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@Todd Richard Myers - yep, HubDoc is a 'workaround', but when I tag something as billable to a client through a separately created invoice, I want this to be a sensible/simple workflow with tick-n-flick selections, not a download/workaround. (There are other factors involved, like separating GST & non-GST costs which add to the pain of the current process.)

Juding by the number of other "I want this too" comments, I'm not alone! (But I respect your suggestion - thanks.)

@Chris Ekins - Look at Hubdoc. Free and owned by/incorporated into Xero.

I push all receipts/invoices to Hubdoc and it uses OCR to start building the transaction for export to Xero. Most importantly you can add tags by client so that you can just download the expense receipts each month by client.

And if you ever want to leave Xero you can just do a bulk download of all receipts.

Don't get me wrong, it is ******** that Xero are not building this essential feature just to try and create more friction in leaving them. But the Hubdoc workflow works pretty well generally and solves this problem for me.

@Edward Nelson - why would I pay for (yet another) service, when this should be a core feature of Xero? Pathetic that this is not a fully integrated part of Xero considering how long this request has been outstanding.

I would prefer that Xero do the things requested (and verbally promised me in Dec 25), not keep sending me messages about adding things I don't use or want!

Expensify have this feature - the photos are already linked ot the expense (that was how they are created in the first place) - can you please make it so the image file is linked to the attached invoice?

Deeply pathetic how long you have made us wait for this obvious feature. Amazed. #fail

Allow billable expenses to automatically carry over attached supplier invoices/receipts from the original bill to the customer invoice.

This would reduce duplication, save time, and minimise follow-ups by ensuring reimbursement invoices already include supporting documentation.

PLease do this. It's insane that it is not available.

When our staff submits an expense that should be billed to a client, when the expense is tagged to that client, it holds it in billable expenses until we are ready to create that invoice once all travel expenses are submitted. It is a great tool BUT, the client typically needs the receipt from the incurred expense to be attached along with our invoice. Why can't the attachment follow the billable expense trail so that it is automatically attached when the invoice is created? I could still have the choice to include the receipts with the invoice versus not include them. I cannot understand WHY this function doesn't exist already?!
Currently, I have to dig through, open each expense, download the receipts and attach them myself when I go to create the billable expense invoice to the client. Absolute time waster for me! Especially when there are 10 to 15 receipts I have to pull just to attach and include with the invoice. Please make the receipts stay with the billable transaction.

Ability to include attachments from Xero bills on project invoices when that bill (or item from that bill) is expensed to a project as 'pass cost on' or 'mark up'.

My workflow:

1. Supplier A sends me an invoice.

2. I raise a bill for this invoice and assign it to a project (pass cost on or mark-up). The bill in Xero has a PDF attachment of the invoice/receipt.

3. I generate an invoice for my client, which includes the expensed bill from Supplier A. My client may want to see evidence of the expenses I'm passing on or marking up from Supplier A.

There is currently no way to pass that attachment through from Supplier A's bill to the invoice I raise for my client. I currently need to download the attachment, then upload it to the invoice. After all this, the PDF still isn't included with the invoice if I generate a PDF invoice; it is only available, as a download, if I send the invoice as a link.

I was hoping to see this on the new feature list today, but alas...

Not having this function involves a lot of unneccesary work!

This has been requested for years. Please implement this basic function ASAP

We need to be able to provide copies of the receipts for expenses re charged to clients and attach to invoices automatically when picking up billable expenses rather than spending time manually adding - this is particularly important when there are are more than a few receipts as this take a long time. thanks

when adding a billible item need copy of file [copy of invoice to client] attched with
billable item when sending invoice to client

HI, I've already commented on this, but now with the embracing of Ai surely this can't be too hard to sort out. Some invoices are taking me 30-60 minutes to find the correct expense, download, rename into something that relects what the item is and can be linked to an expense and then reupload upload the files into the invoice. I also have to manually count how many expenses I need to have attached and make sure it all tallies. The ability to do this would literally save me days of admin and much fustration. Please look into his.

I would like the ability to select the attachment to a billable expense to the invoice. At the moment it can create a line item for each billable expense, but it doesn't bring the attachment over. So it means downloading the attachment from the billable expense and uploading to the invoice. Could we just have an option to add the attachment to the invoice as well.
This would be very handy and streamlined, as many clients require back up of the billable expense.

I had a call from Xero "customer care" in NZL today (5 Dec 25), following up from some separate feedback I gave them - which included this request.

"We hear you", "We're listening" were 2 of the phrases I was told repeatedly, and "we're taking this to higher teams"...

My response: Actions speak louder than words.

I'll believe Xero when I SEE suggestions like this implemented, until then, it's all spin and marketing garbage.

Come on Xero, pull your finger(s) out - and do what your customers ask.

(Oh and while you're at it, provide some discounts/rewards for subscribers - not just short term sign-up inducements. Your fees are money printing presses).

Xero can you please give an update on the requested feature this has been requested by multiple people. If it cannot be copied over directly when you assign the expense to a client to create a sales invoice, can the option to duplicate the attached receipt in the ? So you can then find it again in the document library rather than having to upload another file

When I invoice my client for expenses our staff have incurred which they have tagged as reimbursable by the client using the "billable expenses" feature, add the receipts attached to the items I am billing to the invoice. All clients expect the receipts to be attached and they are all in Xero, at the moment I have to laboriously manage them separately.

Super frustrating to see prices continually going up, features added that I don't want/need/use, and this feature is still not implemented.