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  1. would be great to be able to filter current employees when looking at Leave Transaction Report. We have many hundred old employees and have to scroll through all of them to get the individual employee.. also no search function to be able to find the employee easily

    2 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Heya team, thanks for sharing back on how we could improve Xero for you.

    As part of our upgrading Payroll reports with the new version of the Leave Transactions report for both Australian and New Zealand versions of Xero, you can now Search by Employee. So, you'll be able to quickly jump to an employee of interest!😊

  2. It would be useful if a Xero Me App - Approver had the ability to view a break down of the hours an employee works across the week (not just the total hours worked) before approving the timesheet. I see there is a lot of support for adding start & finish times and break times in the Xero Me App and this would be an extension of that.

    29 votes

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    12 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hello community 😊

    Thanks for sharing this idea. I’ve just updated the title to be AU specific as this feature has been delivered in the AU region! For our NZ voters I’ve split this to a new idea and transferred your votes.

    We added a timesheet setting in Xero Me (AU) that lets employees record start and end times for work and unpaid breaks. With this, Team Manager / Approver roles have the ability to review and approve start, end and break time entered, as well as any notes added by an employee on timesheets within the Xero Me app 🎉 

  3. Ability for employee to add notes in timesheet. Detailing works performed.

    44 votes

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    7 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hey community, thanks heaps for this suggestion.


    As you may have seen in our Xero Blog post, we’ve rolled out support for start and end times in timesheets, and with this update comes the ability for staff to add in notes 🎉


    As such, I'll be marking this one as delivered !

  4. Remove rejected leave items from view. As currently they are front an center even if related to a historic time for all employee when in desktop version of Xero Me.

    14 votes

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    8 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hey all, 👋  thanks for your support on this idea and sorry for the late update. I’m popping in to switch it across to delivered for our AU users!
    Just before the end of the year, we rolled out the option for employees to archive their rejected leave requests in Xero Me web.
    Thanks again for your feedback 😊

    For voters from other regions, if this is still something you’d like to see feel free to make a copy of this idea and pop the region in brackets.

  5. Payslip Notes - ability to write a note on an individual employee payslip not just one generic note for everyone.

    8 votes

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  6. When you pay statutory maternity pay or statutory paternity pay then 92% or 103% is recoverable from the government. This is correctly included within the P32, but not included within the automatically generated payroll journal. As a consequence, the HMRC liability on the balance sheet is overstated, as is the true salary cost. I've added a manual journal but including this within the automatic journal seems like a helpful addition.

    4 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hey Katherine 👋 thanks for sharing this idea, I'm popping in to switch it across to delivered!

    Our Product team have done the work to automatically post the journal for statutory recoveries to the balance sheet 🎉

  7. Audit Report
    As there are several users with full access to payroll, it would be helpful if this could be shown in the history (there is only minimal information here at present) or by report to see who has made changes to employee details within payroll and when. It would also be useful if there could be changes to the options when setting up a user as some users only require access to approve leave and print reports and not full access.

    3 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Thanks for your interest in this idea everyone!

    Off the back of our payroll history update back in August last year, we’ve released a dedicated Payroll History report to all Australian payroll users.

    You’ll now see an extra option in the Payroll menu for ‘Payroll History’. This report combines the history tab available across employee details, payslips, payroll settings and pay runs into one report.

    For anyone interested in permission and more user role controls in Payroll - you might like to support and stay tuned for updates in the idea we have for this here. 🙂

  8. In Xero we have the ability not to show the personal leave balance on payslips. But this is made redundant where the employee can apply for leave on the Xero Me app and see their personal leave balance there instead.

    For consistency, there should be an option to not show the available personal leave balances when employees are applying for leave - either on the Xero Me app or if on the web browser.

    8 votes

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  9. Currently under employees leave tab you can assign default leave types, but you can't define what the default leave types are.
    Perhaps there is a simple checkbox for leave items in the payroll settings that allows you to choose.
    Currently I have 4 leave types set as default, when I only really need two.

    6 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, I'm changing this idea to Delivered! 🥳

    Leave types can be defined as default when a value in the 'Normal Entitlement' field in Payroll settings is entered.

    To remove this leave type from being added each time a new employee is entered, you can:

    1. Click into Payroll, then select Payroll settings
    2. Click Pay Items tab, then Leave
    3. Click on a Leave Type that you'd like to remove as a Default Leave Type
    4. Remove the number of units the employee is entitled to each year under 'Normal Entitlement'
    5. Click Save
  10. Opening balances

    Please can the opening balances have the ability to add, Income Tax, National Insurance and all Student loans deduction YTD.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hey Kirsteen, thanks for submitting this idea 😊 The fields you've suggested are already available in Xero Payroll, as an employee opening balance. 

    If you head to your Payroll > Employees screen and click through to the employee's profile you'll find these fields in Opening Balances. 

    I've included a screenshot of the available opening balances, which includes income tax, student loan payments and NIC, as requested.

