AU Payroll - Historical Payslip Report (bulk download)
Create a report to show all payslips for an employee for a given time period. Currently these have to be downloaded one by one.

Hey everyone 👋thanks so much for your ongoing feedback and commitment to supporting this idea.
We understand the need for a straightforward process to download all payslips at once, particularly for WorkCover claims or employee requests where multiple payslips are required. We’re excited to let you know that our product team is now actively working on a solution to allow bulk downloading of payslips.
In the meantime, you can use the Payroll Activity Details report to get a detailed breakdown of each payslip. It's also worth noting that employees can access and download their own payslips directly through the Xero Me portal.
We'll keep you updated on our progress right here. 🙂
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Amie Fellows commented
Response above is disappointing given this is a repeated request. Perhaps more "building on practical" than "building on beautiful" would be better.
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Bo Pang commented
Seriously? This function hasn't been added already despite this topic has been there for over a year? What are you doing Xero team?
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Sharon Hyde commented
seriously overdue XERO - lift your game!
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Sue Clasen commented
Would be great to have this ability. But in the meantime for Apprentices, I've been running a Payroll Activity Summary report, then just the first 1or 2 payslips and the last 1or2 payslips for the period and then a Payroll Activity Detailed Report for the same period.
I've merged these documents as one PDF and uploaded in claims with ADMS, and they have been accepted/Approved with no problem. -
Kellie Setches commented
The download of multiple payslips are not just for the employee's benefit. For example. we (employer) need to show Apprentice Organisations an employee's pay history for certain periods and they require information including the pay period as well as the pay date. This is only shown on the payslip & downloading one at a time is a huge waste of time. Either we need to be able to bulk download payslips or the pay period needs to show on one of the other payroll reports.
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Carly Rymar commented
This would be a really beneficial feature. Hope it is reviewed soon as downloading 52 weeks payslips for a work cover claim is not ideal.
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Matthew Donnelly commented
This is so surprising that I cannot do this, I have to generate 6 years of payslips for 1 employee, do I seriously have to do 1 at a time?
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Kenny Lee commented
They don’t even bother to respond 😞
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Lisa Priest commented
I cannot believe this is not fixed, such a basic requirement!! We've been asking for it for years!!
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Louisa Beaver commented
Having just downloaded 70 individual payslips, opened each one to note the pay week dates, and note the amount to upload and report for the ADMS I cannot again reiterate my frustration with the absence of this feature.
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Jade Bancroft commented
Crazy how just today we receive another price increase from Xero yet they are still to deliver on something as simple as this
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Vienna Bell commented
Why is this not a standard feature already? A little behind the times in my opinion.
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Leann Hopkins commented
For anyone needing to upload multiple pay periods for ADMS to claim Apprenticeship rebates - my work around has been accepted by ADMS. Download a Payroll Activity Summary for the individual employee for the period in question (ie 01 Jan - 31 Mar 2023) and a Payroll Activity Detail for the same. In Adobe, you can combine the two files and reorganise the pages so the summary is the first (and second page) followed by the detail pages. Attached the combined file to your claim. I did 12 claims in an hour and they have all been approved. Just make sure all the pages have your legal name, trading name and ABN.
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Mollie Hammond commented
This is actually such a crucial need that it's creating questions on whether or not Xero is actually the best accounting platform for us.
It's unfathomable that this isn't a readily available feature as it's so OBVIOUSLY needed for work cover, worksafe etc.
The fact this has been requested for this long and still isn't available is an indication of Xero's willingness to listen to their customers. Every other platform has this because it's a crucial, neccesity, very basic function. Why bother making what's there "prettier" when what's there doesn't even cover basic functions. -
Charles Cooksey commented
Need this immediately. Absurd this hasn't been added yet.
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Michelle Turner commented
This requirement is not needed at an employee self-serve level. It is common for employers need to be able to export long periods of payslips for Workers comp reporting. We often get asked to assist clients with this due to how cumbersome it is and clients are often surprised Xero do not have a solution for it.
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Mona Heta commented
The fastest way to do it ... which is still not fast enough ... is to go into the employee, go to their payslip tab and download each payslip. Then grab them all from the download file and drag to your email. GRRRRRR. Your pushing shite uphill if you expect anything more from the "Building on Beautiful" team. Their too busy rolling it in glitter.
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Carly Willoughby-Rolls commented
Not sure if this helps anyone else. But I just followed the advice from a previous commenter on a different thread:
There is a work-around: go to Reports / Payroll / Payroll Activity Details. Specify individual employee and time period. You will get a list of payment summaries by pay-date, which will work as the payslips necessary for Work Cover etc.
I've submitted this to Workcover. Will report back here if it's not accepted. But hoping this works for our requirements (insert fingers crossed emoji).
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Mike Boudry commented
Carly, you must understand that with their current customer base, Xero have only $100 millon per month to spend. Once they have covered sales and admin personnel, and executive salaries, there is little or nothing left to spend on things like maintaining or upgrading their product. And as Ethan has pointed out, for the tiny development team, 'Building on Beautiful' trumps functionality, and there is no resource at all left to listen to customers. Just let them talk away to each other on the forums. As you can see from the long history of this request, you're shouting into the wind here. Plug away at the downloads - you'll get there eventually!
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Carly Willoughby-Rolls commented
We need to supply the government worksafe organisation with 12 months worth of payslips or exacting pay data for an employee that was injured at work. We need this feature immediately.
I thought it was just my novice standard that meant I couldn't figure out how to pull such a report from Xero. I assumed surely there was a standard report to provide this info - only to come here and find YEARS worth of people begging for this same thing.
For a small business we're paying the high price for your premium monthly fee and yet missing necessary features like employee payroll data broken down by pay cycle. Totals of pay items etc included in your existing payroll reports are useless to me when a government statutory organisation is demanding I supply 12 months worth of payslip data for an individual employee in 48 hours.
Please prioritise this immediately to ensure customers like us can fulfil our legislative requirements for things like WorkCover.