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  1. The maximum of 250 historic payslips needs to be removed, or an option to turn it on or off in settings.

    In legal forensic review work this is imperative.

    While you can create a transaction report beyond 250 payslips, this does not provide the ability to identify the actual incorrect inputs by someone historically beyond the 250 limit.

    There must be a simple setting in the background you can change or update, as when you add a new payslip, the earliest, previous payslip just drops off.

    DO it NOW please.

    30 votes

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    Thanks so much for sending in your idea and showing us what matters most! We've taken a look, and now the next step is to gather community support. The more votes the better! Please encourage any colleagues who would benefit from this change to get involved and vote. Other members can also leave comments, adding more context on how your idea would improve their experience in Xero.

  2. The leave balance display on payslips is the main area where historical point-in-time data is being updated dynamically. The payslip PDF pulls the leave balance from the employee's current leave record rather than storing what it was at the time of posting. I would like this to be updated to ensure that the payslips we have access to on an employee's account remain static and historically and legally accurate to what the employee initially received when disbursed. This avoids misinterpretation of leave accruals between payroll officers and employees who may be working off two different versions of the same payslip.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about how the system updates leave balances on re-downloaded payslips after historical payroll corrections are made.

    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.

  3. The ability to zoom in on an uploaded PDF/doc seems to have been removed. Can this be reinstated? I used to be able to cut and paste details from the doc too.

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    Thanks for highlighting this improvement, Spencer. We understand the request to be able to zoom in and select text within the side-by-side PDF viewer. Having these controls available in the document preview could make it easier to review receipts without needing to open the file separately.

    In the meantime, you can open the attachment in a separate window or download it to use your device's PDF viewer, which provides additional options such as zooming and text selection.

    We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and let us know how you'd like these viewing tools to work.


  4. It would be useful if XeroMe had an option for approvers to choose where their notification emails go (i.e. approvals for leave, timesheets and expense claims). Our workplace has recently set up XeroMe but our approvers are having difficulty because they have to remember to regularly check their personal email for notifications. Their choice at present is to link everything to their personal email and regularly check their personal email or link everything to their work email and have their personal payroll information sent to their work email.

    Additionally, if 2 approvers are selected, it would be useful if XeroMe…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing the details behind your idea. We understand the request to allow approvers to use a separate email address for Xero Me notifications. Having the flexibility to send approval notifications to a different email could help support a wider range of workflows while keeping personal and work communications separate.

    We've updated this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest from the community. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share how you'd like to use it.

    As this idea also includes a couple of additional suggestions, you will need to create separate ideas for those so the community can vote on each one individually and we can track them independently.

  5. Import complete payroll information including earnings, deductions, and overtime etc from an Excel/CSV file

    55 votes

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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 and will let you know if there is any movement on this.

  6. With contractor super processing in payroll, getting rid of the red overdue STP filing would be pleasing - a "no STP on the contractor super " button, please

    4 votes

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    Hi Ellen. Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know that having the ability to turn off the overdue STP filing warning would be useful 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.

  7. 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?

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    Thanks for raising this with us, Tracy. We can see how adding the batch amount to the SMS would stream line approving multiple payment batches and help approvers quickly review cashflow too.

    We've updated the status to "Gaining Support" 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.

  8. When doing an Unscheduled pay run, to have the "payment date" automatically change to todays date, or have a pop up saying to check date.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about the payment date of unscheduled pay runs. If you're making a correction to a old pay run, in most situations you'll want the payment date to match that of the pay run you're making corrections for. However understand this is not always the case.

    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. Insertion of a child support tab in payroll processing - Can you put a tab (just like Pay super tab) with the drop down list in payroll so it creates a list just like the list in pay super. I currently have to go into chart of accounts list to find out how much child support to pay.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about having a defined report showing you payable child support amounts. As you're aware you'd currently need to audit the specific account code to see what's been reconciled previously.

    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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  10. My employee's have existing payroll numbers so it would be easier to run a payroll in number order. Can this option be looked into please?

    7 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, currently you can't reorder the employees in the pay run or when you download the payslips in bulk. I understand how that flexibility might be a benefit.

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

  11. It is a nonsense that Xero has removed the Classic Expense Claims widget from the homepage. I have been using it for 11 years and it is unacceptable that this has just been taken away - now we have to pay more for the new Expenses module if we want it to feature on our homepages. This is the type of product deterioration under the guise of “improvement” which brings tech companies into disrepute. Just put it back please :(

    6 votes

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    We appreciate there are some customers that are still using Classic expenses. There are no plans to develop a widget in the new Homepage for Classic expenses.

    However, you can access Classic Expenses by clicking Purchases > Expenses, where organisations that are using Classic expenses will see a banner and can select to go to Classic Expenses.

  12. 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.

    7 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.

