Contacts - Allow multiple addresses for a single contact record
Ability to create and save multiple addresses for a single contact record
Purpose: Allow customers to map customer & supplier details against a single contact record
Hi everyone, we know this remains a highly important request, and we appreciate the volume of detail you’ve shared around billing, delivery and contact management workflows in this idea.
As shared in our last update - our team has been progressing the next phase of work needed to bring this more meaningfully into invoicing.
We know many of you are looking for clearer timing, and while I’m not able to confirm a release date at this stage, I do want to reassure you this remains an active area of work for our product teams.
We’ll continue to return here with further updates as we move through the next stages. Thanks again for your patience and for continuing to share the workflows that make this so important.
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James Moore
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Nah not 3 years. I requested this back 10 years ago minimum. They just keep changing the forums and merging and changing the date so it doesn't look like it's been so long. The old threads on this topic had 100s of replies if not more that were "lost".
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Neville Gardner
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This issue is coming very close to being 3 year old !!! No real progress from Xero other than tissue thin lame platitudes.
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Ian Cramp
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Multiple Delivery option is standard in the 21st Century. When will Xero catch up?
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Thomas Wardle
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hi Xero, March 2023 i believe work is moving along to have this feature (multiple delivery options under one customer) can we have an update 9 months on? thanks
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Sarah Williams
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@Kelly Munro - Could we please get another progress report here? It's been 9 months since the last update and 10+ years since it was first requested. This is clearly critical for so many users. An ETA and more regular updates would be helpful for everyone.
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Josh Buesking
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These email alerts make me laugh.
These have all been requested 5-10 years.
I have 4-5 apps I use in my tech stack and I’ve never seen anything like xero’s lack of development.
It’s all lipstick people. If the ability is not currently there don’t limit your business waiting on these clowns.
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Clint Allardice
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I must also add my voice here. We have recently changed over to Xero and can't believe this basic functionality doesn't exist!?
MYOB had a number of detractions, but they at least had this sorted. I guess you are planning on really limiting your market, if you can't fix this. -
david pannell
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Multiple contact people and multiple phone numbers is pretty important, critical really. Different billing addresses and shipping addresses are also a MUST for large corporations.
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Johann Soekoe
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@ Tony Tay
@ support@xero.comAs I have it, and I picked this up on another Xero "problem" forum is that Xero is built on a very outdated "backbone" so to speak.
Any changes with Xero concerning direct application changes (not visual) to the application itself is very costly and they might not have the knowledge on how to implement it. That is why at every quarterly Xero update session, most if not all of the updates will be visual aspects e.g. how a report looks like, how many columns you can add etc. Basically taking info of forefront and present it in a different way.
If this issue of multiple contact addresses is so critical to your organisation or your clients', you have 2 options.
1 - contact Xero support directly or 1.1 take it up with your national representative and if not anything is done
2 - advise your clients to break away from Xero.
These 2 options is what I implemented option 2 always sufficed.@xero
Why do we need to talk about and wait 10 years before our voices are heard? -
Tony Tay
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Agreed with Graham Tottle
The feature (to add different delivery addresses) exists in the Purchase Order screen, so the code is already written - why can't this be applied to the invoice page too?
You already ignore this request for more than 10 years, do something right now.
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Simon Chrispin
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Can't believe you cannot store multiple individuals' phone numbers under a single company contact name. Xero cannot be used as a contact database.
Please release into front end. -
Paul Kamps
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This is absolutely critical to the functionality of our invoicing system. Brokers represent our product so we are billing them but shipping products all over North America to hundreds of different delivery address.
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Jonathan Krusekopf
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Hi Kelly,
I can't believe how this thread has been ignored by Xero for so long. Bad news is better than no news.
Please provide a timeframe (not another "we are working on it") about Xero's plans for this feature. If it is not going to be implemented, just let us know.
Thank you
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Hayley Chamberlin
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Hi Kelly
Can we get an update on this please; I have clients wanting to leave Xero due to this issue.
When is it likely to be release?
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trent roper
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This is a basic feature! get it done.
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Suzanne Gambrill
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We need this feature ASAP please XERO. If the code already exists within POs then it should be an easy update.
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Grant Clarke
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Hi Kelly checking to see status update for this query.
Eight months since last update; i am being optimistic it must surely be ready for release, hoping it was in the November quarterly update.
Disappointed it wasnt as this is a critical feature, i believe; for organisation where accounts, purchasing involve different desk emails and demarcation. Please escalate -
Margie Adams
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An additional complication that not having multiple ship to addresses for each customer causes: if I change the delivery address for a different job site for an existing customer in order to have the invoice be correct, it changes all invoices prior to this one to match the change. So there is no way to track where an item was shipped unless we record it somewhere outside of Xero. Even just the step of keeping invoices intact as they were when created would be helpful!
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Greg Rostron
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I see the flashy ads and advertising at sporting events and think if Xero only spent more money on basic product features they would get so many more customers just by 'word of mouth'. Currently I advise any business contacts I have to avoid Xero like the plague. :-(
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Hein Kuenen
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@Graham .. hear hear!