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Hopefully Xero make this is priority now that they are decommissioning their WorkFlowMax product which had this functionality!

Very critical feature which is needed asap

Please update to allow a charge out rate to be assigned to the person not the task. This could be in the setting along with the cost rate

How can this not be available. Please rectify

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

I work with an apprentice, have to have different rate for him.

Agree - I would like to recommend Xero Projects to more of my clients but these types of illogical road blocks continue to stop us.

I also hope to see this get more traction.

100% agree and could not have said it better

I contacted support on this very issue, I was directed here.

At this point, we've been looking at other solutions, but exactly as you pointed out, the big appeal of Projects is it's simplicity. Aside from this issue, it works perfectly for our needs

Really hope this gets some attention.

It seems like a ridiculous hack to have to duplicate tasks for various staff members or charge out rates. eg TASK1(apprentice), TASK1(trade assistant), TASK1(Tradesman)...TASK2(apprentice) ...and so on.

The inability to organise 'tasks' into groups/ headings within a project is another obvious flaw and means that 'tasks' could functionally only really be used as 'major cost centres' rather than granular tasks, but even at a very top level breakdown, having those 'tasks' would get unwieldy very quickly.

I know that Xero Projects is a light weight add on, but that is also part of its appeal. So many other offerings eg. WorkFlowMAX try to take over the whole management of the business and have certain limitations or lack of flexibility that make them not be a good fit for our business.

For the per user cost of Xero Projects which has a mobile app with a decent enough implementation of timesheets, it seems strange and somewhat illogical to not have the ability to easily on-charge labour at a specified rate or markup.

If labour was treated just like 'expenses' that would make more sense in most cases.

Why should a 'task' have a charge out rate that is unrelated to the labour cost of the staff member performing the task?

If a project is on a fixed price quote then all you need to calculate is the real labour cost of the staff member and if is billed as 'tasks and expenses' as it is referred to in Xero Projects it really should be 'Labour and Expenses' (which is all it is anyway).
For invoicing this could either be added in as a single labour line item against a task as an aggregate amount of the various charge out rates, or it would be useful to have the option to invoice it broken down by staff member.

The only decent work around I can think of is to manually enter charge out rates at time of invoicing with the 'Display hourly rate time as: Time entries' option selected...

Each staff member just needs to have an attribute of a 'charge out rate' set up in the same dialog box as their calculated cost/hr. Then that can be used as a selectable option at time of invoicing.
There is no need to even re-think the logic of 'tasks' having a charge out rate, just add this in an an option

Such basic functionality. Absurd that this isn't possible already. I can't imagine it's difficult to implement this much needed basic feature. This is about to become a deal breaker.

Can't believe this isn't a thing! Thought I was setting it up wrong at first because I couldn't find how to add rates by staff member!

surprised that this isnt already a feature. Not many service based businesses have the same hourly rate for each staff member

Businesses don't just work in one-dimensional rates per person. Thus a multi-rate per person function is imperative to move with the variety of business that's now the norm.

Ability to set different rates and multiple tasks for each employee in a Project.

Purpose: To improve the workflow when users’ using Xero Project, rather than having to duplicate the task for the employee.