AU Payroll - Two employees on Grow plan, or the ability to tack on employees
The new Grow subscription only allowing for one employee is really tough for accountants operating in the micro-business space, as many of the small businesses that I have been working to get onto Xero are either married couples or two business partners who need exactly two payroll employees, with no intention to grow beyond that number.
Having to jump from Grow to Comprehensive just to add a payroll user is prohibitive for a lot of my clients, and knowing that this is the case is stopping me from recommending Xero as a product where it would have been a no-brainer six months ago.
It's still amazing software so I hate having to consider other alternatives when clients ask me for product recommendations. Is there any chance the Grow subscription could be expanded to include two employees or, alternatively, for there to be an option to add payroll for more employees at a monthly fee as per some of the older plans?
I understand that the segment of business I'm operating in might not be the one that Xero is going after but it would be tremendously helpful and I think a lot of clients would perceive it as an act of good faith.
Ellen Davis
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Fiona Hayward
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Agree totally - I would also like to see the option to have Payroll as an "add-on" for the bottom level (Ignite) plan as for a really "micro" microbusiness like ours, which employs one casual worker during busy times, having to pay double the subscription price to upgrade to Grow (in order to be able to have just one employee) is a pain!
We don't want any of the other Grow features, just Payroll, so having it as an add-on for a (small) extra fee per month would be great!
Cheers
Fi