Xero Me | Timesheets - Ability to choose different earnings rate
Before we had start/stop times, employees were able to add different pay rates (ie Saturday Penalty Rate). It would be excellent if this option could be included with the start/stop time version in Xero Me.
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Amy Gutteridge commented
It's important that we can see when the team start and finish as each project is different and it's critical that this is reflected in the timesheets. And having the notes section enables them to put in where they worked and why they've worked less or more hours than anticipated. The total hours timesheet doesn't have this option. A bit disappointing.
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Toni Martin commented
I agree employees need to be able to select different pay items.I wont be having employees use xero me until this option is available.
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Theresa Trippett commented
it is very important to enable different rates with the start/stop function - Hospitality has different rates for the different hours of the day and a Staff member can work over more that one rate per day - eg hours before 6am are different to the day shift times, weekends different again, late nights different times and rates again.
even enabling the templates function for staff members would be helpful - as per xero central -• You can only create templates using Total hours worked timesheets in the web version of Xero Me. You can’t access templates from your mobile app or create them from start and end times timesheets.
Why not????
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Leah McVeigh commented
I can not use Xero Me Timesheets at all without this function. All of my employees work on variable rates depending on tasks assigned. i.e. someone might be an assistant on project X and a designer on project Y.
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Sonia Nielsen commented
It's a backwards step in the timesheet function, and it's over a year old. Obviously people are raising it as an issue over and over again.
It seems like Xero thinks this is a 'product idea' rather than a serious functionality problem that needs fixing. I guess it's not on the agenda if it's being hand-balled to boards like this to be resolved. -
Hayley Loenneker commented
That is really frustrating that Xero would not allow this functionality!!!! Whoever changed the timesheets to be able to enter start and finish times and then not be able to select different payroll categories is absolutely absurd they need the sack seriously that is just rediculous!!!
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Daniel Masters commented
@Emma (Accounts) Rosenblatt,
For employees on a wage covered by an award (e.g. SCHADS), they are meant to receive a reportable per-km allowance for mileage (see attached), rather than being compensated via an expense claim, such as an office worker would. It would definitely be useful for Xero to offer both. I currently have to manually add allowances each week for sleepover allowance and motor vehicle use, which is very frustrating.
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Emma Rosenblatt (Accounts) commented
Hi @Jenny Peet. I believe Xero wont add mileage claims to timesheets because this is already a feature in Xero Expenses. If you purchase the Xero expenses add-on the mileage claim is really easy to use :) The option also appears in the Xero Me app once you have Xero Expenses
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Jenny Peet commented
Related to this - I would like the ability for employees to enter mileage claims (in km) in their timesheets. Given it's not an hourly rate it doesn't let them enter this and I have to do it manually
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Emma Rosenblatt (Accounts) commented
Please automate this more. If an employee is full time and they work 8 days Mon-Thurs and 6 on Friday you should be able to tell the system what are ordinary hours and then from there any additional hours should be allocated to the 'correct' overtime rate. The employee should not be selecting what overtime rate. They ALWAYS get it wrong...
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Samantha Callegari commented
Important, but better still, make it automatic, so the employee is not picking what overtime rates he gets. by default, based on a weekly set roster, the system determines what is ordinary time and what is overtime (time and a half, double, and public holidays)
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Daniel Masters commented
The "Start and End Times" timesheet type is great and long overdue, but it's unusable for anyone on an award wage, as they need to be able to select non-Ordinary Hours, add travel time, etc.
This feature is desperately needed.
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Sally Seymore commented
Agreed,
Also agree with Joanne EGGINS - employees cannot capture breaks during time worked resulting in overstatement of hours worked -
Jocelyn Mitchell commented
Retail industry and also hospitality require this urgently
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Kim Watton commented
Also the ability to customise timesheet reports to coincide with the timesheet pay period. E.g. our staff timesheets are from Thursday to Wednesday yet when I export the timesheet details report it runs from Monday - Sunday
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Lisa Meakin commented
This is incredibly important to have an option to include a Saturday penalty rate as a multiple of ordinary earnings rather than having to manually update this. Please update this feature.
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Sarah MacKenzie commented
@Rachael, nothing to stop them at all. I've had it happen several times before I realised it was possible.
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Rachael Simons commented
With over 50+ employees, I don't want them to access other pay rates except those on their template.
What is to stop someone changing their rate from level 1 to level 2 without me noticing it?
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Brett Hoffman commented
It's important as we have staff that need to select a Saturday rate (1.5x org) but cannot at the moment.
Otherwise this feature is brilliant.
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Michael Dawes commented
Disappointing that the addition of appropriate functionality has resulted in the loss of other appropriate functionality. It makes the app extremely difficult to use for an employee who works at two different places each employing the different method for timesheeting.
I also agree with Sarah that earning rates available for selection should be limited to those on the employee's pay template.