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WE do returns for employers in relation to apprentices where payslips are required for proof. When doing 3 months of payslips per person, sometimes up to 5 or more employees, this is extremely time consuming. What has been implemented for UK is urgently needed in AU.

You can go into your report settings and add your ABN (this is what I did to get around this) to the payroll report. We have about 6 apprentices and usually submitting this report for incentives is accepted about 75% of the time. Still ridiculous this has not been something addressed by Xero, but adding the ABN does somewhat help. It would have been much better if downloading multiple pay slips had been added rather than making other reports (that worked fine) 'more beautiful'. I find reading the payroll details report when running a payroll now to double check entries is so difficult with all of the ridiculous 'beautiful' lines they have added!

@Catherine_Burford I would say you have been a little lucky with this. When I did upload that report I actually received a phone call stating it is not compliant - must have the ABN on each payslip and the Activity Summary does not do this.
Xero - do we have any comments on this feature yet?

Hopefully this report will be available soon.
I have literally spent hours downloading numerous payslips by employee, to satisfy government regulation/requirements, it should not be this difficult.

@Melanie Louth We have to submit for apprentices too, but I run the Payroll Activity Summary report for each employee in the period requested rather than payslips. Have been doing it for 18 months and never had an issue. It is much faster.

@beau Gaudron - wow! thanks so much for sharing this hack - you have saved me so much time. I am very appreciative for your input and experience - shame Xero deems this operation as not very important.

THANK YOU!

@Beau Gordon.

Well, well, well ... aren't you clever! OK that's worked.

THANK YOU

@Mona Heta

Just type allow pasting and press enter in console as it mentions in the error then you should be able to paste the code and it will work i believe

The code is basically just emulating you clicking every download button, the warning is legitimate as you can issue code in that area that can be malicious but in this case its simply logging all instances of a download button and clicking them over and over again

@Beau Gordon. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. I got a warning message:

Warning: Don’t paste code into the DevTools Console that you don’t understand or haven’t reviewed yourself. This could allow attackers to steal your identity or take control of your computer. Please type ‘allow pasting’ below and hit Enter to allow pasting.
/Employee?CID=!7ysvr&tab=payslips#employees/468456/payslips:1 Third-party cookie will be blocked. Learn more in the Issues tab.

Thankyou @Beau. Any other golden titbits ?

This isn't really an official way of doing it but to bulk download you can do the following in Chrome:

- Go the Employee
- Click the "Payslips tab"

Right click anywhere in the browser and click "Inspect"

In the window that shows on the right click on "Console"

Copy and paste the below in

// Select all elements with the class 'fa-download' and the data-bind attribute for downloading payslips
const downloadButtons = document.querySelectorAll('i.fa.fa-download[data-bind*="downloadPayslip"]');

// Iterate over each button and trigger a click event
downloadButtons.forEach(button => {
button.click();
});

Press enter

This will download every payslip on the page. You might initially get a warning saying please allow multiple file downloads

Note it will just download all the files, it wont name them to do with dates or anything like that

It is so frustrating for Work Cover claims where you have to download 52 weeks of paylips one by one......
Also from Apprenticeship Wage Claims where yu need 13 week of payslips.
This has always been an easy feature of other payroll providers I have used in the past (eg. KeyPay). They have it as a report you can run for a date range on a specific individual. End each payslip is on a separate page, but is in one pdf document. Maybe that's a possible way of looking at it Xero Product Team?

What a joke this is..I'm going to have to start looking for a different software solution I think. I don't want to invite past employees back onto Xero Me to download payslips. Most of my requests from the 72 employees I manage are from archived employees......I could be using my time so much better than clicking on a years worth of payslips one at a time for an archived employee..why is this only being prioritised for UK users?

Any progress on this being implemented yet? As a business, we are wasting so much time having to download individual payslips for multiple employees when requested. Can't believe this function doesn't yet exist.

We are required to send payslips as part of our apprenticeship claims. Xero has zero capability to produce a report to satisfy requirements - apart from downloading one at a time? We moved away from MYOB as our accountants assured us Xero could do all and more - we find Xero wanting for very basic tasks.

I am completely baffled that this hasn't been considered for an immediate plan & action for AUS/NZ users.
As Karan Campbell notes this is an essential function for Workcover claims & I now have to sit down & download 52 weeks of payslips for an employee, as a small business with only myself doing administration tasks, this is beyond disappointing to see that this issue was raised over a year ago & is still not implemented across all users.
Really disappointed in Xero's response & decision to not put all capabilities in play for all users. This needs to have priority status.
Pretty unfair if you think about it...

This is an essential function for Workcover claims, can this please be given priority status

Its beyond belief this has been implemented already in your UK product, but that it is not even on the list for the AUS and NZ market. If you have the capability it should be done as a given!

So yesterday I had a phone call from my new XERO account manager. I complained about the inability to produce multiple payslips. Today I got an email from XERO support telling me to have a look at 'Payroll Activity Details' report.
Wow - maybe the XERO gurus should visit the ATO website and find out the legal requirements of a payslip.
I see a recent comment that suggests downloading the PDF report and adding the required details to satisfy the apprenticeship boards.
Yes it works BUT what do you think the government agencies would think if they knew we were providing altered reports?
If these reports can be added to, they can be changed to suit. Isnt adobe great ?
My apologies for the sarcasm but once again, not good enough XERO !
This needs to be revisited ASAP.

This is an essential function for Workcover claims, can this please be given priority status

Hi Everyone, you know you can lodge claims without the payslip. I've been using the Payroll Activity Details Report for the selected employee. It now shows employee name against each pay period. The only thing the report is missing is an ABN so I edited the PDF document using Adobe and added the ABN to the bottom of each of the pages, takes about 3 mins to do & I've been paid multiple apprenticeship claims via this method without using pay slips at all.