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Invoice - Ability to rearrange invoice columns
When using the invoicing system in Xero, there is no ability to move columns around. It would make my workflow much easier if I could enter quantity first, followed by product code, as this matches the standard ordering format in our industry. When customers place orders, they typically specify the quantity first and then the product size or code.
In our previous system, we were able to click and drag columns into any order (similar to how line items can currently be rearranged in Xero). However, with the current fixed column layout in Xero, I often find myself writing phone…
3 votesHi Scott and Janine, thanks for sharing your feedback here.
We understand why having the ability to customise invoice column order could make invoicing workflows easier, especially for teams that process a lot of invoices or follow a specific data entry process.
This idea is suggesting the ability to rearrange invoice columns directly within the invoice screen, allowing businesses to set up the layout in a way that better suits their workflow.
We’ll continue to track feedback and interest around more flexible invoice layouts.
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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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Invoices - One-click to Approve, Mark as Sent & Email multiple invoices
It would be great to have a feature to Approve, Mark as sent & Email multiple invoices in one click from the Awaiting Approval Tab. We use a program outside of Xero to add invoice details & amounts and then export to Xero for approval and emailing. At present we have to take two steps to achieve the Approve, Mark as sent & Email result.
15 votesHey Nikki, thanks for sharing this idea.
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 votes and comments too.
In the meantime, it is possible to bulk Approve invoices from the Draft tab. Once this is done, you'll get a message where you can click 'View invoices' and select them all to then Email.
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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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Sales overview page - Option to show Invoices as Tax Exclusive
Kia ora Xero Product Team,
I’d like to raise a feature request regarding how invoice totals are displayed in Xero.
Currently, the Draft, Awaiting Approval, Sent, and Awaiting Payment invoice lists always display totals on a GST (tax) inclusive basis. For businesses like ours that operate and report primarily on a GST-exclusive basis, this creates unnecessary reconciliation effort and increases the risk of error when reviewing invoices in bulk.
While we can work around this by using the Receivable Invoice Detail report set to “Tax Exclusive,” this adds extra steps and does not provide the same quick visibility as the…
13 votesThanks for sharing your idea to have the option to show the invoices on the sales overview as GST Exclusive.
We've reviewed your idea and updated the status to the 'Gaining Support' status. 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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Invoicing - Insurance / Surcharge Line at Bottom of Invoice
Summary:
Allow users to add a dedicated surcharge (e.g. insurance, card fee, handling) that appears as a distinct line below the subtotal on invoices, rather than as a regular line item.
Current LimitationAt present, any insurance recovery or surcharge must be entered as a standard line item. This:
Makes invoices look cluttered when the fee is not tied to specific products or services.
Can cause confusion for clients, who expect insurance/fees to be displayed separately (similar to how shipping or payment surcharges often appear).
Requires manual placement and formatting on each invoice, reducing efficiency and consistency.Proposed Solution:
Introduce…12 votesHi Joshua 👋It's really helpful for us to understand having the ability to add a surcharge or insurance line to invoices is a desirable option. We understand not having a dedicated field for surcharges or insurance can make it difficult to clearly communicate these extra costs to your customers. Currently manually adding a line item for the surcharge or using a custom branding theme to include the information are the only options💡Right now, we're not planning to add this as a specific feature, as our current focus is on some other features that will benefit a wider range of our customers, however we will monitor this for votes and comments from other users 📣
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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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Repeating Invoices - Add one-off charges or additional line items to repeating invoices
Add one-off charges to repeating invoices. Queue a charge to a client's future repeating invoice. This will avoid having to bill separately and forgetting to add the charge after the invoice is created.
1 voteThanks for sharing this idea. We understand the request to add one-off charges to a repeating invoice without changing the recurring template. Being able to include additional work or expenses on the next invoice could make recurring billing more flexible.
We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and share what types of charges you'd like to add.
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Invoice - Send and receive PDF attachments automatically via Xero Network
Xero Network - include PDF on invoices sent through Xero Network when those invoices are raised every month from repeating transactions and sent automatically
Currently, only the invoices raised manually have the PDF attached if raised manually, but not on the ones that are auto posted. Its time consuming to then have to download each one and then go to multiple companies to add it
1 voteThanks for highlighting this opportunity. We understand the request to have PDF attachments automatically follow an invoice when it's sent through the Xero Network. Having everything arrive together could make invoice processing simpler and reduce manual follow-up between businesses.
We've moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know what you'd expect to be included with the invoice.
