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  1. Need search feature in Xero me for adding tracking categories to timesheets instead of having to scroll through 50 plus jobs

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    Thank you for submitting your idea! We've completed our internal review.

    The next step is up to the community. Please share this with your colleagues so they can add their vote. Every vote and detailed comment is crucial for showing us the wider impact and helping us prioritize this enhancement for Xero.

  2. As the automatic journal for payroll is not able to be viewed before posting to accounts, we should have the option to turn off automatic journals. Currently, we have to post, then go back and do another journal to split out ER NI & Pension for different departments. This system is so unflexible.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comment section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  3. It would be good to have the ability to add timesheets to the payslips sent to the staff.

    Our staff don't work set rostered hours and the times are entered by the Supervisors due to the nature of the work. When the employees want to check their pay, they haven't got anything to reference. Having the approved timesheets sent with the payslip would allow them to query their pay more accurately.

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    Thank you for sharing your idea, and letting us know about the changes that matter most for you and your team.

    We understand the need for employees to easily reference their timesheet details when reviewing their pay.

    We wanted to point out that if you provide your employees with Xero Me access, they can submit and view their own approved timesheets directly within the app. This provides them with the reference needed when they receive their payslip.

    It’s now up to the community to get behind and support it! Please share your idea with any colleagues who 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.

  4. I would like to add CIS labourers (none employees) to payroll, so timesheets can be added like a wage slip, rather than an invoice, this would help with the likes of connecteam, with their timesheet integrations

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    Your idea, along with the key changes you've identified, is very much appreciated. It has been reviewed and is now live for community feedback. To build support, be sure to share it with your colleagues so they can contribute their votes. Community members can also leave comments, further explaining the value of your suggestion to their Xero usage.

  5. It would be good to beable to add employees Annual bonuses into xero so we don't have to refer to their contracts each time. As well as a report that will show employees details Remuneration, Bonuses etc

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    Thanks for sharing your idea for updates you would like to see in the Employee Remuneration report.

    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.

    In the meantime, we can suggest a possible workaround so that your employees bonus information is held within Xero would be to add this as a Note in each employees Employment record for easy access.

  6. A Planner with a visual representation of staff approved leave (with an option to note who is covering that leave) would be super helpful. We're trying to do this with with spreadsheets and it's diabolical - but the info is all there in Xero - seeing it in a planner would be AMAZING!
    It would also assist with seeing overlaps to better manage additional requests for leave before approving them.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    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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  7. Payroll report (or add field to existing), "date employee last paid".
    We have a lot of seasonal adhoc casuals, it would be good to have a column in payroll reports showing the last pay-period they were paid in. We'd use this to off-board employees we haven't paid in a certain period of time (i.e. 12 months). We don't use Xero timesheets, so it can't be done this way.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the change that matters to 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 or your colleagues can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

    In the meantime you can view the upcoming payment date for an employee under the employee page.

  8. Xero Expense claims do not provide the field "Item" when submitting an expense claim for small items of inventory purchased infrequently. This means the inventory items purchased via expense claims will not show up on the reports "Inventory Item Details" and "Inventory Item Summary" reports" and a separate reconciliation just on expense claims will need to be run in order to account for the true inventory balance.

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    Hi Camilla, thanks for your engagement on this idea regarding an item field in expense claims. We know that it's not possible to add an inventory item directly to an expense claim and the current process to track inventory for an expense is to raise a bill instead. 📊 The team is still looking at the best way to address your feedback, and while we can't promise a timeframe just yet, please know that we will be watching this to see how much interest it might generate 👀

  9. AU Payroll - Email auto super code to email address instead of mobile number for overseas travelers who don't always have access to mobile phone

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    Hi Tayla. Thanks for sharing your idea for alternative methods to approve auto super batch payments.

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

    In the meantime, both the current auto super approver and also the subscriber can change the auto super approver details, so if there is another user who could approve superannuation batches, this maybe a workaround if the current super approver is unable to.

  10. Xero permissions are all or nothing - you either have access to timesheets and expenses or you don't. As such, you get a lot of notifications about things that aren't yours to deal with. It would be good to have a little more detail in notifications, for example; "There is a new expense from Robert Smith to review" so you know if it's relevant to you or not

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    Thanks for sharing your idea here, Sophie. Atm our product team are working on a few changes for expense notifications - Once live there will be a few different scenarios for notifications

    • When an expense is submitted users with the admin or approver role will receive an email notification that an expense is awaiting approval
    • When an expense is approved or declined the user that submitted the expense will receive an email notification
    • Users will no longer receive notifications when they take an action on their own expense

    I'll let you know once these changes have been rolled out. But if there are other specifics in the notifications that you'd find helpful it would be good to hear these, too.

