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UK Payroll - Ability to have national minimum wage checker
Xero checks employees age against pay rate and that of the National Minumum Wage so it does not get missed. It's doesn't have to change it, just highlight thsat the employee's rate needs to ber changed
125 votesHi everyone, we wanted to provide an update on this. We’ve begun rolling out our NMW checker to all UK payroll organisations.
Once relevant pay items are set as Subject to National Minimum and Living Wage calculations, Xero will check employees’ ages and pay rates against current NMW rates.
If an employee’s pay falls below the required minimum, Xero highlights this for payroll admins to review and update.
Thank you to everyone who supported this feature, please continue to share your thoughts as it helps our product team understand what’s important to you.
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UK Payroll - Display the date payslips were emailed
Simply to indicate within payroll when payslips have been emailed out.
18 votesHi everyone, we’ve now rolled this feature out to all UK payroll organisations. This means that payroll admins can now click onto posted pay runs to see if payslips have been emailed to employees.
Thanks for supporting this idea and driving the future of Xero.
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Payroll Audit Trail - Posting of email payslips
Can we have an audit trail, even if similar to invoices/bills, where we can see the who, date & time of the payslips being sent out for a pay calendar?
This helps to know the payslips have been sent out and that there is an audit trail for this.33 votesHi all, thanks for supporting this idea. We understand the need to be able to confirm exactly when payslips were emailed to employees.
I'm please to let you know it's now possible to review when payslips were emailed to employees in the AU and UK versions of Xero payroll.
While this feature has been available for a few years in AU, we recently released an update in UK payroll, allowing payroll admins to view if and when payslips were sent to employees.
We thank you for your continued efforts to shape the future of Xero.
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UK Payroll - Pay employees directly via Open Banking
With the advent of Open Banking, it would be great if when you submit the payroll, it could also utilise OB to physically make the payment to the employee also. This would help automate the whole payroll process.
17 votesHi everyone, I'd like to confirm that making direct wage payments with Crezco is now available to all UK organisations with Xero Payroll.
You can find out more of the details about this through our Xero Central article.
It's worth noting scheduling payments is possible. However, there are some banks that do not support scheduling so it's best to check in with your bank if they do.
We appreciate your feedback and sharing the difference this improvement could make for your business. Thanks !
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UK Payroll - Adjust dates for holiday / statutory leave year
We should be able to adjust the holiday year to the UK tax year as that seems to be very common. ( There is already a discussion topic for this but I cannot see it on this list.
We should also be able to show holidays in days not hours.
We should be able to calculate holiday hours for employees that do not do a 5 day week. The hours taken on holiday need to be overwritten every time a PT employee books time off.76 votesHi community, happy to share that these changes have now been released in UK Payroll! 🎉 You now have the ability to set employee's leave to accrue based on a custom date of your choosing. We appreciate your inputs and based on the feedback we've made a change so that leave will now accrue on the first day of your annual accrual method.
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Xero Expenses - Notification for declined expense
send notifications for declined expenses (Xero Expenses). the only notification send is for approve expenses but not for declined expenses
25 votesHi team, rounding up this idea to share that we have released an update for expenses so you can now manage your email notifications! 🥳
By default users will receive emails when their own expenses are approved or declined.
If you have the Expense Approver or Admin role you can optionally turn on email notifications when an expense is submitted for your approval by someone else in your business.
And lastly, now you will no longer receive notifications on your own expense claims if you did the approve or decline action yourself.
Thanks again for supporting and sharing with us in Product Ideas, it really helps.
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AU Payroll - Resubmit bounced automatic superannuation payments
Currently, when super payments bounce, Xero sends us an email letting us know that a payment to a particular super fund from a particular payment batch has failed. Once we've identified whose it was, and got the updated details, we then have to contact Xero to get a re-processing authorised.
