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  1. 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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  2. Auto accrual of Alternative Leave - It would be great if there was a permanent payment item setup in Xero for public holidays worked, and when it is used Xero automatically accrued the alternative leave earned. Or at least make it more obvious that you have to manually adjust the alternative leave accrual in each pay.

    7 votes

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    We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    Our Community team have reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members.

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

  3. A staff member will be working in 2 different locations - I would like the cost of the salary to be split over the 2 (3 days in one location and 2 days in the other location)

    9 votes

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    It's great to hear your idea here, thanks for sharing it.

    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!

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

  4. Work and Income deduction as a reducing balance under statutory deduction. Work and Income have provided a total amount and a weekly amount to be paid there needs to be a function added to provide the reducing balance, this function is available in other statutory deductions.

    43 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea for setting an original balance which reduces as employees make payments via statutory deductions.

    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.

  5. It would be beneficial for clients who pay commissions to be able to customise the description on the pay slip (rather than showing just 'Withholding Income') or having to set up various 'Pay Items'.

    15 votes

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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.

  6. Could a similar function that UK organsiations have to "deep archive" employees be rolled out to AU organsiations? This will assist to adhere to legal requirements of retaining employee records for 7 years.

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    Appreciate re-raising this idea here to see if there is renewed interest in being able to deep archive employee records.

    We'll keep an eye on the support this receives here but want to be open that this isn't something we have plans for in the near term.

    In the meantime, you may like to share this idea with any other colleagues that'd find this beneficial so they can support in this too.

  7. Within the taxes and filings screen that details tax months and the breakdown of liabilities, input cells beneath each value for PAYE, NIC, recoveries, etc, with the purpose of entering in amounts paid and reconciling the individual months. Most useful when overpayments/underpayments occur, or a business is on payment plan. The total for each month and overall total could then recalculate after each entry and the total balance owing should then reconcile back to the balance sheet. Essentially something similar to the VAT reconciliation function

    2 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts! We love hearing about the changes that would make your work life easier.

    We’ve given your idea a review, and it’s now live for the community to see. To help get things moving, be sure to share your idea with any colleagues who might feel the same way—every vote counts! Other users can also jump in now to vote and comment on how this idea would help them getting the most out of Xero."

  8. Move the 'Approve all' button in Current Leave view from the top right to bottom right. It's much too close to the Sort by Status button and easily pressed in error.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and what’s most important to you.


    It’s now been reviewed and opened up for community support. You’re welcome to share it with colleagues so they can vote, and other members can comment to add further detail or context.

  9. Invoices submitted by contractors - Xero should have a tick box where we can tick 'I need to pay super on this invoice' and it tracks and records contractor super owing.

    36 votes

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    It's been a while since we've provided you with an update about this idea, so wanted to touch base.

    We've reviewed your comments and can see the that this idea has been steadily gaining support.

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

  10. A simple payroll report that shows the actual wages for a period for reporting for Workers Compensation as it is a legal requirement for AU businesses. Details would be split into wages paid including super, with the residency status (+country of origin for Working Holiday Makers) - with a split if an employee has changed employment basis (i.e., moved from Casual to FT) in the period.
    And any additional details that are required by the majority of insurance companies who handle Workers Comp.

    33 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea for a payroll report specific to workers compensation and or insurance purposes.

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

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  11. Can you please look at adding a feature to payroll templates which allows Job title to appear under 'Employment Details' on payslips.

    24 votes

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    Thanks for your patience whilst this idea is gaining traction.

    We've reviewed your comments and can see the that this idea has been gaining a lot of support.

    Whilst this idea isn't currently on our product team's roadmap, we're monitoring the activity and will keep you updated on the way.

  12. Payroll reports - it will be good to have a COMPARISION field on payroll reports just like the P&L - to compare with previous n number of months / periods.

    While the grouping / summarizing features are good - they are limited to just reporting on a particular period.

    Hence any Comparisions are tedious to run / export and consolidate on excel.

    For. eg. I'd like to run a report to display :
    Afternoon Shift Loading & Overtime work for a month OR the full FY with monthly columns.
    Is this something we can get to without having to export…

    12 votes

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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. Our product team are keeping an eye on this idea and we will continue to share updates as things evolve.

