◆ Built for Xero · invoices, quotes & credit notes

Client-ready invoices from your Xero detail.

Roll up messy line items into clean summaries your clients actually understand — while Xero keeps every detail for your records and reporting.

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✓ Data never altered✓ Read-only Xero access
Invoice #INV-0492 · Meridian Fit-Out
Before — as recorded in Xero
Engineer A – 2 days · £960
Engineer B – 1 day · £480
Site visit & survey · £180
Materials – fixings · £312
Materials – timber · £312
ROLL UP
After — on the client's PDF
Labour£1,440
Materials & site£804
Total£2,244
Solving the invoice request that's had256 votes open on Xero's forum since 2012— now with quotes & credit notes covered too.
How it works

Three steps, and you'll never do it by hand again

1

Connect your Xero org

Secure OAuth through Xero's own login — we never see your password. Connect one org or many if you run a firm.

2

Drag lines into groups

Pick an invoice or quote, then drag its line items under headers you name — "Labour," "Materials," whatever fits.

3

Download the PDF

Get a polished, client-ready PDF instantly. Full detail stays in your ledger, exactly as Xero recorded it.

Why Clearline

Built around what your client receives

✓

Your accounting data is never touched

The roll-up lives only on the client-facing PDF. Every original line item stays intact in Xero for your records, VAT and reporting.

Σ

Hide the detail, or subtotal it

Roll a group up to a single line, or show its lines with a subtotal underneath — per group, on the same document. Xero itself can't subtotal by group at all.

⇄

Credit notes work the same way

Roll up a credit note exactly as you roll up an invoice — same groups, same rule sets, same PDF, so a correction can carry the same headers as the bill it corrects.

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Do it once, not every invoice

Group a document by dragging, then save it as a rule set. Every invoice after it is one click from the same headers, so a client sees a consistent bill rather than a new format each time.

Pricing

One plan, everything included

Placeholder pricing — the final number is still to be confirmed.

Clearline
£9/mo

For bookkeepers and business owners who want a tidier invoice.

✓ Invoices, quotes & credit notes✓ Roll a group up, or show it with a subtotal✓ Client-ready PDF download✓ Read-only — your Xero data is never altered
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FAQ

Questions bookkeepers ask us

No — and it could not if it tried. Clearline asks Xero for read-only access, so it has no permission to alter anything. Grouping affects the client-facing PDF only; every original line item stays exactly as it is, so your reporting, VAT and reconciliation are untouched.
About

Built by someone who's stared at a 40-line invoice too

Clearline started with a problem that's been open on Xero's own forum since 2012, with hundreds of votes and no fix: clients don't want to see every internal line item, but you still need that detail for your own books.

So we built the smallest tool that solves it properly: clean summaries for the client, full detail in your ledger, and quotes and credit notes handled exactly like invoices.

We're a small, independent team. When you email us, a person who understands bookkeeping replies.

Contact

Get started, or just ask us anything

Want a walkthrough before you connect Xero? Email us, say a little about your practice, and we aim to reply within one business day.

There is one person behind that address, so you are writing to them directly rather than to a queue.

✉hello@getclearline.co.uk

Write on a Friday evening and you will most likely hear back on Monday. If something is broken and stopping you working, say so in the subject line.

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