AU Payroll - New Employee - Online Commencement Forms
Ability to send and generate online commencement forms from Xero Payroll.
Purpose: Employees can complete and submit their own online commencement forms, rather than having to ask the employers to submit it.

Hi everyone, we're looking into this idea as part of research our teams are doing on managing employees, particularly looking at our customer's experiences onboarding new hires and setting them up in payroll.
Knowing the interest from our community in this here, we wanted to share an opportunity to get involved.
If you'd be willing to take part, our teams will be scheduling sessions which will be about 60 minutes via video call.
You can share your interest by taking a few minutes to fill in this form ✍️ - We really appreciate your time.
Thanks, and I'll make sure to share any outcomes from this discovery back with you all here.
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Deanne Dunlop commented
Renee Hall - my concern with Xonboard is that they say they are registered with the ATO but are not listed on the ATO product register (I contacted the ATO who have confirmed this also) - I don’t want to hand over access to our staff tax, super and other personal details to Xonboard if they are not actually registered and compliant as an ATO DSP! Once they appear on that list I will definitely sign up with them if Xero doesn't sort out an onboarding system in the meantime...
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Renee Hall commented
I have just come across this request while looking for another request, and wanted to say that we have been using XOnboard for onboarding new employees, they are very proactive and update their site regularly to ensure that all employees are onboarded properly. Just as an alternative while waiting on Xero to update this facility.
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Sincere apologies team, and appreciate highlighting the issue with the form link with me here. The team have just fixed this up, and if you click the link again it should load for you now. 🙏
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Sonia Abbott commented
Just FYI, the form link for the video is not working.
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Andrew Syme commented
It go nowhere !!
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Daniel Masters commented
The form is empty (https://feedback.xero.com/jfe/form/SV_efGU5IxqfvVucMC)
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Ruby-Ann Walker commented
The form won't load, and this issue has persisted since 2023. Come on, Xero Admin, keep up with the competition!
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Lee Armstrong commented
What happened here? This was posted on 2023. This is a outstanding idea!
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adele arkell commented
When is this likely to happen?
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adele arkell commented
This would move me away from other apps and exclusively to Xero if xero me included the need for the employee to enter their Tax forms ans super and it populated directly to Xero.
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Luke Hambly commented
I'm shocked this hasn’t been implemented yet! Get on with it, Xero!
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Pascal Maier commented
This is so basic and has been requested for YEARS. I work with product teams and I know Xero has the capability to do this. Maybe you need better product managers who pay attention to paying customers.
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Vickie Sievers commented
This would be amazing. Or even just the option to be able to upload files to a certain employee so all their data is in the one place.
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Cade Roberts commented
I am surely hoping that this is being worked on, as it a basic option in MYOB and this is such a better product , just lagging behind in payroll...........
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Siew Luke commented
Yes, it is disappointing that Xero does not has this function as MYOB already implement this many years ago.
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Vicki Granger commented
Yes this is a great feature. I have just switched from MYOB and they had it and it made onboarding staff very easy - they also included forms so that we met legislative requirements eg the Fair Work Act.
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Cheski Weinberger commented
Can we get new employees to fill out their own details for onboarding like MYOB has you have to put in there name and email address and they get a link to fill in all their details
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Helen Ashenden commented
It works so well in MYOB and would be great to have it in Xero as well. It saves me so much time inputting new employees.
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Pauline Hurrey commented
Please prioritise this as I have some clients on MYOB who will not move across to XERO until this feature is available. I am a XERO fan besides this missing feature
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Stacey Quinn commented
This seems like a no brainer and something most other comparable software has. Is there any update on this?