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Payroll - Include Employee group category on the employee list
Xero has discontinued to display tracking category in the employee list - This means I now need to run a report to receive this information which will make processing pays longer so it's no longer a smooth process. I would like to see a return for this feature. Thank you.
43 votesHi again everyone 👋 happy to pop back in and share that Employee Group has been added back to the Employee List for AU organisations in Xero payroll.
Thanks for sharing how this feature helps your workflows and use of Xero, here.
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UK Payroll - Schedule wage payments
Whilst the new Payroll Payment feature in Xero is welcome, being unable to schedule the payments for a future date sadly means we will need to continue manually inputting the salaries via our bank. We pay our staff on the last working day of the month. This feature only allows payment via faster payment, so I will always need to be available on the last working day of the month to post the payrun. I would normally process the salaries a few days before the last working day then set them up to be paid in a few days time.…
15 votesHi team, it's great to hear your feedback on payroll payments. I'm happy to share an update that we have now rolled out scheduled payment capability to all UK Payroll orgs.
That said, there are some banks that do not support scheduled payments, and we'd recommend checking with your bank to see if they do. Thanks again for sharing back with us here.
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AU Payroll - Fast click Superannuation directly from payrun
Could you please consider adding the feature of adding and processing auto superannuation payments from each finalised payrun (eg button next to "File" that would prefil the contributions in the payrun and further to authorisation). A number of clients are asking for a payday super feature, and adding this feature directly from the payrun will minimise the number of "clicks" and processing time. This also would be a hot topic if moving to compulsory payday super.
39 votesHi everyone — thanks for your feedback on making superannuation payments directly from a posted pay run.
We’ve recently released an update that lets you start a super payment directly from a posted pay run. After you post the pay, select the Make payment dropdown and choose Pay superannuation to jump straight to creating your super payment.
You can find general guidance on paying super here: Process automatic superannuation payments.
We appreciate your input, it helps us keep improving the payroll experience.
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Pricing Plans - Keep Payroll accessible from the Ignite and Grow plans
I currently pay for the Standard Plan (15/month) plus Payroll (5/month) and use it for 2 payroll users.
Under the newly unveiled pricing plans my business has been completely shafted.
In order to use Payroll at all, I need to upgrade to the new Grow plan (33/month), already an increase of 13/month. But on top of that, that isn't even enough because you're restricted this plan to only 1 payroll user. So actually I have to jump all the way to the second from top plan which is the Comprehensive at 47/month.
This is a complete joke.
This shift in…
83 votesHi team, sorry a little late off the mark updating you all here. We'd like to confirm that, the changes mentioned in my last post are now live and implemented across existing and for any new customers adding an organisation or moving plans.
In UK you can now add individual employees to Payroll on Ignite, Grow, and Comprehensive plans for £1.50 per employee per month (Ultimate will remain at £1). For Australia payroll is once again included in all Xero business plans, offering more choice and flexibility when it comes to paying yourself and employees, and making it easier to keep up with compliance obligations. On Xero Ignite plan you can pay one person(as you could with Starter), and two people on Xero Grow (as you could on Xero Standard). You can also process automated super payments on both plans.
We appreciate the importance of flexibility in payroll to our…
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NZ Payroll - Annual Leave option to add in Days instead of hours
Would be easier for employees & team leaders approving leave if annual leave is able to be requested in days and half days. Or to have the option to select either days or hours when requesting annual leave through the Xero Me app.
It's the most common complaint I hear from our employees that it would be way easier if they could just put in 1 day instead of working out the hours they want to take off.
30 votesHi all, thanks for your patience with this. We've now rolled out this feature to 100% of NZ Payroll organisations.
If you haven't yet, you'll be able to convert your employees leave to be calculated and displayed in Days. Take a look at our support article on how to manage this change.
Thanks for your continued support and letting us know what matters most.
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AU Payroll | Payroll Activity Detailed report - Separate date and Employee name columns
I hope that there's separate columns for date and employee name as seen in the previous report as it's totally useful when summarising data for various period. For instance, when generating the old report, it's completely quicker to use the pivot table and other excel formulas to calculate the total hours work and the corresponding cost in a certain period and prepare a comparative report for various pay item/period and employee using the old payroll activity detailed report. It's a single payroll report where all the relevant information is included.
