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  1. It would be good for Xero to add a Medicare Levy surcharge option for a percentage in the Taxes tab of employee set-up.
    Currently if an employee wants a percentage taken we have to manually adjust each pay run to ensure the correct amount is taken and and reporting to ATO is therefore done correctly.
    Leaving something as important as this to human error is not a good idea.

    11 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about adding the Medicare levy to AU payroll tax calculations.

    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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  2. This was originally raised in 2022. The request hasn't been acted on yet. The 2022 request is being closed due to lack of support.

    However, the lack of support is likely to be an indication that current Xero Partners aren't using XPM for recording time, and/or aren't using Xero Payroll. XPM improvements over the past 18 months show that they are investing in that product. Xero Payroll has also been significantly improved in the last 18 month. If Xero wants it's Partners to go full Xero and by extension encourage our clients to go full Xero, then they have to…

    3 votes

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    Thanks for your suggestion about syncing XPM timesheets with Payroll, Rebecca. We see how this could add value and reduce manual work.


    Atm, this isn’t on our roadmap, however we'll continue to keep a watch on the support this idea receives.


    We appreciate your feedback and involvement in the Xero community. If the status of this idea changes, we’ll update you here.

  3. Upon approving an employee’s submitted details via the self-onboarding feature, we observed that the transaction history reflects the approver as the one who entered the details, rather than the employee who originally submitted them.

    For audit trail purposes, it would be helpful to identify the employee as the original submitter, while maintaining a separate record of the approver’s action.

    Alternatively, a feature that allows printing or exporting the submitted self-onboarding form (as originally completed by the employee) would also address this need.

    47 votes

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

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  4. The year to date figure of any previous benefits (that have ceased during the tax year) should remain on the payslips for the whole of the tax year in which they were paid. For employees on a cumulative tax code, their year to date tax figure does not make sense without it. This should also be the case for previous pay elements (rather than grouping altogether into other payments), this is to keep a split of the taxable and non-taxable pay elements. Thank you!

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on having YTD benefits appear consistently on the payslips. I understand benefits make up taxable earnings and should remain on the payslip.

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  5. We have our own onboarding system and won't use the onboarding tab, it would be great to have the option to remove or hide this as its just in the way. I use current and past employees and click this by mistake frequently which I find very frustrating.

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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. It would be useful for child support deductions to be able when we get the letter saying "this much from this date to that date and this much from that date going forward" to be able to put both those things in at the same time rather than relying on all-too-fallible humans to remember to go in and change the amounts on a particular date.

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  7. Can we please have the ability to add effective start and end dates against pay items. For example, a deduction may only be for 10 weeks at a set amount. Rather than having to setup multiple notes offline to remind us of this, can we have this function setup in the payroll system so it only deducts the amount over the set period specified.

    4 votes

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

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  8. I love that you can now schedule payslips but it would be much better if you could choose date and time rather than 1 day/2 days/3 days etc this is fussy, a calendar and time would be fanastic !!!!

    63 votes

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    Thanks for the great discussions here, just wanted to touch base to let you know we’re listening. The idea is still open and currently gathering support on Xero Product Ideas, so we don’t have a public timeframe to share right now. We’ll continue to keep a close eye on support here and update if anything changes.

  9. When you approve an auto super payment it would be helpful if an account transaction is created in the bank account with the description detailing the underlying payruns the super payment amounts relate to (ie pay dates, employee total). This would then be matched to the withdrawal on from the bankfeed.

    When trying to reconcile what super has been paid and when this information would be very helpful in identifying late super from within the GL or account transaction report.

    10 votes

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

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  10. With the pending Payday super requirements, can there be a reminder or a "can't progress" feature to prompt the person processing the payroll to also pay the Payday super?

    Can the business choose to pay superannuation using BPay details instead of linking to a bank account?

    42 votes

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    Hey community, thanks for your engagement about your needs in Payday Super.

    As you may have seen, we've introduced a new auto super overview page which indicates the number of contributions that need attention/are past their expected payment date, as well as batches that need your attention too.

    We have plans for developing send email notifications that'll be triggered to all payroll admins;

    • 1 day after the expected payment date has passed, and again
    • 7 days after if no action has been taken

    We'll keep you updated on these notifications here and encourage your continued feedback.

  11. Could you please add the Superannuation Accruals report to the View Reports dropdown list in a payrun.
    This will be a great inclusion to the report options once payday Super kicks in and for those already completing payday Super.
    Adding this along with a Fast Click to Super payments from the payrun will make payday Super processes streamline for all.

    10 votes

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

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  12. My employee's have existing payroll numbers so it would be easier to run a payroll in number order. Can this option be looked into please?

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, currently you can't reorder the employees in the pay run or when you download the payslips in bulk. I understand how that flexibility might be a benefit.

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  13. Superannuation - I propose that Xero considers adding the ability to approve superannuation payments on the app rather than having to access approvals via the internet when working remotely.

    61 votes

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

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  14. When entering hours and locations into the timesheet, if a day is selected incorrectly (for example, selecting Thursday instead of Friday), it would be very helpful to be able to drag and drop the hours to the correct day rather than having to delete and re-enter the time in the correct day.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your suggestion on how we can improve the timesheet editing process.

    We’ve reviewed your idea, and it’s now up to the community to get behind it! Be sure to share the link with any colleagues who would benefit from this feature so they can add their votes.

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  15. I would like to enter Long Service leave balances visible to employees in "weeks" instead of "hours" as I want to avoid overstating or understating hours for those employees who have had varied hours over the course of their employment.

    I do not want to have to do the long service leave calculations (as per the LSL legislation in Victorian) with each pay run to work out their average hours. When setting up the leave as a Pay item I can select it to be weeks but when I set up the employee it still only allows Hours.

    Can Xero…

    6 votes

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

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  16. Please include all Payroll Advisors in Superannuation bounceback email notifications.

    Currently, only the Super approver receives an email notification when any super payment has bounced. Often, the Super approver does not pass this on in a timely manner, and it's not practicable to be constantly refreshing the Super Payments screen to check for any bounces, particularly for Accountants who manage multiple organisations in Xero.

    With Payday Super coming in to effect on 1 July 2026, the window for ensuring super is paid is very tight. If only the Super approver is notified, they may not have the ability act accordingly…

    134 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate the interest here especially with upcoming Payday Super. I'd like to share that notifications and prompts are being developed with some of the changes we're working on, and achieve what's being asked here.

    I'll round back when this is live and confirm what these look like to help in your processing of Superannuation here.

  17. the ability to add dates and tracking categories and attaching them to a project. when entering pays from Payroll > Pay Employees. I know that a journal can be done after the fact, but that is time consuming. Much easier, simpler, faster to do when entering hours.

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

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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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?

    10 votes

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

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