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I am about to go on leave and processed a future pay run so I wouldn't need to take my laptop with me. However, to ensure everything was taken care of before I left, I was required to pay the superannuation before the employees had actually been paid.
This doesn't seem like a practical or logical process and creates unnecessary complications for businesses trying to manage payroll while on leave. I believe this is an issue that should be reviewed and addressed as soon as possible to prevent other users from having to do the same thing.
Please consider this feedback and investigate whether the workflow can be improved.
Thank you.

How do we get this on the product teams urgent roadmap?

This is a critical feature for pre-scheduled pays.

Employees have the right to disconnect therefore shouldn't need to be entering approval codes during closure periods.

This is a critical feature now that we have payday Super. Many industries have closure periods, particularly over Christmas, where I, like most Admins in my field, schedule the pays in advance for while everyone is on leave.

Pre-scheduled pays just do their thing while I enjoy a break with my family

How do you suggest we handle this now that Payday Super is in play?

What can we do to get this on the product teams roadmap as this is critical for all of the businesses I look after and after reading the comments here, many others. The inability to schedule is actually going to create a lot more work for anyone who does payroll in advance and uses readily available scheduling tools.
Sorry Xero, I feel you have been mostly asleep at the wheel on payday super with mostly cosmetic changes to date and I hope to see something meaningful in the next fortnight

This is essential to me, I often do payrolls in advance if going away or to prepare for Christmas shutdown periods. The super payment should be processed on the same day as the payroll payment so being able to approve it for a future date is required.

This is an extremely important feature. Can you provide an update on when this will be available?

I would like to request the ability to schedule superannuation payments for a future date.

I operate multiple companies, many of which have payroll amounts that are consistent from pay period to pay period. This allows payroll to be prepared well in advance.

It would be extremely beneficial to be able to process and authorise superannuation payments ahead of time and have them automatically paid on a nominated future date. This functionality would reduce administrative burden, improve cash-flow management, and assist businesses in complying with the Payday Super requirements commencing from 1 July 2026.

Xero where is this at?????

Now that we are transitioning to payday super a lot of us have to preset payroll payments. Is it possible to have the ability to change the processing date otherwise we are processing a day or 2 earlier than the payroll is being processed so this is not ideal if we processed say monday 30th June if the payroll is paid 1st July! Or in some cases we preset when there are holidays say xmas how do we preset super? We dont wish to process all on same day before the payruns are paid. This is an important item to add into the process of paying superannuation. I highly recommend this be considered. MYOB now has the ability to preset different date as I tried it recently.

I have had clients who have also questioned what they do over the Xmas period when they close. They would prefer not to worry about organising super payments over this time, so the ability to do this would be very helpful.

This is definitely needed with the implementation of Pay Day super - our office shuts down over Christmas and we can schedule bank payments for pay runs, but we now need to have someone make the super payments on the due dates regardless of being on leave.

I participated in a Xero payday super webinar last week and brought this up. the person answering suggested it be made a product idea however here it is from more than 3 years ago. we pay salary and often process ahead of time as we can do that with payroll & automatic bank transfers. Super? nope, gone the day the code is put in so if processing a few payrolls in advance due to leave etc, will now have to attend the office (am the only employee & only person able to approve unless manually change every time unavailable) on every payday regardless of what is happening. Xero, this is not new and is critical to business operation

We run a monthly payroll for work done to the 21st of the month for payment on the 28th of the month.
When the payrun is completed sometime between the 21st and the 28th of the month, I would like to schedule the superannuation payment to be on the SAME DAY as the employee payments. Otherwise, I need to remember to go back to Xero on the 28th of the month to make the superannuation payment which is not ideal.

As you are aware, payday super is approaching fast and you have made aware of this issue for some time now.

What is the latest on this?

it is critical to be able to schedule the Super payment just like you can the wages especially if you want to manage multiple clients payroll

Create the ability to approve and then delay an auto super payment, so you can set up multiple pay runs in advance but delay the direct debit of the super until the day the wages are uploaded to employee bank accounts. This would help when a payroll admin goes on leave (especially in a small business) where there may not be another available auto super authoriser.

Thank you, this would be highly important for our clients if a fix could be provided.

We manage payroll for multiple clients and often process payroll in advance due to public holidays and shutdown periods.

Currently, superannuation payments processed via Xero are debited immediately upon submission. However, with Payday Super, this will create a mismatch where super is paid before employee wages are paid.

This is counterintuitive from both a cash flow and payroll accuracy perspective.

This is particularly relevant over shutdown periods such as Christmas, where access to systems (including 2-factor authentication) may be limited, increasing the risk of missed or delayed superannuation payments across multiple clients.

Ability to future date/set a specific date for automatic superannuation payments the same way that you can set a payment date for the Pay Runs.

In the situation where there is a holiday period such as Christmas/New year payroll administrators may process payroll/s in advance with a future payment date. Payday super requires that the super is paid on pay day, however if the automatic super payment batch is processed in advance it will pay the super immediately and not at the same future date as the payroll payment. If you can select a specific payment date for payroll, you should also be able to select a specific payment date for super. This will be more important with the more frequent superannuation payments required under the new Payday Super rules and the likelihood of needing to process payrolls and super in advance.

given payday super is coming, it would be ideal to be able to schedule the super payment for the same date as the wages ABA when sending to clients, this would save time going back in on the wages payment date
I would consider this to be a really important functionality required to compy with the new ATO legislation as at 1 july

The one thing I'd like changed in Xero. Especially important when pay day super starts.