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AU Payroll - Tracking Categories for Annual & Sick Leave reporting

In order to monitor expenses by venue, tracking categories in Payroll - giving staff the ability to log their time worked by venue - makes total sense. However, when staff take A/L or S/L, there is no ability to use a tracking category, so all these transactions go to the default 'unassigned'. The time involved in searching what makes up this 'unassigned' amount in a payroll of 35+ employees across 9 venues is astonishingly time-consuming, yet vital to the overall expense reports. Would love to have some time and effort put into this issue please Xero.

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  • Jan Ren commented  ·   ·  Report

    A report for leave provision by tracking can avoid creating leave manual general

  • Harshad Pohankar commented  ·   ·  Report

    Account assignment in leave section not available in payroll settings whereas it is available in earnings section. As a result when payroll is processed which has leave of employees, the payroll journal is automatically defaulted to wages & salaries account instead of splitting the relevant amount to annual leave, personal leave etc. If the option to allocate expense account is available for the leave type in payroll setting, then this can be avoided.

  • Natalie Reynolds commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes this is critical to our business also, with 10 different locations, full time and part time staff trying to allocate unallocated wages is very time confusing.

  • Sharyn Wilson commented  ·   ·  Report

    We also have a client who would like the capability to track Leave within Xero Payroll, to various departments.

  • Chrissy Angland commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes agree - to be able to add tracking categories to the deductions side of pay items is an essential tool - other pay roll programs do this by default - its not an add on. COME ON XERO

  • Marcio Ferreira commented  ·   ·  Report

    Add the ability to allocate all payroll items (eg bonuses/commission and leave) to tracking categories within payroll.

    Currently we're able to add tracking categories to timesheets but not to other pay items which creates a huge headache of having to add manual journals

  • Marcio Ferreira commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree on the above. Very important feature.
    No reply by xero on this in over 12 months???

  • Ashleigh Williams commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can relate to this! We have 90+ employees and 25 different departments we need to track.... definitely needs attention!

  • Adam Pollock commented  ·   ·  Report

    How is this NOT already the default setting? Major omission by Xero in my opinion.