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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.1 voteThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
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Xero Projects add ability to apply sales tax to markup on an expense that was tax exempt
Add ability to apply sales tax to a markup on an expense that was tax exempt.
Currently a tax exempt expense (building permit fees paid to municipalities, example $100) are tax exempt. I would markup this expense if paid on behalf of a client (10%, total $110). When adding the expense to an invoice I can either apply sales tax to the entire $110, or mark the expense as tax exempt. I am forced to ignore the markup feature in Xero projects then create a separate line on invoices "Expense markup + HST" which is less than ideal.
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project naming
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.…1 voteThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
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bulk-edit function for Project expenses
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…
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Project Info Menu
Project Info menu - For each project, add a "Project Info" menu so that we can include some brief information on the project. For example, Description of Works (i.e. New build; Renovations; New Office Addition; Pool works etc.), Project Start Date, Estimated Project Completion Date, Contract Number, Contract Sum, Site Foreman Name etc.
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Reminder notes for files to be uploaded each month or quarter
It would be handy to have a checklist on the dashboard that can be edited and ticked off when completed, such as files needed to be uploaded each month or quarter for BAS lodgement - eg; Shopify fees report, Paypal fees report, Airbnb fees report. So as we reconcile the transactions we don't have to upload a single file per transaction, just the one report at end of month or quarter and actually remember to upload the file :)
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Bulk add tracking Categories to bills (not just invoices)
I add a lot of bills and spend a lot of time adding tracking categories one by one to each item line. I want the ability to do this in bulk for many item lines at once. This has just been completed for invoices but it would be just as (if not more!) useful to be able to do this when editing bills.
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general category for MTD for ITSA
We have several clients with many tracking categories, meaning that eg the monthly Xero subscription we have to split 6 ways, which is very tedious and time consuming. Could we use a general category which would automatically split equally between the amount of other tracking categories
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Add ability to change the order of Tasks, so that later Tasks added can be grouped more logically rather than appear at thwith their earlier
Our clients may request a sub-division of work by sites (we use Tasks for this) and its very likely we will be adding further subdivisions of work for each site as we move through the year. Currently the most recent tasks set up show at the bottom of the Tasks list. It would be very helpful to have the facility to reorder these Tasks, to group them as we wish and make viewing activity on jobs a lot easier.
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Pop-out window for new time-entry time tracking
It would be great if the "new time entry" dialogue box could be opened in its own window, or similar to the phone app, have a distinct desktop app we can have open permanently on our computers - to make time recording easy and accessible.
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Reporting | Tracking - Inherit tracking categories on foreign exchange gain and loss
Assign tracking categories to exchange gains and losses based on the original transaction postings.
1 voteHi Kelly, thanks for sharing this idea. Having FX gains and losses inherit the tracking categories from the original transactions could make departmental and cost centre reporting easier to manage.
I've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. How would you like this to work? For example, should the tracking category automatically follow the original transaction, or should users have the option to select how FX adjustments are tracked?
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Projects - Automatic numbering for tasks
projects need automatic numbering for job numbers
1 voteThanks for taking the time to share this, Anthony. We appreciate how automatic task numbering could improve visibility.
We've updated the idea to Gaining Support while we continue to gather feedback from the community.
As a workaround, you can add sequential numbers to task names yourself, and if you have repeatable tasks, you can create them as untracked inventory item instead.
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Project costs totalled by individual suppliers
In Projects the Tasks and Expenses are listed individually with a total for all of these costs. It would be very useful to be able to generate a report with total costs for each supplier for a project where multiple suppliers have many individual invoices. This would appear to be a simple bit of programming to do this.
4 votes🌟 Thanks so much for sharing this idea — we can definitely see why this would be valuable, especially for customers managing project costs across multiple suppliers.
We’ve moved your idea to Gaining Support so we can better understand how many others would find this helpful too. While we can’t make any guarantees about future planning at this stage, we do recognise the legitimacy of the need you’ve raised and appreciate you taking the time to share it with us.
Please keep voting and encouraging others to add their support and use cases — it all helps build a clearer picture for our product teams.
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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…1 voteHi 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…
1 voteThanks 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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Projects - Draft invoices not appear as 'invoiced'
Feature suggestion: Draft invoices should not appear as “Invoiced” in Xero Projects until approved
In Xero Projects, invoice line items assigned to a project currently appear as “Invoiced” even when the invoice is still in draft status.
This creates a major reporting issue for construction businesses and any business that uses staged billing, contract milestones, progress claims, or forward-planned invoicing.
For staged construction contracts, we often need to prepare draft invoices in advance for agreed contract stages, such as deposit, slab, frame, lock-up, fixing, practical completion, or variations. Drafting these invoices ahead of time is part of good project administration.
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9 votesThanks so much for taking the time to share this idea with us, we can see how important this is for you. We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can better understand how many others in the community would also find this helpful. Community feedback and votes play an important part in helping us gauge interest and understand the different ways this impacts customers’ workflows.
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Projects - Allow staff cost rate and charge out rate
We have an individual staff cost rate and individual staff billable/charge out rate.
Staff work on the same task's in a project.
The hourly rate on a task only allows one entry so does not capture the individual staff billable/charge out rate
I would like to enter an individual staff cost rate and an individual staff billable/charge out rate.7 votesHi everyone, appreciate you highlighting this improvement. We can see how having separate staff cost rates and charge-out rates in Xero Projects could provide a more accurate view of project profitability.
While Projects doesn't currently support individual internal cost rates for each user, some businesses use Tracking Categories alongside payroll and project reporting to compare revenue and staff costs. We appreciate this isn't the same as having dedicated cost rates built directly into Projects.
I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If there are particular reporting views or profitability metrics you'd like this to support, let us know as those examples help us better understand how this could fit into your workflows.
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Projects - Available in standard reporting
It would be incredibly helpful if we could have project names available as a column option in standard financial reports. This is something we currently have to add manually into the reports we run monthly.
4 votesHi Polina, thanks for highlighting this idea. We can see how having Xero Projects data available within standard reports could make it easier to analyse financial performance without needing to switch between different reports.
While Projects data isn't currently available as a reporting filter in standard financial reports, using Tracking Categories alongside your projects can help if you need project-based reporting within reports like the Profit & Loss.
I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If there are particular reports or project metrics you'd like to see supported, let us know so we can capture those use cases too.
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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…
2 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 - 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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