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Projects - Allow limited-access users to add expenses
we are currently setting up our company so that all employees use projects to keep track of time entries.
however, we have given majority of our employees limited access as they don't need to see much, but it means they aren't able to add their expenses on. This isn't ideal for us as our employees do a lot of travelling and need to be able to add their own expenses on to claim their millage back, is this something that could be changed?11 votesWe're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.
Our Community have reviewed your idea, and now it can gain support from other community members.
Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
We also noticed that your original idea contained two suggestions. We've split these up so that each idea can gain support individually. You can view updates for the other idea here: Projects - Allow assigning employee groups to projects.
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Projects - import new project & information
I would like a solution to be able to import a list of projects. ie project number, client name, project description. It is very time consuming to setup projects individually one by one. Would be much easier if I could create an excel listing, convert to csv and import to xero
3 votesThanks for raising a request for a bulk project import tool in Xero Projects Kesini. Feedback like this helps our product team understand where bulk tools would save the most time, so thank you for taking the time to share it. We'll move this idea to gain more support from the community and keep you posted 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…
2 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 - Customisable Project Report Layouts
Enable editing and saving as custom of project reports as one can with other reports
11 votesWe appreciate you sharing your idea and letting us know what matters most to you!
Your suggestion has been reviewed and is now live for community support. Be sure to share it with your colleagues so they can add their votes and comments on how it would benefit them.
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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…1 voteThanks 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 - Ability to move expenses to another project.
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!
10 votesThank 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.
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Projects - Increase bill description character limit when invoicing from a project
Please increase the character limit for line descriptions when generating invoices from Projects.
Right now, if a bill line has a description that exceeds the small character limit, it gets cut off on the invoice. I have to then manually open each bill, copy the full description, and paste it into the corresponding invoice line. Obviously this is extremely time-consuming and inefficient for something that seems like a relatively small backend fix that would make a big difference to everyday usability.
Is anyone else dealing with this?
6 votesHi there 👋, thanks for reaching out to our Xero Support team and clarifying the difference between your idea here from the one we merged to. Apologies for this oversight - I've restored your idea here.
While increasing the character limit of a bills description when invoicing from a project isn't something we have plans for atm, we can gauge the interest from community in this and will update you if there's any progression.
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Projects - Add a new Project when entering a Bill
Ability to add a project when in the suppler invoice, instead of going out to accounts function
9 votesThanks for sharing this idea about creating a new Project while you're entering a supplier Bill.
Now it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea, by adding their votes and commenting to share additional detail about how this could also improve their own experience with Xero.
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Projects - Assign multiple unassigned expenses to estimated expense
I would like to be able to select multiple unassigned expenses in projects to apply to an estimated expense at once.
5 votesHi 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.🙂
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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.
1 voteThanks 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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Projects - Description field when adding an Expense
It would be useful if when manually adding an expense to a project, there could be a description box available as well as entering the expense name. We sometimes need to elaborate on those costs for the numerous people looking at that expense but there is no-where to put this information unless it's added to the expense name.
6 votesHi Nicola, really appreciate you taking the time to share this idea. Right now, the only place to add detail when recording an expense in a project is the Expense Name field, which is limited to 100 characters. You can consider this as a workaround to include a short description with the title— but we know that it’s not an ideal solution when you need to provide more context or add a professional level of detail.
This idea is now in the Gaining Support stage. If you’ve found creative ways to work around this or have thoughts on what a proper description field should include, we’d love to hear them. The more insight we get from real workflows, the more helpful it is in shaping future updates.
We look forward to seeing more discussions on this idea.
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Projects - Allow approval signature for Project time entries
It would be good to have customer or site supervisor sign off time entry's when created, and even a way to send copy of signed time entry to task
6 votesHey Jason, really appreciate you putting this idea forward. Getting a customer sign-off on project time entries just makes sense, it’s one of those things that can save a lot of hassle down the line.