32 votesHiya team, thank you for sharing your feedback and letting us know the detail and why this is valuable to you. Based on feedback we received on the Employee name and Date columns the team have just released an update to the Payroll Activity Detailed report to include Employee name and Date as separate columns in the report and these will now show by default.
This will help as noted when exporting and using the data for further analysis outside of Xero.
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AU Payroll Employee Summary - Filter by Employee Groups
Went to filter my Payroll Employee Summary by employee Groups to show my Apprentices income for Payroll Tax Reporting and it's gone? Why? I've got to say it's getting really irritating that Xero features keep being removed overnight.
A suggestion - do not remove a feature and replace it until the new function does at a MINIMUM the same standard of functionality that was previously offered. Otherwise you're going to get alot of annoyed and fed up paying customers.
FYI - it's not hard for us as an accounting practice firm to migrate away from Xero if you continue to…
31 votesHey everyone, we appreciate your feedback and hearing what our customers need most when using this report.
Following the release of the new Payroll Employee Summary report found under the Accounting > Reports menu, we have done a recent update to enable the ability to filter by Employee Group. -
UK Payroll - Employee birthday report
Would be really useful to be able to run a report of employee’s birthdays.
15 votesThanks for sharing your desire for a report which includes the employees' DOB.
I wanted to let you know that we've released an updated Employee Contact Details report which includes multiple new columns including DOB and age.
Thanks for your continued feedback, this helps shape the future of Xero.
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AU Payroll - Two employees on Grow plan, or the ability to tack on employees
The new Grow subscription only allowing for one employee is really tough for accountants operating in the micro-business space, as many of the small businesses that I have been working to get onto Xero are either married couples or two business partners who need exactly two payroll employees, with no intention to grow beyond that number.
Having to jump from Grow to Comprehensive just to add a payroll user is prohibitive for a lot of my clients, and knowing that this is the case is stopping me from recommending Xero as a product where it would have been a no-brainer…
7 votesThanks for sharing your thoughts with us here, community. We know this is important to you and are pleased to share based on feedback we made some changes.
Payroll is now included in all new business plans (Ignite, Grow and Ultimate). You'll be able to pay one person on Ignite, and two people on the Grow plan.
I want to confirm that these changes are now all live and available for you to make use of. See more of this on our blog.
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NZ Payroll - Show leave balances on payslip in days and hours
Annual leave needs to be able to be shown in days/hours on payslips and not in weeks as it is very hard and confusing for the employees to work out exactly what their leave balances are. It also makes it very confusing when you are trying to work out if they are actually entitled to leave when doing the payroll as their leave could be in the negatives, but the accrued dollars show otherwise
3 votesHi all, I wanted to let you know what we recently released an update to all NZ payroll organisations which allows you to have leave calculate in Days and Weeks.
Once you've converted your employees leave balances to Days and Weeks the balances will show on future payslips as Days.
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Hi Luping Zhang, it looks like you're interested in adding UnionPay as a payment service to Xero. While we don't have a direct integration you could look to set this up as a custom URL. We have some information on how you can go about this on Xero central.
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UK Payroll - Employee Contact Details
Payroll Employee Contact Details would be good to see a column for terminated employee showing date left and employee number
2 votesHi everyone, we recently rolled out an enhanced Employee Contact Details report.
This new report includes additional columns such as DOB, Start & Termination dates, and Employment Groups.
We hope this report helps you with managing your workflows.
Thanks again for supporting this idea and being the voice of change.
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AU Payroll - Information on setting up a novated lease for an employee
Can you please post up instructions on how business owners can setup novated leases for their employees and also identifying the process where the vehicle is FBT exempt or subject to FBT. We have had a few of our clients ask why Xero doesn't provide much guidance regarding this issue.
7 votesThanks again for sharing your feedback on this with us, Carmen, and to others that have since supported this idea.
I'm pleased to share based on your feedback we've added a new article to Xero Central to help customers understand how they can record novated leases in Xero.
