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Projects - Assigning tasks within a Project to individual employees
We would find the facility to assign tasks to individual employees very helpful. We have large Projects over summer where various contractors/employees are required to do individual tasks on the Project. During this busy period, multiple tasks are added to each Project. Ideally we would like those personnel only seeing what they are assigned to, so as there is no confusion on who should be doing which task.
I've attached an example of how this could look.5 votesThanks for sharing this idea, Fiona. We understand the request to assign individual project tasks to specific employees. This could make it easier to clarify responsibilities and manage workloads within a project.
We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd like it to work.
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Projects - Save project and task selection when starting a timer
Project Timer - Please remember the task!
It would be great if the timer remembered the project and task I chose after starting the timer. I always choose the project and task, but when I come back to the app hours later to stop the timer, the timer is still running but it has forgotten the project and task I chose. So frustrating!
I used to use Toggl timer which always remembered what it was timing. Can this be changed? Cheers!7 votesHi everyone, thank you for sharing this suggestion. We understand why having the timer remember your last project and task selection could make time tracking feel smoother, especially when you are logging multiple entries against the same work.
Currently, the timer resets these selections after stopping, which means you need to manually choose the project and task again each time. For users tracking frequent or ongoing work, this can add extra steps and slow down the process.
I’ve updated this post to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community feedback and gather more insights.
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Projects - Allow as an Add-On for all pricing plans
As a 1-man business I only need limited features, but the Project feature is one of these that feels essential to my line of work. It is only available in the highest pricing plan and is not available as an add-on. This appears to price out small businesses who want this feature. Please consider allowing this as an add-on, even if it isn't to be available in different pricing tiers.
27 votesHey all, unfortunately there's no news to share on this request at the moment.
Please make sure to share this idea with any colleagues that could benefit from this, so they can add their votes and comments too.
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Export Accounting Data - Export data with tracking categories split into columns
Add an option to export accounting data with tracking categories split into separate lines instead of combined in one field.
This would make exports much easier to use in other software, reduce manual data cleanup, and support clients who need to import Xero data into reporting tools or different accounting systems.
9 votesHi Alice, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too! Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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Projects - Bulk-edit expense chargeability status or set project-level expense defaults
Please add a bulk-edit function for Project expenses, allowing multiple expenses to be changed from chargeable/markup to non-chargeable at once, or set a project-wide default. This would save significant time.
I would like to request a bulk-edit function for Project expenses.
I have a large number of expenses assigned to a project which are not chargeable to the client. At the moment, each expense has to be opened individually and the Charge field changed from % markup/chargeable to Non-chargeable, then saved.
This is extremely time-consuming when dealing with a large number of expenses, particularly where the expenses are linked to…
4 votesThanks for sharing this idea, Gemma. We understand the request to bulk-edit expense chargeability or set a project-level default. This could make managing large volumes of project expenses much more efficient.
We’ve updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share which approach you’d find most useful.
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Invoices - Create invoice to a date. Simple scheduling calender
Basically calendar to add draft invoices to, to use as a job scheduling calendar.
Add draft invoices/job to a date add basic detail to the schedule day and it saves the detail in the description row on invoice with the date.
Each time you add an invoice to a date and you add detail it adds new row with simple details
Once finished you finalize draft invoice as normal.
14 votesHi Michael, returning to your idea here this'd be quite a difference to the way in which Xero works today and we don't have any plans of adding an invoice calendar to be able to schedule tasks that'll add new rows to an existing invoice.
That said, we have another idea for being able to add a date column to invoices that you may like to join and would be a step toward what you're hoping to achieve here.
Alternatively, if not already I'd recommend exploring Projects that enables you to add tasks and expenses on the fly. When ready you can create draft invoices from the tasks and expenses within a project which can be carried through as either a combined line or individual lines on your invoice.
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Smart Document Capture – Assign line-item costs to a Xero Project during document review
I’m very surprised that the ability to assign a cost to a Xero Project has not been included in Smart Document Capture from the outset, particularly as this functionality is already available when publishing transactions through Hubdoc.
Smart Document Capture is supposed to make document processing quicker and more efficient, but removing functionality that users already have in Hubdoc actually makes the workflow more cumbersome.
