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  1. When adding bills in the app, I find myself searching for the same category over and over. On the desktop, a likely or previous category comes up automatically. That would be great in the app, too.

    Failing that, it would be good if the list of categories contained frequently used categories first. I doubt anyone scrolls alphabetically, so it seems a useless feature to have.

    2 votes

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  2. Scenario - Multiple projects open. If materials are purchased at eg a builders merchants for mutliple projects on one invoice/receipt, it's not possible to allocate the spend to individual projects which is madness. It seems that the total invoice/receipt must be assigned to ONE particular project. When materials are bought, it's often far cheaper to buy them in bulk, hence buying for more than one project at the same time. It should be possible to therefore assign individual lines on the invoice to a particular project (a bit like tracking).

    7 votes

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    Hi Clare, if you're adding an expense from within a project, it's expected that the expense you're creating is related to the Project you're in. You could create a Bill within the Bills to pay area where you can assign individual lines of your bill to different Projects. 

  3. Projects - Ability to copy time entries using web platform

    Currently you can copy a time entry using the Projects app but this function does not seem to be availible using the web based software. This could be added to the hamburger menu where at present the only options are edit or delete.

    8 votes

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  4. It would be ideal to filter analytics (Business Snapshot) by tracking category and show only income/expenses for each Tracking Category on the dashboard e.g by Department/Region/Product etc.

    14 votes

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  5. We run a music festival of 10 concerts. Each concert is set up as a tracking category. It would be great to spread the direct and admin costs across evenly acoss all 10 concerts in a way that doesn't involve entering each invoice across 10 lines.

    15 votes

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  6. Please can you set up an upload template for tracking categories

    115 votes

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  7. 9 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate your feedback on this idea and the recent input around the new navigation. Our product team are considering all feedback we receive on this closely and we'll share if there developments for this with you here.

    In the meantime, make sure you share the idea with any colleagues that could benefit from this so they can add their vote here, too.

  8. Ability to add the same task to all projects would save huge amounts of time when starting out with projects and general maintenance.

    13 votes

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  9. Integrate Xero Projects with Google Calendar so you can allocate workload/timesheets to projects more seamlessly.

    19 votes

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    Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea with us 😊 We can absolutely see how an integration between Google Calendar and Xero could make things a bit easier when you're managing work across different tools.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can get a better sense of how many customers this would help, and learn more about the different ways people would like to use this kind of integration.

    While there aren’t any plans for this in the near future, we’ll be keeping a close eye on the idea and the level of support it gets from the community.

    If this would make a real difference to the way you work, please keep voting and feel free to add a little more detail about your use case too — that context is really helpful for our product team

  10. It would be really helpful to be able to add yes / no, to do / complete or custom field options to tasks rather than time. Not all tasks get billed for the time spent, but all tasks have to be completed. Being able to check them off would be great. IF you can then have Job / Project templates even better, as a project can be created with these already on there

    6 votes

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  11. For all Xero Projects expenses, the only way to add the Expense name is to add a description for each expense. When we're tracking spend monies, receipts & invoices, this is a time consuming/ inefficient process. It would be ideal for the project expense to simply show the supplier name (when there's no description field added).

    7 votes

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  12. Feedback - Projects: Reporting - Bills assigned to a Project

    This is providing feedback on the new feature released in response to

    https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/44961406-projects-reporting-bills-assigned-to-a-project

    Unfortunately, the issue has been closed for comments - which seems strange as this feature release is clearly a start and not the end of the road for this topic.

    My feedback: Thanks for shipping this new feature. It is a good start, but only a start.

    1. Most businesses have a large number of suppliers (& bills) that are overheads related and not project related. As such, these need to be omitted from the view to useful…

    26 votes

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    Thanks Daniel, and really appreciate your feedback in relation to the recent release and update of the idea you've linked - Feedback you share on our Status updates also get back to the teams involved so they've received your comments there too!