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NZ Payroll - Record sick leave as days
We need sick leave to be recorded in days to line up with current NZ payroll legislation. 10 days sick leave. The current settings in hours only work for people who work the same hours on the same days. Anyone with variable hours or different hours on different days this does not work and manual accrual needs to be kept outside of payroll. Then leave balances need to be manually adjusted which is a lot of work. This has been an issue for many many years and would be good to get fixed.
13 votesHi all, thanks for your patience with this. We've now rolled out this feature to 100% of NZ Payroll organisations.
If you haven't yet, you'll be able to convert your employees leave to be calculated and displayed in Days. Take a look at our Support article on how to manage this change.
Thanks for your continued support and letting us know what matters most.
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UK Payroll - List contacts in alphabetical order, by Surname
It would help if the list of emplyees were sorted in alphabet order, by Surname.
8 votesHi everyone, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on the order employees are listed.
We’ve recently updated the Employee list page so you can now sort employees by multiple fields, including surname, employee number, and email address, and other columns. This should make it easier to find and review the employees you need in the order that best suits your workflow.
Thank you again for your feedback and for helping us continue to improve Xero Payroll.
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NZ Payroll - Tracking in the Payroll journal
Add tracking into the payroll journal. We are wanting to record salary costs in the different departments we have set up
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AU Payroll - Ability to apply tracking categories to superannuation
We have grant funding so wages as well as super needs to be applied with the tracking code to acquit grant correctly. Presently, there is no availability to apply tracking codes against the superannuation, as well it is only available through timesheets for the wages.
It would be very helpful if tracking codes could be applied directly with pay items in employee template (similarly like other software) so this can be applied when leave is taken also35 votesHi everyone, apologies for the delay in providing an update here. We appreciate the feedback on having Super and Leave to be automatically allocated to payroll tracking.
In May 2025 we released an update to all AU payroll organisations which extends Employee Group tracking to Leave and Superannuation transactions.
This means that going forward Leave and Superannuation costs will be differentiated by tracking categories.
We hope this change helps you manage your overall expenses. Thanks for supporting this idea and paving the way for the future.
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UK Payroll - Birthday Notifications for employees
Notifications on xero to alert you that an employees age has increased due to a birthday, as they may have hit a new age bracket in the wage rates and they could be getting underpaid if not noticed. Example - employee goes from age 20 to 21 this would mean that if they are on the 18-20 year old wage rate and they are on the £7.49 once they turned 21 they should then be on £10.18. so notification of birthdays would help keep you aware of age changes.
124 votesHi team, this is now released!🎉
We've recently updated Xero Payroll(UK) and now a new NI category will automatically be applied to a pay run based on an employees birthdate, and if they are entering into a new NI category. Helping to save you time from manually tracking and updating yourself. 😊
Thanks for all your support and input via the idea here.
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NZ Payroll - Leave Balances Report matches employee record leave balance
It would be great to have a Leave Balances report that reported in hours to match the employees' payslip balances for management to use. The current leave balances report only shows accrued leave in dollars not hours.
7 votesHi all, thanks so much for taking the time to share this idea, and explain why having the Leave Balance Report in hours and dollars is necessary.
We’ve recently released an update to NZ Payroll reporting so you can report leave in hours, days, or weeks.
Once you’ve converted your employees’ leave balances, they’ll display on the Leave Balances Report in the selected unit (hourly, daily, or weeks). The report will also include the total leave liability as a dollar amount.
We hope this helps make it easier for you and your managers to review and manage leave. Thanks again for helping us continue to improve Xero Payroll.
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AU Payroll - changes to Unit reporting on Payroll Activity Details
Very recent change to the Payroll Activity Details report, now Units capped at two decimal places, changed within the last fortnight.
This needs to revert to four decimal places, as that is what is allowed when entering your payroll. Why has this been changed as now, the Payroll Activity report is the only available report to use to check a payroll, is no longer of any use as it does not reflect the correct data entry.6 votesHi everyone, we appreciate your feedback here. Apologies we haven't updated sooner, as I can confirm that we made a change in July to the Payroll Activity Details report so it will now show 4 decimal places.
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