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  1. To import individual time entries from projects to payroll timesheets, at the moment this only comes through as a bulk time for the day, you then have to manually add the time to the particular pay item if you use more then one pay item. Very frustrating and time consuming, would be nice to have this automated.

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    Hi there, we appreciate you raised this a little while ago. It's currently possible to import project time to timesheets, however the rate is generally imported as the regular earnings rate.

    This isn't something we have plans for in the near term.

    Not getting a lot of support from other members we’ll soon remove this from Product ideas. If it’s still highly valuable to you, welcome to start it again and see if it gets renewed interest.

  2. A streamlined way, or option, to automatically complete projects once they are invoiced.

    5 votes

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    Would still need to consider an optional trigger here as different businesses process projects in different ways. 

    Appreciate the efficiency play and while this isn't something we have plans for atm, we'll track the interest of this here. 

  3. Xero Projects - Needs Total Estimated Hours & Total Actual Hours (for Tasks) at top of Project. We quote projects based on hours and $ for each task. We would like to be able to easily see 'total hours' at the top of the screen for the project, and then total hours used, so we can see how many hours we have left to go on the Project (helps us to keep worked hours in check). At this point I would have to manually add up all hours for all tasks to get a total, which is tedious, and then…

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  4. Pull a report per bank account(s) with transactions indicating to which accounts the transactions were reconciled to

    • Projects; how to group similar projects together when pulling reports

    • Projects; report to see project expenses grouped by similar account allocations

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  5. Projects module has functionality to enter a deadline date but none of the reporting options can export a column with it.

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  6. XERO Projects, Could contact details i.e email addresses and phone number be assigned to a specific project, these would normally be different from the original company contacts details. This would mean the right persons would receive the invoices or quotes sent from a particular XERO project. Could this be done within the project tab.

    8 votes

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  7. Ability to pull an accounting or project report that will show task and expense against the transaction code/s. Provides a clear view of project bills as well as invoices linked to the projects. the full ins and outs.

    7 votes

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  8. It would be incredibly helpful to be able to group project into folder to help categories them internally within the team.

    4 votes

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  9. Choosing bill Task total or Time sheet entries for each task in a project when preparing a customer invoice.

    16 votes

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  10. It would be useful to see a breakdown of the time assigned to each task within a project, rather than just a list of the time entries in date order. Seeing the overall time on the task page is useful, but being able to delve into that would be more useful.

    17 votes

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  11. Have all tasks automatically marked as invoiced (preferably with invoice number) when they have varying hourly rates and times set within the task. Also ability to mark any task manually as invoiced and assign an invoice number if required.

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  12. Projects - when duplicating a project, expenses need to follow through as well.

    8 votes

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  13. Being able to remove or delete staff in Project Timesheet

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  14. Ability to export all of the lines/tasks in a project to an invoice. Able to see detailed tasks, time and cost for each task to send on to customer

    9 votes

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  15. The projects detailed report shows the estimated expenses on separate lines to the actual expenses incurred against that estimate. It is a manual process in excel to move the expenses around so that the report can reflect Total estimate less total spent and balance remaining. While this information is available on the projects page, it can't be pulled out as a report which is frustrating.

    6 votes

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  16. Automatically opens a new window when preparing Draft invoice from Projects Screen. This means the project screen stays open to do your next invoice rather than having to navigate back after you have approved your invoice.

    6 votes

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    Hi team, just having a little play in Projects - while it won't work for Deposit or Project Amount creation, if you're creating an invoice from a Project for Tasks & Expenses you'll be able to hold down 'ctrl' while clicking on this option and should find this opens the Tasks and expenses screen in a separate browser tab. 

    Totally get this doesn't resolve the idea here, but wanted to share for those it helps 🙂

  17. Ability to assign bills in bulk to Project.

    Purpose: To save time rather than assign the bill one by one.

    174 votes

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  18. Add notes/description field in Xero Projects.

    Purpose: To have a better record of the Projects. E.g. notes about the quotes that users’ sent to their client/customer.

    119 votes

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    Hi everyone, while our team considered solutions in this space with other pieces of work planned there is no current development planned for adding a notes or description field within Projects at this time. 

    For now, as you may be aware you can add notes to the History and notes of the individual transactions within a project, or alternatively on the Contacts record. 

    We're continuing to watch this space and will share if there is any progress. 

  19. Ability to change the order of the tasks from the list.

    Purpose: To make users’ workflow more efficient rather than having to scroll down to find the task each time.

    83 votes

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  20. Ability to upload time entries for projects in bulk.

    Purpose: To save users’ time from manually entering the time entries and transitioning projects from different software.

    122 votes

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