Projects - Add people/staff without giving access
Adding staff working on a project without giving them access to Xero.
There is absolutely not need for staff to have access to Xero for me to log that they have worked on a project for 8 hours at £xx rate per hour.
I don't want to add this information to the ledger as the staff are payrolled so I cannot enter this as an expense but I would like to diarise time against the project so profitability can be calculated.
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Freya Pieroz commented
My clients do use payroll to process direct contractors, because Australia and superannuation, but there is absolutely no reason for those contractors to have access to the finances of a project. They don't need to see the internal profit and loss; they don't work for the company.
These contractors also don't use Xero timesheets, because they use and submit timesheets as per my clients' customer's requirements (gotta have approved timesheets attached when I invoice the customer) and getting them to do their timesheet twice is stupid time-wasting. So if I want to have their timesheets in Xero timesheets, in order to assign that timesheet to a Project, I have to manually enter each timesheet and assign it to the contractor as a Projects user, and that's a waste of MY time.
I currently do a workaround by creating a bill for each individual being paid through payroll, and assigning _that_ to the project, but I have to track the hours they've worked in a spreadsheet because the tax withheld means that I can't put 40 hours @ $30/hr = $1200 on the bill for that payroll since they actually get paid $1200 less tax plus super accrued (to be paid in a month).
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Michael Sitch commented
I am looking at purchasing Projects for my company. However, I use around 40 contractors in my projects and obviously want to be able to allocate their time to my Projects. I do not want them to be Xero users. Currently I cannot do this unless I add them as employees (requiring Xero Licences for all of them and presumably a Payroll licence). Can you make these contractors available for me to add to my Projects (Maybe a flag on their Contact details?). As it stands I don't think I can use Xero Projects because of this.