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  1. Whilst the new Payroll Payment feature in Xero is welcome, being unable to schedule the payments for a future date sadly means we will need to continue manually inputting the salaries via our bank. We pay our staff on the last working day of the month. This feature only allows payment via faster payment, so I will always need to be available on the last working day of the month to post the payrun. I would normally process the salaries a few days before the last working day then set them up to be paid in a few days time.…

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    Thanks for the feedback on the payroll payments feature. We're watching this idea closely and will share if there are any further updates planned.

    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 also comment to share additional detail about how this could improve their experience with Xero.

  2. I temporarily suspended working through my UK Limited Company during COVID, and I was advised by my accountant to close my Payroll. When I resumed Ltd Co operating I discovered that it was impossible to create a new Payroll against my existing Organisation in Xero. I now do my payroll in Sage, at extra cost.

    Have you fixed this ? (I don’t have time to search hundreds of existing ideas)

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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. Recently XERO changed the Make Payment Button so that it now contains two payment steps ABA Download, and payment of superanuation. This is great but I am finding that because both processes take you away from the wages screen,(one is to the bank and the other to the SUPER approval process) the work does not flow easily. Is it possible instead to separate the two buttons so we would have PAY WAGES as one button and PAY SUPER as separate buttons?

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    Hi there and thanks for your feedback.

    I’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can gather input from other users, and updated the title to reflect the request for separate buttons.


    We appreciate you sharing how this change is affecting your workflow.


  4. AU Payroll - Email auto super code to email address instead of mobile number for overseas travelers who don't always have access to mobile phone

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    Hi Tayla. Thanks for sharing your idea for alternative methods to approve auto super batch payments.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    In the meantime, both the current auto super approver and also the subscriber can change the auto super approver details, so if there is another user who could approve superannuation batches, this maybe a workaround if the current super approver is unable to.

  5. Can we please add a company logo on the payslip email?

    At the moment it just has the 'Xero me' background saying "your payslip is attached" ect. It would be nice to be able to swap that image with our company logo thanks.

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    Thanks for your patience, it’s been a little while since you raised this idea, so we wanted to check in. We've now reviewed this idea and have moved it to Gaining Support status. Our product team are keeping an eye on this idea and we will continue to share updates as things evolve.

  6. LSL liability calculations are currently handled externally to Xero.

    It would be nice to have a system which could automatically track LSL on staff, similar to asset depreciation.

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    Thanks for your patience, it’s been a little while since you raised this idea, so we wanted to check in. We've now reviewed this idea and have moved it to Gaining Support status. Our product team are keeping an eye on this idea and we will continue to share updates as things evolve.

  7. Hi,

    Our employees work standard hours each day, but in addition to this there are often additional items on their timesheets, such as overtime, trip and overnight stay bonuses.

    The use of timesheet templates simplifies this process by automating the inputting of their standard hours, though due to the remote nature of their work timesheets are being submitted through the mobile application which does not allow the uploading of templates.

    Can the ability to upload templates be added to the mobile app or a default template be added when creating a new timesheet?

    7 votes

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    Thanks for your patience, it’s been a little while since you raised this idea, so we wanted to check in. We've now reviewed this idea and have moved it to Gaining Support status.

    To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comment section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  8. Currently, when you assign a leave type to a new employee, for all leave types other than annual leave and personal leave you have to go into that leave type on the employee card and manually change the leave settings to what should be the default for all employees. For example, RDOs should always be paid out on cessation of employment, but the default setting is "not paid out", and I cannot change the default setting, only each individual's settings.

    I should be able to set what the default settings are, to reduce the likelihood of stuffing it up.

    7 votes

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    Thanks for your patience, it’s been a little while since you raised this idea, so we wanted to touch base. We've now reviewed this idea and have moved it to Gaining Support status. Our product team are keeping an eye on this idea and we will continue to share updates as things evolve.

  9. Timesheets on xero me should have the option to enter units, not just hours

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    Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback on adding other unit types to timesheets. We appreciate you sharing how important this is for managing your payroll.

    We’ve reviewed this idea and we certainly see the benefits it would deliver, so we're updating this idea to Accepted.

    We'll let you know right here if there are any developments on this. Thanks for your continued engagement.

  10. Show the "Timesheets to Approve" section in Payroll Overview (NZ).
    We already have this in Xero AU.

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    Thanks for your patience, it’s been a little while since you raised this idea, so we wanted to check in. We've now reviewed this idea and have moved it to Gaining Support status.

    To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comment section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  11. Possible to manually adjust the tax amount on the submitted expense claims?
    The tax amount is not adjustable to match the actual tax amount reflected on bills/receipt especially for decimal difference.

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  12. Xero Expenses - It would be good if Xero can enable the functionality to record a refund / credit note within expense claim module.

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  13. I would like to be able to run a report on expense claims which shows who has approved them at a glance, like a payable invoice report . At the moment, you have to open each and every claim to see who has approved it.

    Thanks,
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  14. The new update to email payslips to employees doesn't really make any sense.

    The original suggested idea was to allow flexibility to payroll processors so they don't have to log in to Xero for each payroll client and release the payslips manually. The new update for scheduled automation just really moves the responsibility to the posting date so we now need to remember to log in to Xero to post the payroll with the automation either being automatic on the day, or within a 5 day window after posting!

    Having a 1 to 5 day delay does nothing to really…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  15. Reminder when Probationary period is nearing :)

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

    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. 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.

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

  17. 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.

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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.

    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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  18. i have a query to resolve with HMRC regarding the difference between what is showing on our P32 and what payments they have taken/ FPS file received.

    It would be useful if I could see a full breakdown of each employees details that are submitted in the FPS in excel format as the current XML is not easily legible

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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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  19. Link the holiday group, working pattern and leave entitlement so it automatically deducts the relevant number of hours taken off for a bank holiday. Our contracts stipulate 28 days including bank holidays pro rated. The holiday group deducts the bank holidays on the pay slips but doesn't reduce the annual entitlement so the leave allowance is always higher than it should be. If you don't use the holiday group so you can circumvent the allowance being incorrect you then have to manually add the bank holidays for each user to ensure the pay and holiday allowance is correct which is…

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and highlighting what matters most to you. Currently you don't need to process a leave request for public holidays.

    If an employee is assigned to a holiday group in their Employment information, Xero will automatically add a Bank Holiday/public holiday earnings line to the payslip and reduce their ordinary hours by this amount.

    If you want a contract that’s “28 days inclusive of bank holidays,” you can set this up by either:

    • Entering a reduced annual leave entitlement (for example, 20 days if 8 bank holidays are included).
    • Not assigning the employee to a holiday group and treating bank holidays as part of their regular annual leave.

    We’ve reviewed your idea and it’s now open for community support. Please share it with colleagues who’d benefit so they can vote, and others can comment with any additional details about how this would improve their experience with…

  20. We need the ability to allow the user to select a project within Xero me app when booking their timesheets. This would allow simple reporting of hours booked to projects

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    We appreciate your idea and the detail you provided! Our team has reviewed it, and now the power is in the community's hands.

    Please get the word out and share this with your network! Gathering more votes and comments is the best way to demonstrate the value of this change.

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