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  1. As of this month, Xero is starting to check for national minimum wage for all employees which I am all for.
    However it is very annoying to have several employees flagged as not being paid the NMW when it is entirely down to Xero's rounding. See attached screenshot.

    In this example, an employee gets paid for 6.5 hours at £12.21. Xero pays them £79.36 (rounded down from £79.365).
    Xero's own NMW checker then flags this as below NMW because £79.36 is below £79.365.
    Please can a check be brought in, that if it is just because of Xero's own rounding,…

    10 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback about NMW calculations and how this is impacted by rounding.

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  2. With payday approaching, any employee contribution returned by fund should have some kind of report in Xero. LIke super payments returned which gives employee name, when the payment sent and when it was returned by the super fund

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about making it easier to track returned super contributions.

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  3. Having the ability to view only current employee names in drop down lists in Reporting, unless archived employee names are also needed, would be great. Perhaps a tick a box to include archived names in the list?

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about excluding previous employees from payroll reports.

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  4. Reminder when Probationary period is nearing :)

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

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  5. 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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  6. Open the API for expenses so they can be approved via workflows in the same ways as you have for invoices and bills.

    2 votes

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

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  7. 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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  8. 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…

    3 votes

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  9. 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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    Hi Joanne, 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! Cheers

  10. 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.

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

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  11. To whom it may concern, my post is not an idea but rather a request for you to consider extending your UK based XERO product to jurisdictions where UK accounting practices have been adopted and reporting currency is GBP.

    I am an AAT qualified accountant of approximately 30 years. I trained at Ernst & Young in Gibraltar then moved to BDO before settling as the accountant at a local Gibraltar private school where I have been for the past 15+ years. We use SAGE and have done for 15+ years to manage the school accounts. Alongside this role I served…

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    Hi team, thanks for sharing your interest in a payroll product for Gibraltar. Being upfront, we don't have any plans in the near term for developing specific payroll products for other regions, and will move the idea to Not in pipeline to set the expectation here.

    You will still be able to vote here so it'd be good to still understand if there is wider interest.

    If you need to process payroll there are app partners available through our Xero app store, we encourage you to review their app store listings to see which is the right fit for your business.

  12. 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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  13. 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.

    13 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.

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  14. I find that it's extremely annoying how you can't open up payruns and employee profiles from a right mouse click in a new tab. It would be nice if the UX could cater to this for smoother and faster movements. Also with new fixed assets it would be ideal if we could click the whole asset line rather than one tiny little link - would save a lot of frustration when bulk writing off assets. Overall it shows up in Xero in a few places and would make life a lot easier if we could use intuitive commands like Ctrl…

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    Hi Rachel, appreciate your raising your feedback with us here. While I understand the underlying improvement you're asking for relates to navigation we do request to have separate ideas for the change you'd like to see in each are a of the product.

    As we continue to develop Xero our prodyct teams are creating more consistency in behaviours however this is also in consideration of user flows and roles. We cannot commit to making this change across all areas of Xero but it would be great to get a better understanding of the interest in specific actions you'd find this useful for that the team can take into consideration and we can keep you updated of. I've updated the title of our idea here for being able to right click and open a Payrun but you are welcome to create new ideas for each other area you'd find a right…

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

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  17. 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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  18. 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

  19. 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…

  20. 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!


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