What's New
Project Statuses are now fully configurable per account. Account Admins can add, edit, reorder, and delete project statuses, choose a color for each, and tailor the list to match your team’s exact workflow.
Head to Settings → Project Management and you’ll find a new Project Statuses panel — sitting right alongside the Project Categories panel you may already be using.
What You Can Do
Add custom statuses. Click Add Status, give it a Name, a Code (used by integrations and the API), and a Color. Save. It’s immediately available everywhere project status appears — the Project Edit page, the Project List, APIs, and reports.
Edit existing statuses. Click any status to rename it, change its color, or update its role in your workflow. The four standard statuses you have today are fully editable too — feel free to rename In Progress to In Production if that’s the language your team speaks.
Reorder statuses. Drag and drop to set the order they appear in dropdowns and lists.
Delete statuses you don’t use. If a status is currently in use by some projects, Avaza will ask you to pick a replacement and reassign those projects in one step before the delete completes. No orphaned projects, no manual cleanup.
Two Statuses That Stay Special
Every Avaza account needs to know two things about its projects: which status means the work hasn’t started yet and which means the work is done. We’ve built that into the new system with two flags:
- Default for new projects — the status assigned automatically whenever a new project is created. Exactly one status holds this flag at any time.
- Marks project as complete — the status that tells Avaza a project is finished. Used for filtering, reporting, and for any downstream behaviour that cares whether a project is closed out. Exactly one status holds this flag too.
You can promote any status you like to either role from the Edit Status dialog. To keep the system reliable, every account must have at least two statuses, with one of each flag set.
What Stays the Same
If you’re already happy with the standard four statuses, you don’t have to do anything. Every existing account has been migrated automatically — your projects, your saved reports, and your integrations all continue to work exactly as before.
For developers and power users: the public API, webhooks, and MCP tools all continue to use the existing ProjectStatusCode field. Custom statuses you create get their own stable Code, so any automation you build on top of them stays just as durable as it does for the standard four.
Why It Matters
A project status is a small thing — but it’s also the field your team looks at every single day to know what’s happening across your portfolio. When the language matches the way your team actually talks about work, the entire system feels sharper:
- Project lists become easier to scan at a glance
- Reports filter on the categories that actually matter to your business
- New team members get up to speed faster because the labels make sense to them
Workflows feel native to your business — not someone else’s
Try It Today
The new Project Statuses panel is live for all Avaza accounts. Head to Settings → Project Management to start customising.
As always, we’d love to hear what you think. Drop us a note via the in-app chat, or reply to this post. And if there’s a related feature on your wishlist (custom task statuses are a frequent request, just saying 👀), let us know.
Happy project tracking!