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AU Payroll - Reports downloaded from posted pay runs to include pay period rather than payment date
Every time I process a payroll (hundreds every year), I produce the Payroll reports to send to the client.
The Payroll Activity Details Report AND THE Payroll Employee Summary shows the INCORRECT details in the heading. For example The report reads: "For the period 17 November 2025 to 17 November 2025". THIS IS NOT CORRECT, and it wastes HOURS having to change it every single time.
The Report is for the Processed Pay Period just completed!!!
Can we have this corrected to the pay period when this report is directly created from a payroll run??? the date for Example SHOULD…11 votesThanks for sharing your idea about including the pay period in payroll reports downloaded from posted pay runs. Agree, it makes sense for the pay period to be shown rather than the payment date ("For the period 17 November 2025 to 17 November 2025").
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NZ Payroll | Timesheets - Set timesheet default view to display draft/current period timesheets
Currently the screen shows the last processed timesheet, which in this case is last week's.
Having just selected the next period (for this current week) and created and saved a draft, that should be the period/timesheet I see on the screen. Instead it defaults back to last week, meaning in order to go and edit or approve this current week I have to go and select it again from the dropdown - extra clicks and steps that are unnecessary.
Please change the default view to the current week, or make it a user preference. I have no need to go…
2 votesAppreciate you raising this idea. Having Timesheets open directly to the current period could make it quicker to enter and review hours without adjusting the date each time.
We've moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can continue gathering feedback. If this could help your workflow, add your vote and share which period you'd prefer as the default.
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AU Payroll - Add additional Payroll employee for a charge
Please allow adding on an extra employee for payroll in Australia, as is possible in the UK.
The Ignite plan is enough for most small businesses and sole traders, but the jump in price just to add an extra employee means paying more than double, which is cost prohibitive.
Most businesses don't need the add on and accounting tools when you move up to Grow or Comprehensive - allowing for an extra payroll add on for a small charge, would be beneficial for family and small businesses.19 votesThanks for sharing your idea and highlighting how important flexible payroll options are for your business.
We understand that needing to upgrade your plan just to add a few more employees can feel limiting—especially for growing businesses. Being able to add employees on a per-user basis could offer a more cost-effective and flexible solution.
We’ve reviewed your idea, and now it’s over to the community to get involved. If this would benefit others you know, feel free to share it so they can add their vote too.
Other users can also comment to share how this change could improve their experience using Xero Payroll.
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UK Payroll: Ceased Benefits YTD to remain on payslip
The year to date figure of any previous benefits (that have ceased during the tax year) should remain on the payslips for the whole of the tax year in which they were paid. For employees on a cumulative tax code, their year to date tax figure does not make sense without it. This should also be the case for previous pay elements (rather than grouping altogether into other payments), this is to keep a split of the taxable and non-taxable pay elements. Thank you!
6 votesThanks for sharing your idea on having YTD benefits appear consistently on the payslips. I understand benefits make up taxable earnings and should remain on the payslip.
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Notification for birthday or anniversary start date
Does / can Xero send notification emails or pop up to notify of junior birthdays or apprentice anniversary dates to trigger wage increases when due?
1 voteThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
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If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
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Payroll AU: entering minutes on pay runs
Be able to enter time on pay runs as minutes eg (0:35) or as decimals (0.5833)
2 votesThanks for sharing your idea about adding minutes to pay runs! If your employees aren't already using timesheets, they can submit them using hours and minutes. For example, if an employee logs 7 hours and 35 minutes, Xero will automatically calculate this as 7.583 hours in the pay run.
Now that your idea is live, it’s up to the community to support it! Be sure to share it with colleagues who might benefit so they can add their vote. Other members can also leave comments to share how this feature would improve their experience with Xero.
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Claude MCP ability to see draft invoices
I have fully automated my ordering system from receicpt of order in emails, to adding it to Saleforce. When sent, it creates a draft invoice in Xero. I'd like Claude to be able to periodically check my emails and flag order delivered emails to approve the invoice etc. Ideally write access would come soon too. It's the only part missing from my entire work flow.