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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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Invoice reminder - Reply to Email Default to Logged In User
Currently when invoice reminders is turned on by the client, the default address is for the reply to emails seems to be the Subscriber's email. Would be good if it was the email of the logged in user by default.
3 votesHi Melissa, appreciate you raising this. We understand you’re looking for a way to personalise invoice reminder email routing based on the user or team member sending the reminder.
This could help keep communication connected to the right person and make follow-ups smoother.
We’ll continue to monitor feedback from the community and gauge the demand.
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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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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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Invoice Overview - Able to chose default tab it opens up on (Awaiting Payment)
Invoices - Awaiting payment
When clicking on invoices, it would be helpful to be able to select a default invoices tab I would like to land on. This feature is available for Bills and the user is able to select the 'Awaiting payment' tab as a default.
In the interest of having easy access and a quick view on which customers have not paid, it would be beneficial to introduce this feature.9 votesHey everyone 👋,
Thanks for your feedback and for sharing your thoughts on this idea ✨. We'd like to clear up some confusion. If you navigate through the main menu, the Invoices or Bills pages always default to the All tab, but clicking Invoices owed to you or Bills you need to pay from the dashboard takes you directly to the Awaiting Payment tab. As noted by others in this thread, one option for now is to bookmark the Awaiting Payment tab directly from your browser. Our product teams are continuously reviewing all the feedback on the Xero Product Ideas portal. While we can't make any promises about if or when this idea will be developed, your votes and comments are essential for helping us understand what's most important to you. We'll be sure to post another update if there are any changes to the status of this idea. In…
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Invoices - Set Recurring invoice date to none
I would like to be able to set a recurring invoice date to no date or none, so I could create the invoice when it is required
4 votesHi Richard, at the moment, recurring invoices requires the "Next Invoice Date" during setup. We understand that being able to set this field to None could introduce more flexibility in the use case.
We'll continue to track interest and help our product teams understand the value of adding a “no fixed date” option or manual trigger for recurring invoice templates.
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Contact | Invoicing - Ability to set default invoice date for each contact
At present, the invoice issue date in Xero needs to be manually monitored and adjusted for each client. Since clients have different required invoice issue dates throughout the month, staff must rely on memory or separate reminders to ensure the correct date is used when creating invoices.
This creates a high risk of human error, particularly when preparing invoices in draft status, as the system does not automatically prompt or enforce the correct issue date per client. Incorrect issue dates can lead to:
Delays in client processing or approvals
Confusion regarding billing periods
Potential payment delays
Additional time spent reviewing…2 votesHi Alexi, thanks for bringing this idea to the community. We can see why having the ability to set a default invoice issue date at the contact level could be useful, particularly for businesses that work to specific customer billing cycles or contractual invoicing arrangements.
The idea is to allow a default invoice date to be saved against an individual contact, so invoices created for that customer automatically use the preferred issue date rather than defaulting to the current date.
For now, using Repeating Invoices may help in some scenarios where invoices need to be generated on a consistent date each month. However, we appreciate this won't suit every workflow, especially when creating ad hoc invoices.
We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support. If this would help your workflow, please add your vote and share more detail about how you'd use it.
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Invoice - Restore previous single-screen upload and confirmation
In the previous version of Xero, uploading invoices was much faster and more efficient. When uploading an invoice image, we could immediately select whether it was a Sales Invoice or a Bill from the same screen. This saved time and simplified the workflow.
Another important feature in the old system was the visual indicator: once an image was uploaded and recorded as a Sales Invoice or a Bill, there was a clear mark showing that the document had already been categorized. This provided transparency and reduced the risk of duplicate entries.
In the new version, we are required to go…
8 votesWe understand that the previous single-screen invoice upload process helped with efficiency, and it’s great to hear how it supported your workflow.
The idea is now in Gaining support, so the community can vote and join the discussion. Adding details about your workflow can help the community see the value and encourage others to share their experiences too.
We’ll keep this thread updated as the idea develops.
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Invoicing - Ability to set a negative integer for default due dates
Allow negative values in default due date options.
We set our due dates 7 days prior to the invoice date, currently Xero only allows default due date settings to be set after the invoice date.
Allowing negative numbers would make our workflow much quicker!
2 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand the ask for the ability to set negative default due dates.
Currently, default due dates in Xero are designed for scenarios where the due date falls on or after the invoice date. We appreciate the suggestion that negative due dates could support specific business workflows and would like to understand more about when this would be most useful.
We encourage the community to share more examples and use cases to help us better understand this need.
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