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  1. Ability to change the standard Xero password when emailing payslips.

    Purpose - if emails were hacked, the current standard password (initials & birthdate) set by Xero is easily guessed. It should be possible within Xero to change this standard password.

    28 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on customising payslip passwords. It’s been a little while since this idea was raised, we can see it's been steadily gaining support.

    To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comment section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  2. Update the monthly payroll to calculate based on the number of work hours in the month, rather than taking the yearly salary / 12 / number work hours. Given that each month has a different number of work days, the pay rate changes every month and this is a compliance issue.

    13 votes

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    7 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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    Thanks for your patience, it’s been a little while since you raised this idea, so we wanted to check in. We've now reviewed this idea and have moved it to Gaining Support status.

    To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comment section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  3. The gross to net report currently doesn't include reimbursed expenses, and possibly other things we haven't found yet so the net pay doesn't agree to the payslips! Please can we have a gross to net report that agrees to payslips? Failing that even a report that shows reimbursed expenses per employee would be better than nothing.

    26 votes

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    Hey all, thanks for sharing your feedback on having reimbursements show on the Gross to Net report. Currently this report only captures taxable income.

    It’s been a little while since this idea was raised and we can see it's been steadily gaining support.

    To help this idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comment section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

  4. Have an email sent to two different email addresses when an employee requests leave.

    15 votes

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    Hi there, we appreciate you raised this a little while ago. This isn't something we have plans for in the near term.

    Not getting a lot of support from other members we’ll soon remove this from Product ideas. If it’s still highly valuable to you, welcome to start it again and see if it gets renewed interest.

  5. Payroll - Leave Liability Report to include Time in Lieu or Time Banked. For Companies that choose to offer Time in Lieu to their employees, this will be extremely helpful for reporting purposes. Also if it was available in Excel would be great. Thanks.

    8 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on having all paid leave types populate the Leave Liability report.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

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  6. That Leave Liability Report is able to be exported to Excel. This would avoid double handling when I am creating graphing for the CE

    23 votes

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    Hey community, just a quick update to let you know the team are currently working on this! No exact timeframes are available just yet but we'll pop back when we have more news to share 🗞️

  7. As per this post 3 years ago I have the same challenge.

    https://central.xero.com/s/question/0D51N00004DBrgFSAT/annual-leave-ledger-code-setup-in-payroll

    Can Australia be configured the same as NZ by having ability to send Leave taken to a balance sheet leave liability account?

    20 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for your input and comments on this idea, we can see it's been a while since we've provided you with an update, so just wanted to touch base.

    We've reviewed your idea and have moved it to Gaining Support status. Now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  8. When running the Payment Summary Details report for a previous financial year, the report does not show the dates of the financial year the data belongs to. The report is titled Payment Summary Details as at Today's Date. For example: it should show Payment Summary Details reporting period 1st July 2017 - 30th June 2018. For audit purposes, there is no way of determining the date range the reported data relates to.

    29 votes

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    Thanks for your patience whilst your idea is gaining traction.

    We've reviewed your idea and can see that it's been steadily gaining community support.

    Whilst this idea isn't currently in the pipeline, we'll keep monitoring the activity and will update you if there are any changes.

  9. An Employee's payslip gives the current pay period earnings, deductions and net take home pay. It's missing YTD earnings and deductions information on a payslip. Please consider including the same in your future updates. Thanks, We are a Canadian based business.

    4 votes

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    Hi community, we’re making some changes to Global Pay Run to help you manage your payroll more effectively;

    - From 23 July 2025 Global Pay Run will become read-only. You'll still be able to see all your past payroll information, however you will not be able to process any new pay runs after this date. 

    - Global Pay run will be retired after April 2026, at which point you'll no longer be able to access pay run. 

    We appreciate your input on how we can improve Xero for you, however with this change coming we don't have any plans to further develop Global Pay Run, and will move any ideas related to this on the site to Not planned. 

    If you're from a region where we offer dedicated payroll products (AU, NZ and UK) specifically designed for your regions unique requirements, you may want to explore transitioning to Xero

  10. The ability to have the payroll week number showing on the payslip if it is a weekly payroll, rather than just the tax month it falls into.

    17 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion.

    This is a clear idea that would help employees on weekly pay schedules better understand which specific tax week their pay relates to, rather than just seeing the tax month or the date range.

    We have marked this idea as Gaining Support so other users can vote and show the Community team how important this addition to the payslip is.

    In the meantime, as a temporary workaround, you could manually add the week number to the Payslip Message field on the draft pay run (e.g., "Week 12") before posting it. This message will appear at the bottom of the employee's payslip.

  11. When you're in the pay run screen, you can only download ALL payslips as one PDF file. We need to be able to download payslips by employee group so they can be sent to the individual managers of the employee groups for review/approval.

    19 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your feedback and voting for the ability to download payslips by employee group.

    Our product team has had this on their radar, and we are pleased to announce that we are updating the status of this request to Accepted.

    We will keep you updated here on how and when this feature progresses. Thanks for continuing to share your valuable insights with us!

  12. Hiding Voided Pay Run from showing on the Main Pay Run Page.

    It will be great to have a functionality that allows you hide payruns that have been voided from showing on the main payrun list.

    When approved payruns cannot be edited, the only option is to void and create a new one. If a functionality can allow editing approved pay run, then there will be no need. But now, we need to have a function to hide the voided payruns.

    A screenshot has been attached for clearer understanding for voting and implementation.

    2 votes

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    Hi team, we appreciate your feedback and sharing how this idea could benefit your business. However, as you may have received recently communication of - We’re making some changes to Global Pay Run to help you manage your payroll more effectively;

    - From 23 July 2025 Global Pay Run will become read-only. You'll still be able to see all your past payroll information, however you will not be able to process any new pay runs after this date. 

    - Global Pay run will be retired after April 2026, at which point you'll no longer be able to access pay run. 

    This means that we don't have any plans for further development of our Global Pay Run product, and will move any ideas related to this on the site to Not planned. 

    If you're from a region where we offer dedicated payroll products (AU, NZ and UK) specifically designed for…

  13. We need to change the subject line for our payslip email template to include the word Confidential so that we meet our ISO standard

    14 votes

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    It's been a little while since this idea was raised & we wanted to touch base with an update. We can see that this idea has been steadily gaining support, so have updated the status.

    There is also a similar idea that is Australian specific called AU Payroll | Payslip - Change formatting of payslip file name so we've linked any Australian based supporters to the correct region and made this idea UK specific.

    Our product team are keeping an eye on this idea and if there are any future updates, we'll let you know!

  14. 14 votes

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    Thanks for the feedback on having a pension file format compatible with NOW: Pensions. Currently, Xero allows you to export a CSV file in the standard PAPDIS format.

    To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it too. The comments section is also open for all members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience.

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