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AU Payroll - Add birthday notifications for staff

Could we include a notification when a staff member has a birthday? This has multiple benefits including allowing us to check if their award salary or benefits need to change and also be able to congratulate them on their birthday. Surely it wouldn't be a huge change to make but would be a unique and helpful change for many SME as I currently need to create a new Google calendar for staff birthdays, creating additional work especially when we have 50+ staff and low retention in hospitality. Thank you.

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Not in pipeline  ·  AdminKelly M (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback and votes on adding birthday notifications to Australian payroll - we understand how this could help with team celebrations and managing age-based award rate compliance.

After reviewing with our product team, this feature isn't currently on our roadmap, and we'll update the status to 'Not in Pipeline'. Right now, setting up an external calendar could help you track these important dates.

We appreciate you all taking the time to share your feedback with us, and will continue to watch the traction this idea receives through Votes. If there is any change, we will share an update here. 

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  • Vanessa Lynch commented  ·   ·  Report

    Doesn't seem like a difficult addition - and it's really vital for industries that employee a lot of junior staff and aren't a big enough company to have an HR team to be checking this regularly

  • Warrick Turner commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very important especially for employees aged under 20 where pay rates need to be adjusted every year on their birthday

  • Tahlia Morphew commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is definitely required to assist with payroll compliance!

  • Carissa Taylor commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a great idea. Especially since I have a client with employees under the age of 18.

  • Nicki Kidman commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be an amazing feature for payroll compliance

  • Maria Martin-Perez commented  ·   ·  Report

    we would like to be able to add a Notification / Reminder specific to the employee. Some of our employees need to have their "Right to work" re-checked in the gov.uk website every 2.5 years or so.
    This reminder will ensure HR will not miss the deadline. If their permit had run out, and we miss it, we would be illegally employing and paying them.

  • Ellie Antkiewicz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can there be warnings when an employee is going to have a birthday that means they need a pay increase, or pension enrolment?
    And similarly one when an employee is about to go over tax thresholds?

  • Mandy Lalor commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like to be able to opt in for notifications of staff birthdays. Some clients have different pay rates for staff based on their ages and their pay category needs to be manualy updated when they have a birthday. If the staff doesn't inform their employer or it isn't checked each week this can easily be missed.

  • Emily Wheatley commented  ·   ·  Report

    What a great idea, would be good to know who is on morning shout haha