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  1. ability to select more than one employee when generating payroll reports, not just a single employee or All employees

    78 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for your continued feedback. We appreciate you sharing how important selecting multiple employees is for you when running payroll reports.

    The good news is our product team has reviewed this idea and agrees it is a valuable addition to Xero. We have updated the status to Accepted.

    This feature is not currently on our immediate development roadmap, however by accepting it we are formally adding it to our backlog for consideration.

    We will keep tracking interest here and update you as soon as we have news.

  2. Timesheet approval process

    1. Give payroll admins the ability to move the status from "draft" to "pending approval" as is possible in NZ and UK or
    2. Give permissions to users with approval power to see the timesheet in the "draft" status through "Xero me" or
    3. Permit users with approval power to see the "timesheet" module in addition to "Xero me"
    20 votes

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    Hi team, knowing that managing and reviewing timesheets is a big part of your work, we're working to make this easier for you in Xero Payroll.

    We’re updating the timesheet admin experience, including a new timesheet list and a redesigned details view to help you find what you need faster.

    We’d love your help to shape these improvements. We’re looking for customers who manage or approve employee timesheets to join an early access program. You’ll try the new interface and give feedback directly to our team.

    If you'd like to help us build a better experience 📝 fill in our recruitment survey.

    It only takes a few minutes, and we’ll be in touch soon with next steps. Thanks for your help!

  3. When paying employees, instead of having 50 payments go through your bank account, its a bulk payment instead. One total payment (like a bulk payment made through your bank account where you get 25 payee's grouped together - Only the grand total shows in your bank account).
    Making the accounting in Xero easier, also if Audited, quicker for checks.

    3 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing this idea. Whether your payroll appears as a single bulk total or individual lines depends entirely on your specific bank and the type of payment method you use (such as BACS vs. Faster Payments). Ultimately, whatever is recorded on your official bank statement is exactly what gets imported into Xero as a bank feed line.

    That being said, we completely understand the request for Xero to automatically group these matching lines together on the reconciliation screen, or to provide a feature that allows you to reconcile all of them at once.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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  4. It would be so helpful for Xero to have the ability to calculate rolled up holiday pay based on timesheets entered and show this as a separate line for holiday pay on the payslip.

    31 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea here.

    We've reviewed your idea and it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Sharing the idea with any colleagues could benefit so they can add their vote too!

  5. UK Payroll report to include employee bank details - would like a report to run employee contact details which lists existing bank details

    18 votes

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    Hi Joanne, thanks so much for all your feedback and comments on this idea. We totally get how handy it’d be to have a report in Xero UK Payroll that includes employee bank details.

    Not having something like this can definitely add extra work and hassle—especially when you need to send bank info to a third party or double-check payments.

    Right now, the idea’s in the ‘Gaining support’ stage, which means we’re keeping a close eye on how many people are voting and sharing their thoughts. The more input we get, the easier it is for us to understand how important this is and where it might sit in our list of priorities.

  6. When you approve an auto super payment it would be helpful if an account transaction is created in the bank account with the description detailing the underlying payruns the super payment amounts relate to (ie pay dates, employee total). This would then be matched to the withdrawal on from the bankfeed.

    When trying to reconcile what super has been paid and when this information would be very helpful in identifying late super from within the GL or account transaction report.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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

  7. There is a link from an employee's draft pay run to their timesheet, but not back to their draft pay run. It would be helpful if there was a shortcut to go back from the timesheet to the pay run.

    3 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  8. If an employee does overtime which is TOIL, Xero should automatically pull this across into the leave allowances for the employee so that it can be taken. Currently you have to manually post everything which is time consuming.

    13 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea linked to TOIL and Leave

    We've reviewed your idea and the next part will be for the community to get behind and support it.

    Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero and vote for it.

  9. Historical Payroll reporting for analysis.

    Reports to show what remuneration each employee was on at a certain period / FY. Comparison reports for same.

    Leave balances reports with updated rates, when carrying leave accruals for leave liabilities, rate changes in employee remuneration is commonly the reason for increases in accruals monthly, although not obvious from a reporting summary.

    15 votes

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    We appreciate you sharing here in product ideas.

