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  1. The ability to bulk update staff charge out rates in Project Tasks. Running many projects and therefore many many in progress tasks. Needing to duplicate a task and create a new charge rate is both tedious and cumbersome. Unless you export to excel and manually change data, you are unable to get an accurate snap shot of the financial status of the project as charge out rates are outdated. Currently when exporting invoices, I am needing to individually update staff rates to reflect the current times.

    6 votes

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  2. Add an expense date to a project

    When you enter expenses under projects, a date is required. We would like that date to appear on the invoices.

    11 votes

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  3. The profitability dashboard in Xero projects should have the option to show amounts inclusive or exclusive of GST for bills and invoices.

    6 votes

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  4. 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.

    2 votes

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  5. In the last week the ability to add multiple tasks to new employees has been taken away, you can still add all jobs but without the ability to add all tasks or some as well that feature is now useless.

    please can you tell me why this has been removed and bring it back asap. I have staff unable to complete time sheets at the moment.

    3 votes

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  6. In Projects I would like the option to create a quote, track and invoice my client where the charge is per "session" Currently Tasks are either fixed price (which does not allow me to quote for a quantity of the same item over the course fo the project) or they are hourly based and my client does not wish the time spent to be shown on the quote or invoice. My situation is that for example my client approves 40 weekly sessions over the course of a year at £250 per session. Neither I nor my client wishes to show…

    5 votes

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  7. A future to alert or notify you when your budget for a project is reaching its limit.

    9 votes

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  8. Allow to create project templates to apply to task lists to newly created projects

    36 votes

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

    2 votes

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  10. I want to be able to group/merge multiple expenses being on-billed into one line on an invoice, even if they're not a tracked expense.

    For example, if a contracting company has billed for a fortnight of the contractor's work, but has separated that into two lines, each dealing with one week, on their bill, then the draft that is created when they e-invoice me will have two lines. When I assign these lines to a project and approve the bill, each line shows up as a separate expense to be on-billed. If I am on-billing the full fortnight, I would…

    11 votes

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  11. In Xero projects we would like to add standard mark-up to materials. We are currently adding markup to each individual expense item added which is time consuming.

    34 votes

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  12. Please enable assigning manual journals to projects and for project reports to also include the account name / account code.

    The benefits from using tracking categories far outweigh that of Xero project if features like manual journal and account transactions report is not able to reflect or is not consistent with the use of Xero projects.

    Please also consider producing a warning if project name is being duplicated. Another thing that should be critically considered is to include projects under the Find & Recode feature.

    80 votes

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    HI team, we appreciate the feedback you’ve shared on project reporting and understand how including account names and codes could help with visibility and reconciliation of project expenses and incomes.

    This isn’t something we have roadmapped atm, but our product team appreciate the pain points shared and this may be something we dive into deeper in the long term.

    We will let you know if there are any changes planned for this report, here.

  13. The ability to add a Project (Revenue) Variation would be a huge help.
    If one can add a project (cost) variation using a Task, adding a Revenue variation should be achievable in Xero

    3 votes

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  14. Be able to filter the project reports by project manager - ie who you have assigned it to

    11 votes

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  15. Ability to set reminders/notifications to raise next invoice in Xero Projects

    When raising the quote, which details the scheduled dates that the customer will be invoiced, it would be useful if you could set a reminder/notification on the project to tell you when to prepare and send the next invoice out.

    9 votes

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  16. Xero Projects: include 'Day (i.e. Sun, Mon etc)' in the invoice line item field with 'Date'

    1 vote

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  17. Add a Date to Estimated Expenses in Xero Projects - Useful Feature in order to plot project Cashflows

    4 votes

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  18. The Xero bulk invoice import template makes provision to allow for the population of data into the available tracking categories that would correspond to same inside Xero. However, is it possible to do same with a project? Xero have since confirmed it is not possible to include project allocations when importing invoices.

    We have a high frequent need to import bulk lines of data each representing individual invoices, and we wish to use Xero projects, but need to be able to allocate the bulk upload of these invoices to the applicable projects inside Xero.

    31 votes

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  19. Ability to close or archive tasks in Projects.

    58 votes

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  20. I am needing to import my payroll expenses from another payroll platform in the form of a manual journal. I need those payroll expenses to be tracked by project. It would be handy to be able to have a column for projects instead of a tracking category.

    57 votes

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