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 you have on hand to sell.
This year we’ve made updates to bring more actions into the body of the invoice, so you can now add tracking options on the fly, or set or edit the exchange rate on foreign currency invoices. And, as of this week we’ve released a whole set of new shortcuts to save clicks and help you quickly perform common actions like being able to Approve an invoice which we know is valuable to our customers! 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.
We have more updates in store like changes to the Contact ‘To’ field that I mentioned in my last update and improvements to the line item grid within the body of your invoice. You can read more of what’s to come on Xero Central.
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…
Your New Invoicing is not user friendly for our business. It is our working system for all of our work - not just used for creating Invoices. We work with Drafts a lot while the work is in progress until it is completed - that can take several weeks to achieve so the old Font size was so much easier and we (approx 5 different employees) could look at and work on all our Drafts easily - 200+ per month. Only when job is completed is the Draft Approved and sent to Invoice so having to re-open it all the time instead of just saving makes it so much harder. Font size is way too large meaning I waste time naviagting around the invoice page. We never create an invoice then approve and send it immediately. Why is that the default? What happened to the blue Save button and Green Approve button. The mono-colour is not easy to work with.
The Chart of Accounts items do not come up correctly especially if they do not have $ values attached to them. We often need to put in lines that do not have $ values or quantities and do not want to see "1" in Quantity or 0.00 in the Amount column. We just want those blank unless we choose to put something in there. Classic Invoicing is so good and tidy. The time wasted on the New Invoicing means $$ wasted across 5+ employees. New Invoicing assumes we just want to make a simple invoice and send it immediately. This is useful for maybe a retail business selling online or something. Not for most businesses from what I can tell from the people commenting. Why can't you keep both going and customers can choose?
Jennifer Broadbent
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Your New Invoicing is not user friendly for our business. It is our working system for all of our work - not just used for creating Invoices. We work with Drafts a lot while the work is in progress until it is completed - that can take several weeks to achieve so the old Font size was so much easier and we (approx 5 different employees) could look at and work on all our Drafts easily - 200+ per month. Only when job is completed is the Draft Approved and sent to Invoice so having to re-open it all the time instead of just saving makes it so much harder. Font size is way too large meaning I waste time naviagting around the invoice page. We never create an invoice then approve and send it immediately. Why is that the default? What happened to the blue Save button and Green Approve button. The mono-colour is not easy to work with.
The Chart of Accounts items do not come up correctly especially if they do not have $ values attached to them. We often need to put in lines that do not have $ values or quantities and do not want to see "1" in Quantity or 0.00 in the Amount column. We just want those blank unless we choose to put something in there. Classic Invoicing is so good and tidy. The time wasted on the New Invoicing means $$ wasted across 5+ employees. New Invoicing assumes we just want to make a simple invoice and send it immediately. This is useful for maybe a retail business selling online or something. Not for most businesses from what I can tell from the people commenting. Why can't you keep both going and customers can choose?