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I find it mind boggling that there isn't a simple report to identify any expenses that have not been assigned to a client. Xero - this means that your users are likely to be losing money and your software is meant to make life easier and more efficient. Please tell us why you cannot correct this obvious defect as a matter of urgency.

Jumping on board the previous comment, this feature is desperately needed particularly when the process for assigning a bill to a customer is, in my opinion, somewhat clunky with the added step being the selection of “assign” rather than just finding the customer, ticking the required lines and then approving.

I would find it extremely helpful if when viewing all bills, there was a column that was to show who the bill was assigned to as a quick check method.

Come on Xero, what's the point of asking for feedback and ideas if you dont do anything with it?
Why are you just sitting back and watching everyone send you the same comments and you don't even have the courtesy to respond?

Please implement billable expense column in Payable Invoice Detail Report.

Listing all expenses that have been assigned to a customer would be easy to implement and should be shown under the Contact activity screen.

Such a basic request and very easy to filter for in the database. Can't believe its 18 months and still nothing.

We're basically paying for clients stuff when its missed from allocation by accident. So not only are we not getting the money in, we're paying for it! And now that i've noticed it happens, it's going to take months to get the admin team through each invoice manually!

Need to check I haven't missed charging a customer for items we have purchased & used in their works. Else we run the risk of giving these away for free.

The response time for a new report filter is certainly disappointing.

I need this report - Come on Xero - I am sure this would be useful to all users.

So how many years and votes does it take to get action?

I agree this would be a helpful feature. At the very least, could we have a filter option on the Account Transaction report that can say whether an item is marked as billable or not? I can drill into the transaction to see then who it's billable to. I have a client that uses billable expenses and it would be much more useful if you could see what isn't marked as billable rather then billable expenses outstanding.

Hi. This feature was released in NZ the last couple of month - but only for assigning to Projects, not assigning to Contacts. But still, that's a massive improvement. So now under the extra options dots you can have a view of bills to only show those that have not been assigned to a Xero Project.

makes it easier to follow up on staff to see if they completed task. makes it easier for me to check my own work

This option would help to save time on a lot of manual checks.

The option available isn't currently working. This would help to save time on a lot of manual checks.

Re Brenda's post 06/06/23, this isn't available in UK - it would be so easy to add a column to the payable invoice summary report showing who billed to or not billed. It's a major area of financial risk. Can lose thousands if someone forget to assign to customer and no means of checking.

For others looking for a solution here, I have managed to find a work around using a Xero workaround called FlexReporting.

This add-on accesses the underlying Xero data and will highlight any transactions that are not matched. It is fairly rough and ready, but it works for me.

Unfortunately it's not been implemented. Although there may be a way of using Project as a work around:

Thank you for contacting Xero Support!

We had a look from our end and can see that this idea hasn't been implemented yet. The idea this person is mentioning is related to Projects which is another product the Xero offers.

Can't confirm for Canada but I'm UK and definitely not seeing it.

Furthermore I'd be happier if it (also) showed in the Account Transactions page for an account, this is where I work more than the bills view. It is easy to see that each line has or hasn't a file attached, to see it has or hasn't been assigned to a client would be a big help (and I assume little different in implementation to getting it on the billing page too).

Can anyone confirm if this function is live for Canada? I don't see this.