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AU Payroll - Ability to apply work patterns to part time employees

Suggest the ability to apply work patterns to part time employees. For example, we have a part time employee who works 7 hours on Mon, 6 hours on Tues and 6 hours on Wed.
At the moment, if a Public Holiday falls on a Monday, it does not correctly work out hours worked.
The same happens if Annual Leave is taken; incorrect hours are calculated which affects AL accruals.
Hours worked have to be calculated and added manually.

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  • Tara Broderick commented  ·   ·  Report

    @ Michelle Hill - I use an external platform for our timesheets. The Xero timesheets are terrible.

  • Michelle Hill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please urgently add for AU. Can't believe this simple function is not available. Staff has no trust in payroll, I will need to change to another accounting software.

  • Geoff Schmidt commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's the inability to calculate annual leave correctly that really annoys me. Every leave request has to be corrected before it can be approved.

  • lindsay mollison commented  ·   ·  Report

    hi guys

    you emailed me advice that this had been fixed - but it seems only for NZ. if you can do it there can you PLEASE fix it for us in Australia.

    I've written to you about it before, and filled in feed back forms about it. It is critical and obviously something that can be easily sorted if it has been implemented elsewhere . Apparently KELLY MUNRO fixed it.

    See attached post
    ....delivered · Kelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded
    · Aug 22, 2024
    Hi everyone, you can now create new working patterns for employees which allow you to add in the specific days and hours they are contracted to work!

    This improves the default hours used in calculations around public holidays, leave requests, the first pay, the last pay and when working patterns change during the pay period. Thanks again for all your feedback on this here.

  • Tropical Waste commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don't even get me started on Payroll even in classic invoicing. So rigid and inflexible, I've never used a payroll that's so time consuming and ridiculous. Does not cater for shift changes or staff who swap swings, it's a major drama involving SO MUCH prep work of changing each employees setup just to start the pay run. and if you forget just one you have delete the entire run and start again instead of just amending that one empolyees payslip. I could go on as my list of pet hates for Xero's Payroll is long, but I have to think of my Blood Pressure and run a Business. Sometimes I just ring the Accountant and tell to fix it because they forced us onto this program in the first place........

  • Jen Thomson commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be a real time saver; Xero's assumption of how hours should be spread out costs me productivity across so many staff!