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AU Payroll - changes to Unit reporting on Payroll Activity Details
Very recent change to the Payroll Activity Details report, now Units capped at two decimal places, changed within the last fortnight.
This needs to revert to four decimal places, as that is what is allowed when entering your payroll. Why has this been changed as now, the Payroll Activity report is the only available report to use to check a payroll, is no longer of any use as it does not reflect the correct data entry.6 votesHi everyone, we appreciate your feedback here. Apologies we haven't updated sooner, as I can confirm that we made a change in July to the Payroll Activity Details report so it will now show 4 decimal places.
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Payroll Activity Details (AU) - Date column to be added back
There has always been a date column - add it back - why mess with something that has been used for so many years. Absolutely so desruptive to our professional services.
1 voteHiya Simona, sorry for not updating you on this sooner.
Shortly after the release of the new report our team made a change based on feedback, so the report now shows Employee name and Date as separate columns, and the columns will be included when running the report by default.
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NZ Payroll - Option to change employee anniversary date when on unpaid leave for more than 1 week
Where an employee takes unpaid leave for more than one week, it would be helpful if you could enter in the date in which the unpaid leave applies from so that the anniversary date can automatically be reset. The current set up is rather antiquated, and needs to be automated to ensure accuracy and ease of use.
2 votesHi everyone, thanks for your feedback on the option to change and employee's leave accrual anniversary date.
We’ve rolled out changes to all NZ Payroll organisations that allow key leave types to be recorded in days and weeks.
Once an organisation has converted leave to weeks, you can go to the employee’s record, open the Leave tab, and select Edit next to Annual leave. From there, you can adjust the annual leave anniversary date as needed.
We really appreciate everyone who supported this idea and hope this gives you more control and accuracy when managing leave anniversaries in Xero.
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NZ Payroll - Alternate Holiday accrual
Change the Alternate Holiday accrual to days not hours. Legally when someone works on a statutory holiday they get to accrue 1 days alternate holiday, which is the hours that they would normally work when they take the day off, not the hours they worked on the stat day. It's misleading putting in hours instead of days, especially if every day if not an 8 hour day. Reports need to be run every time an Alternate Holiday is taken to ensure they still have that day available.
2 votesHi all, thanks for your patience. We've recently rolled out a change for all NZ payroll organisations, which will allow payroll admins to convert employees' leave balances from Hours to Days.
Going forward leave will accrue and be visible as days.
Thanks for supporting this idea and being the voice of change.
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NZ Payroll - Record sick leave as days
We need sick leave to be recorded in days to line up with current NZ payroll legislation. 10 days sick leave. The current settings in hours only work for people who work the same hours on the same days. Anyone with variable hours or different hours on different days this does not work and manual accrual needs to be kept outside of payroll. Then leave balances need to be manually adjusted which is a lot of work. This has been an issue for many many years and would be good to get fixed.
13 votesHi all, thanks for your patience with this. We've now rolled out this feature to 100% of NZ Payroll organisations.
If you haven't yet, you'll be able to convert your employees leave to be calculated and displayed in Days. Take a look at our Support article on how to manage this change.
Thanks for your continued support and letting us know what matters most.
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AU Payroll Employee Summary Report - Heading Layout
Please fix the layout of the headings in the new reports - Reimbursements shows over two lines when you print the report to pdf, which looks absolutely ridiculous!
3 votesAppreciate the feedback, Emily. Can see what you mean with the report heading and I shared this back with the team. Today we've just released a change to the Payroll Employee Summary report so 'Reimbursement' has now been shortened to 'Reimb' 😊 so this will all fit in the one line now.
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UK Payroll - Generate a report with employees names and NINO
UK HMRC often carry out routine checks on compliance with PAYE and National Minimum Wage. In one NMW check we have been asked to provide them with a list of the names and NINOs of all staff employed by us between two specified dates. To make it easy they dont use tax years but calendar dates
We need a standard payroll report that allows us to export a list with the employees name and NINO. The only way to create this at the moment is by a manual trawl
3 votesThanks for your interest and feedback on this idea, everyone
Currently you can generate a Pension Contribution Report which includes the employees name and NINO 🙂 When creating the report - under Columns select the fields you'd like to include in the report as well as the date range. Once created, you can export it in PDF, Excel or Google Sheets.