  13. Option to be able to view payslip in employee file rather than having to download

    102 votes

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    Hi there, as part of our ongoing review process, we’re in the process of updating our idea statuses to better track Xero Product Ideas.

    We’ve taken another look at this idea. Whilst we can see the value for payroll administrators to be able to view the payslip in PDF from within the Employee’s record, this update doesn’t currently fit into our product team’s road map. We’ll move this idea to a status of Accepted and will continue to review this in future planning.

  14. It is impossible to us the credit card bankfeed function and allow for the credit card user to account for these expenses in Xero Me.
    Solution: allow for credit card transactions to pull through into Xero Me via automatic sychronisation. This should provide a more streamline approach to recordinng individual company card expenditure, remove time in reconciling missing receipts and remove duplication.

    48 votes

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    Hi everyone, we wanted to provide a quick update on the idea to enable reconciliation of credit card expenses directly within Xero Me.

    This idea is currently classified as Gaining Support and has started to gain traction within the community. We appreciate those who have shared their interest and feedback so far.

    If this feature would help streamline your expense management, please continue to vote and share your thoughts. Your input is important in helping us prioritize future improvements.

  15. Mandatory Emergency contact
    Have Emergency contact as mandatory in the self onboard for employees.
    We still need emergency contacts on file but I have found that if it is not mandatory the new employee doesn't fill it in.

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    Thank you for taking the time to share this idea!

    At this stage, we don't have plans to make Emergency Contacts a required field during Self-Onboarding. However, we're continuously looking to learn more about how our customers use Self-Onboarding.

    If this is a feature you'd like to see, please cast your vote and share this page with colleagues who might find it helpful! Additional comments detailing how Self-Onboarding can improve your daily admin are always appreciated.

  16. It would be beneficial that under the payroll overview drop there would be number of notifications in every category. For example Leave 1 if there is one leave request and so on. Maybe a exclamation mark next to overview that there is something to action with. This way the payroll officer would spot the actioned items easily.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about visible notification for unapproved timesheets or leave requests.

    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.

  17. Can you implement a notification sent to payroll admin in advance of a team member turning 18, so we can prompt them to set up or choose a superfund to ensure compliance with payday super

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea to notify an employee asking for their superfund details when they turn 18. We can certainly see how this would streamline the process for you.

    Whilst the system won't currently remind your employee, we can suggest a workaround as a reminder ask the employee for this info when they turn 18.

    Here's how:

    For under 18s, leave the superannuation line out of their pay template. When they hit 18, you'll receive an error when attempting to post a pay run stating that there's a missing super line with SGC contribution type from their payslip. This can serve as a reminder to set up or add a SGC line in their pay template.

    Our product team will keep an eye on this idea's progress and we'll update along the way.

  18. With the upcoming PayDay Super deadline, we need the ability to process a negative total Super Contribution Category in a Super Batch. I've recently had the scenario where an employer added and incorrect Super Category to the employee's pay, and then paid the super. When processing the payroll for the following week we discovered the error, reversed the pay, created it again with the correct super category and then recorded the current (2nd) weeks pay. There were 2 lines in the Pay Super from the previous week, a positive & negative (net amount $0, negative one to reverse incorrect super…

    7 votes

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    Hi everyone, thank you for raising this with us ahead of payday super.

    Whilst our product team have reviewed this closely, due to the way the Automatic Superannuation payment works, the ability to include negative payments is unlikely to be on our roadmap. The idea has been moved to Not in Pipeline and voting for this idea remains open.

    We appreciate that this may not be the outcome you were hoping for, but at the moment your approach to this situation aligns with what we recomend.

    However if there's any change to the way Automatic Superannuation payments work that will allow our product team to review this idea, we'll let you know.

  19. Superannuation funds - add a search button or make them 'sortable'.

    5 votes

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    Thanks so much for sharing this idea about being able to search or sort the superannuation funds list.

    We’ve now reviewed your idea and are moving it to Gaining support, so the wider Xero community can vote and comment to show how adding search and sort options for super funds would improve their workflow too.

  20. There is a recent feature where all pay items in employees pay templates can now be seen in employee timesheets, however employees can only enter data in the format HH:MM (max 23:59) when doing timesheets via mobile app. Many pay items don't use HH:MM format (e.g. allowances for car, meals). I would like to see 2 things:
    1. The data format changed so that you have have other data entered, especially numbers as many pay items need this format.
    2. I would like a toggle on each pay item in employees pay templates, which allows you to turn on/off whether…

    6 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about limiting which pay items from the Pay Template appear in timesheets.

    Regarding adding other units for allowances to timesheets, I'd suggest heading over and showing some support these existing ideas:

    • AU Payroll | Timesheet - Ability to add allowances of other unit types
    • Xero Me - Add Unit option to Timesheets

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