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  1. Gaming voucher

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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. 🙂

  2. Does / can Xero send notification emails or pop up to notify of junior birthdays or apprentice anniversary dates to trigger wage increases when due?

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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 have fully automated my ordering system from receicpt of order in emails, to adding it to Saleforce. When sent, it creates a draft invoice in Xero. I'd like Claude to be able to periodically check my emails and flag order delivered emails to approve the invoice etc. Ideally write access would come soon too. It's the only part missing from my entire work flow.

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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. 🙂

  4. The recently updated look of Timesheets (AU) is clunky, very oversized and takes up so much screen with all the space. When you have many employees, being able to quickly scan a list on a page is easy if the font is smaller without all the bubbles and extra bits. The actual timesheet is massive. For one employee, a full work week is over two pages. Surely the previous system of a small grid was much better? This all seems very overkill and unnecessary for busy people. We don't have time to scroll pages to check and double check things.…

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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. 🙂

  5. Receipt entry seems overly complicated, When I snap a picture of a receipt for say a dinner, small purchase etc, why not have the option to save the receipt to the Awaiting Payment folder, then the correct bank, expense category, etc can be added from the desktop. This seems particularly important as making tax digital catches more and more small business and freelancers.

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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. It is great that we can now add files in the Employee note section. However, it was be so much more beneficial if we could add folders so the file section is tidy and the files would be easier to find based on filing preferences. A list of documents is just messy.

    This was stated in the first email when advising that files could be uploaded. But it didn't happen with the new release.

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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. 🙂

  7. The Xero MCP connector currently exposes accounting data only — invoices, bills, aged reports, P&L, balance sheet, bank transactions. There is no access to payroll: no pay runs, no employees, no super payment batches, no super payment status or due dates.

    This matters more since payday super commenced 1 July 2026. Contributions must now be received by the employee’s fund within seven business days of the pay date, rather than 28 days after quarter end. The compliance window is short enough that it needs monitoring between pay cycles, not just at quarter end.

    Without payroll endpoints, any automated check has…

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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. 🙂

  8. I need to be able to integrate Gusto with OregonSaves so that the contributions are automatically drafted from my clients bank account. I was able to do this with QBO payroll and now that I have switched over to Xero with Gusto I need to be able to link my clients OregonSaves accounts with Gusto in Xero

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    Hi Julia, thanks for raising your feedback on the Xero Gusto Payroll experience. I've shared this back with our team, and while this isn't in the immediate roadmap we'd like to gauge a wider understanding of interest for integrating with this particular retirement app provider. Make sure to share your idea with any colleagues that'd like to see this to so they can vote for your idea.

    I'll share if there are any updates.

  9. Are there any Xero updates or developments in the works regarding the removal of the late payment offset for superannuation?
    Under the new rules, where an employer has paid super late, they are still required to lodge a Super Guarantee Charge (SGC) Statement. However, the late super payment can no longer be used to offset the SGC liability and is instead applied towards future super obligations.
    The difficulty we are experiencing in Xero is that the payment remains linked to the original late super obligation.
    This means we currently need to manually calculate which future super obligations the payment can…

    3 votes

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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. 🙂

  10. When a director leaves mid-tax year and the PAYE scheme is being closed as well, the annual reassessment of National Insurance needs to happen when they leave. It can't wait until 5th April.

    When running payroll in HMRC Basic PAYE Tools, the user is asked to confirm whether this is the last payment to the director in the tax year. Xero doesn't ask this.

    Xero payroll needs to be updated, so that it checks whether each salary payment is the last payment in the tax year, for any director whose NI is calculated on the alternative basis. If the user…

    2 votes

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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.

  11. When entering timesheets in the new timesheet experience, the employees templated pay rate no longer appears at the top of the dropdown. I need to scroll through all the available rates to locate the correct pay rate. Please bring this from the classic timesheet to the new timesheet experience. I don't know why you'd get rid of this function?

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    Thanks again for your feedback here. This is something our product teams have intentions of developing into the new timesheet experience.

    I'll be sure to keep you looped in on updates for this, here.

  12. In expense description, there are lines. I'd like to be able to copy-paste from a sheet 5 lines of description and 5 lines of prices directly from my sheet (either as whole rows, or even column by column), without needing to go one by one, one cell after another.

    Currently, they all copy-paste into the same one cell.

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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 🙂

  13. Purchase invoices - in the top left it shows as paid. Would be helpful if this showed as reconciled or unreconciled per the bank

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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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  14. We currently use paper leave forms - signed by Manager and Partner. Would like to move to Xero Me. Can set up Mangers to authorise, but once they have authorised it goes straight into Xero Payroll - so no visibility to the partners or even Payroll Manager. Two potential solutions:

    1. A report based on when the leave is approved that shows when leave will be taken (can only report on when leave is to be taken at the moment); or
    2. Add a second authoriser either in Xero Me or in Xero Payroll before it hits the employee record.
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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.

  15. Ability to attach relevant documents to employees within Xero Payroll (UK),
    This would help with managing employees, and being able to easily access supporting files when needed.

    171 votes

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate your recent feedback and reinforcing the importance of attaching documents to employee records in UK Payroll. We understand how the recent capability released in AU would also be valuable to other regions workflows.

    We're in the process of reviewing the full payroll experience for our UK customers, and this idea will be considered as part of that broader piece of work. While it isn’t on our immediate roadmap right now, it is formally on our radar as we plan future payroll updates.

    We’ll share another update here when we have more news on our plans.

  16. Ability to attach relevant documents to employees within Xero Payroll (NZ),
    This would help with managing employees, and being able to easily access supporting files when needed.

    104 votes

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    Hi everyone, this idea has been created from the original post here in order to track the appetite and continue to assess the needs in attaching files to employees within Xero Payroll for NZ organisations.

    While we don't have plans for this at this time, our product team's would like to continue to track the interest, and if there's any news we will share with you all here.

    All NZ based users that voted on the original idea have been added for updates here.

  17. Employee Onboarding. Can we please have an option to be able to send back to employee for review if they have not entered correctly rather than having to delete and the have to start again from scratch? Bonus points being able to leave a note of why it is being sent back for review.
    Also if it the request has expired can we update date and resend rather than having to delete and start again.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on being able to send an onboarding request back to an employee for correction.

    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. Issue: each staff may have specific types of expense he/she usually uses.
    But in Expense, the accounts to be selected is all available accounts for all staffs.

    Suggestion: adminstrator can set individual user to a specific list of account he/she will use.
    For example, company driver only see those accounts for vehicle upkeeping. Office staff may see accounts like general expenses, transport claim. Manager may see accounts like entertainment, general expenses, etc.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this Idea John, we appreciate the time taken. This idea is now open to the community so they can vote and share their own thoughts on how this could be a valuable addition to have user specific accounts available in the Expenses. We will monitor this idea and any updates will be posted here.

  19. We need to be able to run a report showing type of leave, current balance + leave taken + accrued leave over a period of time in the past & the future. This is desperately needed to be able to approve leave without the need of spending time running various reports & exporting into 1 data base in excel just to work out if an employee will have enough leave or not to take leave in the future.

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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.

  20. Create an alert or ability to set a limit that is shown when an employee is trying to submit a leave request that will put them in a negative balance.

    9 votes

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    Hi everyone, this idea has been created to track UK user interest in this feature. It has been split from the original request, as our Payroll features are generally developed separately across each region.

    Being upfront, we don't have any plans for this at present, however it is something we would like to understand the wider interest from our community.

    Make sure you share this idea with any colleagues that this would benefit so they can add their vote and share how this could improve their Xero experience.

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