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UK payroll - Remove Subject to minimum wage message from draft pay runs
I appreciate the need to comply with minimum wage but to have this message on every pay item showing when processing is not only annoying but confusing when processing. This should only be a warning prompt if the gross pay doesn't meet the requirement when pay details have been completed.
8 votesThank you for your feedback regarding the frequent Subject to minimum wage messages. We understand your feedback on these notifications.
Please know they are temporary and essential right now. The notifications were implemented to encourage employers to carefully review their payroll data to ensure compliance with HMRC’s new legislations, and to avoid penalties during this transition period.
We'll pass your feedback on to the product team.
Thank you again for helping us improve Xero! We encourage you to continue sharing your ideas and voting on suggestions within the forum.
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UK Payroll - Add student loan plan 5
Update Student Plan types to include Plan 5
9 votesThanks for reaching out here about adding Student Loan Plan 5 to Xero.
Plan 5 applies to those starting their degrees from August 2023.
Plan 5 deductions apply from April 2026 onwards, so you can expect to see this Student Loan Plan available in Xero payroll soon.
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Timesheets - New design has limited functionality
I have observed that the timesheets section in the payroll system has been updated. However, this update appears to have introduced several questionable design choices that hinder its functionality and efficiency.
Firstly, the employee list is not sorted alphabetically, which complicates the process of locating specific individuals. Secondly, the system no longer autofill's the default earnings rate, requiring unnecessary manual input. Thirdly, upon clicking the "Approve Timesheet" button, a redundant popup appears asking for confirmation of the approval, despite the action already being explicitly initiated. Lastly, when entering hours worked into a field, the system fails to clear the default…
18 votesHi everyone, while we appreciate your feedback about the updates to Timesheets with quite a few points raised in the one post we are going to move this to feedback. I want to assure you your feedback here has been shared with our product teams - however, if there are specifics that you'd like to see developed in the new timesheets we ask that you create ideas for each that we can then get a sense of the community in and keep you updated through - See the qualities of an idea on Xero Central. 🙏
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AU Payroll Pricing - Reinstate Payroll Add-on
Re-instate the option to pay for additional people on payroll without having to jump subscription tiers.
As a small business, every dollar counts, having to jump $25/month or $40/month to add a person to payroll hurts, especially when the additional features are unnecessary.
The UK has already reinstated this option, it should be reinstated here too. (Not entirely sure why it wouldn't be other than the fact not as many people would have offered feedback here in AU comparatively to UK.
In a capitalistic world, it would be nice to see you on the front foot Xero, show your care…
4 votesWe appreciate your feedback, this will be shared with our teams. We do not accept ideas about Xero pricing plans or plan structures and cannot make commitments to ideas of this nature.
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Payroll - New justified list of employees
Hi Xero,
you are slowly converting all lists into justified (by the size of the screen) lists. Few weeks ago, the purchase orders were justified. We could not see them because the look was so unfamiliar.
This morning the list of employees got justified. It has only 5 columns. The look of this list is ridiculous and extremely difficult to read. On my screen the distance between the centres of the four columns is 13cm, and the blank spaces on the lines on average are 10 cm.
Please consider the agronomic aspects of the changes you make. Consider that we…
1 voteHi Olga,
Thank you for sharing this detailed insight regarding the recent changes to the Employee list layout.
We understand how the increased spacing ("justified" view) on wider screens impacts readability.
As this post is providing a direct critique of a recent update and requests a return to the previous format (a rollback), we are treating this as Feedback rather than opening it as a new feature idea for voting.
Please be assured that we have shared your specific comments regarding the column spacing with the Product Design team for their review as they monitor how these new layouts are performing.
If you'd like to update your idea, you can reply to this update and we'll re-review - See more details on the qualities of a good idea on Xero Central.
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Payroll Reports
- YTD payroll report (to see total salaries earned by staff for each reporting period)
- Pay cycle report (report to be saved in the Payroll module after each pay cycle)
- Ability to save employee contracts in Payroll module under each employee (for audit and transparency purpose)
1 voteWe appreciate your feedback about Payroll Reports and adding files to Employee records.
