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229 votes
Hi everyone, we appreciate wanting the ability to assign files to the project itself. While this isn't something we have planned right now we'll keep tracking the interest through the idea here.
To highlight, though not currently available on the Project directly, it's possible to attach files to the individual transactions within a project e.g a Bill, Invoice, Spend money or Expense. i
Along with this, you may also find it useful to create folders within your Files library where you can collect all files related to a specific project for ease of reference.
Understand this isn't the ideal solution, but may help some for now 🙂
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Bevan Simpkin
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This functionality is critical and should be at the top of your development list.
It has well over 200 votes. We have been asking for this functionality since 2016.
Why is it, in your words, "isn't something we have planned right now"?
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When will Xero listen on this?
This is at least the 6th time ive seen this core function request sidelined.
I initially asked for this back in 2017.Xero waits until the comments and requests get full of grumpy frustrated people, then delivers some bland blah about moving the discussion over to a new location... thus wiping the history of requests.
Xero central wasn't even born, and we were calling for this functionality.
One of the earlier repositories for this request had well over 600 comments. Now there's 60.
Oh, but there's templates to muck with, layouts to change, functions to hide, links to move about, and a fancy rainbow colored login screen to force down everyone's throat.....
No-one at Xero cares. Ive tried for nearly 10 years to get this done. Bland, boilerplate replies is all we get at best.
An error occurred while saving the comment Bevan Simpkin
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When will Xero listen on this?
This is at least the 6th time ive seen this core function request sidelined.
I initially asked for this back in 2017.Xero waits until the comments and requests get full of grumpy frustrated people, then delivers some bland blah about moving the discussion over to a new location... thus wiping the history of requests.
Xero central wasn't even born, and we were calling for this functionality.
One of the earlier repositories for this request had well over 600 comments. Now there's 60.
Oh, but there's templates to muck with, layouts to change, functions to hide, links to move about, and a fancy rainbow colored login screen to force down everyone's throat.....
No-one at Xero cares. Ive tried for nearly 10 years to get this done. Bland, boilerplate replies is all we get at best.
Bevan Simpkin
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7 votes
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.
An error occurred while saving the comment Bevan Simpkin
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@anis can you explain the rationale behind upvoting this idea as "gaining support" when it only has 6 votes? Yet you do not do the same to the one about attaching files to a project, which has well over 200 votes and is still just being ignored.
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43 votes
Appreciate you sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you, Alyson.
Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!
We will keep an eye on the tractions this idea receives in the community. Thanks!
An error occurred while saving the comment Bevan Simpkin
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At the top of a new purchase order there is the option to add files to that new purchase order so people can just upload their PDF to that. It won't automatically populate in the grid or anything but at least it will be attached.
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27 votes
Appreciate your feedback on the update to the Products and services lists, Paul. For now our product team are monitoring feedback closely and we'll get an understanding of the wider interest in this change.
Bevan Simpkin
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1 vote
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. 🙂
Bevan Simpkin
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1 vote
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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15 votesBevan Simpkin
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50 votes
Hi 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.
Bevan Simpkin
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9 votes
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.
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@Kimberly Xero dont care. We've been asking for simple things like this for over 10 years, still no action.
An error occurred while saving the comment Bevan Simpkin
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Need to be able to click the + and select "New Project" without having to go into projects, then start from there
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44 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Bevan Simpkin
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@ayeza : you're in the wrong forum for help. Your problem is you ticked the box for tracked inventory when you made the product. Delete/archive and start again.
@Ni Wayan : Wrong chat for that. There is a feature request for exactly that, but Xero doesn't listen to feature requests (we've been waiting since the 20teens for basic functions to be fixed)
Bevan Simpkin
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29 votes
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!
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60 votesBevan Simpkin
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60 votesBevan Simpkin
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62 votes
Hi community, thank you for sharing how valuable this feature could be for your workflows and we can see the benefit this would have for businesses that have regular recurring trade with suppliers.
While this is something we'll keep front of mind as the teams plan their roadmaps we want to be honest that this isn't on the roadmap right now.
If there is any wind of plans for this we'll let you all know here.
Bevan Simpkin
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The 10-Year Feature Void: Why Xero Projects Intentionally Starves Its Users.
To the Xero Product Leadership Team,
For nearly a decade, hundreds of paying small business owners, contractors, and project managers have asked Xero for a single, fundamental piece of functionality: The ability to attach a file directly to a Project.
In Xero, you can attach files to a bill, an invoice, a fixed asset, or a contact record. Yet, the Project—the single vehicle that inherently requires central documentation like council plans, site photographs, client briefs, and compliance permits—remains completely starved of this feature.
What hurts is the behaviour.
When users log this on this official Xero Product Ideas forum, the cycle is always the same. The idea gains hundreds of votes and desperate comments of support. Then, the thread is closed, archived, or "relocated," effectively resetting the public ledger and wiping out the visible data of consumer frustration. The official advice remains unchanged for years: “Attach the file to an individual transaction instead.”
A compliance document or a structural blueprint is not an invoice. It does not belong on a spend-money transaction. Forcing small businesses to fragment their project workflows across unrelated line items isn’t a workaround—it’s bad product design.
This isn't a technical limitation. The file-attachment architecture clearly already exists across the rest of the Xero ecosystem. This is a deliberate decision to keep the native Projects module deficient, forcing users to buy expensive third-party add-ons just to perform a basic administrative function.
Small businesses pay a premium for software that is supposed to simplify their lives. Resetting the community voting counters won't change the reality: your subscribers are tired of being ignored on basic core functionality while valuable development resources are wasted on cosmetic platform refreshes.
It is time to let users attach files to Projects. Stop erasing the feedback, and start building what your customers are paying for.
My next step: getting a banner towed over Auckland, reading "Xero Hates You" in 4-foot high red letters. It's cheap: I've got a quote for $600 to fly that message on Thursday week.