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Our Company uses workflow max (Xero Product) which has this functionality already. I decided to look into Projects because it would keep everything in one software package. At this point in time we will continue with WorkFlow Max.

I have moved our business over from MYOB AccountEdge to Xero because there was no further support for Apple products.
Whilst Xero is much easier to use & saves us time in some respects, it lacks what we need to run our business. We run projects with multiple purchases needing to be allocated in order to track expenses. So we need this functionality as well and it’s critical. May have to move to other software if Xero doesn’t implement soon.

This would massively help our organisation of projects and being able to upload the digital PO to the project would also be a good addition.
Secondly, being able to automatically generate job umbers similar to invoice numbers would be a great addition. Currently we have an excel spreadsheet to keep track of our job numbers. However, we have a different starting number for each contact.

Since we are not able to assign accrued income when we are positng a manual journal, it would be a very good idea that we can add all the purchase orders from customers and enter our purchase orders to suppliers against respective projects, these will meet with our needs to accrue income and or expenses.

So Im looking at the logic on this

Agreed - it would be great to assign a PO to a Project
Our workaround is to create a draft bill from a PO

Another way is If you are in your PROJECT - you can add QUOTES - which are reflected in the costs.

If you change your perspective and look down the lens that you would assign items to a project because you have received and order and/or a quote acceptance

Then it would make sense that you can create a PURCHASE from the QUOTE (which is already in the project)

So what XERO have done is allow you to create a PO from a QUOTE -
In PROJECTS

From the top 3 dots on the right you can : COPY Quote to Bill / PO / Invoice / new Quote

So maybe just look at this functionality from another point in the process!

Hope this is helpful!

Just on Minnies comment.
Unfortunately assigning the project after converting to a bill is the workaround we all have to live with whereas it should be a native featuret of the PO itself as it is with the Bill.
-Some PO's receive multiple deliveries and so it has to be done each time.
-The person converting to a bill has to know what project to assign it to and unless it is otherwise noted on he PO or is featured as a comment on the bill they would not know.
The point of the new software is surely to save time and reduce processing, This does not!
Please xero get it as a feature thanks

As a work around

- we turn POs into draft bills

- from the draft bill we can assingn items to a project - not ideal but its something so we can track costs / materials

you could also - create a QUOTE add to a project
- we havent tried it but you can copy a QUOTE to a PO

just some thoughts !

- we do like the feature to track time tho!

Without this we cant effectively run CVRs for construction jobs and thus will need to move to a more comprehensive system.

Critical feature to make Xero Projects a useful addition - functionality severely compromised without this!

We have recently moved from SAGE to Xero and while most of what Xero has to offer exceeds our expectations, we came across in the hope that the Projects could be used throughout Xero. We are a construction based company with 50+ projects each financial year. However, its seems Projects are detected from the rest of Xero - no option to allocate a Project to a Purchase Order, No option to filter general reports by Projects. There are many limitations to Projects - Tracking accounts seem to have much more use, not sure why Xero cannot treat projects like tracking accounts?

To have the feature Purchase Order assigned to Project in xero not only benefit to your customers but to yourself (xero). It will attract more users to xero. If xero willing to keep on improving to meet the customers' needs, we will sure to continue using xero.

Please add asap

I have a client considering moving back to Sage due to the absence of this feature.

Critical for my business

I had three customers choose xero and change to QuickBooks because of the absence of this feature. It completely undermines the system purporting to do Projects.
Please can we have the ability to assign project to purchase order.

Very disappointing this is not being made priority. This is a key function of which the ability is possible in slightly different way for just Client assignment, and should be available on an extra, paid for, addition to Xero.

Hello, I just wanted to say I am new to Xero, moved from QBO. This function would highly benefit our business, so that we know we have ordered the items needed for a particular customers' project.
At the moment we have no way of checking or linkage. Please could you give me an update if there has been any progress since May?

kind regards
Lisa

Any update on timings for this to be actioned ?
As we will have to move back to Sage if not added soon.

All Purchase orders to be assigned to a project and used as an estimated expense to track against.

Hi It wont just benefit, it is essential. At the moment we have no way of noting which part of order goes to which client. This is making a huge amount of work for us that we did not have using Quickbooks. Starting to regret moving to Xero (and I dont say that lightly).