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Making tracking categories mandatory, or at least the option to have them mandatory would be amazing. Too much time is spent doing housekeeping at the end of the month, where adding the category has been missed!

We have set up a budget based on Profit Centers, and tracking categories are crucial for our financial management

This is very important for Companies like Construction or Project Accounting where we need to track for profitability reporting and other reports using tracking codes. Accountant's or users tend to miss or forget to input the tracking codes as you can easily continue when you skipped them.

Hope Xero can add this feature as an Automatic Accounting Instruction, which I know is very easy to program.

amazing functionality and equally amazing that you can't make it mandatory

Important for our P&L

Agreed if the tracking categories are in use it should be mandatory to use them for expense claims. It's more frustrating as it is possible to do this in approvalmax when raising POs. Them not being mandatory creates work for finance team when staff omit the relevant department details.

Can we have an option to make it compulsary for a tracking category to be selected for every item (bills, invoices etc.). Currently have to periodically search for unassigned items in the nominal and find and recode.

Staff are currently missing information they are unsure of rather than checking with administration/finance staff.

I have 2 clients who need this option.

We need to have the option to make tracking categories mandatory, and to what type of transactions. Please update on when this will be available as it is critical to a lot of us here.

Please provide an update on this @Xero - would be a very useful feature to ensure reporting is accurate and complete.

Why is this not a feature already?!
We shouldn't have to run reports to check, go back and fix what should be a feature.

PLease can this be put in, it wastes a lot of time going back and including when it should be mandatory. Thank you!

I vote for this to be implemented as well. From memory this used to be an available feature (years back).

The option of making this a mandatory field will save me hours of work auditing transactions to find entries where this has been left blank and reminding users of the omission. Please implement a toggle switch on the ADD TRACKING CATEGORY screen.

Please implement this!

We need this in our business for bills, PO's, invoices, and EXPENSE APP. Please implement.

Please can you do this for expenses ASAP

This is essential for our business

We need the Reference field to be mandatory on invoices - There needs to be a way to toggle fields to mandatory within sales invoices
This field is the only way we can do monthly past search reports