At present, I can review and code a document in Smart Capture and create the transaction, but if the cost relates to a Project, I then have to leave Smart Capture, find the newly created…
2 votesHi Monica, appreciate you raising this idea. The main request here is to have an Assign to Project field available in Smart Document Capture, so project-related costs can be allocated before the document is published.
I’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. Would you prefer to assign the whole bill to a project or select a project for individual line items?
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Projects - Ability to Convert an Estimated Expense to an actual Expense
Add a button to move an estimated expense to become an actual expense. Would save time having to copy and paste the description. Add ability to amend final cost.
10 votes✨ Hi everyone,
Thanks for bringing this idea to us and for sharing how being able to move an estimated expense to an actual expense, while updating the final cost, could save time when working in Projects.
We've reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining Support, so it's now open for other community members to vote on and add comments.
The extra detail shared here helps our product team better understand the impact this could have on your workflow, and we'll be sure to update this thread if there's any progress to share.
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Projects - Layout and alignment improvements for spent vs estimated metrics on project summary page
I would appreciate if the project summary would align better: everything is right-aligned so the bar graphs all start in a different spot. (Numbers fudged).
I would like the budget (ie: the estimate) to be right next to the "spent" number so that I can clearly see how over or under the project currently is. Right now, the estimate number is tiny and hidden to the left underneath the project name which makes it very unuseful for comparison – the eye has to dart between the far left side and the far right side.
Also, it's not really a project…
2 votesWe understand the request for spent and estimated figures to be better aligned on the Projects listing page. This could make it easier to compare actual costs against estimates without scanning across the page.
I’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. What layout or positioning would make these figures easiest for you to review?
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Xero Projects - Show calendar view
i just want to use one app for everything, a calendar view to see what i have booked in would be very useful. at the moment i don't get the best use out of xero i'm running my business of multiple apps putting a calendar in xero would mean i can run the business directly from the xero platform
we have quoting, invoicing we have the ability to take payments through the app on-site but i barely do any of that within xero because its lacking a calendar.
there is no point in having "projects" without a calendar to quickly…
6 votesAppreciate the feedback here team, we're moving this idea to gain more support from the team. In the meantime, feel free to share this idea with other users and colleagues who might find this idea helpful. They can add their votes for wider visibility. Cheers
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Tracking Category - Add description or internal notes field
It would be helpful if you could add a description or comment field to tracking categories. This would allow us to add keep category names concise and then add more information to in the description field so that we can describe things like how it is used, start and end dates for event tracking etc.
8 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand that having more context around Tracking Categories could help teams apply them consistently, especially when managing more complex reporting setups.
The suggestion is to add a description or notes field to Tracking Categories, giving teams a place to record how each category should be used.
For now, some teams use internal guides or shared documents to keep these details available. We’ll continue tracking this idea here, where other users can add their feedback and examples to help shape future improvements.
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Projects - Sort and filter project list numerically by Project Name
Here’s a clearer version you could use as a Xero feature request:
It would be really helpful if Projects could be filtered or sorted properly by Project Name.
We use sequential numbers as our project names, and we are now well over project number 10,000. At the moment, Xero appears to sort the project names as text rather than numerically. This means that projects beginning with “1” are grouped together, so newer project numbers such as 10,000+ can appear before much older project numbers.
This makes it quite difficult to quickly determine what the next available project number should be.…3 votesHi Linda, thanks for sharing this feedback. We understand the request to sort Project Names numerically, particularly when using sequential project numbers. This could make it easier to find projects and identify the next available number.
We’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. Add your vote and let us know how this would help your workflow.
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Reporting - Group project financial reports by transaction contact instead of main project contact
In project financial reports - all line entries are currently given with the main project contact, not the contact that the individual line is associated with.
it would be far more useful to be able to break down income and expenses on a project grouped by the actual contact, not the project contact - which is the same for all lines in the report.
1 voteThanks for bringing this to the community. We understand the request to show the individual transaction contact on project financial report lines, rather than displaying the primary contact assigned to the project.
This could make it easier to break down project costs by supplier or customer without having to open individual transactions.
I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would be useful, add your vote and let us know how you’d like the reports grouped.
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Reports - Compare multiple tracking category options to budget in a single report
Report that compares multiple tracking categories to budget in one report.
For example, we have a number of programs and would like a report which shows actual $ spent on each program, the budget for each program and the variance to budget.
