UK Payroll - Timesheets for employees on Annual Salary
Overtime needs to be recorded on Timesheets and be included in pay runs for employees on a fixed annual salary.
We've been using Xero for 5+ years. It's brilliant in so many ways, and this basic functionality is missing, or rather, I expect is poorly coded.
We have a number of employees on a fixed, 5 day per week, annual salary, which is divided by 12 to generate their pay every month. However, it's not uncommon for them to work overtime: additional hours here and there and sometimes whole extra days.
Currently, the flaw (I really think this is a straightforward bug) in the system is that if we record an employee's overtime hours on a Timesheet, it deletes their basic salary. As Xero can't currently handle such a basic feature, it means keeping a note separately for each employee, outside the Xero system.
We use PlanDay to record employees hours for part-time employees and full-timer who work overtime. We chose PlanDay and use it, because Xero bought PlanDay and we assumed they would ensure that both apps were coded to work seamlessly together, but they really don't currently.
So we can neither use Xero, nor PlanDay to record such basic functionality and have to resort to separate spreadsheets and then adding the overtime manually.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have this issue?
Thanks,
Matthew
After Noah
shared this idea
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Kalama Claydon-Ireland
commented
This is a huge issue for us too, we implemented a new scheduling system which syncs to Xero only to find it can't handle this for salaried employees. Incredibly frustrating.
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Adam Tarrant
commented
Hi Matthew, stumbled across your suggestion.....in exactly the same boat! We ended up removing the integration and manually adding overtime....frustrating!
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Freya Pieroz
commented
It's important for Australian payroll too, as there's rules to follow depending on if it is or is not 'reasonable overtime', and depending on if the employee is paid sufficiently above Award rates. You can't determine if someone is working unsafely long hours if you don't record the hours they work!