  11. Ability to have an expand and collapse button for pays previously posted and presented under Pay Run History.

    After using Xero for a number of years, locating a previous pay run becomes looking for a needle in a haystack as this section is just a swamp of pays.

    Grouping in payroll financial years or having a date filter would assist greatly also.

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    Hi Yvonne, thanks so much for raising this idea and sharing your thoughts with us. We totally see how useful it’d be to have the option to expand or collapse pay run history, or group it by financial year in the Payroll product.

    As pay run history builds up, it can definitely get a bit tedious trying to scroll through and find what you need. Having a more organised view would really help when you’re digging into older payroll data.

    As a temporary workaround, you may find it helpful to use Ctrl + F (or Command + F on Mac) to quickly search the screen for a specific date or payroll year. We know it’s not a perfect fix, especially when there’s a lot of data, but it might make things a little quicker in the meantime.

    Right now, your idea’s in the ‘Gaining support’ stage, and we’re keeping a…

  12. Add a timsheets widget to the dashboard. Can show number of timesheet awaiting approval.

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    Thank you for your idea to add a timesheets widget to the dashboard to show the number of timesheets awaiting approval.

    We've reviewed your idea and have opened it up to other members to vote and share any additional ideas about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero. We'll keep you updated!

  13. Fortnightly Pay Runs to have weekly split.
    Allowing admin staff to put hours worked for employees on a weekly basis which also allows for greater visage of hours worked per week rather than an overall of the fortnight for both managing staff and the employee themselves.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    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.

  14. On the Gross to Net report, payments before August 2024 have a "posted date" set to the date the report was generated, which is incorrect. See attached example.
    To reduce confusion, either:
    - The Posted Date feature should be backdated so that payments before August 2024 show the correct "posted date"
    - Payments before August 2024 should not state a "posted date" at all.

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  15. Our payroll requirements vary across the year as we are very seasonal. It would be useful to be able to 'select all' or 'deselect all' when selecting who to pay when setting up a pay run. Having to deselect about 30 of 35 staff one by one is painful!

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  16. It would be useful to be able to deselect employees form completing time sheets and therefore not appear on the time sheet screen. We have admin staff that don't complete time sheets but I still have to submit nil time sheets to ensure all are up-to-date

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    We appreciate you taking the time to let us know your idea, as you can imagine our product is constantly evolving and we need your input to help us along the way.

    We've reviewed your idea and have made it available to other members to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  17. Option to submit total ordinary hours for week rather than each day. + Alam reminder to do hours just before payrun is done

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    We appreciate you sharing your ideas regarding timesheets.

    We've reviewed your idea and can see that the idea regarding notifications is an existing Xero Product Idea called Notification - Reminder to employee to enter Timesheet. This is currently in review with our product team.

    The ability to input weekly hours (rather than daily) has not yet been raised though. The idea is now available to the community to share their support. We'll keep you updated!

  18. When there are no payruns for multiple pay runs in a row, please add a feature to allow to reset the pay cycle from a selected date. As it is, if a client doesn't have any pay runs, we need to either post/file the empty pay runs to keep on the pay calendar, or run all future pays as unscheduled pay runs, or set up a new pay calendar. Wouldn't it be great if there was a more simple way to keep on track with pay cycles?! Also, when selecting an unscheduled pay run, please reorder the pay dates so…

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    Thanks for sharing your idea regarding unscheduled pay runs. I can see Belinda has let you know how to roll the pay calendar forward in the payroll settings when there have been no pay runs for a while. I hope that's helped.

    We've reviewed your idea about the date order of unscheduled pay runs. Other members can now vote on this idea and also comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero. Thanks for raising this with us!

  19. The lack of warnings, pop ups or anything relating to accidentally finalising STP for the wrong financial year is pretty disappointing.
    I work on a large screen and didn't see the tiny little 2025-26 drop down menu top right. I've selected the employees to finalise and proceeded with the wrong year. At no point was there a warning, note, message or anything to bring light to it being the wrong year.
    Yes I know I should have concentrated more, yes I realise now the financial year is displayed at the top of the confirmation screen, but for something that has…

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    Thank you for submitting your idea and highlighting the key improvements you'd like to see. We have reviewed it, and now it's time for the community to show their support. Please share your idea with colleagues who would benefit so they can vote. Others can also now comment to provide more detail on how this could enhance their Xero experience.

  20. Suggestion to format payslips in Payroll so that the earnings quantity and earnings rate are limited to two decimal points for ease of readability for staff.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and highlighting an important improvement for our Payroll product.

    We've reviewed your suggestion to display figures on payslips in two decimal places. It’s now over to the wider Xero community to show their support! If this change would make a difference for your business or workflow, be sure to vote and share the idea with colleagues or others who could benefit.

    As this gains traction, we also welcome comments from other users. Feel free to add how this enhancement could help streamline your payroll reporting or improve clarity for employees.

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