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Really, How difficult is this for Xero to do ? . I find this automatic posting so annoying. Like others we have to go back in reverse what Xero put in and then re submit a correct Journal. The other thing would be for us to be able to link each Pay item 2 tracking categories.

Absolutely critical!! I reverse the automatic posting and then post my own journal as Xero is not flexible at all in being able to apply nominal codes to different parts of the payroll.

yes defo a good idea - I have to do a manual journal each month to move Ers to a different account

Fully agree with all comments so far, There needs to be more flexibility as to which codes can be used. Perhaps have the ability at an employee level to set the analysis codes rather than at an organisation level. Or it could be done on a Working Pattern level, where you group employee's on the same pay period and same department into the same cost code

100% agree. I work with Charities and every single one of them needs to split out salaries between the 2 tracking categories for Activity and Funding, and individual salary splits between different activities as well.

The ability to turn off posting the journal would really help so that only the manual journal needs to be posted. Of course, allowing it in the payroll functions would work, but just the ability to switch the journals off would be great for now.

After many conversations there is no way of reversing previous months journals!

I agree 100% with Grace Lee, XERO Payroll has doubled my work load because of its inability to allocate costs where i want them. I truly regret introducing XERO Payroll too. I have switched to Moneysoft's Payroll Manager which is brilliantly simple to use and when you are stuck you can ring up and speak to a real Person.

It's quite time confusing to fix auto journal each time. We have cost centres so salaries have to be allocated to cost centres therefore I have to manually split these. Same for NI employer and same for Pension employer

Deductions also contain cycle to work which has to be offset against cycle to work assets which means have to do by manual journal

It's good for some smaller businesses but not good to have AUTO POST JOURNAL feature in Xero. It should be OPTIONAL.

Why is the Payroll Journal not able to be customised before it is posted? We have employees in different departments so things like ER Pension & NI needs to be coded to different nominal codes. Expenses can also require different nominal codes or have VAT split out

I agree 100%. Xero auto payroll journals bring me more works not less.
In our company's cases, some departments are allocated under COS and other departments are allocated under overheads in P&L.

However, with current Xero payroll, we can't distinguish the expenses and liabilities by departments as per our finance reporting model.

Honestly, I regret introducing Xero payroll to our finance team currently. It's much more uncomfortable to use and the auto payroll journal is useless..

Did you find a way to reverse the auto journal by the way?

Allow facility to turn off payroll journals so they aren't automatically posted into the accounts.

Problem: Business which operates in departments and wants COS payroll journals and overhead journals. Unable to split out the NICS/PAYE through payroll, meaning the auto postings have to be reversed every month and new ones created to allow the split of costs into the P&L.

Ideal solution: Allow Xero payroll to split NICS/TAX/Pension costs into ledgers by departments which will negate the need to reverse the auto journals and create manual ones.