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  1. 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.

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    Hey 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.

  2. When you need to create a new tracking option in the sales invoice screen, you have to search for it again after you have just created it.

    This used to work where it would keep the tracking option you just created but now you have to then search for it to select it again. Doubling up.

    14 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We appreciate you explaining how the workflow for creating and selecting tracking options could be improved.

    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. Basically calendar to add draft invoices to, to use as a job scheduling calendar.

    Add draft invoices/job to a date add basic detail to the schedule day and it saves the detail in the description row on invoice with the date.

    Each time you add an invoice to a date and you add detail it adds new row with simple details

    Once finished you finalize draft invoice as normal.

    14 votes

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    Hi Michael, returning to your idea here this'd be quite a difference to the way in which Xero works today and we don't have any plans of adding an invoice calendar to be able to schedule tasks that'll add new rows to an existing invoice.

    That said, we have another idea for being able to add a date column to invoices that you may like to join and would be a step toward what you're hoping to achieve here.

    Alternatively, if not already I'd recommend exploring Projects that enables you to add tasks and expenses on the fly. When ready you can create draft invoices from the tasks and expenses within a project which can be carried through as either a combined line or individual lines on your invoice.

  4. Add an option to export accounting data with tracking categories split into separate lines instead of combined in one field.

    This would make exports much easier to use in other software, reduce manual data cleanup, and support clients who need to import Xero data into reporting tools or different accounting systems.

    8 votes

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    Hi Alice, 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. 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.

  5. Add a button to move an estimated expense to become an actual expense. Would save time having to copy and paste the description. Add ability to amend final cost.

    9 votes

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    ✨ Hi everyone,

    Thanks for bringing this idea to us and for sharing how being able to move an estimated expense to an actual expense, while updating the final cost, could save time when working in Projects.

    We've reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining Support, so it's now open for other community members to vote on and add comments.

    The extra detail shared here helps our product team better understand the impact this could have on your workflow, and we'll be sure to update this thread if there's any progress to share.

  6. We would find the facility to assign tasks to individual employees very helpful. We have large Projects over summer where various contractors/employees are required to do individual tasks on the Project. During this busy period, multiple tasks are added to each Project. Ideally we would like those personnel only seeing what they are assigned to, so as there is no confusion on who should be doing which task.
    I've attached an example of how this could look.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea, Fiona. We understand the request to assign individual project tasks to specific employees. This could make it easier to clarify responsibilities and manage workloads within a project.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd like it to work.

  7. Here’s a clearer version you could use as a Xero feature request:
    It would be really helpful if Projects could be filtered or sorted properly by Project Name.
    We use sequential numbers as our project names, and we are now well over project number 10,000. At the moment, Xero appears to sort the project names as text rather than numerically. This means that projects beginning with “1” are grouped together, so newer project numbers such as 10,000+ can appear before much older project numbers.
    This makes it quite difficult to quickly determine what the next available project number should be.…

    3 votes

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    Hi Linda, thanks for sharing this feedback. We understand the request to sort Project Names numerically, particularly when using sequential project numbers. This could make it easier to find projects and identify the next available number.

    We’ve updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. Add your vote and let us know how this would help your workflow.

  8. i just want to use one app for everything, a calendar view to see what i have booked in would be very useful. at the moment i don't get the best use out of xero i'm running my business of multiple apps putting a calendar in xero would mean i can run the business directly from the xero platform

    we have quoting, invoicing we have the ability to take payments through the app on-site but i barely do any of that within xero because its lacking a calendar.

    there is no point in having "projects" without a calendar to quickly…

    5 votes

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    Appreciate the feedback here team, we're moving this idea to gain more support from the team. In the meantime, feel free to share this idea with other users and colleagues who might find this idea helpful. They can add their votes for wider visibility. Cheers

  9. Project Info menu - For each project, add a "Project Info" menu so that we can include some brief information on the project. For example, Description of Works (i.e. New build; Renovations; New Office Addition; Pool works etc.), Project Start Date, Estimated Project Completion Date, Contract Number, Contract Sum, Site Foreman Name etc.

    2 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  10. 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.

    19 votes

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    Thank 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!

  11. It would be great if the "new time entry" dialogue box could be opened in its own window, or similar to the phone app, have a distinct desktop app we can have open permanently on our computers - to make time recording easy and accessible.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand how useful you feel it would be for the new timer to open in a separate browser tab, so you can keep your current Xero Partner Hub work open while tracking time.

    We’ll move this idea to Gaining Support so other users can vote and comment, helping us gauge community interest. We appreciate you taking the time to share your idea.

  12. 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 votes

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    Thanks 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!

  13. Need the option on a contact page to open a new project for them. similar to the New invoice link

    27 votes

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    Thanks 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!

  14. Ability to set permission for users of Xero Projects to view all time entry and task description inputs without seeing "invoiced amount" or "expenses" information

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  15. I’m very surprised that the ability to assign a cost to a Xero Project has not been included in Smart Document Capture from the outset, particularly as this functionality is already available when publishing transactions through Hubdoc.

    Smart Document Capture is supposed to make document processing quicker and more efficient, but removing functionality that users already have in Hubdoc actually makes the workflow more cumbersome.

    At present, I can review and code a document in Smart Capture and create the transaction, but if the cost relates to a Project, I then have to leave Smart Capture, find the newly created…

    1 vote

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  16. I would appreciate if the project summary would align better: everything is right-aligned so the bar graphs all start in a different spot. (Numbers fudged).

    I would like the budget (ie: the estimate) to be right next to the "spent" number so that I can clearly see how over or under the project currently is. Right now, the estimate number is tiny and hidden to the left underneath the project name which makes it very unuseful for comparison – the eye has to dart between the far left side and the far right side.

    Also, it's not really a project…

    1 vote

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  17. Certificate insurance is a big part of our company's operation. Xero needs to include a mandatory compliance option for companies to implement. When a compliance requirement, e.g., a certificate of insurance, is due to expire in 30 days, the system should prevent bills from being submitted for payment until compliance is met.

    6 votes

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    Hi Kristi, thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you. We've moved this idea to gain more support from the community. We'll be monitoring this space for more traction. Cheers!

  18. Being able to run a profitability report that shows the nominal codes used. Or a mini P&L per project

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  19. Employee's time assigned to projects direct from Xero payroll not the other way around as it is now.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea.

    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.

  20. It would be great to have the slider bars in that shows the project estimates on the Projects in progress dashboard, to be able to show what has been invoiced and what is still to be invoiced just like the slider shows when you have over invoiced on a project.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

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