  11. Currently there is no option for unpaid sick leave for an employee. It is important to record unpaid leave taken accurately and also display this on the payslip.
    When adjusting the hours paid or work to ensure an employee does not go into a negative sick leave balance, it does not show as unpaid leave on the payslip or reporting.
    A negative sick leave balance should not be automatic, it should be a prompt and choice as to whether the business wants to risk paying sick leave in advance of entitlement.
    Leave without pay and Unpaid sick leave should always…

    1 vote

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  12. If xero payroll could suggest the next available employee number that would be so helpful, instead of having to scroll through the employee list and work out which number was last used.

    18 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, returning a few months on from our last update we're going to move this idea to ‘delivered’. The team have recently automated the generation of the employee number 🎉  Initially this is just for numeric employee numbers but they're also looking into how this can be done for non-numeric ones too.

    Thanks for all your support on this idea!

  13. When booking more than one days holiday Xero does not allow you to edit the hours taken. Xero assumes everyone works a 5 day week. So if a part time employee who works 5 hours a day 3 days a week totalling 15 hours books two days holiday Xero assumes they will be taking just 6 hours when it should be 10. There is not an option to amend the hours taken like there is if you just book 1 day.

    12 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hi community, with the recent change in UK Payroll to introduce working pattern templates so now you can now create default work schedules for employees, ensuring their pay and leave are calculated correctly. You can have up to 100 templates with up to 13 weeks of entries. 

    Working patterns provide visibility around earnings rate calculations and will eliminate the need to amend miscalculations manually.

    We appreciate your interest in this here. Thanks 

  14. I've noticed the Payment Summary Details Report no longer captures all the data ie RFBA that is input during the STP finalisation process. Would be great if we could have a tidier and shorter one (selecting what you want) rather then the CSV file.

    7 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hi Community - thanks for all your feedback on this idea!

    This morning we enabled PDF exports for the STP finalisation screen, and these exports will include all fields, including RFBA.

    There was also some requests for the ability to edit what's included in this pdf export. Conscious that this update doesn't quite deliver that, so I've spun that off in to a seperate idea 👉 'AU Payroll - Edit PDF export of STP Finalisation'

    You can follow the link to add your vote 😊

  15. Allowing split shift function when entering times in Xero Me

    1 vote

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  16. I love the fact that our girls can do their timesheets with start and finish times and leave a comment. However, I need to see this when approving the timesheets for payroll.

    If their could be a way for the approved payroll person who approves the timesheets to see the start, finish, comments and total hours would be perfect. Otherwise I will have to keep using the old system of excel spreadsheet.

    7 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, as you might have seen, earlier this year we added in start and end times as well as notes in time entries to Xero Timesheets.

    I’m pleased to let you know that we’ve added a bit of extra functionality to these two updates, for the manager view. If you’re authorised to approve timesheets you now have the ability to view start and finish times, any comments added, as well as total hours in both the web and Mobile app 🎉

    Thanks again for all your feedback!

  17. The ability to remit PAYG withholding to ATO using similar mechanism as Superannuation, utilising unique, yet consistent PRN

    1 vote

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  18. UK Payroll: Leave / Sick Days
    Xero payroll nearly always miscalculates sick pay and absence deductions if staff are paid an annual salary for two reasons;
    1) It works on average number of days in a month when month vary in working days every month and recalculates an inaccurate hourly rate from which it deducts absence (sometimes this is in favour of the employee but more commonly isn't) meaning that it often deducts too much from them and has to be manually recalculated.
    2) It does not have the capability to deal with part-timers so if you have someone who…

    11 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hi everyone, I wanted to confirm with the release of working patterns this is now possible 😊

    Working pattern templates create default work schedules for employees to ensure they are paid and accrue leave correctly, as part of their salary and wages settings.

    You can now; 

    • Create or select from working pattern templates
    • Add working patterns manually or using the template
    • Setup multiple weeks of a working pattern

    Thank you for your support and contribution through the idea here. 

  19. Xero Me tracking feature in app.
    Please make it optional to complete the tracking function to submit a timesheet. Not all business have employees that use tracking categories. This means many employees are unable to submit a timesheet . Making timesheet tracking optional allows all to use the app

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hey Tim,  Totally understand that not all business will use tracking categories for their employees.   You can turn off timesheet tracking for an organisation by setting timesheet categories to 'None' in your Payroll Settings. Employees will then no longer be asked to select a category when submitting timesheets.

  20. I have had to re-run a payroll before when an employee's pay has been incorrectly calculated. When you re-run the payroll, XeroMe did not update with the new payslip information. Surely this should happen automatically.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →

    Hey Elre, thanks for sharing this idea!


    Xero Me should actually already behave as you've described - any changes to a posted pay run will generate a new payslip for each employee. 


    I'd recommend raising this one with our support team, as they'll be able to assist with troubleshooting. We'll close this idea off as delivered in the meantime.

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