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  1. I would like to be able to firstly differentiate my payroll journals from other journals and then produce an end of year report of the payroll journals.

    How you could facilitate this:
    -Tick box on the journal to identify it as payroll related.

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  2. It would be great if could change casual employee to permanent without having to terminate the employee first and re-enter all their data and have to remember to delete their email address before adding to them as a new employee. It's especially annoying if they use XeroMe to submit timesheets. Other payroll such as IMS or MYOB don't require employees to be terminated and re-entered if their employment basis changes.

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    Hi Karen. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how you would like to see changes in employment basis reflected in Xero.

    We've reviewed your idea and have put it forward to the community to get behind and support it.

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  3. The "Details" tab lists the employee's age under the "Date of birth" field.

    Having "Employed for # Years & # Months" below the "Start date" field would be handy. It would give a quick, "at a glance" look at how long someone has been employed by a business for estimating notice periods and anticipating imminent entitlement to LSL.

    Attached is what the "Date of birth" currently looks like (I've used my own name and birth year) and a mock-up of what I'm suggesting might look like.

    Given that the "Details" tab already does almost exactly this, it should be a…

    3 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea to display the employment duration for employees, much appreciated!

    After reviewing your idea, we've now passed it to the wider 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.

  4. 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…

    2 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.


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  5. Can we please have an automatic email notification to the subscriber when a organisation adds or removes an employee - This would be required for the purposes of updating billing when the ability to add additional employees for $4 takes place in September 2025.

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    Thanks for submitting your idea, Todd.

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  6. It would be great if we could copy timesheet tracking each week. We have a client that has extensive tracking for timesheets - with some employees having time tracked to a number of different tracking codes. It would be a huge timesaver to be able to save the tracking for each employee so we do not need to enter it each payrun.

    2 votes

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    Thanks Jo, for submitting your idea!

    We've reviewed your idea, and it's now open for the community to support.

    Other Xero users can now vote for your idea and add comments to share how it could enhance their own Xero experience.

  7. Create a customised payroll report to include multiple but not all pay items for a specific period. As an example - view all overtime payments for relevant period

    4 votes

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  8. The new NZ WorkRide scheme works via a pre-tax deduction re salary sacrifice. Xero Support confirmed that right now there’s no functionality in Xero Payroll to process a pre-tax deduction. We have been advised that we need to manually adjust the tax in the draft pay run to reduce the PAYE withheld. Please enable your customers to comply with the NZ WorkRide scheme without the need for manual PAYE adjustments, by creating the ability to process pre-tax deductions.

    50 votes

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  9. We are all required to keep tax code and other notifications from HMRC for a number of years. Currently we have to do that in hard copy. It would be great to be able to upload a copy to the employee record instead.

    8 votes

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  10. As a Chartered Accountant, I’ve observed an issue in Xero’s handling of sick leave entitlements that I believe warrants improvement. Currently, if an employee is not included in the pay run closest to their sick leave entitlement date, the entitlement does not accrue. This creates a significant gap in compliance with employment obligations and adds unnecessary administrative burden to correct.
    To enhance the functionality and flexibility of Xero's payroll system, I think that sick leave entitlements should automatically accrue when the employee is included in any future pay run following their entitlement date. This adjustment would ensure compliance with employment…

    3 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback of how Xero handles sick leave entitlements, Natalee.

    I've made sure this is shared back with our product team, and while we can understand the reason for change you'd like to see here, we want to be open that this isn't something we have planned in the immediate future.

    Right now, if an employee isn't included in the scheduled pay run when their leave anniversary date falls, you'll need to do a manual leave adjustment to grant the employee the missed entitlement.

    If there's any news of change for this, we'll update you here.

  11. SSP EXTENSION; There needs to be a way of extending SSP
    Most people who are off sick are not aware of when they will return, it is often necessary to be able to extend SSP. It is not acceptable to have a process that requires reverting payroll. I am still trying to get almost £5000 back from HMRC because Xero reported the variance in April as an additional payroll & the YTD figures have not corrected the issue. Reverting payroll should be the very last resort & not used for something as standard as stat sick leave.

    6 votes

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  12. UK Payroll - ability to assign employment allowance to a tracking category to save doing a manual journal for this

    4 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and highlighting the changes that matter most to you!

    We've reviewed your suggestion, and it's now open for the community to review and support. Please share your idea with any colleagues who might benefit so they can add their vote!

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  13. The new Payroll Activity Detail Report is very hard to read when there is more than a couple of employees.

    I understand that the new report format has been designed to reflect the other updated reports in Xero. However, so that it is more user-friendly, can we have:

    1 - A blank line between each employee so that it is easier to see quickly where one employee's details cease and the next employee's details start.

    2 - Highlight the employee name by shading that line, again to make it easy to see where each employee starts on the report.

    Are…

    31 votes

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  14. We have multiple employees that have various deductions from their wages. This is causing the pay slip to spread accross two pages which is concerning as they may miss important information like messages at the bottom of a pay slip.
    There needs to be the either:
    1. The ability to change the payslip layout
    or
    2. Have two or three template options to choose from.

    Currently the whitespace at the top of the payslip could be utilised. The required business and employee information is great but could be in a better layout. Move the business information to the left, employee…

    3 votes

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  15. Need search feature in Xero me for adding tracking categories to timesheets instead of having to scroll through 50 plus jobs

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    Thank you for submitting your idea! We've completed our internal review.

    The next step is up to the community. Please share this with your colleagues so they can add their vote. Every vote and detailed comment is crucial for showing us the wider impact and helping us prioritize this enhancement for Xero.

  16. Add default hours for Public Holiday's based on the employee's standard work pattern.

    5 votes

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  17. Portable Long Service Leave Report - need a quarterly report that meets the Victorian Portable Long Service Leave requirements.

    54 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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  18. The status of invites to XeroMe to be easily displayed

    When an employee is invited to XeroMe, it would be good to be able to see the status including:
    - sent to employee
    - employee revoewed
    - employee accepted
    - employee rejected
    - etc

    3 votes

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    Thank you for sharing your idea! 😁

    We've reviewed it. Now, it needs community support! Please share it with colleagues so they can vote and comment on how this change would improve their Xero experience.

  19. Please enable the ability to pay staff with a joint bank account in same pay run. We currently have to pay two couples with a joint bank account into separate accounts each run. Xero does not permit two payments into the same bank account in one pay run. I have confirmed with our bank that this is not an error on their end. Xero support have informed me that this is not a function that Xero currently offers.

    6 votes

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  20. The ability to assign earnings rate to day of the week so a timesheet automatically uses the correct earnings rate and can't be changed by employee.

    Eg Saturday timesheet is pre- filled with the Saturday earnings rate.

    2 votes

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    We appreciate your suggestion, as you can imagine our product is constantly evolving and we need your input to help us along the way.

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

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