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AU Payroll | Employee - Field for Employee Number

Include a new field in Payroll Employee data with employee number. Employees will have a unique identifier in Xero. For any new employees, Xero will generate a unique number.

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  • Jonathan Shepherd commented  ·   ·  Report

    Would love to see this added. While each employee does get a unique identifier, it's not user-friendly.

  • Minnie Uhlmann commented  ·   ·  Report

    We use employee numbers as ID verification for work with several purposes. Please have one.

  • Leigh McPherson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add this function. I was under the understanding that this was a mandatory field for STP. I feel like this is a major shortfall in this operating system.

  • Kim Ly commented  ·   ·  Report

    I thought Employee ID is part of the mandatory field for STP2. but for Xero to auto assign is not ideal.

  • Melinda Valis commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have never needed Employee ID Numbers until now - I notice that Xero UK have Employee Numbers/ID - hopefully it will be picked up for AU Xero users. I guess for now I will use a clunky Excel spreadsheet to create 🙄

  • Deltec Groups commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having an employee ID field is so necessary. Xero should also include this employee ID in all the payroll so that users can do in depth analysis using the downloaded payroll data. This is a no brainer.

  • Miranda Hicks commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just moved from another payroll program and miss this so much. Very time consuming trying to sort and find without it. Would be great to also be able sort using employee number.

  • Carmen Munro commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can we please have a spot where we can enter an employee number? Particularly coming from another platform where it was used.

  • Yasmeen Tahoune commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi,
    I've been an accountant for over 20 years and I've never seen a payroll module that doesn't have a field for employees number. This is a major shortfall.
    Is there a quick solution pending you guys working on developing & implementing this function?

  • Gexon George commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi It is very important to have an unique identification number for each employee, particularly when there are common names and names that are difficult. If a number is very easy to refer. Please add another field for it.

    Regards
    Gexon George

  • Tara Stevenson commented  ·   ·  Report

    The current ATO advice when asked how to set up STP in Xero correctly for multi-hiring purposes (STP requires a unique identifier for employees in these cases) is to change accounting software. Multi-hiring (same person hired in more than one role) is a normal practice in lots of workplaces.

  • Mandy Espiritu commented  ·   ·  Report

    Super fund clearing house requires an ID, so we have to manually record outside Xero.

  • Accounts APAC commented  ·   ·  Report

    Our global business needs this on our payroll reports.

  • Gopi Nair commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi It is very important for some of my clients to have an unique identification number for each employee, particularly when there are common names and names that are little to pronounce. A number is very easy to refer. Please add another field for it. Thanks

  • Kellie Galati commented  ·   ·  Report

    We don't have many employees at the moment, but would love for xero to automate an employee number

  • Kristen Vink commented  ·   ·  Report

    We are needing this field to be able to work with a third-party timesheet system, may need to look at using different software if we can't get resolved

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