1 voteThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
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timesheets
The recently updated look of Timesheets (AU) is clunky, very oversized and takes up so much screen with all the space. When you have many employees, being able to quickly scan a list on a page is easy if the font is smaller without all the bubbles and extra bits. The actual timesheet is massive. For one employee, a full work week is over two pages. Surely the previous system of a small grid was much better? This all seems very overkill and unnecessary for busy people. We don't have time to scroll pages to check and double check things.…
1 voteThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
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Payroll AU - Auto Super: Move the "Mark as Paid" button
Is it possible to move the "Mark As Paid" button in the Super - Several times I have nearly clicked on this inadvertently when I am busy or going to answer the phone when I am processing this😮
2 votesI just wanted to provide a quick update on this idea.
We’ve recently made an update to the Mark as Paid flow to help prevent accidental clicks. An additional warning message now prompts you to re-confirm before completing the action.
We’ll continue to track support for this request. Make sure to share this page with any colleagues so that more feedback on this topic can be captured!
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UK Payroll - Automated integration and reporting for Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA)
Other payroll software integrates directly with SPPA so that at a click of a button you can export all the information you need for your SPPA Annual return. I know from speaking to my GP Practice Manager colleagues that this is the main thing preventing them from moving over to Xero Payroll. The reruns can be quite complex, especially if you have part time staff or staff starting part way through the year so this would make life a lot easier.
2 votesThanks for raising this with the community. The request is for SPPA annual returns to be supported within Xero UK Payroll, either through a direct integration or an export in the required format.
This could reduce the manual work involved in compiling pension information for part-time employees and mid-year starters.
I’ve moved this to Gaining Support so we can continue tracking interest. If SPPA reporting is something you need, add your vote and share what information you currently have to prepare manually.
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AU Payroll - Ability to apply work patterns to part time employees
Suggest the ability to apply work patterns to part time employees. For example, we have a part time employee who works 7 hours on Mon, 6 hours on Tues and 6 hours on Wed.
At the moment, if a Public Holiday falls on a Monday, it does not correctly work out hours worked.
The same happens if Annual Leave is taken; incorrect hours are calculated which affects AL accruals.
Hours worked have to be calculated and added manually.344 votesHi everyone, thanks for your continued feedback about managing working patterns for part-time employees.
We’re pleased to share that we plan to begin rolling out working patterns in AU Payroll later this year.
The first release will allow you to set a one-week work pattern for each employee. This pattern will automatically be used for leave and public holiday calculations in the pay run. At this stage, you’ll still need to update the employee’s pay template separately to reflect their standard working hours.
We plan to build on this foundation by connecting working patterns with standard hours in the pay run and supporting a broader range of working patterns. We’ll share more details as the first release gets closer.
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Folders in Employees note section
It is great that we can now add files in the Employee note section. However, it was be so much more beneficial if we could add folders so the file section is tidy and the files would be easier to find based on filing preferences. A list of documents is just messy.
This was stated in the first email when advising that files could be uploaded. But it didn't happen with the new release.
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AU Payroll - Timesheet approval process upgrade
Timesheet approval process
- Give payroll admins the ability to move the status from "draft" to "pending approval" as is possible in NZ and UK or
- Give permissions to users with approval power to see the timesheet in the "draft" status through "Xero me" or
- Permit users with approval power to see the "timesheet" module in addition to "Xero me"
23 votesHi team, knowing that managing and reviewing timesheets is a big part of your work, we're working to make this easier for you in Xero Payroll.
We’re updating the timesheet admin experience, including a new timesheet list and a redesigned details view to help you find what you need faster.
We’d love your help to shape these improvements. We’re looking for customers who manage or approve employee timesheets to join an early access program. You’ll try the new interface and give feedback directly to our team.
