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**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.

However, a draft invoice is not an invoiced amount.

It has not been approved, issued, sent to the client, or become payable. It is only a prepared document.

When Xero Projects counts draft invoices as “Invoiced”, the project report becomes misleading. It makes it look like the project has already been invoiced when it has not. This can distort project tracking, confuse staff, and make the project financial position inaccurate.

This is especially problematic where the project budget, costs, invoiced amount, and profitability are being monitored throughout the job.

A better solution would be for Xero Projects to separate invoice statuses inside project reporting, for example:

* Draft invoices
* Approved invoices
* Sent invoices
* Paid invoices

The “Invoiced” total in Xero Projects should only include approved and/or sent invoices, not draft invoices.

Alternatively, Xero could allow users to choose whether draft invoices are included in project invoiced totals.

This would make Xero Projects much more accurate and useful for businesses that rely on staged billing, contract milestones, progress claims, and advance invoice preparation.

**Business impact:**

For construction businesses, this affects live job reporting, staged contract administration, internal decision-making, and financial visibility. Draft invoices being treated as invoiced income can make a project appear further progressed financially than it actually is.

Please update Xero Projects so draft invoices are clearly separated from actual invoiced amounts.

This is essential to reconcile project transactions back to the nominal ledger, to ensure this reconciles to the work in progress calculations.