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Payroll AU: Standalone pay calculation tool within Xero
It would be extremely useful to have a standalone pay calculation tool within Xero Payroll that allows users to preview an employee’s pay calculation without needing to create a draft pay run.
This tool could show wages, PAYG withholding, superannuation, net pay, earnings types, and multiplier calculations in one clear view.
This would allow payroll users, accountants, and bookkeepers to quickly confirm that employee pay templates are set up correctly, verify award rates, overtime, allowances, and changes, and confidently review calculations with clients before processing payroll.
It would reduce unnecessary draft pay runs, improve efficiency, and help prevent payroll errors.
2 votesHi Emma, thanks for sharing this detailed demo with us. It speaks "The future of payroll".
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Payroll AU: Archive pay runs over data retention period
Ability to Archive Old Payruns - I have a screen that is clogged up with payruns for long since departed employees and associated payruns from 10 years ago. Their employee files have been archived but the payruns still show up in the list. It is crowded and cumbersome. Please add the ability to archive in bulk please Xero?
2 votesThanks for sharing your idea about archiving older pay runs, for example pay runs that exceed 7 years.
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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Payroll AU: Reduce time to pay employee super funds
Xero is currently using Super House as their superannuation clearing house. Super House hold on to the funds for three days before transferring the funds on to the super fund.
This three day delay is not acceptable and goes against the principle of pay day super.
It should be noted that in the event of superannuation monies not being credited to an employees account within seven business days then the employer could be liable for penalties and not Super House.
Xero need to change clearing house providers or organise for Super Choice to pass on the funds the day after…
15 votesHi everyone thank you for your feedback on superannuation processing times. With the Payday Super changes and the 7-day requirement, we know speed is top of mind.
Currently, most super payments processed through Xero are transferred to fund providers on the 5th business day. You can read more about expected timeframes and legislation updates in our Payday Super FAQs.
We completely understand the demand for faster turnarounds. The entire industry is looking towards faster processing.
To help us gauge the impact on your business, we are moving this request to Gaining Support status. Please vote, comment, and share your experiences below so we can better understand your workflows and concerns.
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AU Payroll: Warning when posting if pay period or payment date is in the future.
This was an with EOFY. Because of Pay Day Super, even if you haven't filed the Pay Run, if the Super is lodged through the Xero super clearing house, the Pay Run cannot be altered. Same applies to a future posted Pay Date with the pay frequency getting out of sync. What should have been in the previous is now in the new FY and can't be rolled back.
1 voteThank you for sharing this feedback with us!
Currently there is a pop-up reminder each time you post a pay run; however, it doesn't explicitly prompt you to check the pay period of the pay run you're posting.
If you happen to post a pay run with an incorrect period or payment date, you can correct this by creating an unscheduled pay run to reverse the incorrectly posted earnings.
That being said, we definitely see the value in having a warning trigger if a pay period or payment date is set in the future. To help us gauge demand for this feature, I’m moving this idea to Gaining Support so other community members can vote and share their thoughts as well.
Thanks again for helping us improve!
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Expenses - Show total amount of expenses awaiting approval
Hi,
Do you have a feature where if employees have 25+ expenses it can still say the value rather than just saying approve 25+ expenses. This would mean manually adding them up to get the total? I know you can see a total on the homepage but not all employees show!
Thank you!
1 voteHi Paige, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand the request to show a total for expense claims awaiting approval. Having the combined amount visible at a glance could make it easier to review upcoming reimbursements and manage cash flow.
We’ve updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and share your use case.
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Expenses - Ability to duplicate or copy a previous expense claim on browser
This is specifically for the Desktop Website, because the previous idea:
was closed, claiming that we can duplicate expenses through the Xero Me mobile app.
But this feature is missing in the Desktop Website https://go.xero.com/app/!Company/expenses/
It makes zero (xero?) sense that this Duplicate feature is ONLY in the mobile app, and still missing in the desktop website. It was also very disheartening that the previous idea was closed with the claim that it's possible in mobile app, while conveniently forgetting that some users are not using mobile app, and only using desktop website.
4 votesThanks for sharing this suggestion. We understand the request to duplicate a previous expense claim. Having a copy option could make recurring expenses quicker to submit and reduce repetitive data entry.
We’ve updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this could improve your workflow, add your vote and share your use case.
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NZ Payroll: Allow employee email addresses to be reused
Please allow email addresses to be re-used. It is a pain having to do into a past employee and delete the email address because you cant re-use it when you set them up again.
