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  1. Multiple users of Xero account (in accountants office) have payroll admin status for clients. When a payroll payment has been created we are all receiving emails. Should be an option to turn this off.

    10 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about turning off wage payment notification.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  2. The maximum of 250 historic payslips needs to be removed, or an option to turn it on or off in settings.

    In legal forensic review work this is imperative.

    While you can create a transaction report beyond 250 payslips, this does not provide the ability to identify the actual incorrect inputs by someone historically beyond the 250 limit.

    There must be a simple setting in the background you can change or update, as when you add a new payslip, the earliest, previous payslip just drops off.

    DO it NOW please.

    31 votes

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    Thanks so much for sending in your idea and showing us what matters most! We've taken a look, and now the next step is to gather community support. The more votes the better! Please encourage any colleagues who would benefit from this change to get involved and vote. Other members can also leave comments, adding more context on how your idea would improve their experience in Xero.

  3. The leave balance display on payslips is the main area where historical point-in-time data is being updated dynamically. The payslip PDF pulls the leave balance from the employee's current leave record rather than storing what it was at the time of posting. I would like this to be updated to ensure that the payslips we have access to on an employee's account remain static and historically and legally accurate to what the employee initially received when disbursed. This avoids misinterpretation of leave accruals between payroll officers and employees who may be working off two different versions of the same payslip.

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how the system updates leave balances on re-downloaded payslips after historical payroll corrections are made.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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  4. Employment Information > Contract Details. I inadvertently ticked the wrong box for one of our Directors and it won't let me amend. You can amend pretty much most things in Xero but not this, and while it doesn't have any impact on the Director's status or pay, it is annoying that I can't amend or delete. It would be good to have this function in place. Or, just don't have it in place for Directors.

    24 votes

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    5 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for sharing your thoughts around the ability to amend the contract information. The Contract information is a new addition to the client information section and its great to get feedback on how this is working for our customers. We have moved this to Gaining Support, so make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  5. It is a nonsense that Xero has removed the Classic Expense Claims widget from the homepage. I have been using it for 11 years and it is unacceptable that this has just been taken away - now we have to pay more for the new Expenses module if we want it to feature on our homepages. This is the type of product deterioration under the guise of “improvement” which brings tech companies into disrepute. Just put it back please :(

    9 votes

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    We appreciate there are some customers that are still using Classic expenses. There are no plans to develop a widget in the new Homepage for Classic expenses.

    However, you can access Classic Expenses by clicking Purchases > Expenses, where organisations that are using Classic expenses will see a banner and can select to go to Classic Expenses.

  6. Mandatory Emergency contact
    Have Emergency contact as mandatory in the self onboard for employees.
    We still need emergency contacts on file but I have found that if it is not mandatory the new employee doesn't fill it in.

    6 votes

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    Thank you for taking the time to share this idea!

    At this stage, we don't have plans to make Emergency Contacts a required field during Self-Onboarding. However, we're continuously looking to learn more about how our customers use Self-Onboarding.

    If this is a feature you'd like to see, please cast your vote and share this page with colleagues who might find it helpful! Additional comments detailing how Self-Onboarding can improve your daily admin are always appreciated.

  7. Separate annual leave paid out on termination from annual leave taken in the payroll activity summary report which would help for checking the correct super was paid and also for payroll tax purposes depending on the state.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea with us. To be completely upfront, this isn't currently on our roadmap. However, you can already view this information within the employee's STP summary by checking the STP finalisation screen.

    Even though it's not planned right now, we're leaving your post open to see what kind of feedback and support it gathers from the community. If you know colleagues who would benefit from this, feel free to share the link so they can add their votes. Other members can also drop comments to share how this change would improve their day-to-day experience with Xero.

  8. Can you implement a notification sent to payroll admin in advance of a team member turning 18, so we can prompt them to set up or choose a superfund to ensure compliance with payday super

    7 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea to notify an employee asking for their superfund details when they turn 18. We can certainly see how this would streamline the process for you.

    Whilst the system won't currently remind your employee, we can suggest a workaround as a reminder ask the employee for this info when they turn 18.

    Here's how:

    For under 18s, leave the superannuation line out of their pay template. When they hit 18, you'll receive an error when attempting to post a pay run stating that there's a missing super line with SGC contribution type from their payslip. This can serve as a reminder to set up or add a SGC line in their pay template.

    Our product team will keep an eye on this idea's progress and we'll update along the way.

  9. The ability to zoom in on an uploaded PDF/doc seems to have been removed. Can this be reinstated? I used to be able to cut and paste details from the doc too.

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    Thanks for highlighting this improvement, Spencer. We understand the request to be able to zoom in and select text within the side-by-side PDF viewer. Having these controls available in the document preview could make it easier to review receipts without needing to open the file separately.

