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  1. The expense reimbursement function should include an option to change the submitter after the request has been sent for approval, rather than declining the request and re-enter just to be able to update the submitter name in case of 'submitting on behalf'

    Additionally, it should allow exporting the entered expenses into an Excel file to verify whether everything has been entered correctly. Currently, exporting is only possible once the request has been approved. This feature is especially important when there are numerous expense lines.

    Furthermore, the screen layout feels a bit cramped. Could the input fields be arranged in a…

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  2. 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.

  3. Please update to have the option of removing salary hours on payslips.
    We just need the Gross Salary for that line and not the hours.
    When we have employees working accross different days of the week Xero Payroll round the hours and so in our example someone on 100 hours working 11 days per fortnight, Xero Payroll rounds the Salary Hours to 99.9999 on the payslip which is close but not correct. Currently no workaround for this.

    1 vote

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    Thanks for sharing your idea to add the option to remove salary hours from a payslip. 


    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. we have option to download pay slips of employees but, there is no option to download timesheets it would be easy to have a option to download timesheets.

    6 votes

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    Hey there, thank you for sharing your idea,

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  5. It would be great if Xero Payroll could produce a Monthly P30 report which we can send to our clients with HMRC bank details and the Accounts reference, with the month reference on the end.
    Other payroll software do this and it is really helpful for our clients.

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea with us,Gary. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know what changes matter to you.

    Your idea has been reviewed by our team and is now open for support from the rest of the community. In addition to upvoting your idea, other members can now comment and share how this change would improve their experience with Xero.

  6. 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.

    5 votes

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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.

  7. Please remove the requirement to have a date of birth for an employee.
    We have been asking for this to be removed for years, Xero recently told us it was an IRD requirement. We contacted our account manager at Inland Revenue and they said it is not an IRD requirement and that they have been in contact with Xero Payroll to make the field non-compulsory.

    The workaround that Xero gives of adding a made up date does not work and causes issues where IRD send letters that the date of birth does not match that client.
    It is not a…

    1 vote

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    Thanks Raelene, for submitting your idea!

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now open for the community to support.

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  8. CREATE A DEO REPORT TO CONVERT TO CSV FILE FOR DIRECT UPLOAD TO CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY

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    Hello Julie,

    Thank you for sharing your idea with us.

    Your idea has been reviewed by the community team and is now live for other members to support. Alongside voting, other users can now comment to share more details about how your idea would improve their experience with Xero.

  9. Timesheet approval process

    1. Give payroll admins the ability to move the status from "draft" to "pending approval" as is possible in NZ and UK or
    2. Give permissions to users with approval power to see the timesheet in the "draft" status through "Xero me" or
    3. Permit users with approval power to see the "timesheet" module in addition to "Xero me"
    13 votes

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    Thanks Daria, for sharing your idea with us.

    We appreciate you taking the time to let us know what changes matter to you.

    Your idea has been reviewed by our team and is now open for support from the rest of the community. In addition to upvoting your idea, other members can now comment and share how this change would improve their experience with Xero

  10. At the moment, if an employee allocates their hours to the wrong cost centre (i.e. the incorrect Xero tracking category) and the payroll has already been posted, there’s no way to correct the allocation — even if the pay run hasn’t yet been submitted to the ATO.

    This becomes problematic for organisations like ours that rely on accurate tracking of labour costs by project or cost centre. In most cases, the number of hours worked remains correct — it’s just the cost centre allocation that needs fixing.

    Would it be possible to introduce a feature that allows tracking categories to…

    2 votes

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    Thank you for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.


    Our Community have reviewed your idea to allow tracking categories to be edited after a payrun has been posted. This has now moved to the Gaining Support status.


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  11. Can we please have an automatic email notification to the subscriber when a organisation adds or removes an employee - This would be required for the purposes of updating billing when the ability to add additional employees for $4 takes place in September 2025.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea, Todd.

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  12. Payroll Activity Summary to show per employee, not just as a total for all employees. Currently you have to select each employee to generate the totals for 1 employee and if you have 100 employees, that's 100 reports instead of just 1.
    Exactly like MYOB does it, sample MYOB report attached.

    6 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea, Tom.

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  13. It would be great if we could copy timesheet tracking each week. We have a client that has extensive tracking for timesheets - with some employees having time tracked to a number of different tracking codes. It would be a huge timesaver to be able to save the tracking for each employee so we do not need to enter it each payrun.

    2 votes

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    Thanks Jo, for submitting your idea!

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now open for the community to support.

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  14. Expenses - I want to be able to give an employee the ability to submit on another's behalf but not to be able to approve them or see everyone else's expenses e.g. Executive PA should only be able to submit her the Executive and not have the option to approve or see another employee's expenses.

    4 votes

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    Hi Holly, thanks for sharing your idea here.

    This can now gain support from other community members.

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

  15. Timesheets - aside from just having an employee enter hours worked against each, it would be good to have a customizable timesheet that other fields could be recorded against the day that are not hours driven. For example - for one day have the employee enter 5hrs of time worked but also another field for a quantity driver - eg; enter quantity of 3. We have one client with a large number of employees that are remunerated via an hourly rate plus a quantity driver. The current workaround is the employee to submit the timesheet but also send a separate…

    3 votes

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    Thanks, Matt for submitting your idea.

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  16. Will it be possible to have "description field" in the Deduction field of the Pay template? That can be changed or updated directly on the pay template. For example, to add the ending date for staff loan deductions.

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    Hi Denise, thanks so much for your suggestion about adding a description field to pay template deductions. We're grateful for your engagement and for sharing an idea that will make a difference for you and other Xero customers.

    Our Community have reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

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    We'll be keeping an eye on the support it gains and appreciate you taking the time to let us know what matters to you.

  17. Ability to turn off email notifications for submitted expenses to Xero admins. Only started receiving email relating to submitted expenses as of 10th July 2025 but have been told by Xero support that it is an integral part of expense management and can’t be switched off. Have used Xero and expenses since 2019 and have never received an email relating to an expense submission. Am more than happy to continue receiving notifications of submissions via Xero Me mobile app but do not want or require email notifications.

    34 votes

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate your feedback, and have been monitoring this change closely.

    We appreciate the differing needs of our customers our product team have temporarily removed the notification changes mentioned in my previous update - This means this'll reduce the amount of email notification you're receiving from expenses.

    We're looking into enabling more controls for expense notifications and I'll come back to share any further news around this with you here.

  18. Auto accrual of Alternative Leave - It would be great if there was a permanent payment item setup in Xero for public holidays worked, and when it is used Xero automatically accrued the alternative leave earned. Or at least make it more obvious that you have to manually adjust the alternative leave accrual in each pay.

    5 votes

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  19. 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

    2 votes

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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.

  20. Ability to delete old employees to keep in line with Data Protection and be able to delete details after 7 years of leaving employment

    7 votes

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    Hey Samantha, thanks for raising this idea with us. We appreciate how being able to eventually delete employees after their employment ended would improve your experience with Xero Payroll.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

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