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  1. Invoice payments
    Can we have a function in invoicing to record a payment the same as the new 'eye' function on bills (screenshot attached)? Would make life a lot easier as adding multiple payments to an invoice currently involves way too many clicks!

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    Hi team, returning to the idea here I wanted to share an update. While we don't have quick edit for in voices atm, we have made an update to the Make a payment section of the invoice which will reduce a couple of extra clicks here. Rather than clicking a button on the invoice to open the payment section, you'll find that each invoice now has the make a payment section directly beneath an approved invoice.

    We appreciate this doesn't fully resole this idea and will continue to keep a watchful eye on the interest, and share if there is any news of this here. Thanks

  2. Ability to link a bill/expense to a customers invoice but not have it itemise. So you can track cost of goods per job especially for small businesses only utilizing invoicing and not having to do projects

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    Hi Phil, it'd be good to get a bit more detail to better understand your needs from what is currently available with billable expenses.

    Right now, you can assign lines of a bill directly to a customer (rather than project). When you add the items to your customers invoice you can edit the remove the item code if you don't want it directly associated to the inventory item.

    Would it be more something like the idea here that you're after with more visibility of the linkage between the invoice and bill?

  3. It would be an easy fix to stop automatically sending reminders for "unpaid" invoices when the business has not done their reconciliation for the relevant period. We find it stressful and time consuming to check all the time. I think sending a payment demand with the proviso to "ignore it if it has already been paid" is a waste of resources. It would be way less stressful and more efficient if reminders could be pending and only be sent automatically once the reconciliation covering the due date has been completed.

    3 votes

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    Interesting idea, Marc. This would add another layer of complexity to reminders, but it would be great to understand the interest around this from your idea here for our product team to consider. We'll share if there are any updates.

  4. PREVENTING INVENTORY UNIT AMOUNTS FROM BEING EDITED IN INVOICES.
    ON A COUPLE OF OCCASIONS NOW I HAVE ACCIDENTALLY TABBED TO THE AMOUNT COLUMN AND ENTERED A QTY. WHICH HAS OVERWRITTEN AN ITEM AMOUNT FOR THAT INVOICE - AS I HAVE MANY SIMILAR INVENTORY ITEMS FOR A CUSTOMER I OFTEN USE " LOAD LAST ITEMS " THAT HAS CAUSED ME MULTIPLE INCORRECT INVOICES AS IT LOADS THE EDITED PRICE NOT THE STD ITEM PRICE LOOSING ME $100s OF DOLLARS THAT HAVE BEEN PAST PAID. CANT SEE A WAY OF MAKING THE INCOICE AMOUNT COLUMN UN EDITABLE -
    WHILE PROTECTION OF AN…

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about making this change to prevent accidental (or unauthorised) changes to the sales prices on invoices.

    Now it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea. You might like to share your idea with any colleagues that this could also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!

  5. When invoicing, it would be useful to have an “Approve, Email, and View Next” button. This feature would streamline the process of reviewing and sending multiple invoices, especially when handling large batches.

    6 votes

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    Thank you for submitting your suggestion and highlighting the changes that are important to you. We have reviewed your idea, and it is now open for community support.

    To help gain traction, we encourage you to share this with any colleagues who might benefit so they can cast their votes. Additionally, other members can now leave comments to explain how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  6. It would be really useful to have the option to add one-time billable items to a repeating invoice and set them to be included on the next invoice automatically. For businesses that charge a fixed monthly retainer but occasionally add extra services, this would save time and reduce the risk of forgetting additional charges. The item could sit in a pending list against the customer and then be pulled through automatically alongside the standard repeating invoice when it is next raised.

    2 votes

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    Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea with us. We’ve moved this idea into the “Gaining support” stage so that others can find it more easily, add their comments, and vote if they’d find it useful too. While we can’t promise if or when it will be picked up, the level of support and real‑world examples from customers like you play an important part in how we prioritise future improvements.

    Thanks again for helping us shape what we work on next.

  7. Most of our customers prefer receiving invoices via SMS. When trying to print the invoice via the SMS link, it generates a 2-3 page online version of the invoice. Can you implement a "Print pdf" option that would generate the same concise layout used when previewing the invoice in Xero? Thank you!

    3 votes

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    Great to get this sort of insight, Kelly. Thanks for sharing. We'd like to get a sense of the wider interest for being able to print PDF from the SMS invoice message, please feel free to share with any colleagues or customers that you know would find this useful so they can vote on this too.

  8. 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 Limitation

    At 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…

    8 votes

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    Hi 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 📣

  9. The email template has changed which accompanies the invoice to the customer. We have a legal name plus a trading as name which people know us by. Currently the legal name is showing up boldly at the top of the email which it didn't before. We would like the trading name to be in this place so as not to cause confusion to our customers, or have the ability to remove it entirely as it has the logo there displaying the correct name.

    230 votes

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    Hi community, we really appreciate your feedback on this and hearing why you'd like to be able to change the organisation's name that's shown when sending invoices from Xero.

    This is on our teams radar, and is something they may look into longer term however we want to be open that it's not in the current roadmap.

    We'll continue to track and keep across the interest from our community, and if there's any news to share we'll update you on this, here.

  10. A problem I have each month is when preparing sales invoices - I use several branding themes, one of which is for the AdFin integration.

    It would be ideal to be able to see on the invoice list (in Sales > Invoices) which theme was attached to each invoice, it would be further beneficial to be able to select a bunch of invoices and bulk change the theme where required.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea about adding a Branding Theme column to the Sales Overview screen.

    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 votes and comments too!

