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So let me get this straight.

Back in 2012, someone asked Xero for the ability to schedule when invoices get sent. Fair enough, reasonable ask. Fourteen years later, in July 2026, Xero finally delivers, for one invoice at a time. Manually. Via a dropdown. If you've got a handful of invoices a month, congratulations, you're sorted. If you run repeating invoices for dozens or hundreds of customers, you're still stuck watching them fire off at 2am UK time because that's apparently just how it is.

This thread has been open since April 2022 asking for exactly that, scheduled sending for repeating invoices, and on 29 May 2026 Xero's official response was that it's "not currently in the pipeline." So the workaround for repeating invoice customers is, what, manually recreate every single one as a standard invoice each month? That's not a solution, that's just moving the manual labour Xero was supposed to remove.

I'd genuinely like to understand the reasoning here. Is this a technical limitation, a prioritisation call, or is it just not commercially interesting enough to build? Because from where I'm sitting it looks like the one-off fix was done to close out the oldest, most-voted thread, while the actual repeating invoice problem, the one costing your business customers real time every month, got quietly parked.

126 votes and counting isn't a fringe request. An honest answer on where this actually sits, and why, would go a long way.

After years of supporting this suggestion, its dissapointing to get the news that this idea is not in the pipeline! Don't you listen to your customers requests? How many ideas and votes does this take for what is identified as an important feature? Considering this can be achieved manually, this would indicate the structure has been written to faclitate the need and would be an easy addition. Perhaps I am worng but this has not be conveyed to the requestees.

Can the profile of this request be raised with the ANZ Managing Director, Angad Soin or Global CSO, Ashley Gransen Hech?

Any update on this? It's been years and we still have to manually approve all of our repeating invoices each month to avoid them being sent out at Xero's default time of 2am in the UK.

Simply telling us that this feature is available for standard invoices is frustrating. Are you expecting us to manually create all of our hundreds of repeating invoices every month as standard invoices? Not helpful.

As a property Manager it is essential I send pre dated repeating invoices for rents due. I am new to Xero in the past year, and never realised this was not able to be done. I would not have changed to you if I knew this before "jumping"!
I cant believe that this has been talked about for years with Xero?

Not scheduling recurring invoices and not even having it in the pipeline is a lousy update.

We get squeezed more all the time for AI we didn't ask for, but can't get a basic thing like this.

Please hurry up with this! This is costing me (and you) money!

Its ironic that Xero can send me invoices during business hours, but I can can only send my (recurring) clients an invoice at midnight.

Clearly Xero understands there own clients don't want a billing email in the middle of the night.

It's been years without an update. Any update on this Xero?

I can see you've implemented scheduled sending for standard invoices. But yet again, repeating invoices are left in the dark ages.

I'm sure this doesn't need clarification or further motivation - it's a no-brainer! Hoping the Xero team agrees and gives this priority.

It would be ideal if one could choose whether the "Delivery Time" is either:

1. Recipient's local time (Client)
2. Sender's local time (Xero user)

The client's timezone would be *automatically* derived/resolved from their "Billing" address (or a new "Timezone" field if that's not specified).

This setting would be available on a per/invoice basis.

We have customers world wide and being able to schedule a time when the invoice enters their email inbox at the start of their working day would be very, very helpful.

Any update on this Xero?

We manage a number of commercial rentals and rely heavily on repeating invoices in Xero.

In our case invoices need to be sent to tenants 10 days before the new month, typically on the 20th, so tenants have notice before rent becomes due on the 1st.

For VAT purposes however the invoice date needs to remain the 1st of the month, not the 20th when it is actually sent.

Currently Xero does not allow us to generate and send an invoice on a specific date while keeping the invoice dated for a future period. Because of this we cannot fully automate repeating invoices and instead have to manually generate and send them each month.

The ability to generate and send the invoice on the 20th while keeping the invoice date set to the 1st of the next month would solve this and allow proper automation for rental invoicing while keeping VAT reporting correct.

This should probably be considered alongside this "product idea" which has been marked as 'in discovery' - https://productideas.xero.com/forums/967115-invoices-quotes/suggestions/44960947-email-settings-specify-date-time-to-send-transac

The auto invoicing works if we are dealing with customers in time zones that are 7 or 8 hours ahead of us but not otherwise. Being able to schedule an invoice to go out at the start of the client's working day would be very handy.

The auto invoicing works if we are dealing with customers in time zones that are 7 or 8 hours ahead of us but not otherwise. Being able to schedule an invoice to go out at the start of the client's working day would be very handy.

We have also had complaints from clients that they are getting emails/invoices in the middle of the night - especially on new years eve!

Any update on this Xero?

Any update on this Xero?

Lets get this done. This is a standard feature in all other accounting software.