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AU Payroll - Create a report that shows when a salary change was actioned
Hi Guys, I'm not sure if this has been raised previously, but would like a payroll report that will detail employee salary changes and the date they changed.
4 votesHey team, if you'd like to see a report that shows changes made to payroll such as salary changes, you can use the Payroll History report.
It can be run for a specified date range and will show the date the changes were made, what the changes were, the employee affected and the user who made the changes.
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AU Payroll - Public Holiday for Friday before the AFL Grand Final
Payroll - Victorian Public Holidays -
Please add:
Friday before the AFL Grand Final Friday 27 SeptemberI tried but was not able to manually add this as an extra Public Holiday
4 votesThanks for sharing in the idea here, Faye! While we don't have plans to change the current set up - as suggested when you choose to "Add Holiday" rather than selecting one of the drop down options, you can just type in the Holiday that you want to add.
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AU Payroll - Reports - Remove merge cells when exporting to excel
Don't merge cells in the Excel export of AU payroll reports
2 votesHi team, returning to the idea here I am pleased to share that with the updated payroll reports cells are no longer merged when you export the report to Excel.
We appreciate your engagement with us on this here. Thanks for sharing through product ideas! 😊
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AU Payroll - Ability to apply tracking categories to superannuation
We have grant funding so wages as well as super needs to be applied with the tracking code to acquit grant correctly. Presently, there is no availability to apply tracking codes against the superannuation, as well it is only available through timesheets for the wages.
It would be very helpful if tracking codes could be applied directly with pay items in employee template (similarly like other software) so this can be applied when leave is taken also35 votesHi everyone, apologies for the delay in providing an update here. We appreciate the feedback on having Super and Leave to be automatically allocated to payroll tracking.
In May 2025 we released an update to all AU payroll organisations which extends Employee Group tracking to Leave and Superannuation transactions.
This means that going forward Leave and Superannuation costs will be differentiated by tracking categories.
We hope this change helps you manage your overall expenses. Thanks for supporting this idea and paving the way for the future.
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UK Payroll - Ability for Payroll Admin to delete approved holidays
Ability for Payroll Admin to delete holidays. When an employee books the wrong day or is off sick during a period of pre-booked holiday and wants his/her holidays cancelled, the payroll admin should be able to delete the holiday but cannot.
2 votesHi team, rounding back on the idea here I want to confirm that currently Payroll admins can reject approved leave requests which will delete it.
If the leave request has been included in a draft or posted payrun, the payroll admin will need to revert to draft and delete the payrun before the leave request can be rejected.
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NZ Payroll - Sick leave schedule of accrual
Schedule of Accrual - Sick Leave : would love the option: Annually after 3 Months
7 votesHi everyone, thanks for your feedback on improving the schedule of accrual for sick leave.
We've now rolled out a change to all NZ Payroll organisations. We’ve added a custom leave accrual option to the leave schedule of accrual. Once an organisation has converted their sick leave entitlements to Days, you can adjust the sick leave entitlement schedule as needed.
By default, you can choose to accrue from start date or annually after 6 months, but there is now a custom option that allows you to set other schedules, for example, after 3 months.
Thanks again for helping us improve Xero Payroll.
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NZ Payroll - Import past earnings
When setting up new employees from another system, it would be great, if we could import the past earnings information.
10 votesHi team, happy to return and share that this feature has now been released!
Now when employees have an earnings history in another payroll software system, you can choose to bulk enter previous earnings by importing a file, with the ability to download a template to enter data.
Thanks again for letting us know the value in this for you here. 😊
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AU Payroll - Access to Employee YTD Summary
It would be great if you could download the Employee-year-to-date preview report after payroll finalisation in Australia.
