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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 doesn't recognise that these leave hours have already been paid & presents an employee's normal pay calculation, which it wouldn't do if the leave request was included there for payment as the leave would be part of that payrun calculation.

That makes it my responsibility as payroll manager to adjust the pay advice to ensure that the employee isn't overpaid by the amount of their leave hours, which you may or may not remember to do depending on circumstances of the day.

If the option was available to exclude leave payments from unscheduled payruns this would automatically move them into the next scheduled payrun as per normal thus avoiding these types of situations, which can get ugly when they involve staff & salaries.