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  1. Expense Claims - Approval Explorer - Next Button.

    When approving expenses, if you want to open them up one by one, there is no each button to hit next, or approve, next. This is a nightmare for time wasting. If this can be added like Zoho expenses does for example. Just to speed up and give more power to run through all expenses when viewing them. Also please add multiple document upload to one expense. Sometimes you have two files needed per expense.

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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. Reminder when Probationary period is nearing :)

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about logging probation periods in Xero payroll.

    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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  3. Currently if you add a receipt through Xero Me this is no longer obviously visible as it used to be on the old home screen. This makes it extremely easy to miss that there is anything pending.

    Even if you click on Expenses to review, this does not bring up any draft receipts. It's as though this has been designed to make it really easy to overlook these!

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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. For the Xero Payroll pay item "Tips (non-direct)", as tips paid by a customer's credit card belong to the staff, not employer (i.e. current liability rather than company expense), please could Xero adjust the allowed payroll settings to be set up so that "Tips (non-direct)" can be posted directly to a current liability account, rather than only to a company expense account, the latter currently being the only available option.

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

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  5. Encountered an issue where employees annual leave has been entered twice and it doesn’t flag in the system. Unsure if a Xero glitch or a human glitch, but regardless, it shouldn’t be able to process 2 Annual Leave runs for the same dates/ Pay periods.

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  6. I’d like to submit a feature request for an enhancement to Xero Expenses, specifically around team meal and group expense submissions.

    Current Challenge
    When employees submit expenses such as team meals, client lunches, or group events, there is currently no built-in way to select the attendees from within the organisation.

    At the moment, users can only enter attendee details manually (e.g., typing names into the description), which leads to:

    -inconsistent formatting
    -missing attendee information
    -difficulty auditing expenses
    -additional work for finance teams during review and P11D/PSA reporting

    Requested Feature
    We would like Xero Expenses to include an attendee field that…

    1 vote

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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. Adding physical receipts as a New Expense, currently it is not an option to add the expense, approve it and pay it all on the same screen! this would reduce multiple screen requirements and delay in processing, also assist with reconciliation.

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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. Simplify and automate worksafe remuneration reporting. This shouldn't be as painful as it is. Especially difficult when needing to deduct non reportable wages for apprentices , or part thereof when they begin or end apprenticeships midway through a financial year.

    2 votes

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  9. When approving timesheets it would be ideal to have separate lines underneath Ordinary Hours with Leave requested, on which days and hour amounts and to be able to approve there instead of having to go to a different screen.

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    Thanks for reaching out with your idea about automatically recording leave days in employee's timesheet.

    We've reviewed your idea and have moved it to gaining support. Now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

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  10. 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.

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your thoughts on automatic length of service calculations in AU Payroll. We appreciate you highlighting how this could help streamline payroll processes.

    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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  11. 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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    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 🙂

  12. In situations where a contractor receives mixed payments (eg includes some exempt services), is it possible to apply GST only to the applicable gross earnings rather than automatically applying GST to the total earnings?

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on processing additional GST exempt items on contractor payslips. Currently you'll need to apply a tax adjustment to the payslip.

    However, 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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  13. Ability to enter fortnight Work Patterns would be a massive help. It would assist with stat days and ensuring entitlements calculated correctly.

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  14. Add option to hide hourly rate on full time employee pay slips where they are using the "Base Salary" pay item.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about removing hours and rates from payslips so that only the fixed amount shows.

    We’ve reviewed your idea, and now it’s up to the community to get behind it! Be sure to share this with any colleagues who might benefit so they can add their votes as well.

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  15. For pay frequency for an employee, it would be good to be able to change this even if the employee has a pending leave request. Future leave or unprocessed leave has no relationship to the pay frequency if I want to pay an unscheduled bonus or other payment. This is very limiting as I may not be in a position to approve or process the leave before I need to change a pay frequency on an employee.

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    Thank you for submitting your feedback and highlighting the improvements you’d like to see.

    Your suggestion has been reviewed and is now live for community voting. We encourage you to share this with your colleagues so they can lend their support.


    Additionally, other users can now contribute comments to explain how this change would benefit their own Xero workflow

  16. Ability to bulk amend pay template to cater for one offs payments to all employees - like a Christmas bonus

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    Hi Lauren


    Thanks for sharing your suggestion. I can definitely see how manual it is to add a Christmas bonus or one-off payment line for every single employee individually!


    I’ve moved this to Gaining Support. Currently, pay templates in UK Payroll need to be updated one by one, so a "bulk update" tool would be a huge time-saver for larger teams.


    I’ve updated the title to "UK Payroll - Bulk add or amend pay items on employee pay templates" to help others find it and add their votes.


    Quick Tip for now: If this is a truly "one-off" payment (and not something you want on their template for every month moving forward), the fastest way currently is to add the Bonus pay item directly to the Draft Pay Run. Once you add the column to the pay run, you can enter the amounts for each person in one…

  17. Can we please show multiple annual salary on the payslip if there is more than one ordinary time earnings rates. I would like to show a "secondment wages" line when a person is hired by another firm for one day a week as a breakup on the payslip.

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    Hi Michelle,


    Thanks for sharing this suggestion.I’ve moved this to Gaining Support.


    Currently, Xero payslips are optimized to show a single primary annual salary, which can make things a bit confusing for employees working across multiple rates or secondments. Allowing the payslip to break down multiple salary bases would definitely add a lot of clarity for both employers and staff.


    I’ve updated the title to "AU Payroll - Show multiple annual salary rates on payslips for multiple OTE lines" to help other users with similar needs find and vote for it.


    Quick Tip: In the meantime, many users use the "Notes" section on the individual's payslip to manually clarify the secondment rate, though we appreciate an automated solution is the goal!


  18. It would be good to make it possible to either set a maximum leave accrual, or set an expiry date for leave. An example where it could be used would be study leave. We have an agreement with employees that gives them 7 days of study leave per year. Any unused study leave is forfeited after two years. Currently we have to manually monitor and adjust the leave.

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  19. I temporarily suspended working through my UK Limited Company during COVID, and I was advised by my accountant to close my Payroll. When I resumed Ltd Co operating I discovered that it was impossible to create a new Payroll against my existing Organisation in Xero. I now do my payroll in Sage, at extra cost.

    Have you fixed this ? (I don’t have time to search hundreds of existing ideas)

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  20. I appreciate that the "Assign to customer" option is useful, but I do not want all of our field staff who use Expenses seeing our customer list. Surely this option can be removed for "Expenses Submitter" roles (but kept on for "Approvers" and "Admin")?

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    Hi Dan, thanks for sharing your idea about how you'd like expenses submitters to not see customers in the Contacts list.

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