4 votesThanks for sharing your idea. As you're aware, a single email address cannot currently exist in more than one employee record, so you'll need to remove it from the terminated record before adding it to the new one.
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 who could benefit so they can add their vote, too!
Along with voting, other members can now comment to share additional details about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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Be notified via My Xero or Notification Alarm Bell of bounced or rejected auto super payments
New notification of bounced or rejected auto super payments for all Xero files we have access to, in a central area like "My Xero". This way we could check My Xero once a day to see if any payday super payments failed instead of sifting through emails and possibly missing the alert.
Alternatively, a notification could show under the alarm bell logo notifying us of any auto super payments that didn't go through.4 votesHi 👋 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 🙂
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Payroll AU: Display the Full Pay Period in a Pay Run
Feature Suggestion: Display the Full Pay Period in Payroll
It would be extremely helpful if Xero could display the full pay period (From DD/MM/YY to DD/MM/YY) within the payroll pay window, rather than only showing the "Week Ending" date.
For example, instead of displaying:
Week Ending 05/07/2026
display:
Pay Period: Wednesday 29/06/2026 to Tuesday 05/07/2026
or
29/06/2026 – 05/07/2026I process payroll for multiple entities with different pay cycles and pay periods. Having the start and end dates clearly visible would make it much easier to confirm that the correct pay run is being processed, reduce the risk of errors,…
2 votesThanks for sharing your idea on the full pay period visibility within the pay employees page.
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.
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Payroll AU: Mandatory Emergency contacts in Self-Onboarding
Mandatory Emergency contact
Have Emergency contact as mandatory in the self onboard for employees.
We still need emergency contacts on file but I have found that if it is not mandatory the new employee doesn't fill it in.6 votesThank you for taking the time to share this idea!
At this stage, we don't have plans to make Emergency Contacts a required field during Self-Onboarding. However, we're continuously looking to learn more about how our customers use Self-Onboarding.
If this is a feature you'd like to see, please cast your vote and share this page with colleagues who might find it helpful! Additional comments detailing how Self-Onboarding can improve your daily admin are always appreciated.
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Payroll AU: payroll overview notifications for timesheets and leave to approve
It would be beneficial that under the payroll overview drop there would be number of notifications in every category. For example Leave 1 if there is one leave request and so on. Maybe a exclamation mark next to overview that there is something to action with. This way the payroll officer would spot the actioned items easily.
4 votesThanks for sharing your idea about visible notification for unapproved timesheets or leave requests.
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.
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Payroll AU: Feedback on Onboarding Process and Superannuation Selection
Hi Xero Team,
I wanted to share my feedback regarding the recent onboarding options you've made available in the software. Overall, I'm quite happy with the new onboarding process.
However, a few issues have been occurring consistently over recent weeks that are now affecting multiple clients.
One notable flaw is that employees entering their own superannuation details often don’t understand what they should be selecting. We’ve had multiple instances where employees have accidentally selected self-managed super funds. As a result, when we process the super for that week—since we don’t handle payroll or add information for these clients—the entire batch…
2 votesHi, thanks for sharing your thoughts and feedback on on this! We don't have any plans to change the employee self-onboarding process at the moment.
However, we’d love to learn more about everyone's experiences and gather more feedback from the community on how this is impacting your workflows.
To help us gauge interest, we’re moving this idea to Gaining Support. Please share this idea with your colleagues and encourage them to vote and add their feedback.
Regarding the history log for self-onboarding, we actually have a separate feature request dedicated specifically to that. We encourage you to check it out, cast your vote, and share your support here.
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Expenses - Allow filtering and sorting of expense claims by payment method
Is it possible to create a filter by credit card, we have staff with credit cards and Amex, currently all expenses a mixed together and you cannot see what has been uploaded for the individual cards.
2 votesThanks for raising this suggestion. Being able to filter expense claims by credit card could make it quicker to review transactions, particularly if you're reconciling multiple company cards or reviewing specific card activity.
We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share more about what other filters will be useful.
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Expenses - text selection and zoom capabilities within the side-by-side PDF document viewer
The ability to zoom in on an uploaded PDF/doc seems to have been removed. Can this be reinstated? I used to be able to cut and paste details from the doc too.
5 votesThanks for highlighting this improvement, Spencer. We understand the request to be able to zoom in and select text within the side-by-side PDF viewer. Having these controls available in the document preview could make it easier to review receipts without needing to open the file separately.