    Not meaning to cut the curb the conversation, but we do sometimes need to make tough decisions of when to change the status of an idea.

    It's great to get a fresh sense and understanding of interest in further improvements to this feature that our Projects product team can consider development for. 

    I've slightly amended the title of your idea to reflect the abilities to search and filter within this view and it's really good to have this detail from you of the specific fields and ways in which you'd make use of this change. 

    We'll begin feeling out the community interest on the idea here, and can…

  13. Multiple contacts on a Project. Projects can currenlty only be built and linked to 1 contact at a time. However. in terms of training and events where there could be multiple contacts linked this is an issue. If Xero could add the option for multiple contacts this would be great. It would save all my issues in terms of tracking a job.

    31 votes

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    Hi team, thanks for the extra input and detail in how your business operates in relation to the needs here.

    I want to be transparent with you all here that this isn't something we have plans for developing projects for at this time, however are continuing to pay attention to the ideas and improvements our customers would like to see in this feature through these forums. I'll share if there are any updates planned.

  14. Activity Statement - ability to filter transactions by Tracking Category to check for accurate GST codes. The ability to filter and check GST entered on transactions with Tracking Categories is especially important for NFPs and Charities.

    For some organisations, there are specific GST treatments for specific transactions and often these are tracked by the use of Tracking Categories.

    Currently in the Activity Statement we can only do a check based on a dump of transactions listed under the tax rate or BAS field tabs, which is cumbersome and clumsy. The current methods available in Xero for auditing and checking GST…

    13 votes

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  15. in Projects, you only have 3 options as tabs, Draft, in progress or closed, it would be great if i could create more tabs. (on proof to customer, waiting on customer artwork, etc)

    17 votes

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    Hi everyone 🌟, thanks so much for taking the time to share your feedback and ideas with us.

    It’s always helpful to hear how customers are using Projects and where there may be opportunities to make the experience even better.

    We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue to gather interest and learn more about how this could add value for customers.

    If this is something you’d like to see, please keep voting and feel free to add any extra detail in the comments about how this would help your workflow.

    We really appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us and helping us continue to improve Xero Projects.

    • Create a budget for each project and then integrate the budgets to the company's overall budget.
    • Provide variance report for each project
    • Provide variance report for all the projects together
    70 votes

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  16. Ability to be able to create your own custom project report in Projects. For example being able to create a report using the fields in both the Project Details report and the Project Financials report.

    Also the ability to ability to amend the current reports in the format you want and then to save them to customs reports as you can do with other reporting.

    71 votes

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  17. XERO Projects could do with a massive update!

    Similar to the main dashboard XERO Projects could also do with a dashboard where you can see a quick overview of what is due in the coming weeks, what is overdue, what is assigned to me, or what is assigned to staff I manage. What projects are in draft status and what projects are 'in progress'. Projects with amounts that need to be invoiced and projects where allocated hours to tasks have been exceeded or amounts allocated to estimated expenses have exceeded.

    In other words a dashboard that gives a nice visual…

    43 votes

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    Aaah I see, thanks for the clarification, Emma. Understand the difference between what you can get with the existing reports and what you're in need of. 

    I've shared with our Projects team. We're continuing to add Projects and while there's no plans at present I'll let you know if anything surrounding this is explored we'll share with you here. 🙂 

  18. Include the option to show the invoice reference, instead of just the number, in the Quotes & Invoices page of the project

    22 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate feedback we have received here on the value being able to see the reference number from within the Quote and Invoices tab within projects could provide.

    Being completely open this isn't something we have plans for developing at this time however we are aware of the interest and are continuing to track this idea. If there is any shift in movement we will share an update. Thanks

  19. I am trying to add a list of inventory items to a project quickly, to estimate cost, is there an easy way to upload an excel sheet with all the inventory items & quantities?

    I need to add multiple items like over 60 each with their own quantity... Can I upload a list? Instead of individual listing?

    6 votes

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