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I think this is real stupid.

If you see User role access to payroll in xero,

It states Limited access Approve Leave and timesheets for others.

If they have permissoion and have Xero me accesss.

So how do you give them permission.

Managers should be approving time sheets not payroll admin etc.

If it says you can then you should be able to right.....

100% agree - it's not good for all leave approvers to see everyone else's leave, and the approvals need to be hierarchical instead. This has been a shortcoming for a long time.

The ability to be able to assign specific approvers to employees would be useful. It would also be good to not allow approvers to be able to select themselves to approve their own leave.

I hope this is coming sometime VERY soon as I cant read the responses from Xero.
this (along with a few other reasons) that I havent got my workforce using XeroMe yet

This would be invaluable! Currently we have multiple accountants, a bookkeeper, business partners, etc. all in the list as approvers - when only one person actually needs to get the email. Being able to just have the one approved person for that specific employee would make things so much easier - especially for onboarding new employees.

The ability to have a two tiered leave approval process would be extremely helpful, so the Supervisor approves the annual leave first and then the Manager/Director/CEO confirms its ok.

Not only the option to specify leave approval for each employee, but as my previous post that there should also be a box to select if the payroll admin is also authorised to approve leave. The current option can give e.g. in an accounting firm who there could be up to 5 staff members with payroll admin access to be able to approve leave. clients don't like this idea as there could be more than 5 users to choose from when a leave request is submitted for approval. can Xero look into adding a box to select for payroll admin user access.

A)Ability to specify a set approver for a specific employee for when they submit Timesheet requests.
Employees who have the "Authorised to Approve Timesheets" checkbox ticked (similar to Leave approver) should be able to approve Timesheets regardless of Payroll Admin status.

B) have a "Checked" Status before full approval and finalisation of Timesheet that occurs with "Approved" status
So one manager can approve the "times" entered and a second manager can complete "pay rates". Specifically important for "Start & Finish Time" timesheets in businesses with complicated State Awards

Setting specific Approvers need to be looked into ASAP for leave requests and Timesheets

A)Ability to specify a set approver for a specific employee for when they submit Timesheet requests.
Employees who have the "Authorised to Approve Timesheets" checkbox ticked (similar to Leave approver) should be able to approve Timesheets regardless of Payroll Admin status.

B) have a "Checked" Status before full approval and finalisation of Timesheet that occurs with "Approved" status
So one manager can approve the "times" entered and a second manager can complete "pay rates". Specifically important for "Start & Finish Time" timesheets in businesses with complicated State Awards

This would be great if Xero can do. We have program managers in charge of certain staff, if it was set for them to approve their team plus have overall setting for CEO & board to approve if that program manager was away.
Also be great as we have an Accountant with access to the payroll settings so they can access the payroll reports but they shouldn't have access to approving timesheets, leave, etc. It would be an extra security step for Xero to implement.

Provide option for managers to approve timesheets for those in their department, whilst not viewing employees from other departments. Right now if I give timesheet approval access, my managers can view all employees, but I would like them to just see their own employees.

again, this doesn't seem that hard to fix and would make things much easier for the user.

Set timesheet & leave approvers for employees.

When an employee creates a timesheet or leave request, the person who is to approve this should be able to be set within the employees payroll set up, to ensure the correct person/manager receives the approvals

Would be ideal that all payroll admins should have an option to approve leave. currently as a bookkeeper in a firm, we have several accountants/bookkeepers that have payroll admin access and clients would like to have the list of approvers for leave to exclude users that should not be approving leave. In other words users such as accountants/bookkeepers in firms should not be shown as leave approvers. currently there is no option for this and we are having our clients requesting the removal. maybe this could be something that Xero should be looking at, the only option available is for employees that can be authorized not payroll admins.

This would be a good feature. Would like same option with AU payroll as well.

This would also prevent employees who are authorised to approve leave from approving their own leave.
This is a significant authority issue that no-one should be able to self approve.

We definitely require this function. We have multiple teams and team leaders and we need to be able to specify the leave 'approver' for each employee.

I agree the tick box is a good idea! The long list of approvers confuses employees when they submit the timesheet or leave request.

Would like the same option for NZ payroll as well