We too use the Planning status for this purpose as our Business Analysts do a "hand-off" to the PM as the final task in our Scoping phase.

Within our Company list, you can only add a billing rate per Job Role. In our organization, we have one specific billing rate for “Technology” that is charged per hour regardless ‚Äòwho’ in Technology performs the work. In our current state, I had configure each job role (14) for every company (~100...

5. Improved 'indenting' when adding parent or child tasks. Current functionality can be confusing and frustrating compared to MS Project. Yes I found it interesting that the indent buttons are reversed compared to MS Project. Took me a few mistakes to realize what my old habits were doing!