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Projects - Show outstanding invoice balance under "Quotes & Invoices"
On projects under "quotes & invoices" it would be great if it showed the remaining balance of the invoice. I send 4-5 invoices per project and sometimes clients pay a random lump sum and i write it off against the invoices but that can lead to an invoice being part paid and being able to see which invoices have been paid or have a remaining balance under that view would be beneficial instead of having to get out of projects and searching the invoice under the invoice tab.
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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…4 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 - 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…
4 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 - Invoices created in projects under User name not System Generated
Invoices created by the Projects API show in Xero accounting as "System Generated" therefore the user that created the invoice in projects cannot see the invoice or quote if they have Invoice Only + Draft.
Xero is missing just a key user level - where account managers can see and manage sales invoices, but can't delete or edit. Projects seems a good way around this limitation, but the inability to see invoices kills that.
4 votes🌟 Thanks for sharing this idea with us. We’ve moved it to Gaining Support so we can better understand how much interest there is from the community.
If this would make a difference for your workflow, we’d encourage you and others to vote for the idea and add any extra detail in the comments, including how you’d expect it to work and the impact it has today. That helps us gauge demand and gives our product team more context when reviewing ideas.
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Projects - Set opening balance for projects
Just brought on a new client on Xero that runs large number of projects. At the moment, Xero does not provide a facility whereby we can bring forward opening blalances for ongoing projects.
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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.
3 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
3 votesAppreciate 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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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…
3 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.
3 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 - Sort and filter project list numerically by Project Name
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.…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 - 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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NZ Payroll - Assign hours worked from a timesheet to projects
Employee's time assigned to projects direct from Xero payroll not the other way around as it is now.
3 votesThanks for sharing your idea.
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!
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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Projects - when adding estimated tasks, enable there to be a quanitity section when selecting the fixed price items
When adding estimated tasks onto a project , add a quanitity section when selecting the fixed price items.
Some tasks for example like quoting for installation of boards per m2, we have the price per m2 set up as a code, so it would be useful to then be able to easily adjust the quanity required to get a revised sell / cost.
You currently have to calculate what the sell price would be and manually override the fixed charge. This however removes the visbility of how much quantity you want (unless you then edit the text) it also makes…3 votesIt's great to see your ideas and learning about the updates that would make your life easier! We've given your suggestion a look, and now it's up to the community to rally behind it. Definitely share it around with your team or colleagues so they can get their votes in. Plus, keep an eye on the comments—other members can now chime in on how this would level up their Xero experience!
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Projects - Add "item" to task as a master task and break it down on invoice
It would be great to add an "Item" to a project, that would, as a whole include, tasks and expenses.
For example, Kitchen/cabinet maker, Project is a whole house, I want to add items to the project of say, Kitchen, Laundry, Wardrobe etc.
and then either it just has a dollar value to it (no tracked time or expenses), or have the ability to add specific expenses and tasks to the item.
Then when you go to quote, all items are split apart with their expenses and tasks separate from the other items.
3 votesHi Joshua, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
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!
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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Projects - Allow partial / manual allocation of available deposit credits
In Xero Projects, when a deposit has been invoiced (eg via the deposit option in the Projects invoicing workflow), the "available credit" shows in the Projects UI.
However, when raising subsequent progress invoices (eg for tasks/expenses), the "Apply credit deposit" checkbox is all-or-nothing - it applies the full available credit or none. There's no option to manually enter or select a partial amount from the deposit/credit balance to apply to the current invoice.
Requested enhancements:
- In the Projects "New Invoice" screen, replace or supplement the binary "Apply credit deposit" checkbox with a field to enter/select a partial amount from…3 votesThanks for sharing your idea, Laurence.
We'll start to get a sense of the interest from others in the community here - Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!
If there are any updates we'll share with you here.
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Projects - Make "Time Credit" feature available in projects
Time adjustments or credits within a Project | Time entries in Projects works well and it makes sense that a time entry is locked once it is invoiced. However we regularly need to make adjustments for situations like (a) incorrect entries, e.g. billing time on a public holiday not worked, that we want to credit back against the invoice or (b) moving time between tasks within a project. I understand that Practice Manager has a "Time Credit" feature that may be suitableto this need if it could be made available in Projects. If not we need something like a manual…
3 votesHi Mike, Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Cheers
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Projects - Report on Time used and remaining (export to CSV/PDF)
Often I have to send my customers a short report about the timeentries and how much is left. Right now I'm doing a screenshot with the gofullpage extension. Sometimes import the PDF to chatgpt to get a actual sheet. Would be great to have an export button on the time tab of a project.
3 votesThanks for sharing your idea here Mike, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
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!
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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Validity period for Tracking Category
We would like the possibility to assign a validity period to each new "Tracking Category" entry.
This would mean that you don't have to see all options every time the Tracking Category drop down list is selected e.g. when entering an invoice.
It would also help to limit the Tracking Category options available to employees, for example, when they enter their expenses.
3 votesHi Amanda, Tracking was originally designed to be used as a way to track and monitor parts of the business that did not have a lifespan like departments. Appreciate there are many different ways our customers have grown to use tracking, and we'll start to track the interest in this through your idea. But do want to be open that we don't have any plans for this at present.
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Projects - Job Card Creation
Job Car Creation with Check list for empployees
Having the Ability to do all things in one app without intergration would be ideal and more cost effective and productive.
Simple
1.Creating Jobs
2.Add Customer
3.Add Vehcile/Vessel
Port & Starboard - Model Numbers, Serial Numbers
Generaor Model Number, Serial Numbers
4.Add Fault Description
5. Engine Hours
6.Trailer Brand
7. Trailer Details - VIN, Model Number, GTM, ATM, Overall Length, Overall Width, MaterailEverything needs to revolve around job Numbers
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Projects - Undo button
Undo button or confirmation button when deleting estimated expenses, to help users easily reinstate date put in.
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