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This would definitely be a worthwhile addition - it is frustrating to always have to manually change this for part time employees, and to add in a 9 day fortnight option would be really good too - this should definitely be part of Xero's payroll function and capability!

I am surprised, to say the least, to discover that Xero does not have this (seemingly) fundamental capability already in the product. We've just added our first part-time employee who will be working fixed days each week. I hope this does not become a manual reconciliation nightmare for our bookkeeper.

It is a fundamental requirement for these employees to keep timekeeping records (Timesheets) and under relevant Commonwealth workplace laws it's an employers requirement to "make and keep accurate and complete records for all of their employees".

So when these salaried employees submit a timesheet & it is 'approved' the hours transfer to the pay run for the period, BUT they are not being paid for the hours worked, they are being paid salary so are paid their set salary/52 weeks.

When will Xero FIX this issue and become ATO COMPLIANT?

Our business is growing and with the flexibility being offered in the workplace it is essential for employment work patterns to be able to be recognisd in the payroll function of Xero. It is inefficient to have to manually manipulate payroll data each payrun to reflect actuals days worked due to Xero's default being to spread hours across the work week. A payroll system is supposed to remove the possibility of human error and constant manual manipulation.

Great idea. This would be really useful. Most of our employees work different days and hours. It would be great if this could also translate to employee leave requests as I almost always have to manually change them from the 7.6 hour day default.

It shouldn't be a problem.

Yes! This would also help when taking leave during a partial week so that the correct number days (and hours) are applied to the leave.

Come on Xero. These are basic requirements. If the software makes life harder instead of more efficient, perhaps it is time to swap.

This is affecting us also as we have moved to a 4-day week. We also get our team to do a timesheet each week and the timesheet doesn't allow or show break times. This can be confusing for team members as they tend to put down the whole hours that they are on site rather than removing the unpaid breaks. Would love to see both of these ideas implemented in Xero.

THis is killing me! It's Xmas holidays, I'm trying to do payroll and having to manually adjust all sorts of stuff because Xero lacks a pay template for part-time or alternative hours staff (i.e. 9-day fortnight).

This is an issue for a full time with a 38 hour week as well as time is spread over the week equally.

This is critical, and is an issue that has been raised many times over a long period of time. I understand the NZ version of Xero allows for setting a roster for part time employees, so if this is already developed, it should be a very simple implementation for the AU version. The hours beign split evenly across 5 working days does not allow for the public holidays, annual leave or sick leave requests, which all have to be manually adjusted. With government procurement and Fair Work Australia pushing priority focus on flexible workforces, Xero needs to support its users in managing this through basic payroll functionality.

This is critical for us as we have a couple of part-time employees and the manual effort required to calculate leave entitlements is a huge overhead.

Xero Payroll is basically non-compliant.
It can't work out holiday pay correctly, has no idea about statutory holidays. Doesn't work out sick pay, basically forcing you to manually adjust everything.
But don't complain, they might remove the feature to prioritize 'improving' the product!

This is a very important add on! Payroll is Payroll, you can't just offer bits and pieces and hope that everyone is happy enough to do the manual "bits" themselves. Especially finding out as they go along that what you offer isn't necessarily what a customers expectations are. Why should we have to manually account for part time rosters and know that we are calculating hours and days correctly, it's a system that should do it for us. It leaves too much room for error. We have to report to the ATO all this information, and to try and fix errors is a nightmare. Come on Xero, help us run our businesses seamlessly and efficiently! A roster for part time employees is a MUST, you can't just leave stuff out, its payroll and this forms part of payroll calculations. We pay for a service, but really only getting bits and pieces that suit you, not ideal at all!

It's this lack of feature that has me NOT recommend Xero for anything other than basic full time majority payroll. Businesses with numerous part time work schedules makes managing this is a manual nightmare.

To have set days options for employees would be amazing and yes would allocate public holidays correctly, hopefully this is on the agenda to make happen

Every time there is a public holiday, I am adjusting and triple checking my part time employee hours, which are apportioned across the week, including the PH. Same goes for leave. This is incredibly inefficient and probe to errors. This should be a priority fix for Xero Payroll.

Yes! Keypay/Employment Hero offers this and it's very useful across a large and complex payroll to not have to remember who works what days.

I would LOVE this function!! We have multiple part time staff and manual adjustments to hours/public holidays and leave are something that utilise far too much of our time unnecessarily.