free to share it with your peers so they can also add their valuable feedback.
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Invoices - Expand native e-invoicing (Peppol network) support to European countries
Ability to send e-invoices to Europe (in Euro via Peppol).
This rolls up many other product ideas about sending e-invoices to European countries e.g. Spain, Germany, France, Belgium.
All that is required is an update to the Contact form (which currently just has ABN) to include a field for the Peppol Participant ID. For example, OpenPeppol (AISBL) itself has a Belgian ID of "0208:0848934496" (ISO6523-country-code:country-company-number).
3 votesHi Rick, thanks for raising this idea. We understand you’re looking for Peppol e-invoicing to be available across European regions, making it easier to exchange invoices with customers and suppliers through the required networks.
This could help streamline compliance workflows and reduce the need to manage separate solutions.
We’ll continue to monitor feedback and input from the community here, especially around which countries they'd like this feature to support.
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Xero App - Display 'Email to bills' address in Xero app
Xero’s unique “email to bills” address is only shown in the web version, this is bizarre as I will often have PDF attachments come through on my mobile email platform and I need to forward them to the relevant Xero account (we have 30+), I have to physically log into a laptop to get the unique email address, why can I not get this on my Xero / Xero me app? Can you add this, it should be very simple
2 votesHi Damien, thanks for taking the time to suggest this. Being able to access the "Email to bills" address from the Xero mobile app could make it easier to forward bills and receipts while you're away from your desk.
For now, you can log into Xero browser edition from your mobile devices, or save the 'Email to bills' address separately so you can refer to it on the go.
I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support. If this is something you'd like to see, please keep voting and share how having access to the address in the mobile app would support your workflow.
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to be implemented correctly
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 Level AA need to be correctly implemented into all areas of Xero, including payroll, invoices and quoting, purchases, accounting and all other areas. Auditing of the solution needs to be done using professional auditors with lived experience. many areas of Xero do not meet the guidelines.
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Invoices - Add a warning or lock when invoice is already being worked on by another user.
When two users open the same invoice draft on different devices and make changes simultaneously, only the changes made by the last person to save and close the invoice are retained, resulting in earlier changes being overwritten.
It would be very helpful if Xero could restrict invoice drafts to be opened by only one user at a time, or provide a warning/lock to prevent simultaneous editing and accidental data loss.
7 votesHi Malki! Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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Invoice - Ability to add multi section invoice
On Invoices and Quotes, being able to add rows which sole purpose is to form a header or a group.
What I mean by this is, for example, if I was doing a decorating job for a customer where I was decorating 2 rooms, for ease of understanding, I could separate the materials and costs for each room and group them under a respective header/group, thus allowing them to be easily kept under one invoice/quote.
This would also work really well for quotes where a job may have multiple options for a customer to potentially choose from.
I have used…
3 votesThanks for sharing here, jason - We have an existing idea around multi sectional quotes that I've added your vote to and have adjusted the title of your idea here for the Invoices side of things.
We'll be sure to update you if there are any updates for this in either feature.
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Invoices - Recording if CIS statement has been received
On invoices with CIS deductions can we have a button or something to indicate if a CIS statement has been received for the deduction and then a report for which invoices haven’t received a CIS statement so easier to see who needs chasing rather than keeping a separate spreadsheet elsewhere of received CIS statements.
3 votesAppreciate your request here, Carey. Right now, you can use the CIS Suffered report to monitor deductions recorded in Xero, however understand this doesn't enable you to track CIS statements received at the invoice level.
This isn't something we have plans for atm, but we'll continue to get a gauge of support in this from your idea. I'll share if there are updates.
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Repeating Invoices - Ability to bulk update repeating invoices
Repeating Invoices - Ability to bulk update repeating invoices.
We provide a subscription service which some of the 470+ customers have been using for years.
At times we make changes to T&Cs, the wording, rates, payment services etc. and it would be extremely times shaving if we could do bulk changes i.e. change the Item, Due Date, Reference, Payment Services etc, without having to go into each repeating invoice individually.
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Navigation - Quick Switching Between Invoices, Quotes & Bills
Be able to swipe (or buttons on the desktop) - left and right between invoices, quotes etc (both for all of them and for each company)
5 votesHi Mark, it’s clear that being able to move between different transaction lists more easily would make workflows smoother, especially when you’re juggling multiple parts of the business—like checking a quote one moment and verifying a bill the next.
At the moment, switching between Invoices, Bills, and other areas often means going back to the main list, which adds extra clicks and interrupts your flow.
As a workaround for now, you can right-click on Invoices or Bills in the Business menu and select Open link in new tab. This lets you keep multiple screens open at once and toggle between them without losing your place.
This idea has been moved to Gaining Support so we can track interest in a built-in quick-switch feature.
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