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1. Sales Invoices - Add interest to late invoices (including paid/part-paid Invoices)

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   Accepted  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

   Hi everyone, a year on from my last engagement we wanted to provide an update for you all here.

   As many will be across we're in the midst of making a lot of iterations and improvements to new invoicing leading up to the retirement of classic invoicing in September (2024).

   We have a fair amount of work lined up in the teams schedule over the coming months and to give an indication there isn't any committed plans around a function to add interest to invoices.

   That said, we do have a team that have picked up and are considering how we might solve this with the technology in new invoicing - It's early days on this yet, but I'll share if there's any progress on this for you all here.

   In the meantime, as has been shared by others over time there are a few ways you could accomplish this today;

   • Include detail of any charges for late payments to your invoice template Payment terms & details, and
   • Edit and add a new line to your invoice to add the late fee - you could make use of Xero's inbuilt calculator for this, or
   • Edit and add a 'mark up' to each line of your invoice - again Xero's inbuilt calculator could help with calculating the amounts
   • Explore Xero's app store to see if you can find an integration that works for your business needs
   • In an effort to prevent late payment of invoices Credit limits may help in being able to prevent customers raising too much debt with your business

   We appreciate the options above don't automate the full process of what you're asking here, and we will share if there's any news. Thanks

   Hi everyone, a year on from my last engagement we wanted to provide an update for you all here.

   As many will be across we're in the midst of making a lot of iterations and improvements to new invoicing leading up to the retirement of classic invoicing in September (2024).

   We have a fair amount of work lined up in the teams schedule over the coming months and to give an indication there isn't any committed plans around a function to add interest to invoices.

   That said, we do have a team that have picked up and are considering how we might solve this with the technology in new invoicing - It's early days on this yet, but I'll share if there's any progress on this for you all here.

   In the meantime, as has been shared by others over time there are a few ways you could accomplish this… more

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   Ani Moller commented  ·  07 February, 2026  ·  Edit…  ·  delete…

   I am gob smacked that this isn't a native feature?!

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   Ani Moller supported this idea  ·  07 February, 2026

2. Login - Don't Log Me Out/Extend Log Out Time (more than 60 minutes)

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   Not in pipeline  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

   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 move movements, clicks, keyboard) for 10 minutes you'll receive an inactivity prompt ('Hey Kelly, are you still there?') and if your session reaches 60 minutes you'll be redirected to the login page. 

   • As a suggestion you can periodically refresh the screen <F5> to prevent the security timeout kicking in.

   In more recent comments here it sounds like some of you are having issues with the login process or staying logged into Xero for less than 60 minutes. If you're experiencing unexpected behaviour, we'd highly recommend raising a case with our team of specialists at Xero Support where we have tools to investigate and confirm what's going on - Any details you can provide the team on the page you're trying to sign in from (e.g URL, error 500 received) or actions you were making when the login issue occurred will help. Thanks

   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… more

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   Ani Moller commented  ·  10 December, 2024  ·  Edit…  ·  delete…

   Wow, this is a super annoying (feature) of the system. I totally get it for organisations working in offices where data privacy is critical. But I'm a sole trader and work alone. I would prefer a timeout of 12 hours.

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