Xero Projects

If you’re a standard subscriber note that you will have to move to the ultimate plan to continue using Xero projects. For us this is an increase of £300 from £550 to £850 per year. This increase in costs is not obvious because it is hidden in the plan comparison between the old and new plans. It is sneaky and underhanded.

This is NOT a project management tool, simply a time tracker and invoice generator. It’s impossible to view invoices on the ledger to check if they have been assigned to a project or look at invoice date in Projects. So actual financial analysis of a project is not possible. WTAF?

Latest one is the clock change hour And anything previous to today the date revert back to today on reviewing time. So today I’ve done 54 hours. Wow

I’ve been using the iPad app for some time before having to switch to my phone when my iPad developed some hardware issues. The iPad app at least makes some attempt to help you get timesheets done more efficiently. The iPhone app however doesn’t seem to have an obvious way (that I have found) to help you enter repeat times/projects. It fascinates me that a product company like this doesn’t cater buying the basics. In this case, failing to either do the user needs analysis or acknowledge the user needs and recognise that many people often book the same time, to the same code for weeks. It’s fairly straight forward to give users another way to input data, by changing how you ask the questions. E.g. i want to be able to say I worked on project x all week, my work day is 8 hours. Done. That’s just scratching the surface of how the ux can be improved. Unfortunately at the moment it’s not much more that a shiny UI.

I went to submit my hours spent at client locations so I could invoice them and they weren’t there. I’ve tried turning the tracking on and off again and it still doesn’t work. I’m going to have to go back over the last month and figure out my hours manually somehow because the data is missing.

It would be easier to log hours if it it was an app on my computer- I use OfficeTime to capture hours then transfer to Projects.

1 day at a time is driving me and the rest of the team mad. Clicking into a day, entering time, saving then clicking the next day. It would be far easier to enter time against the week. Also please add charge per day not only per hour.

The app is basic and functional but for pricing jobs and working with customers greatly needs the ability to add photos of both the initial visit when setting tasks/quotes and also recording work done during site visits.

Not easy to analyse jobs. No Profit and Loss by job available. Click through to reports doesn’t provide answers without considerable investigation and exports to Excel.

Great for time recording and easier invoicing but expenses needs some work