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  1. Superannuation funds - add a search button or make them 'sortable'.

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    Thanks so much for sharing this idea about being able to search or sort the superannuation funds list.

    We’ve now reviewed your idea and are moving it to Gaining support, so the wider Xero community can vote and comment to show how adding search and sort options for super funds would improve their workflow too.

  2. Include the "superannuation payments" report in the "view reports" drop down menu in Payroll / Pay Employees.

    This would be beneficial for payday super because you would be able to download the report directly from the payroll facility when processing the pay run.

    5 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!

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  3. Clients who are not eligible for an ABN but have a PAYG withholding obligation (e.g. people who employ domestic help) have to register the ATO for a Withholder Payer Number (WPN) so they can deduct and remit PAYG. The SBSCH has enabled super stream for holders of WPNs but that is closing 1 July 2026. Xero STP/Auto Super currently requires an ABN for registration - please make use of a WPN possible.

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    Thanks so much, Ian, for sharing your idea and highlighting WPN employer's needs to use Xero payroll and our auto super feature.

    Your idea is now live for the community to review and support. Feel free to share it with any colleagues who might benefit from it, they can add their vote and help build momentum.

    Other members can also jump in with comments to share how your idea could enhance their experience with Xero, so this is a great moment to gather even more insight and support.

  4. It would be very helpful if we can add custom fields on the self-onboarding form to get the information that are specific to an organisation.

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    Appreciate organisations have different needs and details that they'd collect from employees. It's great to hear you're making use of self onboarding and we'll get a sense of the wider interest for customising this from the community here.

    This isn't something we have plans of at present but will share if there are any updates.

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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 🙂

  6. Can you also add "Upload Bills" under the contact? When a bill comes in, I check to see if it's already in entered by looking at the contact. If not, I go to enter in the bill there and it only provides the manual option. Can you add it to the dropdown under the contact too please?

    2 votes

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  7. The report can show a list of all current employees includes basic info e.g. DOB, Gender, employment start date, job title, Annual Salary Amount, fixed allowances, Super rate etc.; This report will be helpful for internal HR reporting purpose. Otherwise, HR will need to collect info piece by piece & summarize it manually.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about a New Zealand payroll report that includes full employee details as well as earnings information.

    Currently, you need to export multiple reports and collate the information outside of Xero.

    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 votes, too!

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  8. There is a link from an employee's draft pay run to their timesheet, but not back to their draft pay run. It would be helpful if there was a shortcut to go back from the timesheet to the pay run.

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    Thank you for taking the time to share your idea and highlight what’s most important to you. Your input means a lot to us.

    Your idea is now available for the community to explore and support. Community members can also leave comments to explain how this change could improve their experience with Xero, helping build a fuller picture of its impact.

  9. Ability to make a 'tracking category' a required field on expense claim form. Currently this is in optional fields and isn't obvious to the expense submitters. This would also be relevant for 'customer', 'project' and 'label' fields depending on how an organisation has set up their Xero.

    6 votes

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  10. Problem
    The migration to the new Xero Expenses module has created a significant regression in workflow efficiency. Specifically:

    No bulk entry path exists. Organizations processing high volumes of expenses must manually create each item one-by-one through the new expense form — which is itself slower and more cumbersome than the legacy interface it replaced.

    The API is a dead end. Both the Receipts and ExpenseClaims endpoints are marked DEPRECATED, yet no replacement public API has been introduced for the Xero Expenses module. Receipts submitted via the deprecated API don't surface anywhere in the current Expenses UI. This means integrators and…

    9 votes

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    Thanks for re-raising the idea with us here, Ben. We'll see if this idea gains support from more community users and please do share if there are others that you feel would benefit from this too sop they can add their support.

    In terms of the API we have a separate idea forum where these ideas can be raised and experts that are better suited to handle and review these sort of requests.

    I've found an idea for an API for the Xero expense feature that you may like to support for this.

  11. Xero needs to have preservation age calculate when paying ETP's due varying PAYG rates depending on age.

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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.

  12. I have a client that often has employees opt to pay into varying bank accounts from pay to pay. There is no option to change the default bank account, you either need to manually change it or add the amount to the bank account that the employee wants to be paid into, it is very manual and cumbersome and is prone to human error. An option to change default bank account would assist with this and also eliminate all those annoying change of bank account emails that Xero send through.

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  13. Entering leave and timesheets need to tie in together. Currently if an employee enters start and finish times on their timesheet it creates four decimal places and when they enter leave for the same day it does not link to the timesheet and the employee enters their leave with two decimal places resulting in the days pay not being the full hours for the day. The reports for timesheets need to default to four decimal places if that is how it is going to be calculated.

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  14. It would be good to see deductions being set up for a fixed amount to deduct each pay until a total amount is reached with the option of paying the deduction to a third party bank account. Having to complete this manually and keep track is archaic!

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  15. When doing an Unscheduled pay run, to have the "payment date" automatically change to todays date, or have a pop up saying to check date.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about the payment date of unscheduled pay runs. If you're making a correction to a old pay run, in most situations you'll want the payment date to match that of the pay run you're making corrections for. However understand this is not always the case.

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  16. EXPENCE MODULE - TRAVEL - NOT TAX (SARS) COMPLIANT

    Xero Expenses currently captures the following for mileage claims: date, distance, and a description. This is wholly inadequate for South African tax compliance and exposes every South African business using Xero Expenses for travel reimbursement to material tax risk.
    The South African Revenue Service (SARS) prescribes specific logbook requirements under the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 and the Seventh Schedule thereto. A valid SARS travel logbook must record the following for every trip:

    Date of travel
    Start time
    End time
    Starting point (address or location description)
    Destination (address or location…

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  17. Payslips need to have an option to show total hours paid to employees. Currently it isn't clear at a glance to employees or for auditing that paid hours total worked hours. Having this automatically calculate based on the approved timesheet and tallied at the bottom (alongside the this pay $ perhaps) would be ideal.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea to show the total hours (rather than the hours per pay item) on the payslip. We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. You may also be interested in a similar idea AU Payroll - Ability to generate timesheet report for hours paid vs hours submitted

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  18. The customer field box really needs a search bar. Having to scroll through 500 customers is very tiresome. There should be a search bar for every field to be honest. It does exist on the browser version, but not the app version.

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

    We can see how streamlining adding expenses is important for your business. Now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

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  19. PAYSLIP NOTES - move to top of payslip! No-one reads the very bottom of their payslip! Notes are likely to be the most important information on that document, so show it first.

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  20. When editing or approving timesheets there is an option on the right hand side of the timesheet line to delete. This is presented as a trash icon. when you press this for a particular week, it then subsequently deletes this line if all other weeks within the payroll period with no warning. Could you implement a simple warning message for a user to click ok advising them that this action will result on deleting that particular line for all weeks of the pay period. Screenshot attached.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, I understand you would like to see a "are you sure" type message before deleting a timesheet line.

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