can xero be set up more like sage?

[unwashed potato!]

i've finally done it and moved over to xero, been wanting to for a long time, but finding it significantly different to how i was expecting. i'm still on the trial period and not stopped using sage yet, though xero now has our most up to date accounts on it.

first thing i go to try and do is batch add sales invoices like we do on sage, add line by line the details. i can't seem to do this.

same with purchases. i have 50 receitps in front of me. in sage i'd batch add the receipts, on each line first it wants to know which supplier it is, then i can change the nominal code, description, total, done. next line, next line. quick easy to bash them out.

i can't find how to do this in xero.

can it be like sage? sage is a bit too powerful for our needs, but i'm appreciating the almost "excel/access" feel sage has

 

[Vandle]

This won't be much help to you but i was self employed for the last 18 months (no longer) my accountant got me set up on xero and I absolutely hate using it. I was only sending out a handful of invoices per month but it was a ball ache. Found the expenses function even harder, had to manually add my mobile phone bill every month even though its the same biller and same amount each time. I'll send out an invoice and if someone pays by credit card then Stipe takes their fee which is fair enough but xero can't auto reconcile the payment to an invoice because the two amounts are now different even though Stipe is embedded within their platform. Can only imagine how frustrating it is to use full time.

 

[unwashed potato!]

We don't use sage/xero for sending out invoices thankfully. That's done before hand.

It's just for record keeping so that we can submit our accounts/vat etc.

Which is why we want to batch input the information, but it seems it wants us to create an invoice individually each time so would be extremely slow to do