If you'd like to help us build a better experience 📝 fill in our recruitment survey.
It only takes a few minutes, and we’ll be in touch soon with next steps. Thanks for your help!
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Payroll NZ: Ability to generate Employee Information Report
The report can show a list of all current employees includes basic info e.g. DOB, Gender, employment start date, job title, Annual Salary Amount, fixed allowances, Super rate etc.; This report will be helpful for internal HR reporting purpose. Otherwise, HR will need to collect info piece by piece & summarize it manually.
5 votesThanks for sharing your idea about a New Zealand payroll report that includes full employee details as well as earnings information.
Currently, you need to export multiple reports and collate the information outside of Xero.
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AU Payroll - Add a link from timesheets that takes users back to the draft pay run
There is a link from an employee's draft pay run to their timesheet, but not back to their draft pay run. It would be helpful if there was a shortcut to go back from the timesheet to the pay run.
4 votesThank you for taking the time to share your idea and highlight what’s most important to you. Your input means a lot to us.
Your idea is now available for the community to explore and support. Community members can also leave comments to explain how this change could improve their experience with Xero, helping build a fuller picture of its impact.
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AU Payroll - Select more than one employee when generating payroll reports
ability to select more than one employee when generating payroll reports, not just a single employee or All employees
84 votesHi everyone, thank you for your continued feedback. We appreciate you sharing how important selecting multiple employees is for you when running payroll reports.
The good news is our product team has reviewed this idea and agrees it is a valuable addition to Xero. We have updated the status to Accepted.
This feature is not currently on our immediate development roadmap, however by accepting it we are formally adding it to our backlog for consideration.
We will keep tracking interest here and update you as soon as we have news.
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Bill Payments - Pay Items Order
Put Pay items in alphabetic order. Why has this changed in the first place and why is it not possible to fix? When you need numerous pay items for different areas and times of the day it is SO time consuming to have to scroll through every item to find the one you need. And they there are a lot that are similar so you have to concentrate on exactly what you need. This is such a VERY basic need, I can't believe it's not fied back to what it was a month ago.
4 votesHey Jenny thanks for raising this Idea wiht us, we appreciate time taken to bring this to us. We have moved this to Gaining Support and encourage you to reach out to colleagues and friends to vote and/or comment so our Product team can gauge interest. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
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UK Payroll - Percentage-Based Payroll Tracking for Multi-Funder Allocation
Xero currently provides two tracking categories with multiple options, and also offers project tracking. However, these existing structures do not meet the needs of organisations that manage payroll funded by multiple external funders.
In many organisations, especially in the charity and grant-funded sector, a single employee’s payroll cost is often covered by three or more separate funding sources. These are not projects or internal cost centres. They are external funders who jointly or separately contribute to the cost of one employee’s role.
Current Limitation
Payroll does not allow direct allocation of an employee’s cost to multiple tracking category options linked…
3 votesHi Abimbola Thanks for the great explanation of how adding multiple tracking codes to payroll costs using percentages would streamline the process of allocating this to fund providers.
We can see how this would help with complex funding arrangements so have moved this to Gaining Support.
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Expense - copy-pasting line items from a spreadsheet
In expense description, there are lines. I'd like to be able to copy-paste from a sheet 5 lines of description and 5 lines of prices directly from my sheet (either as whole rows, or even column by column), without needing to go one by one, one cell after another.
Currently, they all copy-paste into the same one cell.
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UK Payroll - Tax code update emails
I wanted to set up email notifications when Xero receives a tax code change that it can't auto update.
As I am not logged in everyday I missed the effective dates of some employee tax code changes and then cannot effect the change on the correct date, as it doesn't back date far enough when manually changing the date.
I received a tax code change that Xero couldn't auto update 5 days, however I never saw the notification and now cannot back date the effective date to the correct date. I am unable to find where to have these pop…
3 votesThanks for sharing your idea about receiving emails for employee tax code notifications.
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