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The problem it solves

In Puree, each quote covers a single event. Sometimes a customer has more than one quote that really belongs on one invoice — a multi-day event where you've built a separate quote per day, a run of separate bookings for the same client, or any handful of quotes you'd rather send as one invoice than several. Keeping the quotes separate is the right way to plan and cost each event, but it used to mean sending your customer several separate Xero invoices for what they think of as one job.

Combined invoicing lets you keep those quotes exactly as they are, then bring them together into one Xero invoice. Each quote still shows as its own set of lines, so the customer sees a clear, itemised breakdown on a single invoice.

Before you start

You'll need an active Xero connection — see Connecting with Xero if you haven't set that up yet. As with a normal single-quote invoice, we recommend combining and sending only once the quotes have been accepted, so you're not creating invoices in Xero for work that might not go ahead.

The quotes you combine must all be for the same customer and use the same tax treatment (all tax-inclusive or all tax-exclusive). Quotes that are already invoiced in Xero on their own can't be added to a combined invoice.

Combining quotes

1. Go to your Quotes list. In the Xero column header, click the combine icon to enter select mode.
2. Tick the quotes you want on one invoice. Selection locks to a single customer and tax treatment, so once you pick the first quote, only compatible quotes stay selectable. (Tip: search the customer's name first to bring their quotes together.)
3. A bar at the bottom shows how many quotes you've picked and the combined total. Click Combine into one invoice.

This opens the combined invoice, which lists each quote, the combined total, and the fields for sending to Xero — the same customer mapping and invoice dates you'd see when linking a single quote.

Sending to Xero

In the combined invoice, choose the Xero contact for the customer (or Create new contact in Xero if they're not there yet), check the invoice date and due date, then click Send to Xero. The invoice date defaults to the earliest quote's date, and the due date to seven days after — you can change both.

Puree creates one invoice in Xero, numbered with a G (for example INV/G4) so it's easy to spot as a combined invoice. It contains every day's line items, each under its own date heading. Like any Puree-to-Xero invoice, it arrives in Xero as a draft for you to review and approve before sending it to the customer.

On the Quotes list afterwards

Every quote that's part of a combined invoice shows a shared combined-invoice marker in the Xero column instead of its own Link button — this is what stops a grouped quote from being invoiced twice. From there you can:

• Click the link icon to manage the combined invoice (review the quotes, update the contact or dates, re-send).
• Click Multi linked to open the invoice directly in Xero.

Updating and unlinking

Open the combined invoice from any of its quotes to make changes. Update in Xero re-sends the combined invoice with your latest contact and dates. Unlink from Xero dissolves the combined invoice so each quote goes back to being on its own and can be invoiced individually again.

Unlinking only clears the link on Puree's side — the invoice itself stays in Xero, so if you no longer want it there, delete or void it in Xero as well. As with single quotes, if the Xero invoice has a payment applied it becomes locked, and you'll need to remove the payment in Xero before updates can sync.

Good to know while it's in beta

• Xero only — combined invoicing works with Xero.
• The quotes stay independent underneath the combined invoice — deposits, payments and Stripe requests are still tracked per quote, not across the whole group.
• Combining and unlinking happen at invoice time only; it doesn't change how the individual quotes are built, accepted or shown to the customer.

Because this is a beta, we'd love your feedback — if anything looks off with a combined invoice in Xero, let us know.