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Invoicing - Allow Item and Description-only lines, with no Qty or Unit Price
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572 votesHi community, we appreciate the continued traction this idea's received, and do want to provide clarity and set expectation.
Your feedback has been valuable in understanding the needs of using description only lines to; add subheadings, provide context for grouped charges, and ensure your invoices are easy for your clients to read and understand.
To reconfirm, atm - You can add one-off description only lines as you enter an invoice. However, if you add detail to any other field the line will be treated as a 'financial' line and you'll need to include Qty, Unit price, Account and Tax rate.
- We know some users have set up and saved inventory items for description only lines they commonly use, however as the item code field is used for inventory items the line of the invoice is treated as 'financial' meaning you'll then need to include Qty, Unit price, Account and Tax…
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Hi everyone, appreciate all the engagement here so far. It has been a while, so wanted to update the status of this idea here. We understand that when you’re managing contacts, having a clear way to separate a legal entity name from a trading name can be important for keeping your records accurate.
The suggestion here is to add a dedicated Legal Name / Business Registered Name field to contact records, so this information can be stored separately and used when managing documents, reporting, and client details.
We’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and gather more examples from businesses that need to manage different legal and trading names in their workflows.
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Thanks for continuing to follow along and join in the support of this idea, community. To reiterate on our last update we appreciate and understand the need in being able to easily view an employees' leave balances when reviewing leave.
As already spotted from comments here, I'd like to share an update with the release of projected leave balances in Xero Payroll Australia. This feature has just been rolled out to Payroll admins, where you'll be able to view an employees estimated leave balance when adding, editing or approving leave. You'll be able to view a calculation breakdown and will see a warning when a leave request may result in a negative balance. Helping you to better assess and manage leave for your organisation. 😁
We understand this feature is desired in other regions we offer Payroll and we'll continue to consider how this may be adopted in other…
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Thanks for the great discussion and all the votes on this idea. We know that without the ability to set specific leave approvers, it can be harder to keep governance clear, avoid self-approval and ensure requests go to the right person.
While we’re not planning to develop dedicated approval workflows in the near term, we want to share a tip that many have found useful. You can help streamline the process by guiding employees to select their direct manager from the approver list. While all payroll admins and leave approvers are listed, this step helps make sure requests reach the right person and keeps oversight clear.
Your feedback here is incredibly valuable for future planning and we’ll continue to keep an eye on this idea’s traction. We’ll keep it open for voting and will share any updates if plans change down the track.
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Hi everyone, we appreciate your support and feedback for having a Repeating Invoices Report.
We know that not having a dedicated report for your repeating invoices can present limitations when trying to forecast sales.
As noted by others in the idea, while not a complete solution there is the Receivable invoice detail report, that will provide results for invoices that have already generated from a repeat invoice template. There is also Short term cashflow predictions in Xero Analytics Plus that can predict recurring cash transactions based on the past 3 months reconciliations.
For more comprehensive forecasting, some users have found third-party apps that integrate with Xero to be helpful - You can view the full suite of official apps on our Xero App store.
While we understand these aren't ideal long-term solutions, I want to let you know that there's no work currently planned to develop a specific…
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And the ability to import/export repeating invoices too.
At the moment I have to recreate a spreadsheet with the 107 repeating invoices we have!!An error occurred while saving the comment Sarah Jacobs
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At the very least I need to be able to view the repeating invoices list screen without the reference field being truncated. This is especially annoying as the 'next invoice date' field width is the same width as the reference field width - which is a poor design as any date field only needs to be 11 characters wide.
If I can't have a report, then I would expect to be able to export the repeating invoices with all fields included in the export
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Thanks Nick, beanbox looks good. I agree, having to use a third party appfor basic functionality not available in Xero is very silly.
I manually populate my spreadsheet, then import it into monday.com so I can report forecast recurring revenue using their executive dashboardAn error occurred while saving the comment Sarah Jacobs
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Very important as I have over 50 repeating invoices and have to manually populate a spreadsheet with their details
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56 votesSarah Jacobs
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Hi community, thanks for your responses to our update and the continued interest this idea receives. We're keeping a watchful eye on the support this idea gathers.
As mentioned in my last update our immediate focus for now is delivering more automation and intelligent tools to help you reconcile faster.
However, we understand and appreciate the pain points shared through this idea and will move the status of this to Accepted as our product team look into more details around this and how we might plan this into the roadmap.
I'll keep you updated of any developments in this space.
