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  1. Please fix the Schedule 5 PAYG calculation to include YTD commissions and bonuses as well as ordinary earnings. This is causing issues with tax not calculating automatically because the employee's only form of income is from commissions (real estate industry) and they are forced to report it under commissions for STP Phase 2 yet the calculation things they have $0 YTD earnings.

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    16 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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    Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback on Schedule 5 calculations for commissions and bonuses. We appreciate you explaining how important this is for commission-based industries where commission is often the primary income.

    Currently Xero payroll requires regular earnings to calculate Schedule 5 tax. We understand the current setup requires manual workarounds when employees have commission-only income.

    Our product team has reviewed this idea and moved it to Accepted so it can be formally considered in future planning cycles. We'll keep you updated as things progress.

  2. Ability to import timesheets to XPM from a csv/excel file

    31 votes

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    6 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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    Hi everyone, we've been following your comments and recognise that having a streamlined way to get timesheets from a spreadsheet into Xero Payroll would be a huge time saver.

    One option is to explore some of the connected time-tracking apps in the Xero App Store. While we know this isn't a perfect substitute for a direct import feature, it may help bridge the gap in the meantime.

    The good news is that we see the value this feature would provide and we want to explore it further. We'll change the status of this idea to Accepted.

    We'll let you know if there is any movement on this.

  3. Ability to add employee’s emergency contacts and export it.

    Purpose: Users can have their employee’s emergency contact in case they need to contact them.

    73 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing how important accessing emergency contact information is for your team's wellbeing. We understand your desire to include emergency contact details in payroll reports.

    This isn't something on our current roadmap, however our product team has reviewed this and moved it to Accepted status for future consideration.

    In the meantime, some members mentioned valid workarounds such as reviewing the details directly in the employee record or creating an emergency contacts list outside of Xero.

    We'll continue monitoring community interest as we plan future updates to Payroll reports.

  4. Ability to see timesheet function for employees who are on salaries.

    Purpose: To make the employees can keep track of their hours without affecting the pay runs.

    71 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing how important it is for your business to have monthly salaried employees complete timesheets for tracking and reporting purposes, without impacting pay run calculations.

    Some of you have found workarounds like approving timesheets after processing pay runs, although this may create challenges down the line.

    Our product team is currently undertaking a wider review of timesheets, and this idea will be included in that process. Therefore we're updating this idea to Accepted. We'll keep you updated if there are any developments on this.

  5. Automatically accrue RDO hours after a certain amount of hours logged.

    Job management systems push 80 hours over as a timesheet in Xero.

    We would like the total combined hours logged (ordinary hours, annual leave, RDOs, personal leave and public holidays) in excess of 76 hours to automatically be converted to RDO hours.

    E.g: If I log 80 hours ordinary time, I accrue 4 hours RDO.
    E.g: If I log 78 hours ordinary time, I accrue 2 hours RDO.
    E.g: If I log 80 hours annual leave, I accrue 4 hours RDO.
    E.g: If I log 72 hours ordinary time…

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    Hi everyone, thank you for taking the time to share how you currently manage RDO and TOIL in Xero Payroll.

    We're currently working on a wider goal to manage Modern Awards into Xero, which includes automating earning rates based on award levels. As part of that broader project, we also want to look into leave accruals down the track.

    While we can't offer a specific timeline for when this will be addressed, this work is on our radar as part of our award journey.

    We’ll continue to track your feedback here and will update this thread as progress is made.

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