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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 - Granular permission to view team time and task entries without financial data
Ability to set permission for users of Xero Projects to view all time entry and task description inputs without seeing "invoiced amount" or "expenses" information
1 voteAppreciate you raising this suggestion. Being able to view team members’ time and task entries without billing rates, invoice amounts or expenses could make managing project access more flexible.
We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. If this would be useful for your team, add your vote and let us know how you’d use this permission.
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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 - 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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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 - 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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Xero Projects - Apply sales tax to markup on tax-exempt expenses
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.
1 voteAppreciate you raising this, Michael. The suggestion is to allow the markup on a tax-exempt project expense to have its own tax treatment when it's added to an invoice.
We've moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can keep gathering feedback. If this could help your workflow, add your vote and let us know.
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Projects - Sort and filter project list numerically by Project Name
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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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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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Projects - 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.
5 votesAppreciate your suggestion here, Julie. We understand the request for a Project Info section where teams could keep details such as contract terms, site contacts, project dates and other key information alongside the project.
I’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. Let us know which project details you currently have to keep elsewhere and would most like to have available in Xero Projects.
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XPH - 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.
2 votesThanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand how useful you feel it would be for the new timer to open in a separate browser tab, so you can keep your current Xero Partner Hub work open while tracking time.
We’ll move this idea to Gaining Support so other users can vote and comment, helping us gauge community interest. We appreciate you taking the time to share your idea.
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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.
6 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…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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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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11 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.8 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.
8 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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