In the meantime, you can open the attachment in a separate window or download it to use your device's PDF viewer, which provides additional options such as zooming and text selection.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know how you'd like these viewing tools to work.
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Expenses - Ability to set default for payment due date
It's good that the ability to set the due date of each expense is now available. However, there still is no way to set a default due date for all expenses, such as the last day of the month.
It will take a lot more time to select each expense and manually change the due date from today's date, especially where there are dozens of expenses to approve.
This is the sort of thing that software should do for us - streamlining workflows and handling monotonous actions automatically.
Could all users who read this vote 'critical' so that Xero will…
26 votesAppreciate the feedback, Justin and understand still needing more from this feature.
This is something we'll continue to consider and will keep a close watch on this idea in the community here.
I'll make sure to share if there are any further updates planned for this with you here.
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Payroll AU: child support payable report
Insertion of a child support tab in payroll processing - Can you put a tab (just like Pay super tab) with the drop down list in payroll so it creates a list just like the list in pay super. I currently have to go into chart of accounts list to find out how much child support to pay.
5 votesThanks for sharing your idea about having a defined report showing you payable child support amounts. As you're aware you'd currently need to audit the specific account code to see what's been reconciled previously.
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.
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Payroll AU: Download super payment report from a batch
Automatic superannuation>Payment batch details>Payment processing
Would you be able to add a print option to this screen?
After processing the Superannuation payment, this is the final screen that shows that the Superannuation payments are queued up for payment with Xero.
I would like to save this record in my Payroll batch for the Accountant.
This shows the Accountant that I have processed the Superannuation payment.1 voteHi Rachel, thanks for sharing this idea!
Currently it's possible to generate reports for paid and unpaid superannuation accruals by using the Superannuation Accruals or Superannuation Payment report.
However, we can definitely see the benefit and convenience of having a bespoke report that's downloadable directly from an approved batch.
We’ve reviewed your idea, and now it’s up to the community to get behind and support it! Make sure you share this idea with any colleagues or peers whom this could benefit so they can add their vote too.
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Xero Me - Allow email selection for notification email for approvers
It would be useful if XeroMe had an option for approvers to choose where their notification emails go (i.e. approvals for leave, timesheets and expense claims). Our workplace has recently set up XeroMe but our approvers are having difficulty because they have to remember to regularly check their personal email for notifications. Their choice at present is to link everything to their personal email and regularly check their personal email or link everything to their work email and have their personal payroll information sent to their work email.
Additionally, if 2 approvers are selected, it would be useful if XeroMe…
6 votesThanks for sharing the details behind your idea. We understand the request to allow approvers to use a separate email address for Xero Me notifications. Having the flexibility to send approval notifications to a different email could help support a wider range of workflows while keeping personal and work communications separate.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd like to use it.
As this idea also includes a couple of additional suggestions, you will need to create separate ideas for those so the community can vote on each one individually and we can track them independently.
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NZ Payroll - Allow Employees to save a copy of a submitted timesheet for their records before approval/edits
It would be great for employees to have an option to save a copy of their Submitted timesheet, for their records. This means they would have proof of their Submitted timesheet to then compare to their timesheet once Approved.
Often employers may make edits to the entered hours or earnings types before Approving an employee's timesheet, and the employee having the option to save a copy of their timesheet before it is Submitted would mean they could directly compare the two, and check any edits made are correct.
1 voteThanks for highlighting this opportunity. We understand the request for employees to be able to download or save a copy of a submitted timesheet before it's approved or edited. Having access to the original submission could help employees keep their own records and refer back to what was submitted.
We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd like this to work.
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AU Payroll - Contractor Type for Performing Artists
Contactor income type for performers
Given the changes to the entitlement to Super for performing artists and a flat rate of 20% PAYG on the payment amount in the last few years, I'd like to see an income type for performers under Contractors. It would also be useful if there is pay item to include GST (being that they are ABN contractors who could be registered for GST - I believe NZ has something along these lines).1 voteHi Natalie. Thanks for sharing your idea for a preconfigured contractor type for Performing Artists.
In regards to applying GST for contractors, this is actually an existing Product Idea. I've added your vote to it so we can keep you updated :)
On this idea, we will focus just on the Performing Artist contractor type.
It's now up to the community to let us know how an additional contractor type would improve their Xero experience.
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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