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  1. XERO Projects, Could contact details i.e email addresses and phone number be assigned to a specific project, these would normally be different from the original company contacts details. This would mean the right persons would receive the invoices or quotes sent from a particular XERO project. Could this be done within the project tab.

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  2. The Xero bulk invoice import template makes provision to allow for the population of data into the available tracking categories that would correspond to same inside Xero. However, is it possible to do same with a project? Xero have since confirmed it is not possible to include project allocations when importing invoices.

    We have a high frequent need to import bulk lines of data each representing individual invoices, and we wish to use Xero projects, but need to be able to allocate the bulk upload of these invoices to the applicable projects inside Xero.

    30 votes

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  3. Update inventory when it is posted as an expense to a project as this makes more sense as clients use the project reports to calculate WIP and it is annoying to have to constantly check which inventory figures have been applied and deduct this from the inventory. It also means when projects are billed this actually reduced the stock figure as this only happens when you invoice the project for the tasks and expenses whereas currently invoicing using the project amount does not update the inventory.

    14 votes

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  4. to generate a report that shows the unpaid and paid bills per project , and another report shows the unpaid and paid invoices per project. if there is one report which can show all of these information that will be great

    25 votes

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  5. Projects module has functionality to enter a deadline date but none of the reporting options can export a column with it.

    5 votes

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  6. Projects is configured to only allow the reporting currency to be used in setting rates or quotes.
    It would be great to allow the user to select the quote currency.

    56 votes

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  7. Projects currently only allows hourly rate, fixed price or non chargeable time. It would be great to be able to select a daily rate option

    9 votes

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  8. Xero Projects - Needs Total Estimated Hours & Total Actual Hours (for Tasks) at top of Project. We quote projects based on hours and $ for each task. We would like to be able to easily see 'total hours' at the top of the screen for the project, and then total hours used, so we can see how many hours we have left to go on the Project (helps us to keep worked hours in check). At this point I would have to manually add up all hours for all tasks to get a total, which is tedious, and then…

    8 votes

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  9. Pull a report per bank account(s) with transactions indicating to which accounts the transactions were reconciled to

    • Projects; how to group similar projects together when pulling reports

    • Projects; report to see project expenses grouped by similar account allocations

    11 votes

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  10. In Xero projects we would like to add standard mark-up to materials. We are currently adding markup to each individual expense item added which is time consuming.

    33 votes

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  11. Xero Projects seems a bit backwards to me, you create project then can create or link a quote. It would be far better if you could create a a project from an accepted quote.
    ie. Quote customer for job > Customer accepts quote > Mark quote as accepted and create project.

    111 votes

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  12. Ability to pull an accounting or project report that will show task and expense against the transaction code/s. Provides a clear view of project bills as well as invoices linked to the projects. the full ins and outs.

    6 votes

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  13. Ability to assign appointments from outlook into projects as time entries. Narrative of work completed could be put in the appointment and then assigned to the project. The colour of the appointment in outlook would change colour to show its been assigned.

    5 votes

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  14. Please allow for a sort filter on tasks and expenses within a project to be able to sort alphabetically A-Z.

    30 votes

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    Hi team, while we began work on developing the ability search and sort by tasks in Projects the teams focus had to shift to other priority work and we want to be open that this has been put down for now. 

    When there is the ability to pick this back up we'll return to share with you here. 

  15. Projects - when duplicating a project, expenses need to follow through as well.

    8 votes

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  16. Ability to approve time and expenses on Xero Projects on a single (one manager) or on a multiple (one manager and one director) level.

    16 votes

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  17. To import individual time entries from projects to payroll timesheets, at the moment this only comes through as a bulk time for the day, you then have to manually add the time to the particular pay item if you use more then one pay item. Very frustrating and time consuming, would be nice to have this automated.

    16 votes

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  18. Ability to export all of the lines/tasks in a project to an invoice. Able to see detailed tasks, time and cost for each task to send on to customer

    9 votes

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  19. Listing Time Entries in Chronological Order in Invoicing for Projects.

    As raised in support case CX0012531595 - I use projects to create invoices for clients and show time entries for all tasks - the problem is that the draft invoice seems to put all the entries in random order rather than a date order - there is no way to sort by date so that it reads chronologically for the client. Interestingly you can run a report to list entries by date, so that functionality exists in the platform but it needs to be brought into invoicing. I have seen…

    28 votes

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  20. I am needing to import my payroll expenses from another payroll platform in the form of a manual journal. I need those payroll expenses to be tracked by project. It would be handy to be able to have a column for projects instead of a tracking category.

    55 votes

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