  13. When calculating annual leave the ordinary hours changes to include allowances. The loading is then based on this figure. However the allowances are still included as separate lines on the pay template and need to be removed manually. Can this be automated as it needs to be done manually for all employees for every annual leave period?
    I can opt not to include allowances in the calculation, but it makes sense to gross up allowances in the ordinary rate for this purpose.

    5 votes

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    Thanks Lisa, for sharing your idea! We've reviewed it, and it's now live for the community to support. Other Xero users can now vote and comment on how it would improve their Xero experience.

  14. Like it says on the tin. Why do Xero send an unnecessary EPS each month when its not needed? If I want to change my payroll, great send the EPS when I approve it. If I make a late payment, send the EPS once I've finalised the payroll. But please stop sending pointless returns which makes me wonder what Xero is doing filing unnecessary data that is more likely to cause problems with HMRC than not given their systems.

    19 votes

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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.

  15. I've tried to use the automatic super payments SOOOOO many times and was lost in it forever - now I realise there is a PENDING APPROVAL BUTTON that has to be pressed - I had not realised it is a button.

    My idea for improvement is to make this look like a button and not just a highlighted word.
    In pic you can see 'pending approval' is highlighted, but so is 'withdrawn' - which is not a button. In Xero all the buttons are larger and shaped as rectangles and unified. This could be much clearer.

    2 votes

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  16. Increase word count limit on xero me timesheets 'notes' feature. Make it much larger or unlimited ideally.

    4 votes

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    Thank you for letting us know that you would like to see an increase in the word limit for timesheet notes through the Xero Me app.

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

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  17. At the moment, if an employee allocates their hours to the wrong cost centre (i.e. the incorrect Xero tracking category) and the payroll has already been posted, there’s no way to correct the allocation — even if the pay run hasn’t yet been submitted to the ATO.

    This becomes problematic for organisations like ours that rely on accurate tracking of labour costs by project or cost centre. In most cases, the number of hours worked remains correct — it’s just the cost centre allocation that needs fixing.

    Would it be possible to introduce a feature that allows tracking categories to…

    5 votes

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    Thank you for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.

    Our Community have reviewed your idea to allow tracking categories to be edited after a payrun has been posted. This has now moved to the Gaining Support status.

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

  18. Option to submit total ordinary hours for week rather than each day. + Alam reminder to do hours just before payrun is done

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    We appreciate you sharing your ideas regarding timesheets.

    We've reviewed your idea and can see that the idea regarding notifications is an existing Xero Product Idea called Notification - Reminder to employee to enter Timesheet. This is currently in review with our product team.

    The ability to input weekly hours (rather than daily) has not yet been raised though. The idea is now available to the community to share their support. We'll keep you updated!

  19. It would be really helpful if a bill could be created from the pension filing figures on payroll once you have clicked on marked as filed. (such as it is an option when you do your vat return)

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, it's appreciated.

    It's a great idea and I can confirm it will now be put forward to the status of Gaining Support.

    It's now 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!

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

  20. Ability to have an expand and collapse button for pays previously posted and presented under Pay Run History.

    After using Xero for a number of years, locating a previous pay run becomes looking for a needle in a haystack as this section is just a swamp of pays.

    Grouping in payroll financial years or having a date filter would assist greatly also.

    4 votes

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    Hi Yvonne, thanks so much for raising this idea and sharing your thoughts with us. We totally see how useful it’d be to have the option to expand or collapse pay run history, or group it by financial year in the Payroll product.

    As pay run history builds up, it can definitely get a bit tedious trying to scroll through and find what you need. Having a more organised view would really help when you’re digging into older payroll data.

    As a temporary workaround, you may find it helpful to use Ctrl + F (or Command + F on Mac) to quickly search the screen for a specific date or payroll year. We know it’s not a perfect fix, especially when there’s a lot of data, but it might make things a little quicker in the meantime.

    Right now, your idea’s in the ‘Gaining support’ stage, and we’re keeping a…

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