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  1. Ability to add a project when in the suppler invoice, instead of going out to accounts function

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    Thanks 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.

  2. 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.

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    Thanks 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.

  3. To display the potential project margin % and variance from expected invoice and costs as baseline to compare with actual performance. OR allow the project report to be customised to add calculated fields. So staff can instantly see the potential of the project, and look to adjust if necessary before sending to quote or invoice.

    8 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for your engagement so far. We can see how having visibility of potential project margins and variance while work is still in progress could help you identify issues earlier and make more informed decisions before a project is complete.

    I've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue to track the interest here. If this is something you'd like to see, please keep voting and share how you would use projected margin or variance information in your project workflow.


  4. 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…

    5 votes

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    Thanks 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.

  5. 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 votes

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    Hi 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.

  6. 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

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    Hey 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.

  7. 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 job

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    Hi 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.

  8. 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)

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    Hi 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.🙂

  9. 8 votes

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    Hi 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.

  10. Integrate Xero Projects with Google Calendar so you can allocate workload/timesheets to projects more seamlessly.

    18 votes

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    Thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea with us 😊 We can absolutely see how an integration between Google Calendar and Xero could make things a bit easier when you're managing work across different tools.

    We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can get a better sense of how many customers this would help, and learn more about the different ways people would like to use this kind of integration.

    While there aren’t any plans for this in the near future, we’ll be keeping a close eye on the idea and the level of support it gets from the community.

    If this would make a real difference to the way you work, please keep voting and feel free to add a little more detail about your use case too — that context is really helpful for our product team

  11. 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 votes

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    Hi 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.

  12. in Projects, you only have 3 options as tabs, Draft, in progress or closed, it would be great if i could create more tabs. (on proof to customer, waiting on customer artwork, etc)

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    Hi everyone 🌟, thanks so much for taking the time to share your feedback and ideas with us.

    It’s always helpful to hear how customers are using Projects and where there may be opportunities to make the experience even better.

    We’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue to gather interest and learn more about how this could add value for customers.

    If this is something you’d like to see, please keep voting and feel free to add any extra detail in the comments about how this would help your workflow.

    We really appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us and helping us continue to improve Xero Projects.

  13. Include the option to show the invoice reference, instead of just the number, in the Quotes & Invoices page of the project

    21 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate feedback we have received here on the value being able to see the reference number from within the Quote and Invoices tab within projects could provide.

    Being completely open this isn't something we have plans for developing at this time however we are aware of the interest and are continuing to track this idea. If there is any shift in movement we will share an update. Thanks

  14. 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

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    Appreciate 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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