Currently, this report can only be downloaded as part of the finalisation process not after. After finalising payroll you can only download a CSV file. We missed a transaction when reconciling that was in column BY - we spent hours trying to reconcile a payroll finalisation that could have been easily checked with the Employee year-to-date preview report which is all on one page.1 voteYou can now download the STP Year-to-Date Summary report for a specific employee after STP finalisation, Lisa. 😊
- From the Payroll menu select 'Single Touch Payroll'
- Click the 'Tax year' drop box in the top right > Select the required tax year
- Go into the Finalisation tab > Click 'View report'
- Select the required employee/s > Click the 'Export' button to download the report
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NZ Payroll - standalone module
I have a client who would like to give access to payroll only for a user and not have access to the bank accounts. Is this on the future roadmap?
2 votesSorry for not rounding back on your idea here sooner, Leslie. This is already possible via the Payroll Admin role. Just one thing to check - when you mention they don't want them to have access to the bank accounts - would this be the organisation's bank accounts, or the employee bank account details? Here's a bit more information about the 2 payroll roles access and another with detail on how to set this up for a user.
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AU Payroll - Edit export of STP Finalisation
Would be great if we could have a tidier and shorter one (selecting what you want) rather then the CSV file
8 votesHiya all, thanks for your interest in this idea. An update our team have made in Xero Payroll makes reconciling payroll much simpler. You can now see key payroll totals in the Finalisation screen, and you'll also find you have access to an organisation finalisation report that includes totals, which can be exported to PDF format. 😊
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AU Payroll - Edit posted pay runs
You should be able to edit any payrun that hasn't been 'filed' regardless if it was the last one or not. I enter several unscheduled payruns and I've noticed an error in one but I can't fix it because it wasn't the last payrun posted. The "work-around" Xero recommends is to File it and then re-post a counter fix. This feels redundant and unnessary extra work. Essentially its saying I can post an inverse of the original to cancel it out which isn't a tidy way of doing work.
1 voteHi Jamie, just coming back across your idea here. In Xero Payroll as of right now if you've a posted pay run that you need to make adjustments to, you can revert this to draft and make the required changes.
The only time we wouldn't recommend doing this is if the pay run's been filed with the ATO.
Once it's been filed we'd recommend using unscheduled pay runs to make any changes. This is because reverting a filed pay run to draft will cause issues in the reporting to the ATO.
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Subscription - Automatic super in all AU Payroll plans
My suggestions is that automated super should be available if a Xero package offers payroll, like the starter package and the Standard package - its near impossible for clients to make direct super payments for employees (even for business owners themselves) without using this feature.
With the increases in subscriptions occurring in September I think an upgrade with automated super should be tabled for the lower subscription packages.
25 votesHey everyone, happy to be able to share with you all that payroll is now included in all business plans which also includes auto super as a standard feature. If you haven't already set this up you can find more information on this on Xero Central. We thoroughly appreciate all your feedback and sharing with us on your needs through product ideas here.
If you have any questions about your subscription plans our specialists will be happy to help, and you can raise a case with them through Xero Central. 🙂
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NZ Payroll - Option to show Holiday Pay accrual as hour value
Payroll>Employees>Leave currently has leave balances in days and dollar values, this makes it difficult to determine what the amount should be either way.
As the dollar amount may change due to pay rises or an average applied as per statutory legislation, it would be better if all fields were hours based values. This would make it consistent and easier as a consumer to use.
As a user, I should not have to be trying to calculate what the values should be and if something doesn't appear to be right, I should not need to contact Xero to find out how…48 votesHi team, we've recently released changes in Xero Payroll. As you may have seen you can now set up working patterns for employees to more accurately calculate employees wages and leave. While Holiday pay remains in dollars, Annual Leave will show in weeks and FBAPS Leave will now be shown in days.
Just to note, Holiday Pay is not a one to one correlation to Annual Leave, however if you prefer to have leave in hours you could consider enabling leave in advance. You can see our article here for more information on managing employees leave.
We appreciate your interest and sharing with us through Xero Product Ideas.
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