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  1. There currently is no report that incorporates a list of employees based on "Income type". Hence there is no filtering that can be done by "Income Type" either. As a company that employs people from multiple income types, this feature is something of importance to us. Manually creating, updating and managing a spreadsheet for this information seems workload heavy when it should be simple as the information is already a part of XERO's requirements for employee employment information. Knowing how many Working Holiday Makers you have on your books compared to non WHM's is of significance.

    I would think many…

    3 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing how a report for working holiday makers (WHM) would help with your payroll!

    We’ve moved your idea to Gaining support and will be keeping an eye on how much interest it gets from other users.

    In the meantime, a couple of handy workarounds are: using the Classification field (which appears in the Employee Remuneration report), or setting up Employee Groups, which are also available in reporting.

  2. Allow previous payroll ID box to be left blank where the employee doesn't have a payroll ID. Either (1) the wording in the UK payroll part of Xero needs to be amended from "The previous payroll ID is unknown" to more clearly cover a situation in which the employee doesn't have a payroll ID or (2) the field should be permitted to be left blank. In my client's case, it isn't that his previous payroll ID isn't known, it's that he didn't have one. If Xero is concerned about allowing the previous payroll ID field to be left blank, could…

    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.

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

  3. Include Super in payroll .aba export.
    Why does Super need to be treated differently to the other bank transfers included in a payroll .aba export? Include the transfer to the Super clearinghouse with the other transfers so we can skip the extra steps and external authorisation process (which is just weird and disconnected from everything else Xero).

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this idea. We want to be transparent that adding superannuation payments into the payroll .aba export isn’t in our product team's pipeline.

    This is because super payments need extra information that an .aba file can’t carry, such as a member number, USI, TFN etc.

    .aba files are designed for standard electronic bank payments, so they can't upload this complex data in the file format required for super contributions.

    For more detail on the changes coming with Payday Super from 1 July 2026, I’d recommend our Xero Central article. We’re also rolling out improvements to Auto Super and streamlining the payment workflow in Xero, so paying super after each pay run will be faster, easier and remain SuperStream compliant.

  4. Ability to send an employee payslip from individual employee PaySlip History either singularly or multiple payslips as requested by employees. Instead of having to go into each pay run to re-send payslips.

    9 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing the idea to email historic payslips from directly in the Employee record.

    We’ve moved your idea to Gaining support and will be keeping an eye on how much interest it gets from other users.

    In the meantime, a handy workaround is to tick the payslips you wish to send from the employees record and then download them and attach to an email.

  5. I Would like Xero to create a built-in feature whereby Employer pension contributions stay the same even during Statutory Pay Periods e.g. SMP or SSP.
    This is common in medical practices where the practice must pay contributions based of the employees salary as opposed to the rate of SSP or SMP.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about keeping employers' contribution rates fixed while an employee is on statutory leave.

    I wanted to let you know that it is currently possible to set pension contributions to a fixed amount, however appreciate this workaround won't suit everyone, especially those managing multiple employees.

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

    Along with voting, other members can comment here to share additional details about how this feature would improve their experience with Xero.

  6. When paying employees, instead of having 50 payments go through your bank account, its a bulk payment instead. One total payment (like a bulk payment made through your bank account where you get 25 payee's grouped together - Only the grand total shows in your bank account).
    Making the accounting in Xero easier, also if Audited, quicker for checks.

    4 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing this idea. Whether your payroll appears as a single bulk total or individual lines depends entirely on your specific bank and the type of payment method you use (such as BACS vs. Faster Payments). Ultimately, whatever is recorded on your official bank statement is exactly what gets imported into Xero as a bank feed line.

    That being said, we completely understand the request for Xero to automatically group these matching lines together on the reconciliation screen, or to provide a feature that allows you to reconcile all of them at once.

    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…

  7. Currently AutoSuper is not working if one has a Wise AUD bank account.
    This would be highly advantageous for those that run their business entirely through Wise and don't use an Australian local bank.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea!

    I wanted to let you know that it is possible to use Wise accounts for auto super payments; however, if the Wise base account is not the AU-specific account, the format will not follow the standard requirement of: BSB 000-000, Account 00000000.

    Now that we've reviewed your idea, it's up to the community to get behind it! Be sure to share this with any colleagues who would benefit so they can add their votes.

    In addition to voting, other members can now comment to share how this improvement would specifically help their experience with Xero.

  8. Please allow mapping to any NL code currently it restricts Earnings to P&L and Deductions to Balance Sheet, we have to do negative earnings for unpaid sick/absence and a manual journal for paying Tips to our staff.

    3 votes

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    Hi Ali, thanks for reaching out to let us know how useful you would find mapping earnings/deductions to both the P & L and Balance sheet codes.

    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.

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

  9. We have constant feedback that we are not paying people in full because the field Annual Salary Field doesn't include allowances

    Can it be the Grossed up salary package?

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about having the total salary package amount showing on the on payslips.

    Currently only employee’s ordinary earnings rate make up the annual salary visible on payslips.

    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.

  10. Would love to be able to access payroll data and process payroll from ipad app. Instead of having to loggin into safari or google to lodge payroll. I can nearly use every aspect of my daily xero usuage through the app and then need to log in somewhere seperately to do payroll. To be able to do it on the app as well would be amazing

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback about a dedicated Xero Payroll app! As you're aware the Xero mobile app is a companion to the main Xero web platform. It allows you to monitor finances on the go like creating invoices, and reconciling transactions. Because it is a companion app, it doesn't include all of Xero's web features such as payroll.

    We appreciate your feedback, and we agree that having a fully dedicated Xero Payroll app could be incredibly useful for managing your team on the move.

    It's now up to the community to get behind and support this. 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. With the upcoming PayDay Super deadline, we need the ability to process a negative total Super Contribution Category in a Super Batch. I've recently had the scenario where an employer added and incorrect Super Category to the employee's pay, and then paid the super. When processing the payroll for the following week we discovered the error, reversed the pay, created it again with the correct super category and then recorded the current (2nd) weeks pay. There were 2 lines in the Pay Super from the previous week, a positive & negative (net amount $0, negative one to reverse incorrect super…

    8 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for raising this with us ahead of payday super.

    Whilst our product team have reviewed this closely, due to the way the Automatic Superannuation payment works, the ability to include negative payments is unlikely to be on our roadmap. The idea has been moved to Not in Pipeline and voting for this idea remains open.

    We appreciate that this may not be the outcome you were hoping for, but at the moment your approach to this situation aligns with what we recomend.

    However if there's any change to the way Automatic Superannuation payments work that will allow our product team to review this idea, we'll let you know.

  12. There should be a way to enable password protected CIS statements when sending out to subcontractors

    23 votes

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    Thanks for sharing with us on your needs around CIS here. I'll be sure to share if there are any updates.

    In the meantime make sure to share this idea with other colleagues this would be beneficial to so we can get a wider sense of the interest.

  13. For any fixed salary employees, there should be an option to automate their regular (fortnightly/monthly) payruns. There's no reason why I need to manually create these for fixed salary employees.

    Any changes to salary or leave balances etc are all managed separately via their respective employee records or leave requests.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about Xero automatically creating pay runs for fixed salary employees.

    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.

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

    5 votes

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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.

  15. 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.

    25 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.

  16. 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.

    14 votes

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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.

  17. 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.

    27 votes

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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.

  18. 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.

    5 votes

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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!

    Along with voting, other members can now comment to share additional details about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  19. 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.

    4 votes

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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.

  20. 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…

    16 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.

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