    We need to keep a separate Ideas discussion for each idea, so there's an existing product idea for updating themes in bulk, where you might also like to add your vote, here: https://productideas.xero.com/admin/v3/ideas/48414839

  11. Problem
    When sending Quotes and Invoices in Xero, users need a simple way to confirm who an email was sent to and keep a clear record of recipients within their email client.

    Current behaviour
    If “Send me a copy” is selected, the sender receives a copy of the email, but it does not clearly include all recipients. To check who the Quote or Invoice was sent to, the user has to go back into Xero history and look up the details there.

    Suggested improvement
    For both Quotes and Invoices, when “Send me a copy” is selected, include all original recipients…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback on this idea and explaining how this change would help when sending Quotes and Invoices.

    We can see the value in having the copy sent to the sender include the original recipients when “Send me a copy” is selected, especially where this helps with keeping accurate records and following up.

    We’ve reviewed this idea and are moving it to Gaining Support so other community members can vote and add comments to share how this would improve their experience too.

    We’ll continue to monitor the feedback here and share any updates if there’s progress to let you know about.

  12. When copying an invoice, it should display “New Invoice” instead of “Edit Invoice,” as it did in classic invoicing.

    Currently, showing “Edit Invoice” makes it difficult to track which invoices have already been copied. Please change this so copied invoices are labelled as “New Invoice” for better clarity and usability.

    1 vote

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    Thanks Anishta, appreciate wanting more visibility when you're working on an invoice that has been copied from another invoice.

    It'll be good to get a sense of the wider support for this from your idea.

    We'll share if there are any updates.

  13. On sales overview (invoices), it would be really good to have "scheduled" in the "sent" column - where an invoice had been scheduled to be sent by email, but not yet been sent. A column showing the date they are due to be sent would be even better.

    If not as above, it would be really handy if you could click on a tab for "scheduled" so you get a list of invoices that are scheduled, and the date they are due to be sent (like the 'scheduled' folder in Gmail).

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    Great to hear you're finding use in the Invoice scheduler, Xav. Being a new feature that's still being rolled out to customers working this feature into other areas like the invoice lists view hasn't been planned just yet, however it would be good to get a sense of the wider interest in this here.

    We'll share if there are any updates.

  14. Hi all. We have recently come over the Xero from Attache.
    Several hundred times per month in Attache, we used the product look up option for individual products sold on Invoices and the same for individual products on Purchase orders however xero currently does not offer this as outlined below.
    By putting in a code into the search area for invoices and P/O, we would like the option to search for that item, then click on the product that is identified as the one we want to look up, and bring up the invoice or purchase order the product is…

    3 votes

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    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.

  15. Please add a tab in the invoices category for "Paid Awaiting Pickup".

    Right now under invoices there is a tab for "All", "Draft", "Awaiting Approval", "Awaiting Payment", "Paid" and "Repeating". Our business often has invoiced paid but the customers have not picked up their products. When they come in we have to search to see if what they are picking up has been paid for. A tab for "PAID AWAITING PICKUP" would really help.

    4 votes

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    Hi there, 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! We can keep monitoring this idea in the meantime to see if it gains more traction.

  16. Attached preview window to stay in locked screen on the Left, with line items to be on the right on a scroll screen. Because if you add attachments to work from, the screen will be ready to view from the top left and if you have more than 20-line items inputted and you're working from the bottom. You can't see what the attachment is to work from. Look at pictures to see the mark up of issue. This issue is same as the bills. The bills attachment is on its on screen, but you can move it where you want…

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, where you'd like to freeze the attachment preview side of the page, and keep it in view when you're scrolling up and down for entering larger bills.


    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 votes and comments about how this would be helpful for them, too!

  17. We raise an invoice to a client.
    They pay it.
    Then for some reason, something changes.
    We need to raise a credit note against that invoice!

    I know I can create a new one from scratch but I want the history with this particular invoice and all the other details that I have already typed into it.

    What I DON'T want - is to delete the payment, create the credit note, delete the allocation of the credit to the invoice, then reapply the original payment.

    It is not an option within Xero to 'copy to draft' and create a negative…

    40 votes

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    Hi team, thank you for the detail in the flows you have when trading that create the need in being able to create a credit note from a paid invoice in Xero.

    While this isn't a feature we have planned for development, it'll be good to keep tracking the interest from our community. We will share if there are any updates.

  18. We do very detailed quotations that are done from our quote / costing sheets. These are then sent as a PDF to clients. It would be really helpful if these PDF could be uploaded like a bill to Xero quotes and invoices.

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    Hi Alyson

    We appreciate you sharing your idea! It’s been reviewed and is now live for community backing!

    Get your colleagues involved to vote and comment on how this change would enhance their use of Xero ☺️

  19. To be able to add an end date to a repeating invoice which is before the "next invoice date". Often clients do not receive notice that a repeating invoice will not be due until after the latest invoice has been sent. They don't want to delete the repeat invoice so they can see a history of previous repeats. Currently can't set an end date that is before the "next posting date".

    7 votes

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    Hi Mandy, thanks for sharing your feedback on managing end dates for repeating invoices. We appreciate you explaining how this impacts your workflow. Your idea has been reviewed by our product team, and we've updated the status to Not in Pipeline, which means that while we've considered the suggestion, it's not on our foreseeable roadmap at this time. We understand this may not be the outcome you were hoping for, but we value your input 💙 and encourage you to continue sharing your ideas with us. The idea remains open for votes, so if others in the community experience similar needs, their support could help us reassess in the future.

  20. XPM Timesheet time to show actual local time. Currently it shows Sydney but I'm not located there

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    Thanks for sharing your idea here Daniel 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. Cheers

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