    We've reviewed your idea so that other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  10. When codes are sent for payday super there needs to be a reference in the code for which batch it relates too. As if you are paying multiple batches you will receive multiple codes in a short period of time. How do you know which code relates to which batch?

    2 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  11. I have Sales staff that earn commissions. I would like to upload their commissions report to their payslip (or payrun). The commissions report is an external system report.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  12. i have a query to resolve with HMRC regarding the difference between what is showing on our P32 and what payments they have taken/ FPS file received.

    It would be useful if I could see a full breakdown of each employees details that are submitted in the FPS in excel format as the current XML is not easily legible

    8 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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

  13. I temporarily suspended working through my UK Limited Company during COVID, and I was advised by my accountant to close my Payroll. When I resumed Ltd Co operating I discovered that it was impossible to create a new Payroll against my existing Organisation in Xero. I now do my payroll in Sage, at extra cost.

    Have you fixed this ? (I don’t have time to search hundreds of existing ideas)

    7 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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

  14. I would like the facility to change the default number of working weeks in the year. We work to 52.14 weeks per year and as Xero works on 52 weeks as an unchangeable default, the minimum wage checks - a useful feature - become meaningless

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, I understand that with weekly payroll you can sometimes end up with 53 pay weeks in a year, and 364 days is not entirely 1 year.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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  15. Why cant small operators bypass the LEAVE function and approval process. If one of my workers has a sick day it would be far easier to simply adjust the payslip to 7.6 hours under the sick category and it then automatically deducts it from the leave balance. Same for holidays etc. Its quite time consuming for small operators.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and 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.

  16. We offer employees the option to sacrifice salary for additional leave. Prorating the salary is easy - just enter a new salary and a day for it to apply from. Giving the additional leave is a pain, as it aligns with the financial year, not the employee's leave anniversary date. At the moment I have to create a new leave type, and manually add the leave balance.
    I would like xero to give the option to accrue a certain amount of this leave each pay cycle, or just add to the annual leave balance.

    3 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  17. Ability to send an employee payslip from individual employee PaySlip History either singularly or multiple payslips as requested by employees. Instead of having to go into each pay run to re-send payslips.

    3 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing the idea to email historic payslips from directly in the Employee record.

    We’ve moved your idea to Gaining support and will be keeping an eye on how much interest it gets from other users.

    In the meantime, a handy workaround is to tick the payslips you wish to send from the employees record and then download them and attach to an email.

  18. For the Xero Payroll pay item "Tips (non-direct)", as tips paid by a customer's credit card belong to the staff, not employer (i.e. current liability rather than company expense), please could Xero adjust the allowed payroll settings to be set up so that "Tips (non-direct)" can be posted directly to a current liability account, rather than only to a company expense account, the latter currently being the only available option.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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

  19. An Upgrade to the Timesheets function that would allow businesses to create permanent, personalised templates for individual employees.

    Currently, timesheets need to be manually updated each pay period, which increases the risk of inconsistency and errors. Having the ability to set up fixed Earnings Rate descriptions as part of a permanent template would make timesheets more efficient, accurate, and tailored to each business.

    For example, it would be very useful if a timesheet template could include pre-set lines such as:

    Ordinary hours – Direct

    Ordinary hours – Operating

    Overtime hours (exempt from super)

    Overtime hours (including super)

    Overtime Mon–Sat –…

    11 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and providing us with all the information we need to review your idea.

    We've now opened your idea to the wider Xero community to get behind and support it.

    Other members can now vote and also offer comments to explain exactly how your suggestion could improve the way they use Xero. We're excited to see the feedback your idea will garner.

  20. The choice of payroll reports is so limited on Xero. Can the suite of reports be expanded so that they can give us the information we need to do analysis on?

    78 votes

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    Thank you for your engagement and sharing through product ideas, everyone. While we appreciate wanting more flexibility and detail in payroll reports, with payroll development quite separated for each region, and to help our product teams best understand the data that would be most useful for our customers we're going to close this idea and recommend starting ideas for the specific fields that would be helpful in reports and why you'd find this useful.

    Taking a closer look at ideas for what's been mentioned in this thread we have a couple of ideas users in this idea may want to vote on;

    Welcome to come back and share links for other idea you create that others in this idea may want to support. 🙏

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