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This would be extremely beneficial. We're unable to assign Team Managers to approve their team's leave which they are not happy about. If they were given access to approve leave for their team, they would be able to see all payroll details and we cannot allow this.
Please consider urgently the ability to allow some staff to approve leave for their teams.

There should be an option within the admin permission section to selecting as and approver or not.

This is such a basic workflow. come on Xero

We need to be able to say who can approve whose timesheets - not just a blanket approach. The current system is cr@p as our external accountants and auditors (of which there is a plethora linked to our Xero User profile) can approve timesheets. It is very confusing for staff as we have a lot of casual employees over harvest etc and they are not familiar with who they allocate their timesheet to. I can also see that there would be cases where person from department A (who has no idea what goes on in department B) can authorise timesheets for department B. Segregation is required post haste.

For larger companies this is a must have

Have this so important issue been made any progress in Xero by now??

Surprised Leave Approvals in Xero are so unsophisticated. Basic hierarchies should be standard, and no employee should be able to approve their own leave.

We as accountants & bookkeepers would like full payroll access,

but NOT appear in the list of client employees XERO ME to approve leave/timesheets etc.

We are receving lots of unnessary emails weekly now

Please fix this matter XERO

This is an important financial governance issue because I shouldn't have the ability to approve my own leave requests. Only those for subordinate staff.

Yet despite raising this as an issue for over 2 years an having every comment provide 100% support for the idea, Xero don't seem to want to fix this. It shouldn't be that difficult.

It is an important to disable the ability to approve your own leave requests. You should not ever have the option of approving your own leave. It is a constant education piece to have to remind employees that they have to manually select the correct line manager to approve their leave. Even Managers with the responsibility of approving their employee's leave requests should not have the ability to approve their own leave requests.

I have just moved to Xero from a competitor and this was one requirement I did not check. I am actually very surprised at this and we are finding extremely difficult to educate the staff to select the correct approver. I am sure this would be a quick win for Xero without a lot of effort. Please create this ability ASAP

We should be able to
1. Have options to remove payroll admin's authority to approve leave - the bookkeepers and accountants do not need to approve leave.
2. Assign specific manager to approve leave/ timesheets for specific employees.

Users such as accountants & bookkeepers would like full payroll access, but NOT appear in the list of people who can approve leave/timesheets etc.
I get 20+ emails per day, as my name's top of the list, and employees don't check.
I have NOTHING to do with the day to day running of the business... Literally just do their tax.

agree this is important, having employees approve their own leave request and then not event showing them as the listed approver is confusing and makes it difficult to rely on the audit trail of leave approvals through the system.

The issue is that approvers should NOT be able to approve their own leave.

Employee Specific Approvers to keep things simple for everyone and so that employees don't have to scroll through a list and look for 1 name amongst a stack of approvers that never get used.
Is this an option yet??

So I have 2x personal emails and some employees submitted timesheet goes to one and others to both. -1st error
This was brought up over a year ago to get fixed
Can XERO me have one company email ie accounts (admin) who prepare the wages for approval -2nd error
I am leaving the company next week and I do not want submitted timesheet coming to me at any time past or future
Can this be fixed now??? 26/04/2024 Sue

Leave approver should not necessarily be a Payroll admin. as not everyone is given access to all employee payroll details

It would also be great to leave payroll admins off the list of approvers if you don't want them to appear for employees requesting leave (eg. accountants don't want to appear in the list).