Having a built-in digital sign-off could bring extra clarity and confidence for both you and your customers, creating a clear record of approval before invoicing. It’s a simple step that could save time and build trust in your projects.
At the moment, Xero Projects doesn’t offer a built-in way to collect customer signatures, but it’s clear this could be a helpful addition for many of you.
This idea is now in the Gaining Support stage. If this would make your day-to-day easier, feel free to vote or drop a comment. It helps our product team see what matters most to you.
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Projects - Closed Projects Appearing when you select to add a Project
I thought that once a project was 'closed' it remains closed and does not appear anywhere except in the closed tab of projects however this is not the case. I tested and was able to allocate an invoice to a closed project.
Suggestion:
a) closed projects remain locked out; you can only allocate to them if you re-open - they should not even appear in any selections
b) If they must remain where they are then a pop-up warning appears if you try to allocate this way there are no mistakes in accidently allocating to a closed job1 voteHi Kelly, thanks for sharing your feedback. We appreciate the need for a closed project to be locked or hidden. At the moment, Xero Projects lets you assign certain transactions to closed projects so businesses can clean up allocations after the work is done. Closed projects are marked as “Closed,” which helps distinguish them from those in progress. We have added this to the Gaining Support for more traction.
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Projects - Invoicing time spent with fixed price tasks
We use the project and task options for all our projects.
Each of our tasks within individual project folders have fixed prices. These fixed prices are often of a substantial amount, with projects scheduled to run up to and at times over a year.
We invoice each task/project for time spent each month till the project is completed.
I would like to have the option to invoice against time spent at the end of each month on each fixed price tasks within each project.
This is currently proving to be a nightmare with options for invoicing time spent only being…4 votesThanks for sharing how you use and price for projects, Rebecca.
Being open we don't have any planned changes for your idea here, however it'd be good to get a sense of interest from others in community that'd like to price projects in this manner.
We'll keep an eye on this here, and share if there are any updates.
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Projects - Improve the add time workflow for employees with limited access.
For time tracking against projects it would be really useful if employees with limited access could add time in the same way an admin can via a drop down (rather than clicking in to the project first - which is more time-consuming)
1 voteHi Lucy, thanks for your engagement and for highlighting this improvement for the time tracking workflow in Xero Projects.
We've reviewed your idea to allow employees with limited access to add time via a dropdown menu, similar to the admin experience. It's now open to gain support from other community members. We can definitely see how making this process quicker and more direct would be a huge help for team members.
Along with votes, others can now comment to share more details on how this streamlined workflow would improve the time tracking experience for their teams.🙂
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Navigation - Add Projects to the Quick + link
ADD PROJECT TO THE QUICK +
6 votesHi team, we appreciate your feedback on this idea and the recent input around the new navigation. Our product team are considering all feedback we receive on this closely and we'll share if there developments for this with you here.
In the meantime, make sure you share the idea with any colleagues that could benefit from this so they can add their vote here, too.
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Project - Multiple contacts
Multiple contacts on a Project. Projects can currenlty only be built and linked to 1 contact at a time. However. in terms of training and events where there could be multiple contacts linked this is an issue. If Xero could add the option for multiple contacts this would be great. It would save all my issues in terms of tracking a job.
28 votesHi team, thanks for the extra input and detail in how your business operates in relation to the needs here.
I want to be transparent with you all here that this isn't something we have plans for developing projects for at this time, however are continuing to pay attention to the ideas and improvements our customers would like to see in this feature through these forums. I'll share if there are any updates planned.
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Reconciliation - Add project without adding details
At the moment to enter a project number when reconciling, you have to enter details every time. Can you add the project drop-down box into the bank rec screen for every transaction
20 votesAppreciate wanting a quick method for adding a project to a transaction when reconciling.
For the time being we're continuing to keep an eye on the interest for this here.
If there are any updates we'll be sure to let you all know on this idea.
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