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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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20 votesLuke Armstrong
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Hi community, I’d like to share the new Xero Central page for new invoicing that we noted was coming.
Along with updates to individual ideas on the site here, this page will become the one source for key feature rollouts including:
- what’s available in new invoicing right now,
- timelines for features and enhancements going live in new invoicing, as well as
- a comparison table between the classic and newer versions of invoicing.
We'll be updating this page regularly.
Remember, you can keep switching between the two products between now and September. Thanks
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I agree. Looks like they locked this post in April so not much hope of any action.
Luke Armstrong
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11 votesLuke Armstrong
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Hi everyone, we appreciate your feedback about multi-factor authentication, and this has been shared with our teams internally. Security and protecting your data is highly important to us and we want to be upfront that we don't have any plans for removing the requirements for logging into Xero with multi-factor authentication.
That said, we're continuing to improve the experience and offering more ways to verify your identity when logging into Xero.
Luke Armstrong
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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.
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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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Hi everyone, appreciate your continued feedback on new invoicing. As mentioned in my last update we've now added a new Xero Central page for new invoicing.
Along with updates to individual ideas on Xero Product Ideas, this page will become the single source of truth for key feature rollouts including:
- what’s available in new invoicing right now,
- timelines for features and enhancements going live in new invoicing, as well as
- a comparison table between the classic and newer versions of invoicing.
We'll be updating this page regularly.
Relating to some of the more recent feedback there are some existing ideas that may also be of particular interest that you can join, like the ability to see the email the invoice was sent to in the history, or being able to see a timestamp, and reducing clicks and steps.
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Agree with all the other points. New invoicing is not currently up to standard.
I would refer to the W3C web standards for keyboard operability.
Not being able to tab through fields easily or being forced to use a mouse is not meeting to accessibility standards.
"Principle 2: Operable - User interface components and navigation must be operable."
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#keyboard-operation
2.1.1 Keyboard: All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes, except where the underlying function requires input that depends on the path of the user's movement and not just the endpoints.
Luke Armstrong
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Invoicing - Allow Item and Description-only lines, with no Qty or Unit Price
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503 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 team, we appreciate the added feedback from you on the behaviours from classic that you'd find useful in new invoicing. The invoice number assignment is still a feature that our teams are continuing to monitor closely. Right now, while we don’t have plans for changing the way invoice numbers are assigned, our product teams are considering future improvements - As part of this they are doing some discovery that we’d love to get your contribution to.
We'd like to invite you to share back though our survey here. Insights from this will help our product teams get a deepened sense of our invoicing users. Thanks
Luke Armstrong
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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.
Luke Armstrong
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Thanks for your continued engagement with us through this idea, team. As mentioned in my last update this idea spans different areas that you see defaults automating and improving efficiencies in how you invoice with Xero.
Since my last update, we've released some keyboard shortcuts to help with navigation and entry in some areas of invoicing, and we delivered the ability to invoice to your contact groups within the new experience.
As mentioned while we don't have plans for changing the behaviour of the select options when sending an invoice, these are driven by your last selection, using web browser settings.
Recently, we made a slight change to the way defaults are applied when you copy and invoice for a contact. So, now when you copy and invoice to the same contact defaults from their contact will be applied to the draft invoice, which aligns with the way this worked…
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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 community, we appreciate all the feedback you've shared on how we can improve new invoicing for your needs.
In relation to the alert of available credit as raised in this idea, we've identified there are a few situations for Invoice only users where the available credit pop up isn't being shown. This is something we have plans to fix, and while I can't give a specific date on the idea here, we want you to know this is important to us and I'll keep you updated on progress here.
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Hi everyone, to front foot some of the recent comments we will not be bringing back classic invoicing. With developments continuing within new invoicing, we do want to let you know that our product teams are highly engaged with your feedback and the ideas for new invoicing on the site.
We understand there's good interest in being able to add a payment directly from the invoice screen and appreciate the efficiencies expressed by customers in being able to do this. At present we're reviewing this feature and will move the idea across to Under Review. I'll be back to share more on the outcomes. Thanks
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Thanks everyone for your feedback on the invoice print option. We know how much our customers value efficient workflows, and appreciate you sharing your thoughts on how the current "Print PDF" button works.
For those of you looking for a smoother printing experience, a helpful workaround is to set your browser to automatically open PDFs in your preferred viewer after downloading. This can save you a few clicks in the process.
In the interest of transparency, a direct print PDF functionality that go through the download step isn't in our development plans.
You can continue to vote on this idea so if our position changes in the future we will update you all, here.
Luke Armstrong
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Hi everyone, we appreciate the interest surrounding this idea, however we want to be open that we're unable to extend our log-out time past 60 minutes. Xero hold a lot of sensitive information including bank data and we're required to be as secure as online banking.
Any session information running on a web browser can potentially be stolen. If the session does not time out. You then have an infinitely long vulnerability window to session hijacking. Our best option is to keep a tight expiration window on the session cookie, and regenerate them frequently. Even setting a long timeout doesn't help with this - too long a timeout will greatly increase the risk of invasion or potentially jeopardise your personal data and the safety and integrity of the Xero application itself. This is why we maintain control of this.
If we detect there's been no activity on a page (e.g…An error occurred while saving the comment Luke Armstrong
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This is unintentionally hilarious. I think I'm subscribed to this idea and Xero has put it somewhere as a survey when people log in, so I've received over a hundred emails about it in the last few days. Mostly people disgruntled by the interruption to workflow. If it wasn't such a shambles it would be funny. At least Xero is trying to get some feedback. Wish they would work on some of the feedback already given in other product ideas threads that have been around for years.
Re Logout timer: A user toggleable option between 1-8 hours would probably be ideal for casual and all day users.
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I don't think Xero are going to fix this. As part of ATO regulations (in Australia) digital service providers linked to ATO are required to have MFA or two factor authentication (I'm assuming specifically for income tax/BAS security).
Not sure why this also affects the 60 minute time out but seems related due to previous information from Xero community.They could split tax payments and reporting into a separate part of Xero that needs it's own extra authentication.
In the meanwhile, if you are using your own desktop PC that only you can access, a possible workaround is to use your internet browser's password manager to remember your details*.
You will still need to authenticate every 24 hours. You will still need to log in again after whatever arbitrary time period Xero deems as inactivity, but it's only a few clicks instead of re-typing everything again and again and again and again.
It is unfortunate that we need to come up with workarounds for this obviously common problem and that Xero can offer no alternatives.
*You know how secure your PC is or is not. Caveat Emptor Let the buyer beware.
Luke Armstrong
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Hi community, as mentioned in my last post we want to keep you looped in on changes around autosave.
Our product team has continued to focus attention on how we can make invoicing faster and more responsive to improve our customers' experience.
We've recently optimised autosave to require less processing power, leading to faster invoice loading and saving.
Our decision remains that we won’t be adding an option to turn off autosave on invoices. However, we hope this change improves your experience with autosave in draft invoices over time. Thanks again for your feedback.
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Hi everyone, as another step toward improving history of new invoicing you'll find you'll now see an entry when an invoice is sent, and the email address it has been sent to.
We appreciate this is something we've heard a fair amount of feedback on and we hope helps in your journey to using new invoicing.
We still have more enhancements on the way for history and I'll be back again when more updates land.
Luke Armstrong
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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