1 voteHi Christine, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand the request to compare multiple tracking category actuals against budget in a single report. Having actuals, budgets and variances together could make it easier to review performance across different departments or programs.
We’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your reporting workflow, add your vote and let us know how you’d like the information presented.
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Projects - Custom project's status flags
It would be great to be able to flag Projects that the customer is a bad payer or to just state the project is on Hold or Do not do any more work - to be able to add a comment field that will display on the project main page, and maybe this is asking way too much but on the report to flag that project too - either with a little flag or comment icon so that you know at a glance there is something to be aware of.
2 votesThanks for highlighting this improvement, Ilse. We understand the request to add project flags that can communicate warnings or special instructions to the wider team.
A visible indicator on the Projects list could help teams quickly identify projects that need attention and reduce the chance of work continuing when a project is on hold.
We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. If this could be useful, add your vote and let us know which flags or warnings you’d want to see.
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Projects - Allow negative amounts and credit items to be assigned to projects
Allow negative amounts to be assigned in projects instead of creating a credit note for it.
2 votesThanks for taking the time to suggest this. A way to apply credits and negative amounts directly against project costs could make project expense management more straightforward.
I’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this is something you’d use, add your vote and tell us how you’d like negative project entries to work.
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Projects - Ensure transactions generated from a project inherit the contacts' tax default
Creating a quote or an invoice from within Projects should respect the same rules for default tax rate that creating one from scratch does, as set out in this article:
https://central.xero.com/s/article/How-your-default-tax-rate-and-account-settings-workBoth quotes and invoices created from Projects ignore the contact "Sales GST" field and revert to the account default.
If the project uses "product or service" item codes with tax rates set, then quotes correctly respect the item tax rate (but still ignore the contact tax rate). An invoice created from Projects ignores both the item tax rate and the contact tax rate.
For example, I have a "With…
4 votesHi Jason, thanks for your feedback on this. We can appreciate how having Projects inherit the default sales tax settings from a contact could make invoicing more efficient and help avoid manual changes before sending invoices or quotes.
I've moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. If you'd find this useful, please add your vote and let us know how this would fit into your day-to-day process.
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Projects - Slider bar to show invoice/uninvoiced
It would be great to have the slider bars in that shows the project estimates on the Projects in progress dashboard, to be able to show what has been invoiced and what is still to be invoiced just like the slider shows when you have over invoiced on a project.
2 votesHey Ilse, thanks for bringing this Idea to us, we appreciate that being able to see this informaotin on the Projects Slider bar could be beneficial to your processes. You can now share this Idea with others in the Community so they can Vote and comment. We will watch this to gauge support and any updates will be posted here.
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Projects - Ability to link bills to existing expense/estimate
Currently, when managing a project, we can invoice a client based on Tasks and expenses to secure payments or deposit-based billing. However, a major issue arises later when the actual supplier bill arrives.
If we assign that supplier bill to the project, Xero treats it as a completely new, separate actual cost instead of letting us link or reconcile it to the original estimated expense.
Introduce a feature within Xero Projects that allows users to link an incoming supplier bill (or Hubdoc document) directly to a pre-existing Estimated Expense on that project. Once linked, the actual bill should replace or…3 votesHi Beata, thanks for sharing this idea. We understand the request to link supplier bills to an existing project estimate or expense line, rather than creating a new line each time a bill is assigned to a project. This could help keep project budgets aligned with actual costs and reduce the need to manually remove estimated expenses once the bill has been received.
I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If there are particular project workflows where this would have the biggest impact, we'd love to hear more.
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Projects - Automatically pull the Inventory Item / Product description into project invoices
I noticed that invoice PDFs sent to customers were displaying the item name rather than the curated description for customer viewing, and I learned the product/service list and Xero Projects are NOT integrated.
When I raised this concern with support, I was told that this is a known limitation within Project invoicing; When creating an invoice from a project with assigned tasks/expenses, Xero does NOT pull the product description, only the name.
I was advised to create an invoice outside of the project, and assign the line items to the project but this is a major waste of time. As…
3 votesThanks for bringing this idea to the community. We understand the request for Xero Projects invoices to automatically use the product or service description from your inventory items. Having those descriptions flow through could reduce manual edits and help create more consistent, detailed invoices.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know how you'd like to see it work.
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