All of this takes time, during which the Directors of my clients may become liable for late super payments. I'd like a button to click to speed up at least the contacting Xero for re-processing bit - preferably as part of the process identify the refund received and connect the…
15 votesHi team, sorry we haven't joined in this idea sooner. Earlier this year we released an improvement so now if an auto superannuation payment is returned the authoriser will receive an email including the reason for the return. They will be able to withdraw the payment from the processed batch to reprocess the contributions. We have detailed help for this on Xero Central, but if you run into any snags as always our Xero Support team are available to help. 🙂
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Expenses | Ability to copy an existing expense
Expenses - Clone or Copy an Existing Expense
My team have asked if we can make a 'copy to new Expense feature' from an existing Expense. Most of the expenses they enter are similar and just have a different amount and different receipt image. It would save them a lot of time if they could clone an existing Expense. Thank you.
12 votesHi team, it's possible to Duplicate an expense receipt within Xero Me mobile app. 😊
Your employee can open a Submitted or Approved receipt, select options and they'll see the ability to 'Duplicate'. Alternatively, for a complete Claim simply opening the receipt and scrolling down they should see the option to Duplicate.
In the draft receipt they'll be able to change whatever details necessary before submitting for approval.
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AU Payroll - Add Payroll as optional extra for starter plan
PAYROLL AS AN ADD-ON IN AUSTRALIA
Please allow payroll as an add on in Australia. The very basic plan is enough for most small businesses and sole traders, but the jump in price just to add one apprentice is prohibitive. I feel small businesses and tradies are not catered for well. We often don't need all the bells and whistles, but just something basic. To pay my apprentice via Xero will cost me an extra $360/year which is ridiculous.
7 votesHey team, as you may have recently seen on our blog payroll is now included in all of our business edition plans!
We received valuable feedback from our customers on their needs in this feature with our lower tier plans, which has helped inform this change.
Thanks for your feedback, and sharing what matters to you in Xero Product Ideas! 🙂
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NZ Payroll - standalone module
I have a client who would like to give access to payroll only for a user and not have access to the bank accounts. Is this on the future roadmap?
2 votesSorry for not rounding back on your idea here sooner, Leslie. This is already possible via the Payroll Admin role. Just one thing to check - when you mention they don't want them to have access to the bank accounts - would this be the organisation's bank accounts, or the employee bank account details? Here's a bit more information about the 2 payroll roles access and another with detail on how to set this up for a user.
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AU Timesheets - Add clock-in/out functionality to desktop timesheets
It is easier those for admin employees who work sitting at the office.
4 votesThanks for raising this idea with us. You'll find you can now submit timesheets with start & end times, through Xero Me on a desktop web browser.
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AU Payroll - Access to Employee YTD Summary
It would be great if you could download the Employee-year-to-date preview report after payroll finalisation in Australia.
Currently, this report can only be downloaded as part of the finalisation process not after. After finalising payroll you can only download a CSV file. We missed a transaction when reconciling that was in column BY - we spent hours trying to reconcile a payroll finalisation that could have been easily checked with the Employee year-to-date preview report which is all on one page.1 voteYou can now download the STP Year-to-Date Summary report for a specific employee after STP finalisation, Lisa. 😊
- From the Payroll menu select 'Single Touch Payroll'
- Click the 'Tax year' drop box in the top right > Select the required tax year
- Go into the Finalisation tab > Click 'View report'
- Select the required employee/s > Click the 'Export' button to download the report
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Xero Me: Allow multiple timesheet entries in one day when using start and end times
Add the ability to Xero / Xero Me for multiple time sheet entries per day.
For staff who work across multiple sites having the ability to add multiple time entries per day and either select a client to associate those entries against, or add a note for each time sheet entry would be fantastic.
Ultimately you would allow up to 6 time entries per day.Example
Monday
Time Entry1= 8:00 - 11:30am (note= site 1)
Time Entry2= 12:00 - 3:30pm (note= site 2)
Time Entry3= 3:30pm - 5:00pm (note = site 3)Doing this would improve the functionality and uptake…
6 votesHey team, apologies we've not got back to you here sooner. Our product team have implemented a change so you can now enter the start and end times in a timesheet, which enables you to enter time spend in multiple locations.
