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NZ Payroll - Limit templates and Settings of Payroll Admin
We need more layers of payroll user rights please.

i.e. only admin can change settings or templates OR update any opening balances and or lock them.

As an accounting practice, we require Payroll Admin access to our cleints' Xero files to be able to run PR reports, reonciliations, look into payroll issues etc. This also makes our staff timesheet approvers by default. Client's employees sometimes select our team as the timesheet approver by mistake which leads to lost time and/or unnecessary chargeables to the client to follow up and rectify.

User settings needs a flag for Payroll Admin user permissions to be able to remove users as timesheet approvers, to allow advisers to remove ourselves from the timesheet approval flow.

It seems strange that there are varying levels of access for the bookkeeping side of Xero depending on the user's role within the organisation yet Payroll, which contains very sensitive information, has an all or nothing access. Surely this would be a relatively quick and easy update to make.

Manager role - ability to track and see all staff / selected staff's timesheets on dashboard. Will give us an overall productivity dashboard rather than just our own

This would be very helpful to our business - we would like to give different managers access to different employees (not all) payroll information so they can manage those that report to them and not see other employee payroll information.

Authorised leave approvers (with no other payroll access) should have the ability to change the leave type (e.g. from annual leave to unpaid leave) for leave applications submitted by employees. Additionally, could leave approvers have access to view previously approved leave so they can keep track of how much leave their staff are taking?

No just auditors, but for our outsourced bookkeeping.

Provide admin staff access to timesheets and leave but not to view all sensitive employee financial information. At present we either provide admin with payroll access and they can see employee remuneration which is not ideal, or we can use our admin staff to do admin work (NOT IDEAL).

Having the ability to allow some employees payroll admin access but only for certain employee groups is a must. For example, we payroll both our internal staff and our casual staff. We need one of our internal staff to be able to process payruns for our casual staff but to do so they would then have access to our internal staff's data.

This is not what is needed. A function that allows certain staff payroll admin access to certain employee groups is a must

Need this for NZ Payroll as well.

It would be really helpful if there could be more separation in user permissions.
We have an Admin Team that has the authority to approve leave in our office but does not have the authority to complete other payroll activities - pay runs, view/change pay templates, etc.
Currently Xero does not allow for this separation in permissions so we cannot have this setup correctly in our office

Totally agree with this, i require an additional person for weekly payroll but do not wish them to have access to managers pays.

I agree, it is very important for companies to have a degree of security around who has access to payrolls
Separate Payrolls and access should be a priority for Xero to secure payrolls that we the clients are asking for.

Agree with this! I think its very important

It would be good to have the ability to see Payroll & Payroll Reports without being Payroll Admin.
Being the accountant, we often need to see payruns, access the payroll reports, or see the payroll set up to assist clients with their queries however it would be good to have this ability without receiving all the payrun notification emails e.g. when an employee bank accounts changes or a payrun is not filed.
Ideally, we could customise the access level or turn emails off for users who need access but are not involved in the day-to-day processing of payroll.

yes, please, we would like to have option that someone could do all the timesheets, leave approval without the access to staff's salary info.

Update, yes please do this urgently. As Lynda below pointed out, it is causing employees stress and concern as they see a list of approvers, don't remember who to select so send it to everyone.

Yes please - this is so annoying

Yes, please do this. My accountant and bookkeeper (Payroll Admins) are getting plagued by timesheet approval requests from staff inadvertently selecting the wrong approver.
Time spent trying to re-educate all the staff that make the mistake is starting to add up in cost and frustration.

Split the Payroll Admin role so you can have staff run payroll and reports - but do not have access to make changes to Salaries etc

Or have it that all changes to key items like Salary has dual approval or alerts sent out to the main user so they can see if any changes have been made without permission