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  1. 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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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  2. 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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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  3. 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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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  4. Assign tracking categories to exchange gains and losses based on the original transaction postings.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  5. Make both tracking categories available in payroll.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  6. Be great if you can apply a % markup to the Estimated expense,and all the expenses assigned to this Estimate, then have same % applied. OR at least those expenses that don't have a % markup already applied, then default to the Estimated expense markup. VERY timeconsuming to enter on all expenses individually, especially when you can enter the % on the Estimate (and it just doesn't do anything...)_. Not really a suggestion, think this is a bug. M

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  7. Currenty you can only have 10 tracking options for MTD IT - this means that clients with more than 10 properties are unable to track per property and allocate the required ownership %ages for their MTD returns.
    This number is too small for many and needs increasing please!

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  8. The ability to select a default tracking category for a products/service when being set up.

    Since the MTD tracking relies on tracking categories, having default categories linked to the product/services will mitigate the number of invoices going to "unassigned" and then not appearing on the returns.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  9. The projects API does not have an endpoint to assign users to a project. I would like for a new API endpoint to be available so that users can be assigned to a project and tasks via the API rather than manually assigned.

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

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  10. projects need automatic numbering for job numbers

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  11. 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.

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    🌟 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.

  12. 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…

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    Hi 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.

  13. 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…

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    Thanks 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.

  14. 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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    Thanks 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.


  15. 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.

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    Hi 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.


  16. 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.

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    Hi 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.


  17. 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-work

    Both 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 votes

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    Hi 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.

  18. 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!

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    Hi 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.

  19. Hi

    So with Pastel you could insert the minimum quantities into the system and when you book out products when you invoice a client the system would have a automatic pop up informing you that your product qty is below the minimum order qty you have set. Please can you bring in this function. It is very time consuming for us to have to export sheets of data and to review all the products from Xero exported sheet to my excel sheets.

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    Hi Kristie, thanks for putting this forward. We understand that having a Minimum Order Quantity setting could help businesses manage wholesale rules and reduce the risk of orders being processed below required thresholds.

    The suggestion here is to add a native MOQ field or validation that prevents users from creating invoices with quantities below the set limit.

    For now, you can add MOQ details to the item description in Products and Services as a reminder when creating invoices.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest and share your feedback with our invoicing and inventory teams.


  20. Employee's time assigned to projects direct from Xero payroll not the other way around as it is now.

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    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!

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