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This feature should absolutely already exist in Xero. Cloud Payroll has had this for years already and it is a business critical feature! They also have a global calendar that everyone can see when others have planned annual leave so they can see who else will be away at the same time. This is imperative for staff taking extra days off before or after public holidays (e.g. Easter long weekend) so we don't have too many people off at the same time in a single department.

It's a super-necessary tool for both the employee and the company because vacation is an important decision for both parties.

This would be a most important implementation, as employees are always wanting to book holidays in advance. Without this feature it is a time consuming process to work out whether they will have enough leave by that date.

That would be great. At this stage, we created a spreadsheet for the calculations, which needs info from Xero entered, pay periods counted etc. It could be all done in Xero, and would make it easy

I agree with this request. It would be great if this could be included in Xero Payroll in the future. We are having to use our old spreadsheet to calculate the leave and it is causing additional work for a feature that is necessary

It feel like this should be a simple feature that is so necessary for many reasons.
Please bring this in as soon as possible.

If someone submits a leave request months ahead of their planned leave (which is good and useful for their team to manage projected workflows) then Xero immediately takes this into account so staff may then appear to have a significant negative leave balance. Our protocol is to avoid negative annual leave balances where possible because it's a debt to the business, so we have to manually calculate what they will have accrued by the planned leave date to ensure they are as close to a positive balance as possible. And then if that staff member submits another leave request for time BEFORE their future (previously submitted) leave application they go alarmingly into negative so we have to make additional manual calculations to get the true accrual figure at the leave date/s. Don't even get me started on how we plan for the office shutdown over Christmas... So why, Xero, with all the technology you have at hand why do we still need to whip out the calculator or set up formulae in Excel to manage this??

Hi Mitchell

Thanks for getting back in touch.

At this stage there are no immediate plans to work on the projected leave balance feature request.

While I understand this was not the answer you were looking for, I would encourage you to keep checking the product idea link for any updates.

Warmest Regards,

Zoe

I am in support of this 100%. I thought this would've been a standard feature and I would love to see this as an option in Xero Payroll moving forward.

Seriously? I'm new to Xero and am shocked that this is not a standard procedure

This is NOT rocket science. We had this in payroll systems back in 1980's !!! Come on Xero, stop focussing on new features you think your customers want and get us what WE actually need and want !!!

This is so critical for payroll!

I agree that this would be very beneficial. Manually calculating can be cumbersome and time consuming.

This is an absolute necessity for approving Annual Leave, it shouldnt need to be manually calculated especially at Office Closure times for multiple staff

Seconded to a previous comment, it's that time of year where we need to project balances for leave of Christmas office closure and it would be really helpful.

I have to manually work out the employees projected leave for the Christmas shut down so this would be extremely helpful.

Such a critical feature that is needed for payroll

A projected leave balance report would be so beneficial for my organisation. Currently, I run the Leave Balances & Leave Requests reports then using my excel skills combine the two to try and predict the accrued leave balance of the leave requests to find out whether that employee needs to apply for leave without pay. This can take a full day depending upon interruptions!

I wholeheartedly agree that having the capability to project leave would not only be helpful but I'd argue, necessary! We recently moved across to Xero payroll when we moved our financial management to Xero. I was not aware of this lacking feature before the move, and I may have reconsidered it I was.

In AU Payroll - can you please add the projected leave balance.
This would be really helpful for employee to plan their leaves.