    In the meantime, you can open the attachment in a separate window or download it to use your device's PDF viewer, which provides additional options such as zooming and text selection.

    We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know how you'd like these viewing tools to work.


  10. Ability to send an employee payslip from individual employee PaySlip History either singularly or multiple payslips as requested by employees. Instead of having to go into each pay run to re-send payslips.

    9 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing the idea to email historic payslips from directly in the Employee record.

    We’ve moved your idea to Gaining support and will be keeping an eye on how much interest it gets from other users.

    In the meantime, a handy workaround is to tick the payslips you wish to send from the employees record and then download them and attach to an email.

  11. It would be useful if XeroMe had an option for approvers to choose where their notification emails go (i.e. approvals for leave, timesheets and expense claims). Our workplace has recently set up XeroMe but our approvers are having difficulty because they have to remember to regularly check their personal email for notifications. Their choice at present is to link everything to their personal email and regularly check their personal email or link everything to their work email and have their personal payroll information sent to their work email.

    Additionally, if 2 approvers are selected, it would be useful if XeroMe…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing the details behind your idea. We understand the request to allow approvers to use a separate email address for Xero Me notifications. Having the flexibility to send approval notifications to a different email could help support a wider range of workflows while keeping personal and work communications separate.

    We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd like to use it.

    As this idea also includes a couple of additional suggestions, you will need to create separate ideas for those so the community can vote on each one individually and we can track them independently.

  12. When doing an Unscheduled pay run, to have the "payment date" automatically change to todays date, or have a pop up saying to check date.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about the payment date of unscheduled pay runs. If you're making a correction to a old pay run, in most situations you'll want the payment date to match that of the pay run you're making corrections for. However understand this is not always the case.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  13. Import complete payroll information including earnings, deductions, and overtime etc from an Excel/CSV file

    56 votes

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    Hi everyone, we've been following your comments and recognise that having a streamlined way to get timesheets from a spreadsheet into Xero Payroll would be a huge time saver.

    One option is to explore some of the connected time-tracking apps in the Xero App Store. While we know this isn't a perfect substitute for a direct import feature, it may help bridge the gap in the meantime.

    The good news is that we see the value this feature would provide and we want to explore it further. We'll change the status of this idea to Accepted and will let you know if there is any movement on this.

  14. With contractor super processing in payroll, getting rid of the red overdue STP filing would be pleasing - a "no STP on the contractor super " button, please

    4 votes

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    Hi Ellen. Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know that having the ability to turn off the overdue STP filing warning would be useful for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  15. We need a report for Payday Super compliance. Included in this report should be Payroll payment date, Approval date, Bank payment date, Processed date. This would be handy to provide to repeat offenders of non-compliance for Payday Super

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on more detailed reporting for super payments.

    We've reviewed your idea and it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  16. When codes are sent for payday super there needs to be a reference in the code for which batch it relates too. As if you are paying multiple batches you will receive multiple codes in a short period of time. How do you know which code relates to which batch?

    6 votes

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    Thanks for raising this with us, Tracy. We can see how adding the batch amount to the SMS would stream line approving multiple payment batches and help approvers quickly review cashflow too.

    We've updated the status to "Gaining Support" and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  17. My employee's have existing payroll numbers so it would be easier to run a payroll in number order. Can this option be looked into please?

    8 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, currently you can't reorder the employees in the pay run or when you download the payslips in bulk. I understand how that flexibility might be a benefit.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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  18. Please can Heic file formats be accepted for images of receipts? There an issue with these going from CMAP and into Xero. I will raise this with CMAP as well.

    4 votes

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    Appreciate you bringing this to the community.

    We understand the request for Xero to accept HEIC receipt images. Native support could make it easier to upload receipts without first converting them to another file format, and can support specific integrations.

    We've updated the status to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest. If this would help your workflow, do add your vote.

  19. It would be really helpful if Xero Payroll allowed a bank account to be linked to a specific employee deduction.

    This would mean that when the deduction is processed through payroll, the amount could be included in the payment file and paid at the same time as the employee’s wages. Currently, these deductions need to be paid manually, which creates an unnecessary extra step and makes the process quite clunky.

    Other payroll systems I’ve used, including PaySauce and iPayroll, already have this functionality.

    It would also be useful where a deduction relates to a specific debt or loan for the…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea. Currently, the payment file generated by Xero is only for employees' wages, however I can understand how this might help manage statutory payments such as fines and child support.

    We've reviewed your idea, and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues who could benefit so they can add their vote, too!

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  20. Insertion of a child support tab in payroll processing - Can you put a tab (just like Pay super tab) with the drop down list in payroll so it creates a list just like the list in pay super. I currently have to go into chart of accounts list to find out how much child support to pay.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about having a defined report showing you payable child support amounts. As you're aware you'd currently need to audit the specific account code to see what's been reconciled previously.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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