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  1. We've started using Projects and I've created a test project, sales and purchase invoice and have marked the sales invoice as paid.

    However the project summary report doesn't show that the client/sales invoice has been paid and this is so important for us to be able to plan our payment run for the direct costs relating to that client/project.

    Can this field be added to the report?

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  2. Project invoicing to show time in minutes/hours for time entries
    This is a requirement of many of our customers. Eg time sent 30 mins shows as 0.5 on invoice. We need a column that shows time for the task time enry. At present we need to manually type 30 mins in the task description to meet customer invoicing requirements.

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  3. add staff payment rates to projects so can be selected from a drop down list

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  4. When I post an expense through to a project, for some reason it limits it to 100 characters, which pretty much makes it un-useable for me.
    This is annoying, as I was just thinking how handy the projects app is, but now all the "projects" I've set up are basically a waste of time as I need the extra detail on my invoices.
    Please can you change this?

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  5. In Projects, when we add tasks to the project (pulled from Products and Services) and then Create Quote, the Product or Service name is what imports into the description line in the Quote and not the description from that Product or Service, as it does when creating a quote outside of Projects. Having this consistency makes sense (and is strange that it is not already the default) but it makes creating a quote from projects cumbersome, as the description needs to be added manually.

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  6. Being able to remove or delete staff in Project Timesheet

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  7. Project Details report - Add expenditure Type to information
    1. Can we have the option to include the account name for the expenditure type. ie I want to see total spend on materials or contractors etc.
    2. when selecting report parameters for columns, can we have the option for all, like the project status option

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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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  8. I would like to be able to select multiple unassigned expenses in projects to apply to an estimated expense at once.

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    Hi Lisa, thanks for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you in Xero Projects.

    We've reviewed your idea to be able to select multiple unassigned expenses and assign them to an estimated expense at once, and it can now gain support from other community members.

    Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how this bulk-assignment feature could improve their experience and make managing project expenses more efficient.🙂

  9. I'd like to be able to move expenses from one project to another without having to delete the expense under one project and manually enter it again into a different project number. It would be much easier and so much more efficient to be able to do the same as assigning a bill to a job number and if that job number turns out to be incorrect, it's simply a case of re-assigning the project number to it rather than having to delete and re-enter the whole thing again. Very frustrating and time consuming!

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    Thank you for submitting your idea and clearly outlining the most impactful changes for your workflow.


    Your suggestion has been reviewed and is now open to the community for support. Please encourage any colleagues who would benefit from this to vote on your idea. They can also comment to provide further details on how this change would enhance their Xero experience.

  10. 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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  11. Undo button or confirmation button when deleting estimated expenses, to help users easily reinstate date put in.

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  12. We are a booking agent and collect revenue less costs from venues , I currently use sales invoice to record sales(settlement) and enter costs as a negative amount that are an expense in my project, Project treats the deductions as a reduction in income not an expense, can this be fixed?

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  13. When creating an invoice from a project-keep items in the same order as they appear in the project. It is very confusing when all the items are in different places than they were in the project and I have to reorder everything.

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  14. 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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  15. Xero Projects - have the ability to add a Customer Sales Order to the Project, and this defaults on the Invoice Reference field when we invoice the project at the end of each month.

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  16. When adding a actual expense within a project it should open a spend money transaction in Xero and have the ability to save photo of the receipt as normal spend money. Or alternative within the XERO app be able to select a project when inputing a receipt, the current setup is double handeling because you purchase somthing and you have to enter it in xero then in the project.

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  17. Ability to maintain the project costing master data in XERO instead of having to export out the report and maintaining it outside of XERO.

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  18. I would like to track labour costs in project without invoicing them. The invoicing is done differently. It goes per bag packed, but I would like to know how much on labour it costs to pack the bags. Thank you.

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  19. When converting xero projects / Invoice

    6 employees work for the last month gets dumped on to the invoice in alphabetical order and from the latest date they worked

    The client needs to see this in cronological order and with each task for the said date

    eg

    1 July

    Dave
    Fred
    jim

    2 july
    Dave
    Fred
    Jim

    At the moment this task of ordering said invoices can take about half an hour of ferrying each transaction up and down the page. Before Editing

    So needs a filter button installed to do this please

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  20. When I add a Task to a project I would like to add a Task Title trhen have a seperate section to Describe the task detail. At the moment there is insufficient space for this information.

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