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NZ Payroll | Employees - Enter hours worked per day
Would be great if the days per week and the hours per day could be for each day rather than a total amount. Sarah does a total of 30 hours per week
Monday - 0hours
Tuesday - 6 hours
Wed- Fri - 8 hours per day
but because we cant specify what days we have had to go 4 days per week with total hours per day 7.5. This is confusing to look at but we also have to remember when it is a public holiday to change it. Would be good if we could specify the hours worked per…31 votesHi everyone, you can now create new working patterns for employees which allow you to add in the specific days and hours they are contracted to work!
This improves the default hours used in calculations around public holidays, leave requests, the first pay, the last pay and when working patterns change during the pay period. Thanks again for all your feedback on this here.
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UK Payroll Holiday Fund Options
The ability to set up a holiday calendar period of our choice (we have multiple clients with varying holiday calendars) with the option to have the full holiday entitlement available and for the available balance to reduce as employees take annual leave.
24 votesHi everyone, coming back to this idea I'm pleased to share that with functionality we delivered last year this is now possible!
You can now set up an employee's leave policy to accrue based on a custom date of your choosing, so their entitlements will be accurate and accrue based on your companies leave year. We have more detail on setting up an employees leave entitlements on Xero Central.
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AU Payroll - Employee Notes Report
It would be great to be able to export a report of all notes on employees contact. We use the notes section to record notes about attendance issues, conversations, warnings given.
2 votesHi Kylie, while there's not a specific employee notes report, you can run the Payroll History with a few filters to get what you need here.
When you run the report you can either run it for all employees, or select the specific employees from the drop down. Set the Type to 'Employees' and Apply.
Once run you can then enter 'Notes' in the search to further filter and only show employees notes added to their records in the set date range. If needed you'll also be able to export the report to Excel or PDF.
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NZ Payroll - Record Annual shutdown leave in Xero
Ability to record an annual shutdown leave.
Purpose: Payroll admin can easily record annual shutdown leave when they need to make a calculation around separating employee’s anniversary dates and start dates.
30 votesHi everyone, apologies for the delay in updating this. Thanks for your feedback on having a seamless way to record shutdown leave in Xero.
We recently released an update to all NZ Payroll organisations which now makes it easier to manage shutdown leave in Xero.
Once an organisation has migrated to having leave balances in weeks and days, the leave anniversary for an employee is decoupled from their start date.
For step-by-step guidance please see our support article.
We really appreciate everyone who supported and commented on this idea and hope these changes make it easier to manage shutdown leave.
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Xero Me: Hide personal leave balance when requesting leave
In Xero we have the ability not to show the personal leave balance on payslips. But this is made redundant where the employee can apply for leave on the Xero Me app and see their personal leave balance there instead.
For consistency, there should be an option to not show the available personal leave balances when employees are applying for leave - either on the Xero Me app or if on the web browser.
8 votesHi Cassandra, sorry we've not responded here sooner. You should now find when a leave balance is hidden on payslips, it's also hidden in Xero Me 'Leave Balances'
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AU Payroll - Edit posted pay runs
You should be able to edit any payrun that hasn't been 'filed' regardless if it was the last one or not. I enter several unscheduled payruns and I've noticed an error in one but I can't fix it because it wasn't the last payrun posted. The "work-around" Xero recommends is to File it and then re-post a counter fix. This feels redundant and unnessary extra work. Essentially its saying I can post an inverse of the original to cancel it out which isn't a tidy way of doing work.
1 voteHi Jamie, just coming back across your idea here. In Xero Payroll as of right now if you've a posted pay run that you need to make adjustments to, you can revert this to draft and make the required changes.
The only time we wouldn't recommend doing this is if the pay run's been filed with the ATO.
Once it's been filed we'd recommend using unscheduled pay runs to make any changes. This is because reverting a filed pay run to draft will cause issues in the reporting to the ATO.
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UK Payroll - Payroll Gross to Net report summarise by employment group
On the Gross to Net report being able to group by employment group
13 votesHi everyone, thanks for your feedback on adding employment groups to the Gross to Net report.
We’ve recently rolled out an update that adds an Employment group column to the Gross to Net report in UK Payroll. This lets you view each employee’s employment group alongside their gross-to-net figures and makes it easier to export or filter as needed.
We appreciate your input and continued support.
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