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Projects - Allow projects reporting to show project costs split by nominal codes
I need to create a report per project which shows the total costs split into nominal codes. I do not want to also use tracking - duplication of work.
Project reporting is extremely limited on Xero
31 votesHi team, thanks for your engagement and support on this idea. We appreciate the need to have account codes allocated to projects. We will open this idea up for the community to add their votes/support on it. Feel free to share this with your peers and others who may find this feature beneficial. Cheers!
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Projects – Progressive Billing for Fixed-Price Tasks
Problem
Fixed-price tasks in Xero Projects currently bill the entire fixed amount at once. Logging time or transferring the task to an invoice forces Xero to invoice the full value immediately.
Many businesses complete fixed-price work through multiple time entries or stages over long periods. We need to bill the fixed price progressively while still tracking actual time for internal cost and efficiency.
Impact
Today, users must manually split one real task into many smaller tasks (“Stage 1”, “Stage 2”, “Stage 3”), or manually edit every invoice to avoid overbilling.
This leads to inflated task lists, inconsistent reporting, and unnecessary…
43 votesHi Cody, thanks for sharing such detailed feedback on progressive billing for fixed-price tasks. It’s really helpful to hear how this could support projects that run across multiple stages.
We’ve reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining support, so it’s now open for votes and comments from the wider community. If others have similar experiences with fixed-price project billing, we’d love for them to add their voice — it helps show how broad the need is and gives the product team clearer context.
Thanks again for raising this, and we’ll keep you posted on any progress.
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Projects - Bulk update all tasks in a project as invoiced
Have an option to 'mark all items as invoiced' in a project. You can currently only do this if you invoice from 'project amount'.
We re-order and combine tasks when invoicing and then have to manually go into the project and mark every task and expense as invoiced individually. It's very time consuming. I need an option to mark all items as invoiced at once.
37 votesHi Nicole 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. We will continue monitoring this space for more traction.
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Project - Reference field
Add reference field for project.
We do a lot of project work. Our clients will generally have a tender or contract number associated with the project. I need to include this number on all invoices related to the project.It would be great to have an optional reference field for each project that, if not blank, would automatically populate the reference field for every invoice created.
71 votesThanks 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. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!
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Projects - Add a due date to tasks
When using projects, it would be great if you could add Deadline Dates to the tasks assigned to the project. This would be helpful in tracking tasks that need to be done. I know there is this option when adding a project, but many of the projects I add are for a whole year and then I add tasks for each month. I would like to be able to track all projects and tasks based on a deadline date.
24 votesHi Amy! appreciate you raising this here. We appreciate the need for having a due date or deadline on a task . While this feature is currently unavailable in Xero, we'll open this idea up for the community to add their votes. Cheers
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Projects- Search and sort by start date.
Add the ability to enter a start date for the project. Then add the ability to sort the list in date order rather than name.
19 votesThanks for sharing this idea. We’re going to move it to Gaining Support so we can better understand how much interest there is from others who would also find this useful. If this is something more customers would value, that support will help show the demand for adding a project start date and allowing projects to be sorted by date rather than name 🙂.
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Projects - Suggestion for tracking time and costs for non-user contractors
Feature request for better support of tracking time for non-Xero users in Projects. Need a solution for tracking self-employed labourer's (non-Xero users) hours worked across Projects. Time sheets for non-Xero Users across Projects.
32 votesThanks 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. 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 - Track and approve project changes
Would like the ability to track changes to the estimated project amount over the course of the project as "Change Orders." This should allow for the following data points: date, description, positive or negative changes to the original estimate, calculate the new project total. The ability to notify project assignees and request approval from the client.
14 votesThanks for the engagement here everyone, appreciate the feedback.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 - Track to estimate | Ability to add notes
It would be great if you could add notes to the specific estimated expense. When adding costs via 'track to estimate', it would be helpful to note reminders or notes to confirm elements are a variation/ or why the package has overspent. As opposed to adding more tracked expense. Even if it was a pop out on the Tasks and Expenses screen.
15 votesHi Scott, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
We've reviewed your idea and opened it up for the community to add their support to it. We'll monitor this space in the meantime for visibility.
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Projects – Add a Site Address field
Ability to add a "Site Address" for the project. I have clients who are landscapers or in the construction industry and may have one client with multiple projects that each have a different location.
11 votesHi Shelby, thanks for sharing this idea. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. At present users are utilising tracking categories to track different locations of a project. However we appreciate the need for a seperate field for address. We're moving this idea to gain more support from the community. Feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues so they can add their vote and comments.
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Xero Projects (US) - Full Integration with Xero Payroll
Xero Projects Full Integration with Xero Payroll
Idea Summary:
Enable Xero Payroll (Coming later this year) to natively use approved time entered in Xero Projects for payroll processing, just as Projects time is already used for client invoicing.Problem:
Currently, time entered in Xero Projects cannot flow into Gusto (or future Xero Payroll). Teams must re-enter time or rely on external payroll systems, creating duplicate work, errors, and reconciliation overhead. This makes processing payroll today (Gusto, Paychex, ADP) feel disconnected from the rest of the Xero ecosystem.Proposed Solution:
Allow Xero Payroll (coming later this year) to pull approved project…14 votesThanks for sharing your idea about Project hours integrating with Gusto payroll.
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 - Allow as an Add-On for all pricing plans
As a 1-man business I only need limited features, but the Project feature is one of these that feels essential to my line of work. It is only available in the highest pricing plan and is not available as an add-on. This appears to price out small businesses who want this feature. Please consider allowing this as an add-on, even if it isn't to be available in different pricing tiers.
