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Unfortunately without this functionality the value of Xero Projects is pretty questionable.

Not having this functionality is making me consider other platforms. I have a large project and without this, the cost tracking is nothing short of messy and time consuming as it is.

…to assign expenses, including purchase invoices and expense claims, to specific tasks within projects rather than grouping them all together.

The purpose of this is to gain a better overview and to organize expenses based on individual tasks.

The Project module in Business Central 365 is built in a very efficient way, and some of its simple features could be applied in Xero to give users a better overview of hours and expenses within projects — including those spent, to be invoiced, and already invoiced.

Agreed. this is crucial to our reporting and we are still having to do it manually.

As the project gets towards the end of the year, each estimated expense is getting a lot of bills under it. If I've invoiced for a progress payment, then I need to mark all bills relating to that part of the progress payment as invoiced. For lots of the estimated expenses, I have to:
- allocate the bill, then
- scroll up through the list of estimated expenses to the one I've allocated the bill to, then
- expand that estimated expense, then
- scroll down to the most recent one, then
- mark the line item that's been invoiced as invoiced while leaving the other line item alone, then
- scroll all the way up to collapse that estimated expense, then
- scroll all the way to the bottom of the screen to repeat with the next bill

This is cumbersome and annoying.

I have clients with multiple projects and multiple contractors billing for each project. If I want to sort the cost of the contractors by contractor, to evaluate the individual profitability of each person working on the project, then I have to create an estimated expense for each contractor. Easy enough - their contracts have the maximum hours they're expected to be billing my client.

But if I forgot to assign each bill to a tracked expense before I on-bill that expense, then once the hours that the contractor has worked have been on-billed, I can't assign them to a tracked expense any more. I can only do so if I manually marked the expense as invoiced (and unmark it to assign it, then re-mark it as invoiced after) - if I created a direct link between the expense and the invoice, then I can't.

I want to be able to assign project expenses to tracked expenses after I've on-billed/invoiced those expenses.

I find there is also a need to look at how a Credit Note against an invoice is handled. Whilst the invoice is reduced in Receivables and the CN is included in Invoices tab in projects, the task that was billed is not reduced.