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Appreciate the interest in the idea here. Being open with a lot of work focused on iterating and adding features to new invoicing atm we don't have plans for this in the short-term. We'll continue to track the interest of the idea and if there is any change to share we'll update you here.
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Support for this idea. The majority of our clients' sales must be imported to remain MTD compliant, but for review and audit purposes, having the invoices attached would be very helpful.
I do acknowledge the problem on how to implement this in an import file though - what would be in the field? A path to a locally stored file would be dangerous and time consuming to enter line by line. A path to a file already stored in Xero Library, maybe? Same issue with naming/linking the file, unless all files were names with the reference number...
I could see it working if documents were given a new, unique reference field (like "AttachReference" or something) when uploaded to Xero Library. Users could be given the option of using the document name as the ref (if the invoice number is used as the document name), or to procedurally add one that increments for each document.
Users would upload invoices in bulk to xero library (for that client if a practice), and choose the relevant option.
Then in the import file there would be a matching new field "AttachReference". If it is the invoice reference then it would just be the same value. If its the autogenerated one, the user just needs to look in Xero Library for the first auto generated number created that month, add that to the first invoice in the import file and autofill down. The key issue with this is to somehow ensure that the invoice order in the import file is the same as the order the autogenerated references are assigned...hmm.
Otherwise if the field is blank, no attachment is added.