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Yes, all set-up screens should have import/export functionality
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When I send a remittance advice using the new bills screen, Xero notes it as a receipt email - this is the wrong terminology and needs to be changed to 'remittance advice'
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Why is the supplier name in bold, but the reference isn't? They are both hyperlinks. This is inconsistent and not user friendly. I would prefer the supplier name not to be bold as it feels like Xero is shouting at me
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Thanks for everyone’s feedback and detail on how important this feature is for your businesses.
To provide a little more clarity here, it’s currently possible to create a Credit note within an individual awaiting payment invoice or bill. This’ll copy the contents of the invoice/bill into a Draft Credit note where you can edit if needed. To save many users time, once approved the credit is auto applied to the related invoice or bill, but you can remove this if not applicable.
We appreciate this feature is not available for a Paid Invoice or Bill and we understand the importance of this for some organisations.
To help our product teams get a better view of the interest for the feature in Bills and Invoices it would help to track these through separate ideas - I’ll change the title of this idea to reflect Bills and we have an existing idea…
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agreed - you should be able to copy a bill to a credit note
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I always adjust any invoices I void to a zero balance with an explanation in the description and add 'voided' to the reference to avoid this problem, in case I have not excluded voided invoices when I run a report.
However, I would prefer that voided invoices are not deleted entirely as there should be included on audit reports -
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Hi everyone, we appreciate the input that you’ve all contributed to this idea, and understand the extra work coding a bank transaction to the wrong account can create.
To be upfront, this idea is currently Not in the pipeline. While we see the value this feature can bring, it's not something the product team is actively working on or planning in the near future.
In the meantime, the current workflow using the Remove & Redo feature allows you to delete the transaction from the incorrect bank account and re-enter it in the correct one.
We know this isn’t ideal, but it’s the most reliable option for now.
We’ll continue to monitor votes on this idea. Your support helps us better understand where improvements are most needed.
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Hi everyone, there’s been plenty of great discussion around this idea, and we get how being able to copy bank rules would take a lot of repetition out of setup work.
It’s something we’d like to make happen, but with other priorities in this space right now hasn't been something we can add to the roadmap yet.
It may come to life as part of the ongoing improvements in the Bank Reconciliation area, and we'll defintiely let you know here if there's any progress.
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Hi team, wanting to provide an update to you here, we want you to know we understand the efficiency more users would like to have in being able to automate the creation of the Xero subscription invoice inside their Xero org.
To highlight from my last update for UK users this is possible with eInvoicing through the online invoice (My Bills page).
This is still something we're interested in developing in more regions however isn't planned in our roadmap just yet.
When resource opens up for us to be able to pick this work up we will share an update with you all on this here. Thanks for staying engaged and supporting in this idea.
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51 votesSarah Jacobs
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Hi team, the Payable Invoice reports will generally help you zone into your top repeating suppliers and better view activity.
As suggested, if multiple contacts of a similar nature are being created merge may also help you manage these in your contacts list.
It'd be good to understand if there are other needs that this idea would help you with here - please do share any detail.
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I generally merge these small value suppliers or use a generic contact name ie 'BP Petrol' regardless of which servo the petrol was purchased at
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Hi everyone, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on ABN verification. We really appreciate you explaining how this could make it easier to stay compliant and simplify your daily workflows.
Right now, you can use the quick link on the Contacts page in Xero to open the official ABN Lookup site and check details manually. We understand this isn’t the fully integrated solution you’d prefer, but it’s the option currently available for verifying contact information.
Our product team has continued to review this idea, however it’s not something we’re planning in the near future. The idea will stay open for votes, and we’ll keep tracking interest here. If anything changes, we’ll post an update in this thread.
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Hi everyone, we're coming back to shift this idea to In development as we're in the process of releasing modernised bill view and edit pages that incorporate he ability to add your contact's details on the fly.
Coupled with our other extraction methods(email to bills, upload bills and smart document capture), this should make entering, reviewing and approving your bills quicker than ever 😊
I'll swing back to confirm once this is released.
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When you modernise the bills section, please don't use too much white space.
I want to see as many transactions on these screens as possible, without searching or scrollingSarah Jacobs
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Don't get me started on repeating invoices. I set up repeating invoices with different amounts for up to 10 years in advance.
1. There needs to be a copy repeating invoice function, so I don't have to recreate each one.
2. When I do set them up in year order (ie 2023, 2024, 2025), Xero always reorders them on the screen to a random order (ie 2024, 2023, 2025) and tell me I can just use the search/sort functionality myself.
The very least Xero can do is default the order of repeating invoices to the same client in the order they were created.