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This is a must feature specially for comapnies with different projects/cost and profit tracker

Xero Expenses - the ability to make the tracking name/code a required field.

@RhysRoberts - can't agree more with your second paragraph

When Xero started out they genuinely listened to customer feedback - I recall talking with Rod Drury in about 2011 discussing the need for payroll in Xero, following which they bought Paycycle (not personally claiming the credit for this, mine was just one of many voices) and integrated it into the app. Many other examples of development driven by (or at least informed by) user needs.

Over the past few years, they have (IMHO) become less and less responsive to actual client needs, spending developer time on features that add no value to anyone, whilst ignoring feature requests that would deliver benefit. I am holding out almost nil hope of this feature actually getting actioned! :-(

Some months it take ages to clear the 'Unassigned' transactions, due to staff forgetting to complete the tracking. This would be a great feature - YES please.

Please add this function ASAP

This would be very useful for a number of our clients. Could this be implemented as soon as possible. Thanks

Yes please implement a setting to make this mandatory. This is critical for our business and would save a lot of time having to assign unassigned trasactions.

It would be useful to have a project name/number facility on Purchase Orders which then automatically transfers to the corresponding bill. Likewise a quote once accepted given a project name/number facility automatically transferred to the invoice when raised ensuring accurate project tracking.

This function will be very useful for me. Please implement it asap! :)

As well, we need a report that is cash basis and can have number of items sold, revenue totals and a tracking category

Please add the ability to ability to have tracking category fields (that are created such as Sales Person) to be a mandatory field. This prompts users to ensure they enter those fields before submitting an invoice instead of relying on human error....this is standard functionality

Set an account Control that when you Creating an accounting entry, you must enter a specific object of the specified tracking category.
For example, expense accounting accounts must select tracking objects such as cost centers in order to better control and analyze business transactions

Tracking codes - have the option to make Tracking code 1 or 2 mandatory (so when setting up the Tracking code - at the time of creation, the user can tick mandatory or optional). If mandatory is ticked, then whenever a transaction is created of any type coding to a non-balance sheet account, then the user will not be able to save the transaction unless the tracking code is completed. If optional is ticked, then the situation that happens now exists. This optional/mandatory option can be changed at any time.

Please add this function it is critical for tracking profit and loss between branches within our business and in order to get accurate figures at eom.

In Xero Expenses, that Account code field is already a mandatory field which needs to be filled in in order to submit an expense. As for the other fields mentioned, there's currently no functionality in Xero to make these mandatory fields. It would be great if a cost centre and some other fields, ie. business lines can be made mandatory?

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How is this feature not added despite being an industry practice already. Please can you add this feature.

If tracking is not able to be selected by the super user as mandatory the value of reporting by tracking category is severely diminished and/or additional workload is generated for someone to review all transactions without a tracking code and edit them. In most accounting systems the requirement to enter a cost centre is mandatory (or at least configurable to being so).

Being able to make set tracking code mandatory on a file would be very helpful. Please add this feature.

Please make Tracking Categories a mandatory field as soon as possible.

We are tracking costs against Projects but we often have human error where people don't select the Project as its not mandatory.
This means costs are being missed against Projects and therefore leading to incorrect reporting.
Its vital to make this mandatory.
Thanks