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Hi community, we’ve just released some new keyboard shortcuts to new invoicing, that cut down the number of mouse clicks and help you perform actions on your invoice with some simple keyboard entry options.
There’s a range of different shortcuts that you can explore, and in particular a few that I wanted to call out for ‘Approve’ options that I know will be of most interest to you, here;
- Approve (Ctrl-Alt-A OR Cmd-Opt-A on a Mac)
- Approve & add another (Ctrl-Alt-O OR Cmd-Opt-O on a Mac)
- Approve & print PDF (Ctrl-Alt-R OR Cmd-Opt-R on a Mac)
- Approve & email / send eInvoice (Ctrl-Alt-E OR Cmd-Opt-E on a Mac)
While you get used to the combinations of shortcuts our product team have added small prompts to highlight these in the product, and if you’d like to view the full list of options you can see them all on Xero Central.
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Hi team, now in 2025 and many here will have received our recent communication leading up to the retirement of classic invoicing on 27 Feb this year.
We’re continuing to work hard on delivering more features within new invoicing that’ll help most in your workflow.
Thanks for staying engaged with us on changes that’ll help you through the idea here.
To give an update on recent deliveries that positively impact some of you that have shared on the idea here. Late last year we released improvements to the issue and due date fields so you can now use all the date entry shortcuts that were available in classic, and we made it simpler to access the date picker. We also updated the Files attachment modal so you can now drag & drop files anywhere on the page, and when you use tracked inventory you can see the number of items…
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I thought I would try new invoicing again before the shutoff to see if it matched Classic invoice functionality but not yet. So mouse heavy. Too many clicks, too many tabs. Buttons hidden under drop down menus.
Most annoyingly there is no "Focus" on the "Contact" field when you "Save and Add Another".
The popup of last invoice entered hovers for less than 10 seconds. (In Classic it was at the top of the page)
Autosave causes data entry issues (missing numbers or values)
The History is a mess of "Edit"s
Email invoices sent from New Invoicing have a different format and don't use my templates. Looks like a demand for money now. Can't set Organisation / Trading name if more than one business.
Does anyone on your team actually have any lived experience of entering invoices into Xero?
Classic invoicing is still superior
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This should be easily adjustable in Organization settings or at least using invoice templates. Why is it not an option?
@ Lukas White
“The recommendation from your specialists to do our invoices outside of Xero or swap the trading name every time we send an invoice…”@ Jake Silver
“Or is the only work around to download invoices and email them separately from Xero?”I mean at this point if they are recommending we are creating/sending invoices outside of Xero then why are we using Xero?
These ongoing long term unfixed issues and the Classic/New Invoicing debacle are having me seriously considering my future with Xero.
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I have set up a custom email template for email invoices but new invoicing has altered it and includes our organization name instead of using my email template.
This has caused confusion with customers as the Company and trading as Business names are different. At least if I customize a template it should show my chosen name, but looks like new invoicing overwrites that altogether!
Please do not retire Classic invoicing until new invoicing is fit for purpose.Luke Armstrong
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New Invoicing - Allow Item and Description-only lines, with no Qty or Unit Price
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445 votesThanks for all your feedback here, everyone. The way you add description only lines in new invoicing is a little different to classic and we wanted to explain in hopes it'll help with how you're using new invoicing.
When entering a description only line, you can enter text in the description field of the line. If you add detail to any other field the line will be treated as a 'financial' line and you will need to include Qty, Unit price, Account and Tax rate.
When an inventory item is added this uses the item code field and the line is treated as 'financial', so it's not possible to use inventory items as description only lines in new invoicing atm.
We appreciate this is how many of you here have been making use of inventory and our product team are closely monitoring the feedback we're getting on this. Though we don't…Luke Armstrong
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Hi community, we appreciate your feedback on the way invoice numbers are assigned within the flow of new invoicing and how this differs to classic.
Being open while we don't have plans to replicate the exact same behaviour from classic in new invoicing, this is a point that our product team are monitoring closely and we'll let you know here if there's any change to the behaviour planned.
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Thanks for your interest in this idea, everyone. We understand there are different ways our customers find useful when entering dates for invoices in Xero.
Based on feedback our team are looking at improvements to the date pickers in new invoicing. While I can't confirm exactly what these will entail atm, we'll shift the idea to working on it and I'll be back to confirm when we have more of the detail.
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Appreciate your feedback on how you'd like to see new invoicing improved to create more efficiency processing sales with Xero. There are a couple of different requests around defaults looped into this one idea that would be good to unpick and keep separate so we can keep you updated on any progress for each individually.
For interest around being able to set a default for the 'Approve and Send' button - There's an idea that's been started for this here that I'd recommend joining.
Kathy, your recent comment sounds more like the ability to be able to send invoices to a contact group with new invoicing - we totally get the interest in this too and have an idea for this here that you can follow.
Taking on board feedback we have made a change with the new send experience so now, selections for 'Include PDF of invoice' and 'Send…Luke Armstrong
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Hi everyone, to keep you updated on this idea work in this space will provide the ability to add a new blank row to your invoice one at a time. Once added you'll also have the ability to drag and drop the row to where you'd like it placed in your invoice, which we know some customers use to help format their invoices and space lines out.
I appreciate that some customers have mentioned wanting to add multiple blank rows at once, and want to be open that this isn't planned with this release.
Being under development atm, we plan to have this to you all before classic invoicing is retired and I'll be back as soon as it's out to let you know, here.
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Hi team, while we don't have immediate plans to change the placement of buttons on new invoicing we're interested in staying close to this feedback and I'll move the idea to Under review for the time being. We'll return to confirm any outcomes.
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Hi team, as you may have noticed we've made a change to the Invoice Date and Due Date fields that now allows you to type in these fields rather than having to select a date from the calendar drop down. It does still require entering delimiters between day month and year such as a '.' or '/' (we understand there are a few situations when entering US date formats and are continuing to look into this).
We're working on also adding this functionality to the Payment date, and I'll keep you in the know of when this is made available, here.
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Thanks to everyone that participated in and shared back on the team’s research in the new invoicing layout. Taking your feedback on board our teams have made some improvements to the layout of new invoicing, including changes to the layout of fields and buttons.
By rearranging and condensing space between fields, you’ll find there is less white space than previously shown, making it easier to navigate and tab through fields when entering your invoices.We’re actively looking into changes within the invoicing grid that’ll go further to condensing information on the screen and reducing actions when entering your invoices. We’ll update as there is more information to share on this.
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Yes please, save and add another is the most common. But just like organisation names / templates / settings should be user customizable.
New invoicing is so mouse heavy. Too many clicks, too many tabs. Buttons hidden under drop down menus.
Most annoyingly there is no "Focus" on the "Contact" field when you "Save and Add Another". Or hit F5. I'm trying to enter invoices here.
Classic invoicing is still superior