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  1. It would be useful to be able to download/print the P11's for an individual instead of it being a bulk download.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about downloading individual P11s. Currently Xero has the ability to download all employees p11s in one file.

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  2. I would like to enter Long Service leave balances visible to employees in "weeks" instead of "hours" as I want to avoid overstating or understating hours for those employees who have had varied hours over the course of their employment.

    I do not want to have to do the long service leave calculations (as per the LSL legislation in Victorian) with each pay run to work out their average hours. When setting up the leave as a Pay item I can select it to be weeks but when I set up the employee it still only allows Hours.

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    6 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!

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  3. I plan to use this data to organize and manage my business finances more efficiently. The information will help me track sales, expenses, invoices, payments, and overall business performance. I am building a system that will allow me to better understand cash flow, maintain accurate records, and make informed decisions as the business grows. The data will also help with bookkeeping, reporting, and improving the way I manage daily operations.

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    Hi Jamie, thanks for raising this, however I am not sure what you are referring toon when you say this Idea will help you organise and manage your business. The attached file is Xero import CSV for bank statement imports. Can you please clarify exactly what your Idea is and we will review this for future consideration.🙂

  4. The year to date figure of any previous benefits (that have ceased during the tax year) should remain on the payslips for the whole of the tax year in which they were paid. For employees on a cumulative tax code, their year to date tax figure does not make sense without it. This should also be the case for previous pay elements (rather than grouping altogether into other payments), this is to keep a split of the taxable and non-taxable pay elements. Thank you!

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on having YTD benefits appear consistently on the payslips. I understand benefits make up taxable earnings and should remain on the payslip.

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  5. Add option to hide hourly rate on full time employee pay slips where they are using the "Base Salary" pay item.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about removing hours and rates from payslips so that only the fixed amount shows.

    We’ve reviewed your idea, and now it’s up to the community to get behind it! Be sure to share this with any colleagues who might benefit so they can add their votes as well.

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  6. We have constant feedback that we are not paying people in full because the field Annual Salary Field doesn't include allowances

    Can it be the Grossed up salary package?

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about having the total salary package amount showing on the on payslips.

    Currently only employee’s ordinary earnings rate make up the annual salary visible on payslips.

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  7. Would love to be able to access payroll data and process payroll from ipad app. Instead of having to loggin into safari or google to lodge payroll. I can nearly use every aspect of my daily xero usuage through the app and then need to log in somewhere seperately to do payroll. To be able to do it on the app as well would be amazing

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback about a dedicated Xero Payroll app! As you're aware the Xero mobile app is a companion to the main Xero web platform. It allows you to monitor finances on the go like creating invoices, and reconciling transactions. Because it is a companion app, it doesn't include all of Xero's web features such as payroll.

    We appreciate your feedback, and we agree that having a fully dedicated Xero Payroll app could be incredibly useful for managing your team on the move.

    It's now up to the community to get behind and support this. 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.

  8. For any fixed salary employees, there should be an option to automate their regular (fortnightly/monthly) payruns. There's no reason why I need to manually create these for fixed salary employees.

    Any changes to salary or leave balances etc are all managed separately via their respective employee records or leave requests.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about Xero automatically creating pay runs for fixed salary employees.

    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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  9. Can we please have the ability to add effective start and end dates against pay items. For example, a deduction may only be for 10 weeks at a set amount. Rather than having to setup multiple notes offline to remind us of this, can we have this function setup in the payroll system so it only deducts the amount over the set period specified.

    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.

  10. New notification of bounced or rejected auto super payments for all Xero files we have access to, in a central area like "My Xero". This way we could check My Xero once a day to see if any payday super payments failed instead of sifting through emails and possibly missing the alert.
    Alternatively, a notification could show under the alarm bell logo notifying us of any auto super payments that didn't go through.

    2 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 🙂

  11. Feature Suggestion: Display the Full Pay Period in Payroll

    It would be extremely helpful if Xero could display the full pay period (From DD/MM/YY to DD/MM/YY) within the payroll pay window, rather than only showing the "Week Ending" date.
    For example, instead of displaying:
    Week Ending 05/07/2026
    display:
    Pay Period: Wednesday 29/06/2026 to Tuesday 05/07/2026
    or
    29/06/2026 – 05/07/2026

    I process payroll for multiple entities with different pay cycles and pay periods. Having the start and end dates clearly visible would make it much easier to confirm that the correct pay run is being processed, reduce the risk of errors,…

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea on the full pay period visibility within the pay employees page.

    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.

  12. 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 –…

    14 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.

  13. It would be good to make it possible to either set a maximum leave accrual, or set an expiry date for leave. An example where it could be used would be study leave. We have an agreement with employees that gives them 7 days of study leave per year. Any unused study leave is forfeited after two years. Currently we have to manually monitor and adjust the leave.

    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!

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  14. Please allow adding on an extra employee for payroll in Australia, as is possible in the UK.
    The Ignite plan is enough for most small businesses and sole traders, but the jump in price just to add an extra employee means paying more than double, which is cost prohibitive.
    Most businesses don't need the add on and accounting tools when you move up to Grow or Comprehensive - allowing for an extra payroll add on for a small charge, would be beneficial for family and small businesses.

    15 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and highlighting how important flexible payroll options are for your business.

    We understand that needing to upgrade your plan just to add a few more employees can feel limiting—especially for growing businesses. Being able to add employees on a per-user basis could offer a more cost-effective and flexible solution.

    We’ve reviewed your idea, and now it’s over to the community to get involved. If this would benefit others you know, feel free to share it so they can add their vote too.

    Other users can also comment to share how this change could improve their experience using Xero Payroll.

  15. the ability to add dates and tracking categories and attaching them to a project. when entering pays from Payroll > Pay Employees. I know that a journal can be done after the fact, but that is time consuming. Much easier, simpler, faster to do when entering hours.

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

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  16. Separate annual leave paid out on termination from annual leave taken in the payroll activity summary report which would help for checking the correct super was paid and also for payroll tax purposes depending on the state.

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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. 🙂

  17. Adding the employee basis somewhere on the pay employees pay run screen where it lists all the employees in the pay run have a column showing whether they are fulltime or casual etc.

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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. 🙂

  18. It would be awesome if I could get a confirmation email to my inbox when I submit my payroll. This way, when I panic because I don't remember if I did payroll or not, I can easily see in my email that I did. Just for peace of mind as well as a timestamp for when it's done.

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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. 🙂

  19. Dynamic reporting. So users are able to select tables and can join multiple tables, add mathmatical functions and but date and fileters in this dynamic report. This way and average joe don't need to setup pipelines for simple repoting. The option to drag and drop ccolumns would be super helpful. Take field glass reporting as an example. Scheduling features to all of the reports would be a game changer, then suddnely, users can setup piplines through Xero GUI instead of tinkering with the API to get this working.

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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. 🙂

  20. 1 vote

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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. 🙂

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