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Appreciate your feedback on how you use invoicing and the benefit you find in being able to approve and view the next invoice in sequential invoice number order. As we continue to plan further developments within this space, our product teams would like to engage you all here to get a better sense of our invoicing users for future improvements. We’d find your feedback invaluable and if you’d be interested in sharing with us, please fill in our survey here.
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Nigel Harper
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I raised this with "Customer Support" & their response was laughable but sad.
<This is working as currently designed, but we've passed your feedback to the Product team for their review. . . In the meantime, the only current workaround for your desired behavior is using classic invoicing. Alternatively, if you approved draft invoices from newest to oldest rather than the reverse, new invoicing should carry through that sequence in order.>In other words continue with something we are going to withdraw in couple of months or stand the world on its head & rise your invoices in reverse chronological order - SERIOUSLY?
My suggestion is to allow the user to select the Order of "Next" as sorted in the Drafts listing. Thus if somebody really must work backwards in time they can & the rest of us can work the way we NEED to & Not the way some spawny-eyed-spotty-faced programmer "decided".
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394 votes
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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As Posted other other threads: the answer is as follows:
Default Settings should be stored in the User Login Profile along side the Permissions assigned to the user for each company. These "Defaults" should include what the user wants as the default action for ANY Dropdown Button. EG. New Invoicing: Adding Billable Expenses - Add items SEPARATELY rather than as ONE. This used to be 2x buttons now it's a Dropdown Button with the wrong default 99% of the time. The same goes for New Invoicing Approval Button - Approval & Next or Submit for Approval & Next instead of Approve & Email. AND Next should be picked from the sort order in the Drafts Listing - Thus Chronoligical Order would be possible! (Or any order for that matter!)
By separating all these into different threads - the weight of sentiment is lost. Furthermore, once User Defaults are included in the User Login Profile - everyone gets to work they need to and are not forced to do anything that makes their job anymore difficult. The solution to this problem - done properly solves 10's or even 100's of problems. And the system is easily extendable if you ever try to make "improvements" again.
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401 votes
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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Default Settings should be stored in the User Login Profile along side the Permissions assigned to the user for each company. These "Defaults" should include what the user wants as the default action for ANY Dropdown Button. EG. New Invoicing: Adding Billable Expenses - Add items SEPARATELY rather than as ONE. This used to be 2x buttons now it's a Dropdown Button with the wrong default 99% of the time. Same goes for New Invoicing Approval Button - Approval & Next or Submit for Approval & Next instead of Approve & Email. AND Next should be picked from the sort order in the Drafts Listing - Thus Chronoligical Order would be possible!
Nigel Harper
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I got notification this morning (25/02/25) that this was now implemented & working.
Sorry - it NOT!
New Invoicing: Approve & Next STILL working in Reverse Chronological Order.
Just use the Sort Order that the user selects in the Drafts Screen - that way were can each have the Order we NEED.