Two identical follow-ups to the same customer is the kind of small error that undermines trust. It's nearly always a duplicate upstream, not a double-send.
Duplicate chasers are embarrassing but rarely mysterious — look upstream in Xero.
Easily done: you revise a quote by creating a new one instead of editing the original, and both sit at SENT. Each gets its own sequence. Void the superseded quote and its chasing stops.
"J Smith Ltd" and "John Smith Limited" are two contacts to Xero. Merge them in Xero, then future quotes attach to one record.
If you regularly re-quote, get into the habit of voiding the old version at the moment you send the new one. It prevents duplicates and keeps your pipeline value accurate.
Follow-up tools reflect your Xero data faithfully. If the output looks doubled, the input usually is — see treating your quote list as a pipeline for why hygiene pays off.
Almost always because two quotes exist for the same job in Xero, or the customer exists as two contacts. Each is tracked separately, so each gets chased. Void the duplicate quote and the extra sequence stops.
Xero supports merging contacts, which consolidates their history. Do that before creating new quotes so future ones attach to a single record.
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