Tracking - Ability to bulk Archive categories
We use tracking categories of building jobs. It would be great to archive the tracking category once the job it complete. Allowing a P&L by tracking category report to only show active jobs.

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Charlie Walter commented
Finally a response through "Xero Support"
Harshit - Support specialist - Today 11:52 AM
Hi Charlie
As mentioned, all product ideas are regularly reviewed, analysed and prioritised by our product team and we will update you once we have any development on it but at the moment, we are unable to provide you with a time frame for it.
We really appreciate your feedback.
Kind regards
Harshit
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Susan Adam commented
Yes I would like to be able to multi select tracking categories and delete or archive in bulk.
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Charlie Walter commented
August 08, 2025 9:46 AM
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Charlie Walter commented
Sara Wain commented first > July 19, 2022 10:56 AM
Hi Xero,
Just me again. So how is that “bulk archive tracking categories” request from July 2022 coming along? It’s now July 2025 — we’ve changed Prime Ministers, Taylor Swift has dropped three albums, and I’ve archived about 800 jobs one click at a time.
In a nutshell:
Since this request was raised, Xero has:- Appointed a new CEO,
- Cut 700+ staff,
- Turned a NZD 113m loss into a NZD 174m profit,
- Bought a US fintech for $2.5 billion,
- Overhauled its reporting tools,
- Launched Tap to Pay and carbon tracking features,
- And revamped the Product Ideas platform…Yet still no “select all” checkbox - not even a response!
Any chance we could see this before your next profit spike or billion-dollar acquisition? 😉
Charlie Walter
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Su Pike commented
I have hundreds - if not thousands - of tracking categories that are seriously affecting my ability to produce reports. Please can you bring in a feature to bulk archive them?
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Charlie Walter commented
Jul 29, 2025 8:40pm
😂😂😂 the anticipated response!
I will wait - TIK TOK -
Simon Elgar commented
Come on Xero! Even if it just to tell us it will never be done!
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Leeann Wedlake commented
Please, please, need better functionality - Adding my name to the list. Archiving one by one is insanely time-consuming.
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Chantelle Oosthuizen commented
Need this urgently
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Charlie Walter commented
Jul, 25, 2025 9:46am
This was not submitted in 2023. I have threads going back way before that. I will keep on responding every time. -
Charlie Walter commented
This was not submitted in 2023. I have threads going back way before that. I will keep on responding every time.
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Lishelle Young commented
Adding my name to the list. Archiving one by one is insanely time-consuming.
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Charlie Walter commented
@Su Pike -They wont answer you. I have been asking for years
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Charlie Walter commented
@Su Pike -They wont answer you. I have been askign for years
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Su Pike commented
Are there any plans to help manage tracking categories - particularly bulk archiving.
I am currently archiving hundreds of these and it is very time intensive.
Thanks.
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Jane Mullan commented
I asked in August 204 if anything had been done about this as I see people have been asking for years for a solution - very disappointed that Xero have not thought about this yet nor posted any comment.
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Charlie Walter commented
Has Xero answered if they intend to do this???
I have only been asking the same question for years.....
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Des Andrew commented
It would be very helpful to have this feature.
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Steve Brooks commented
This would be so useful to archive in bulk and save a load of time
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Kylie Ryan commented
I have hundreds old tracking categories from as far back as 2016 that I am currently deleting one by one. It would be a great help to be able to select multiple tracking categories and delete them in bulk.