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Email payslips to employees on specific DATE

The new update to email payslips to employees doesn't really make any sense.

The original suggested idea was to allow flexibility to payroll processors so they don't have to log in to Xero for each payroll client and release the payslips manually. The new update for scheduled automation just really moves the responsibility to the posting date so we now need to remember to log in to Xero to post the payroll with the automation either being automatic on the day, or within a 5 day window after posting!

Having a 1 to 5 day delay does nothing to really assist with the original query/request. Most payroll pay dates change month by month, dependent on whether the date of the pay day lands on a working day, a weekend or a bank holiday. We need the ability to post the payroll on whatever day we have the time availability to process and then be able to set a specific DATE that the payslips are released to employees.

The current update doesn't really improve the situation or make things any easier. I am a bit confused by the update to be honest and why it was released and I think others who requested this will agree!!

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  • Julia Rebhan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Who came up with this! Who wants payslips to be sent based on the day we do the work? It's the date they're going to be paid that matters! The day we process pay runs may vary month to month, so to pick a standard amount of days after that to apply to all future payslips being made available is so random.

  • Michael Shacklock commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would have to agree with Scott on this.

    The original suggestion thread was to be able to schedule sending the payslips on a specifyable date by the user NOT the way this system update appears to have been done.

    'Emailing on posting payrun' & then again 'On payment date' (or set number of days afterwards) the pay-run makes no sense at all. This simply duplicates sending them & still doesn't give the user business the flexibility to send them even just on the 'Payment date ONLY' or let's say more importantly, the day before payment??!!

    Basically the way the update has currently been implemented is inflexible & illogical IMHO

  • Abi Broom commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree, this makes no sense whatsoever. Default should be for payslips to be automatically emailed to employees on payday, but we definitely need the ability to choose a specific calendar date.