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Xero should be able to edit or delete earning items in payroll settings in bulk rather than one by one. Every year award rate changes and it such a pain to edit each pay item one by one.

1.Bulk Update Pay Items – We should be able to bulk delete/mark as inactive pay items in Xero. Sometimes clients can have hundreds of pay items that have been added that aren’t necessary & having to delete these individually is too time consuming.

2.Bulk Upload Pay Items straight from Fair Work – There should be a template to upload pay items & select if its W1 or Super etc. It would be good to download the award straight from fair work & enter this data such as hourly rate, item name etc & upload this straight to Xero.

3.Bulk Update Employee Pay Templates – Each year most awards have an update, meaning each pay item needs to be updated in each employee template. For some industries majorities of staff are on the same Level meaning the same rate. So, we can just update the pay item in payroll settings therefore flowing onto all pay templates. However, within the SCHADS award for example staff are not all on the same pay level. If we could select multiple staff at once to update the pay templates this would be a lot more efficient.

4.Super on Pay Templates – The super on pay templates should automatically feed through from the employment tab with either the Super details or Pending details as the statutory rate. Having to manually add this is just one extra step & if forgotten on pay day you must add this to the payslip & then add to pay template as well.

5.Exclude empty payslips (On each page not just one page at a time) – When processing payroll for companies with say over 100 staff, majority of the time only 70-80% of the staff worked that week, some are on holidays or sick and we have multiple staff with empty payslips. So, when excluding empty payslips, you have to click on each individual page to do this when there should be an option to exclude every single one on each page.

6.Plan Day – This should integrate with more awards rather than just the retail. It should also integrate with invoices allowing us to invoice based on the employee shifts. For example, if we integrated the SCHADS award, creating a shift for an employee should have the option of being billable against a selected contact. Then once invoice time comes around, we can create an invoice based on the outstanding billable timesheets in the contact.

7.Wages/Reconciliation – Xero should automatically match wages/aba files to the pay run we have posted. I feel this is a no brainer?