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yes we need this ASAP!!

We are a not for profit and I spend so long each month journaling the wages and super! Makes me want to go back to Reckon!

Agreed - spend sooo much time figuring out what hasn't been assigned a tracking category in wages, it's not just the leave & super but items added that aren't on timesheets like allowances.
Totally painful and such a waste of time!

We really need to track hours between jobs but then also to be broken up in cost codes (tasks in the job)

This is critical and vital!
Employees do work on different aspect of the business and it would be really, really helpful to be able to track the different aspects......like customer service hours, marketing, dispatch etc

This is a critical feature, central to having functional payroll reporting.

Typical Xero, give you an option which is then useless because you cannot assign a different category to each employee (one who works in category A area and another who works in category B).
Xero - you need to up your game if you want to seriously compete with MYOB in the minds of accounts professionals.

I thought I was going crazy thinking it was something we were not doing. You follow all the processes regarding tracking categories around payroll to find that you can't even report on them. The reports default to the assigned tracking category, which is great if staff don't work across multiple venues. I too need this for my NFP/Social Enterprise Hospitality Groups.

yes this would really help, as you have to journal the difference, and it may not be accurate.

I completely agree with Luke Reade's comments below. We have exactly the same issue as a NFP. For grant acquittals we are asking all of our staff to track their hours by grant using tracking categories but then can't run reporting on it! It doesn't make any sense at all.

Very important!!!, I have clients that they want the same option as MYOB, tracking categories for payroll for superannuation, annual leave, LSL, PAYG Withholding and other expenses regarding payroll that consider important to start using Xero instead of MYOB.

Also, it is important to business that working with grants.

I believe that Xero can do better job than MYOB.

I've just spent some time trying to find how to do this - to view, by month, tracking category breakdown of staff salaries paid, for the purposes of both 1) grant reporting and aquittal, and 2) budget management. What's the point of staff filling out time sheets, assigning hours to tracking categories, and then not seeing this breakdown, having to use a spead sheet to convert hours (in 'timesheet details' report) to dollars spent, including superanuation etc).

We should be able to do a monthly P&L, click on salaries and see a column with the tracking category breakdown. This could also be done in timesheet details report giving a column in $ not just hours.

We could do this for non-salary expenses by having charts of accounts that reflect budget line items, but salaries are different in that a staff member could spend various times on different tracking categories.

I agree with so many of the comments. I would like to be able to split an employee's wages across multiple tracking categories for funding acquittal purposes.

I think that adding tracking categories to the pay template would be great as you can set and forget until circumstances call for the template to be updated. It would mean you can add multiple earning lines to track across multiple categories too. On top of this you can add tracking to reimbursements, deductions and superannuation.

It would be a valuable upgrade to many.

Please allow and update XERO timesheets with project tracking to be approved and not override salary wage earners and then this would allow the tracking to work on each project P&L report without having to manually produce these in an EXCEL Spreadsheet, thank you!

I believe there is a simple solution to the problem of tracking categories in payroll.

You allow a default Employee Groups and Timesheet Category to be setup for each Employee. Currently only the Employee Group is able to be nominated in the Employment section when setting up an employee.

In this way all employee costs will be allocated correctly to the 2 tracking categories and eliminate the need for manual journals.

If the employee's costs are to be allocated to a different Employee and/ or Timesheet Category this can be done via timesheets.

Would be geat to be able to add an additional employee group in tracking categories. I currently have 2 tracking categories one being for enterprise and the second being for property. It would be handy to be able to allocate to both trackers as when we go to do a budgets in xero and we select the enterprise and then the property, the payroll does not allocate to the report as payroll only allocates to one level of the tracking and not both.

This also relates to all reports in Xero. I do not want to add manual journals to fix this error, as similar to the above, it is time consuming and then I have to reconcile to make sure I have allocated it all correctly.

This is essential for charity accounting

Agree completely.

Would be good to be able to put a tracking code on a pay item eg reimbursements

Currently have to do this in a journal to track phone reimbursement for various departments.

It is important to classify the Pay of employees from different functional area. As every functional area head will have a visibility on overall expenses with respect to their departments.