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  1. It would be great if Xero had an option to add an apprentice tab. including start date, anniversary dates, employee re-imbursements, Government incentive payments

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  2. Expenses Exchange Rate to be XE + Y%

    As a company director, I want to be able to set up the exchange rates on our expense claims to be the XE rate plus Y% (where the Y% is in the favour of the employee). This would save us a lot of time with people having to 're-adjust' their expenses when they get their credit card bills through.

    I know we can set our own exchange rates but that requires us to do that manually and will not track the market. Having XE + % will allow for the exchange rates…

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  3. Improved Reporting in Xero on all Payroll & associated tables including Employee Data/information. I think its quite poor that you can't extract what you put in and also change in this part of Xero or elsewhere. Having to check individual records for changes if there is a query rather than getting them from a report seems long winded. You can't see renumeration changes without clicking the history part of an employee record. Please can we have better reporting.

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  4. New Zealand Payroll totals by employee groups,

    My employee groups are based on my business locations. I want to know at a glance how much I have spent on payroll.

    How easy would it be to simply have a report by employee group.

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  5. 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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    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. 🙂

  6. 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 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. 🙂

  7. It would be good to be able to add file attachments to each pay run.

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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. 🙂

  8. In the leave applications, the system calculates the number of hours per day based on the monthly hours set up in the pay template, divided by the number of business days in that month. As a result, payroll staff must manually adjust each leave application to reflect the correct hours.

    For example, if an employee is full-time working 7.6 hours per day, with 164.667 hours per month, and the month has 22 business days, the system generates 7.4848 hours per day in the leave application. Manually correcting this for a large number of employees becomes very time-consuming.

    If the pay…

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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. 🙂

  9. To provide report of employees head count in a particular period. This could be employees at the beginning plus joiners less leavers to give the closing balance. An average employees in the period can also be part of the report.

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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. 🙂

  10. 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 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. 🙂

  11. On the create timesheet tab once a new timesheet is created can we have "create a new timesheet button" added so that we dont need to go back to the timesheet to create a subsequent new timesheet, much in the same way as when you create a new invoice once approved a "create new invoice" button appears towards top of the screen. This would speed up the creation of multiple timesheets. Another time saver would be a timesheet template for each employee which would save having to manually add in payment rates ie. ordinary time, sat, sun each time a…

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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. 🙂

  12. MILEAGE EXPENSE CLAIM. Currently from the home screen if you click on create New Expense, you can't select mileage unless you come out of the screen and go back in. Its bit of a "bug" and just means extra clicks. Can you please resolve it.

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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. 🙂

  13. 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.


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  14. 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…

  15. 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!


  16. 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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  17. Manually change Common Expenses! Infuriating that you can't changed these. I've been stuck with the top 4 I used in the first 3 months of the app but they are now so different.

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    Thanks for sharing 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!

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

  18. When an employee submits an expense claim for reimbursement, a new "supplier" contact record is created and the bill is assigned to this contact. When the contact record is created the employee's bank account details are not copied over to the supplier contact record. In order to pay them - using the batch payment screen, we have to load up their employee record and copy over their bank account details.

    I am suggesting an enhancement to copy the employee's primary bank account over to their supplier contact record when the bill is created.

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    Hi Ed, thanks for sharing this idea about how you'd like to see the Expenses feature create/update a Contact record for the employee.


    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 also benefit, so they can add their votes and comments about how this would help them, too!

  19. Within the taxes and filings screen that details tax months and the breakdown of liabilities, input cells beneath each value for PAYE, NIC, recoveries, etc, with the purpose of entering in amounts paid and reconciling the individual months. Most useful when overpayments/underpayments occur, or a business is on payment plan. The total for each month and overall total could then recalculate after each entry and the total balance owing should then reconcile back to the balance sheet. Essentially something similar to the VAT reconciliation function

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    Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts! We love hearing about the changes that would make your work life easier.

    We’ve given your idea a review, and it’s now live for the community to see. To help get things moving, be sure to share your idea with any colleagues who might feel the same way—every vote counts! Other users can also jump in now to vote and comment on how this idea would help them getting the most out of Xero."

  20. Move the 'Approve all' button in Current Leave view from the top right to bottom right. It's much too close to the Sort by Status button and easily pressed in error.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and what’s most important to you.


    It’s now been reviewed and opened up for community support. You’re welcome to share it with colleagues so they can vote, and other members can comment to add further detail or context.

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