21 votesHey all, unfortunately there's no news to share on this request at the moment.
Please make sure to share this idea with any colleagues that could benefit from this, so they can add their votes and comments too.
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Projects - Add Project Time to Quick Create Shortcut Menu
It would be great to have a shortcut to adding project time. At the moment, the + near settings has a shortcut to many functions, but not project related functions.
18 votesThank you for submitting your idea and highlighting the changes that matter most!
We've completed our review, and now it’s time for the community to show its support. You idea can now be shared with any colleagues who would benefit, encouraging them to cast their vote.
Other members can also add comments to share more detail about how this change would improve their experience with Xero. Keep sharing and tracking its progress!
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Xero Payroll - Audit trail/Time logs for timesheet entries
Time logs in timesheets. I will be very helpful if there are time logs, when updating timesheets. We can see when our employees has updated their timesheets, if that is on time or late. This will help us trough chasing purposes.
8 votesThanks for sharing your idea and letting us know what changes matter most to you.
We’ve reviewed it, and now it’s over to the Xero community to show their support. Be sure to share your idea with any colleagues who might benefit, so they can add their vote too.
Community members can also leave comments to explain how this idea could improve their experience with Xero.
Quick tip in the meantime: You can use the Timesheet Summary Report to quickly identify which employees haven't submitted hours for a specific period, which might help with your chasing process!
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Contacts - Option to add "New Project for This Contact"
Need the option on a contact page to open a new project for them. similar to the New invoice link
25 votesThanks for sharing your idea about adding a quick link to create a new Project from the customer's Contact record.
Now it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea, so you might like to share it with any colleagues that it could benefit, so they can add their votes and comments too!
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Projects - Ability to create Sub project under main project
We often have project and during this we generate sub projects.
For record keeping it would be handy to able create a sub project under the main one. So when its time to invoice the whole project you can combine all related ones in one invoice.3 votesThanks for your feedback on Projects here, Tia. If you have any other detail you can share or examples of how sub projects would be used by your business this would be useful for our product teams consideration.
We don't have any plans for this at present, but make sure you share the idea with other colleagues that could also find this useful so we can get a wider understanding of the interest.
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Projects - Add Estimated Income Feature
Currently, Xero Projects allows us to enter and track predicted expenses, which is great for monitoring project costs. However, there is no equivalent option for predicted income.
Being able to record predicted income against projects would provide a much clearer picture of project profitability and cash flow forecasts. This would allow project managers, accountants, and business owners to compare projected vs actual income alongside expenses, improving financial forecasting and decision-making.
Benefits of this feature:
Aligns income forecasting with existing expense tracking.
Improves visibility of project profitability before actuals come in.
Helps businesses plan resources, budgets, and cash flow more effectively.
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11 votesHi Jalal, thanks for sharing this idea with us. We can see why this would be helpful for some users. Currently the way to view to profit is to add columns for both Gross Profit and % Profit to the Project Details and Summary reports.We've moved this idea to gain more support from the community. We'll watch it closely for more traction. In the meantime, you can share this idea with your peers who might want to see this feature in Xero as well.
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Xero Projects - Ability to link Tracking category in Project tasks
It would be great if cost codes or tasks automatically linked to a job once they’re assigned to a customer or project. At the moment, you have to assign the task and then separately select the job from the tracking dropdown, which feels like duplicating the same step. Ideally, once a cost code or task is assigned to a customer or project, it would automatically populate and link in the tracking section. This would streamline the workflow and reduce the chance of mis-entering or incorrectly assigning information.
4 votesHi Ryan thanks for raising this with us. We appreciate the need for a Tracking option within the Projects space. While this is not available currently we will open this up fro the community so they can add their vote. Did you know if you've set up tracking categories, you can assign a category to use for the contact's transactions from the contact default section?
When you create a new transaction, click in the tracking field and the assigned category will populate (you don't need to select it from the list). You can refer to the subheading Default Settings here .Cheers!
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Projects - Add task categories and sub-tasks
Title: Add the ability to allocate tasks under major project categories (e.g., Direct, Indirect) and create sub-tasks in Xero Projects for better project summary management
Description: Currently, in Xero Projects, there is no option to allocate tasks under broader categories (such as Direct, Indirect) or create sub-tasks within a project. This limits the ability to organize and simplify project summaries, especially for larger projects with multiple facets.
A more efficient way to manage complex projects would be to:
Allocate tasks under major project categories like "Direct" (e.g., Manufacturing, Certification & Testing), "Indirect" (e.g., Design, Development), and Other" (e.g., Client Engagement,…
41 votesThanks for your detailed feature request to introduce task categories and sub-tasks in Xero Projects.
We’ve reviewed your submission and have now moved it to the Gaining Support stage.
This means the idea is live on the forum for other members of the Xero community to add their votes and comments. Our team keeps an eye on the ideas in this stage and uses the number of votes and the shared use cases to gauge demand for new features.
Thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback and help us improve Xero.
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Projects - Allow access to view profitability without admin user role.
we have recently set up our business so everyone is on xero, we would like people to be able to view profitability in projects, but not have the admin user.
Giving people admin user allows them too much access, but we want them to be able to see profitability on the projects so they can keep track.
is there a way we can give them access, without upgrading their user role??15 votesHey Rebecca, thanks for your engagement and for sharing this detailed suggestion about user permissions in Xero Projects.
We've reviewed your idea to allow users to view project profitability without needing the full admin user role, and it can now gain support from other community members. We understand the need for team members to keep track of a project's performance, and why granting full admin access isn't always suitable.
Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how this more granular user role would improve their project management and empower their teams. 🙂
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