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  1. NZ Payroll - The ability to track the liability of custom leave types such as Long Service Leave in the Leave Liability report.

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  2. Xero expenses now seems to be showing the date created in the list of expenses to be approved, rather than the date of the purchase. That makes processing much more difficult. I think that has changed in a recent update. Please can that change be reversed?

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  3. I like to be able to change a payrate in advance but still be able to use the old payrate in the current pay runs. Then adding a new line for ordinary hours with the new pay rate if it starts in the middle of a pay week. This way you don't have to go into each employee to change the rate if you have a pay week where it is the old payrate for eg 2 days and the new one for 3 days. It's also handy when you have to set up pay runs in advance because you…

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  4. Currently coding can be edited by admins for things that have been posted to the wrong account code for example. This isn't possible with expenses once they have been submitted. It'd be good to be able to do as sometimes they're not seen by Accounts dept until they've been approved.

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    Hi Christine, I notice you've posted your idea in the Workpapers forum - But just to check it sounds like your idea here is referring to the Find & recode feature in your Xero organisation ? Would that be correct?

  5. Allow Multiple Draft Pay Runs - it would be helpful to be able to load multiple draft pay runs, currently allows you to select the next payroll date but then errors out as you can only have one. Leading up to Christmas break especially, is helpful to small business owners to set up these draft pay runs for a few weeks in advance then post them as needed (reduces the amount of time spent while on leave creating pay runs)

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  6. I have tried XeroMe timesheet and Projects timesheet and neither are giving functionality required.
    - Clock in / clock out at a push of a button
    - Switch jobs function
    - Assign time to a job
    - Add notes of work that was completed.

    These feel like quite necessary functions for timesheets in many businesses and having to pay for another 3rd party app to do this is extremely frustrating.

    It seems you can perhaps get one or two of these functionality if you go into the timesheet multiple times but the timesheet entry feels very basic and not unable…

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  7. 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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  8. The ability to remove the (Optional) marker above additional information boxes so we can make boxes mandatory so the information is not missed by employees when we require this for reconciliation

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  9. Could a similar function that UK organsiations have to "deep archive" employees be rolled out to AU organsiations? This will assist to adhere to legal requirements of retaining employee records for 7 years.

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  10. 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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  11. It would be a good idea if we could email out payslips at a future date. Especially over christmas. Some people dont log into Xero me and expect future payslips. This would also be good with remittance aswell

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  12. 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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  13. Suggestion - New category of deductions for pre-tax Bonus Salary Sacrifice Items linked to Schedule 5 Tax scales.
    Bonus payments use Schedule 5 to calculate tax and therefore the current salary sacrifice deductions as they are now do not make the necessary reduction in tax payable as they are linked to other PAYGW Tax rates. It would also prompt peoples understanding/awareness that this situation is occurring & that not all Salary Sacrifice Deductions work how you would expect.

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  14. 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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  15. I note in the latest update, the Expenses to Review widget no longer allows for a 'Create New Expense' option on the dashboard. It would be helpful for this to return for those in administration who assist in uploading reimbursements on behalf of others. Previously I could simply submit an expense reimbursement from the dashboard, now I need to navigate to expenses before I can submit.

    Additionally, the preview page no longer shows 'Spent <date>' in the line by line summary of expenses pending approval. Showing 'created on <date>' is not helpful at quick glance. We're now required to look…

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  16. The ability to assign multiple payroll/pay frequencies to an employee. For example, a weekly payroll for wages, then in addition, a monthly payroll for sales bonus payments. A number of companies and employees prefer these to be paid separately, for clarity of all parties.

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  17. We use the description field to identify when staff use different types of leave that reduce the PL balance, but require tracking - Moving Days, Wellbeing Days, Special Leave etc. Being able to include these descriptions in the Leave Request report enables us to keep track more efficiently.

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  18. AU Payroll - Excluding Leave request payments from Unscheduled Payruns

    I would like to be able to exclude the payment of approved leave when processing an unscheduled payrun.

    To illustrate, if I was processing a pre-Christmas bonus payrun for staff because the next scheduled payrun was after Christmas, the pay advice will include any unpaid leave hours that would normally be paid as part of that post-Christmas payrun, which then changes the total to be paid from the bank account & possibly the approved gross payment amount relating to the bonus.

    Further, when you process the next scheduled payrun, Xero…

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  19. "Common Expenses" - fix product flaw.
    In Xero app, as follows:
    -Purchases
    - +
    -Add receipt
    -Tap:Categorise to an acct
    -acct list pops up with heading "Common expenses". 2 accts listed which I rarely use.
    PLEASE FIX : there is no way to edit the list of accts under the heading at the top "common expenses". See my screen shot

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, Tim. I'm just checking in with our team to see if there's any way you can influence the 'Common expense' accounts that are shown. Will round back to confirm with you here.

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