We don't accept ideas that have multiple requests in one post.
Please create separate ideas for each feature you'd like to see this developed.
You can see the qualities of a good idea on Xero Central.
In regards to saving contracts to employee records you might like to take and view and support this existing idea.
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UK Payroll - Bring back leave dates in employee history screen
Bring back leave date function in employee history list, it made running P45s much easier when there is a team that run payroll.
9 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the removal of the leave date column from the employee list.
There is currently another way to generate this list without needing to click into individual employee records.
You can run the Employee Contact Details report to access this data in a list format.
By running this report, you can view both Start Dates and Termination Dates side-by-side.
You can filter or sort the report giving you the overview needed to manage the team and process documentation efficiently.
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UK Payroll - Option to view leavers in History by leaving date
After the recent Xero upgrade, the ability to view leave dates disappeared from the employees' History. Instead, a column titled "Next pay day" was added, which does not seem useful because the employees have left the company.
18 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the removal of the leave date column from the employee list.
There is currently another way to generate this list without needing to click into individual employee records.
You can run the Employee Contact Details report to access this data in a list format.
By running this report, you can view both Start Dates and Termination Dates side-by-side.
You can filter or sort the report giving you the overview needed to manage the team and process documentation efficiently.
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AU Payroll: Ultimate Plan with 30 Employees Subscription Option
There should be more employee options in the ultimate subscriptions between 20 & 50 employees as there are small businesses out there that will never have 50 employees on the books per month but have more than 20. Even if the subscription points going up by 10 to accomodate this.
1 voteHi Cynthia, we appreciate your feedback, and this will be shared with our teams. However, we do not accept ideas about Xero pricing plans or plan structures and cannot make commitments to ideas of this nature.
You can read more about submitting ideas on our Xero Central article.
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AU Payroll - Pay Day Superannuation
The ability to make pay day superannuation contributions (on a weekly basis) prior to the government mandated deadline of 2026.
6 votesHi team, as noted in my last response it's already possible to pay superannuation contributions weekly.
Auto Super allows you to make superannuation payments as regularly as you'd like.
We'll shift this post to Feedback and I have created a separate idea for making the approval button more obvious as Kylie has suggested here.
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UK Payroll - Activity Details and Summary report format
The new Payroll Activity and Summary Report is not as user friendly as the old one. It was much easier to read and find your employee name and net amount due on the older version. I also don't like how half an employees details can be on one page and the rest on the next page. I would like to revert to the old style, if possible?
4 votesHi Norma, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on the new UK Payroll Activity and Summary reports. I appreciate you detailing exactly how the new formatting is to your disliking.
Our Ideas Forum is designed to track requests for new features or improvements. Because this request asks to revert to the old style (a rollback of a feature update), it falls outside our criteria for a votable idea. See more details on the qualities of a good idea on Xero Central.
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Pricing Plan - UK Payroll only subscriptions
Xero Payroll only subscriptions!
It would be great to be able to open a payroll only Xero subscription for clients who currently don't need/use Xero for bookkeeping. For example, I have a small client who employees a few people but I only provide year end accounting services to which I use the Ledger subscription to complete the year end accounts. I currently utilise Sage payroll online for the monthly payroll reporting but if I could integrate this into Xero without the need for a main subscription, this would help me keep everything in one place. Even if Payroll could be…
12 votesThanks for sharing your thoughts with us here. This has been passed back to our team, however we will no longer be accepting ideas about Xero pricing plans and plan structures and will move this to Feedback.
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AU Payroll - Remove the letter "t" from Sept in the month field
Remove the letter "t" from Sept in the month field as all other months are only 3 characters long
1 voteHi Rolf, I wanted to share an update as running back across your idea here there is a bit of logic at play that determines the way a date is shown on reports in Xero.
Abbreviations for reports are determined by an organisation's region and align with modern accepted format. This means while some organisations in Xero may show a date as 'Sep' another may show as 'Sept'.
An example of this is for AU, NZ and UK organisations the accepted format is to show September as 'Sept' when abbreviated.
We appreciate some customers may want this to appear differently but want to be open that we intend to continue alignment with accepted formatting. Thanks
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