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  1. When calculating annual leave the ordinary hours changes to include allowances. The loading is then based on this figure. However the allowances are still included as separate lines on the pay template and need to be removed manually. Can this be automated as it needs to be done manually for all employees for every annual leave period?
    I can opt not to include allowances in the calculation, but it makes sense to gross up allowances in the ordinary rate for this purpose.

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    Thanks Lisa, for sharing your idea! We've reviewed it, and it's now live for the community to support. Other Xero users can now vote and comment on how it would improve their Xero experience.

  2. Pension filings - Submission errors

    When an employee's employment is terminated and subsequently corrected due to the employee no longer intending to leave - pension contributions are no longer included in the pension filings even though deductions are made on the payslips. This results in an underpayment to the pension provider.

    There is a work around suggested by the support team whereby a new employee profile is required - making the employee a leaver and then a joiner.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  3. I've tried to use the automatic super payments SOOOOO many times and was lost in it forever - now I realise there is a PENDING APPROVAL BUTTON that has to be pressed - I had not realised it is a button.

    My idea for improvement is to make this look like a button and not just a highlighted word.
    In pic you can see 'pending approval' is highlighted, but so is 'withdrawn' - which is not a button. In Xero all the buttons are larger and shaped as rectangles and unified. This could be much clearer.

    2 votes

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  4. Work and Income deduction as a reducing balance under statutory deduction. Work and Income have provided a total amount and a weekly amount to be paid there needs to be a function added to provide the reducing balance, this function is available in other statutory deductions.

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  5. Auto super - set up payments in advance and allow for a description
    When I process payrolls in advance it would be good to have the option to process the super on an advance date as well. Currently we can only process super immediately which is quite restrictive.
    Also can we have an option to add a description to each payment so we can easily identify which payroll its for.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  6. Employee migration between accounts.

    With changing business structures but staff/employees not changing, there should be an option to either migrate all data to a new account or at least export current data to import into the new account.

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  7. Since Xero can't make super payment via credit card, we would like to suggest if Xero can corporate with third party payment that accept credit card payment for super. Similar to payroll, generate a file from Xero and upload to payment platform to make payment.

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  8. Under the field "start date" have Xero automatically calculate their total length of service to the current date, and under the field "end date" once an employee is terminated, calculate their total overall service.
    This would save the user from needing to manually calculating the service for notice periods, redundancy payments and long service leave in some states.

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

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  9. We need the ability to allow the user to select a project within Xero me app when booking their timesheets. This would allow simple reporting of hours booked to projects

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    We appreciate your idea and the detail you provided! Our team has reviewed it, and now the power is in the community's hands.

    Please get the word out and share this with your network! Gathering more votes and comments is the best way to demonstrate the value of this change.

  10. Could we have the option to update wages/salary on a specific date?
    It's something that QBO offers and would be very helpful in doing pay rises for January while also doing the Dec wages in advance due to office closures.
    This year my Dec pay slips went out with the wrong annual amount.
    It would also be helpful for mid pay period changes.

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  11. It would be great if you could provide payroll set up for ExtraOrdinary (NZ)

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  12. At present there is no capacity for employees to enter overtime hours and have it approved in Xero Me.
    If additional hours are entered via Xero Me then the staff member needs to enter in all the hours worked in that fortnight, otherwise the "standard hours" in their pay template disappears in the payroll run and all you see if the overtime hours.

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  13. I would like to move our payroll over to Xero, having tried in Apr 2023, I was hoping that changes would have been made in order for me to move our system over. After over 2 hours on the phone today, we eventually got there, but to my horror was told that I would have to log into each employee on the pay run and enter all regular and extra payments. Could you not have a multi person payment entry spreadsheet. Example attached. Once this is completed and saved, it then allows me to see each individuals pay totals in…

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  14. It would be useful to be able to assign default tracking categories to users for expense submission so these don't need to be manually added to each individual claim.

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    Hello everyone, we understand that being able to automatically assign tracking categories to users for their expense claims would be a huge benefit, saving you time and ensuring accurate reporting. 📈

    We've heard your suggestions we're continuing to monitor the interest in this idea, but it's not on our current development roadmap. We'll be sure to update you here if anything changes in the future. 👋

  15. A staff member will be working in 2 different locations - I would like the cost of the salary to be split over the 2 (3 days in one location and 2 days in the other location)

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    It's great to hear your idea here, thanks for sharing it.

    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!

    Other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  16. It would be great if Xero had an option to add an apprentice tab. including start date, anniversary dates, employee re-imbursements, Government incentive payments

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  17. Ability to set a specific account for Salary Sacrifice amounts to go into instead of a default gross wages account.

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    Hi Gemma, we took a closer look at your idea and can see we misunderstood your idea, our sincere apology for the mistake.

    We've now updated your idea to Gaining Support so that the community can show their support for it.

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

  18. Expenses Exchange Rate to be XE + Y%

    As a company director, I want to be able to set up the exchange rates on our expense claims to be the XE rate plus Y% (where the Y% is in the favour of the employee). This would save us a lot of time with people having to 're-adjust' their expenses when they get their credit card bills through.

    I know we can set our own exchange rates but that requires us to do that manually and will not track the market. Having XE + % will allow for the exchange rates…

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  19. Can you please look at adding a feature to payroll templates which allows Job title to appear under 'Employment Details' on payslips.

    21 votes

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    Thanks for your patience whilst this idea is gaining traction.

    We've reviewed your comments and can see the that this idea has been gaining a lot of support.

    Whilst this idea isn't currently on our product team's roadmap, we're monitoring the activity and will keep you updated on the way.

  20. Improved Reporting in Xero on all Payroll & associated tables including Employee Data/information. I think its quite poor that you can't extract what you put in and also change in this part of Xero or elsewhere. Having to check individual records for changes if there is a query rather than getting them from a report seems long winded. You can't see renumeration changes without clicking the history part of an employee record. Please can we have better reporting.

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