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  1. New Invoicing - Allow Item and Description-only lines, with no Qty or Unit Price

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    under review  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    Thanks 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…

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    Sam Farmer commented  · 

    Agree with those comments that Xero not being helpful here. Dictating to their own, rather than our (the paying clients'), needs. Many of my clients require individualised details on their invoices. It's now impossible to do this.