AU Payroll - New Employee - Online Commencement Forms
Ability to send and generate online commencement forms from Xero Payroll.
Purpose: Employees can complete and submit their own online commencement forms, rather than having to ask the employers to submit it.
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Appreciate your input here, everyone. This is a feature that our team have looked into and would like to develop for AU Payroll, however there are a few other key pieces of work lined up before they get a chance to explore this further.
Rest assured that our eyes are on the ground monitoring your feedback and votes here, so please keep adding them in this thread. If there’s any movement, we’ll make sure to come back and let you all know.
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Siew Luke commented
Yes, it is disappointing that Xero does not has this function as MYOB already implement this many years ago.
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Vicki Granger commented
Yes this is a great feature. I have just switched from MYOB and they had it and it made onboarding staff very easy - they also included forms so that we met legislative requirements eg the Fair Work Act.
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Cheski Weinberger commented
Can we get new employees to fill out their own details for onboarding like MYOB has you have to put in there name and email address and they get a link to fill in all their details
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Helen Ashenden commented
It works so well in MYOB and would be great to have it in Xero as well. It saves me so much time inputting new employees.
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Pauline Hurrey commented
Please prioritise this as I have some clients on MYOB who will not move across to XERO until this feature is available. I am a XERO fan besides this missing feature
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Stacey Quinn commented
This seems like a no brainer and something most other comparable software has. Is there any update on this?
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Julie BARLOW commented
Switched from MYOB to Xero and happy with almost everything EXCEPT this. Not being able to onboard is a big issue. Time wasted doubling handling and having to email pdfs and forms to employees. Assumed Xero would have this functionality as MYOB had it. Very frustrated and disappointed. Please prioritise this functionality.
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Catherine Burford commented
Please hurry. Recently moved from MYOB to Xero and was very disappointed that this is not an included feature.
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Daniel Masters commented
This is a pretty basic feature honestly – the free Payroller app even has this!
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Mark Edbrooke commented
The longer you take the more customers you will loose!
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Rebecca Seiler commented
Please move ahead with this improvement for Xero AU Payroll. It will be a wonderful addition for business to have this feature integrated and automated with Xero. What is the timeline looking like?
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Lauren Horne commented
We currently use the Canyou. app to automate these forms & they directly import into Xero. It is a good placeholder until Xero sort themselves out.
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Rebecca Laguna commented
we switched from MYOB who offer self-onboarding. This is a critical feature for us as we have a large, ever-changing casual workforce. Self-onboarding is not only time saving, but creates fewer opportunities for error. We will only limp along with this system for a short time...
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kat szuminska commented
That employer adds basic details including email address, then a 'new employee' form is generated from Xero directly to the new employee emailed to them, so they can add their details directly - into Xero. This process could save double handling, prevent errors and provide lovely transparency when a new person joins. All the details could then be exported for other systems for businesses big enough to have them. This could also be a form that's embedded in other paperwork. :) Thank you!
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Timothy Percy commented
This is a critical feature for us and having just moved from MYOB which had this feature was a function we assumed would exist. Going back to sending separate emails with PDF's backwards and forwards and having to re-key information feels like a massive step backwards.
Please prioritise this feature
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Amiel Britanico commented
And perhaps a way to integrate this to Microsoft 365 suite. thanks!
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Melanie Franklin commented
This would be such an awesome feature!!
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Katy Sykes commented
We moved 4 businesses to Xero from MYOB and not having this feature is creating so much more admin. Please can this be added as a feature asap?
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Daniel Ryan commented
Are Xero taking any action on this? This is creating ridiculous unnecessary administrative work for employers.
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Matthew Fraser commented
When will this feature be released? It's a must have, crazy to have staff filling out forms and then re-entering them into Xero given the integration that is there from Xero to ATO already.