Permissions: Payroll - Payroll admin limited access
Ability to give payroll admins only permission to staff.
Purpose: To make the staff have fully access to Payroll but not other parts of Xero.
Thanks for continuing to explain how the current all or nothing Payroll Admin access affects your teams. We’re now developing more granular payroll permissions, starting with separate View, Edit and Approve Timesheets access so timesheet tasks can be delegated without exposing the wider payroll area.
While the current work is focused on Timesheets access directly we recognise there are other sensitive areas within payroll that you'd like more incremental access to and we'll continue to consider these as our development of permissions evolves.
I'll come back to share when these Timesheets options are live!
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Rachel Hodge
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It would be really helpful if there could be more separation in user permissions.
We have an Admin Team that has the authority to approve leave in our office but does not have the authority to complete other payroll activities - pay runs, view/change pay templates, etc.
Currently Xero does not allow for this separation in permissions so we cannot have this setup correctly in our office -
Adelle Auld
commented
Totally agree with this, i require an additional person for weekly payroll but do not wish them to have access to managers pays.
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Carol Dick
commented
I agree, it is very important for companies to have a degree of security around who has access to payrolls
Separate Payrolls and access should be a priority for Xero to secure payrolls that we the clients are asking for. -
Vanessa Campbell
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Agree with this! I think its very important
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Nicole Elling
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It would be good to have the ability to see Payroll & Payroll Reports without being Payroll Admin.
Being the accountant, we often need to see payruns, access the payroll reports, or see the payroll set up to assist clients with their queries however it would be good to have this ability without receiving all the payrun notification emails e.g. when an employee bank accounts changes or a payrun is not filed.
Ideally, we could customise the access level or turn emails off for users who need access but are not involved in the day-to-day processing of payroll. -
Zoe Wu
commented
yes, please, we would like to have option that someone could do all the timesheets, leave approval without the access to staff's salary info.
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Thomas Hayes
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Update, yes please do this urgently. As Lynda below pointed out, it is causing employees stress and concern as they see a list of approvers, don't remember who to select so send it to everyone.
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Lynda Daish
commented
Yes please - this is so annoying
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Thomas Hayes
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Yes, please do this. My accountant and bookkeeper (Payroll Admins) are getting plagued by timesheet approval requests from staff inadvertently selecting the wrong approver.
Time spent trying to re-educate all the staff that make the mistake is starting to add up in cost and frustration. -
James Rickards
commented
Split the Payroll Admin role so you can have staff run payroll and reports - but do not have access to make changes to Salaries etc
Or have it that all changes to key items like Salary has dual approval or alerts sent out to the main user so they can see if any changes have been made without permission
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Helen Harwood-Smith
commented
This is so vital to us that we will probably go with another software provider.
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Victoria Baker
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It would be great if there were different levels of payroll admin access. i would like certain managers of the business to see leave requests from all staff, not just ones sent directly to them, but i don't want them to be able to access the payroll information. AKA wages and banking details. More flexibility with the levels of access is very important to me.
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Nicolas Hristic
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A Head of HR should be able to access employees details (their Taxes, payslips, super etc..) without being able to see the bank account of the company and how much there is in it. Currently the 'Payroll admin' role gives access to bank account too, there needs to be an option to remove this access.
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Lynda Daish
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This needs to be addressed urgently. Employees freak out when they see different options for approvers. (e.g. off-site accountants and advisors)
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Gregory Martin
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This is an important issue for us and we support Xero changing this.
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Adelle Auld
commented
Our company needs the ability to have different access levels within payroll.
We have team members involved with the weekly payroll, that are not permitted to view Manager's payroll information (i.e. Salaries) for personnel within the Fortnightly or Monthly payroll.Our weekly payroll is for casual personnel so this is has a larger group of employees involved so the workload is shared.
I find it unusual that all other areas of Xero have different levels of access ie. Submitter, Approver and Admin, why is there not varying levels within payroll.
Suggestion for restructuring of payroll could be as follows:
* Restrict Submitter to either Weekly or casual personnel categories.
* Approver could have access to all employees/ payroll.
* Admin has access to the super lodgements and STP filing. etc. -
Rachael Buttigieg
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This is essential; I want our auditor to be able to access everything, we have nothing to hide, but multiple audit staff work on our engagement and I don't want to risk any of them accidentally changing anything while reviewing payroll items.
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Office Team
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It is CRITICAL that we can give view access to payroll to various people like auditors, directors and other people that need view access but that they cannot make any changes.
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Courtney Small
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I would love to give a staff member Invoice Only access for business, and Payroll Admin access. They have taken over payroll processing from me, but also work in sales, so need to be able to raise Sales Invoices. However I don't need/want them to be able to view bank account balances & details or bank rec etc.
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Mark Anyon
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The access rights are crazy limited. I want to grant managers so they can enter leave for their direct reports, but they can only do this with Payroll admin rights which allows them to see everyone else's pay information