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  1. It would be very useful to have a feature in the pay run screen that displays the total number of employees selected for payment once employees are ticked off for processing.

    This would be particularly helpful for advisors, accountants, and payroll bureaus when calculating payroll billing for clients. In many cases, not all employees listed in the payroll are paid in every pay run, as some employees may be inactive temporarily, unpaid, or excluded from that specific pay cycle.

    Currently, users may need to manually count the selected employees, which can be time-consuming and increases the chance of errors. Having…

    6 votes

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    Hi Hiruni. Thanks for raising this idea with us!

    We can see how quickly seeing the number of employees in a pay run will assist with payroll billing. 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.

  2. I need to be able to integrate Gusto with OregonSaves so that the contributions are automatically drafted from my clients bank account. I was able to do this with QBO payroll and now that I have switched over to Xero with Gusto I need to be able to link my clients OregonSaves accounts with Gusto in Xero

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    Hi Julia, thanks for raising your feedback on the Xero Gusto Payroll experience. I've shared this back with our team, and while this isn't in the immediate roadmap we'd like to gauge a wider understanding of interest for integrating with this particular retirement app provider. Make sure to share your idea with any colleagues that'd like to see this to so they can vote for your idea.

    I'll share if there are any updates.

  3. Please allow email addresses to be re-used. It is a pain having to do into a past employee and delete the email address because you cant re-use it when you set them up again.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea. As you're aware, a single email address cannot currently exist in more than one employee record, so you'll need to remove it from the terminated record before adding it to the new one.

    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 who could benefit so they can add their vote, too!

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

  4. When a director leaves mid-tax year and the PAYE scheme is being closed as well, the annual reassessment of National Insurance needs to happen when they leave. It can't wait until 5th April.

    When running payroll in HMRC Basic PAYE Tools, the user is asked to confirm whether this is the last payment to the director in the tax year. Xero doesn't ask this.

    Xero payroll needs to be updated, so that it checks whether each salary payment is the last payment in the tax year, for any director whose NI is calculated on the alternative basis. If the user…

    2 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.

  5. When entering timesheets in the new timesheet experience, the employees templated pay rate no longer appears at the top of the dropdown. I need to scroll through all the available rates to locate the correct pay rate. Please bring this from the classic timesheet to the new timesheet experience. I don't know why you'd get rid of this function?

    1 vote

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    Thanks again for your feedback here. This is something our product teams have intentions of developing into the new timesheet experience.

    I'll be sure to keep you looped in on updates for this, here.

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

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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.

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

    7 votes

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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.

    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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  8. UK Payroll: field within the employee record to log the employee's state pension age and for there to be a notification one month in advance to notify both the employee and the employer to review the employees national insurance contributions if they are to continue working past this date.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about an automated notification to check the NI category based on an employee's age.

    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.

  9. 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.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about having a notification in Xero when contributions have been returned.

    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. It would be great if Xero Payroll could produce a Monthly P30 report which we can send to our clients with HMRC bank details and the Accounts reference, with the month reference on the end.
    Other payroll software do this and it is really helpful for our clients.

    27 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea with us,Gary. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know what changes matter to you.

    Your idea has been reviewed by our team and is now open for support from the rest of the community. In addition to upvoting your idea, other members can now comment and share how this change would improve their experience with Xero.

  11. 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

    5 votes

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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.

  12. 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.

  13. I temporarily suspended working through my UK Limited Company during COVID, and I was advised by my accountant to close my Payroll. When I resumed Ltd Co operating I discovered that it was impossible to create a new Payroll against my existing Organisation in Xero. I now do my payroll in Sage, at extra cost.

    Have you fixed this ? (I don’t have time to search hundreds of existing ideas)

    12 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.

  14. We use the description field to identify when staff use different types of leave that reduce the PL balance, but require tracking - Moving Days, Wellbeing Days, Special Leave etc. Being able to include these descriptions in the Leave Request report enables us to keep track more efficiently.

    12 votes

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  15. Historical Payroll reporting for analysis.

    Reports to show what remuneration each employee was on at a certain period / FY. Comparison reports for same.

    Leave balances reports with updated rates, when carrying leave accruals for leave liabilities, rate changes in employee remuneration is commonly the reason for increases in accruals monthly, although not obvious from a reporting summary.

    26 votes

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    We appreciate you sharing here in product ideas.

    We've reviewed your idea so that other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  16. I would like the facility to change the default number of working weeks in the year. We work to 52.14 weeks per year and as Xero works on 52 weeks as an unchangeable default, the minimum wage checks - a useful feature - become meaningless

    8 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea, I understand that with weekly payroll you can sometimes end up with 53 pay weeks in a year, and 364 days is not entirely 1 year.

    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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  17. Issue: each staff may have specific types of expense he/she usually uses.
    But in Expense, the accounts to be selected is all available accounts for all staffs.

    Suggestion: adminstrator can set individual user to a specific list of account he/she will use.
    For example, company driver only see those accounts for vehicle upkeeping. Office staff may see accounts like general expenses, transport claim. Manager may see accounts like entertainment, general expenses, etc.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing this Idea John, we appreciate the time taken. This idea is now open to the community so they can vote and share their own thoughts on how this could be a valuable addition to have user specific accounts available in the Expenses. We will monitor this idea and any updates will be posted here.

  18. Is it possible to create a filter by credit card, we have staff with credit cards and Amex, currently all expenses a mixed together and you cannot see what has been uploaded for the individual cards.

    3 votes

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    Thanks for raising this suggestion. Being able to filter expense claims by credit card could make it quicker to review transactions, particularly if you're reconciling multiple company cards or reviewing specific card activity.

    We've updated the status of this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking community interest. If this would improve your workflow, add your vote and share more about what other filters will be useful.

  19. I’d like to submit a feature request for an enhancement to Xero Expenses, specifically around team meal and group expense submissions.

    Current Challenge
    When employees submit expenses such as team meals, client lunches, or group events, there is currently no built-in way to select the attendees from within the organisation.

    At the moment, users can only enter attendee details manually (e.g., typing names into the description), which leads to:

    -inconsistent formatting
    -missing attendee information
    -difficulty auditing expenses
    -additional work for finance teams during review and P11D/PSA reporting

    Requested Feature
    We would like Xero Expenses to include an attendee field that…

    10 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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  20. Filter Super Payables by Payroll Run Name

    Add a sort function to Super payable by Payroll Run Name
    This will allow easy reconciliation of the super payment approval amount to the payroll run concerned.
    We do multiple pay runs for different departments on 1 day so to be able to sort by pay run would be a great improvement & time saver.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea about filtering super payments by individual pay runs rather than just by pay period.

    As you noted, when multiple pay run schedules share the same period, the current filter doesn't separate them. As a workaround, you can open the specific pay run and select Make Payment > Pay Super, as this will group the superannuation exclusively for that specific pay run.

    As this is a community support platform it's up to the community to get behind and support your idea. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

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