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Once payroll is set up it would be good to make only advisors accessible to payroll admin. The payroll clerk does not necessarily understand the postings behind payroll so it causes issues that they have access to payroll settings and are setting up codes that should not be set up and causing more admin to tidy up and move transactions to the correct place.

There should be an option to select if a user can run payroll and whether to be able to access settings not you either have access to everything or nothing!

I would like the option of creating separate pay runs and allowing certain individuals access to each. This would help when doing management and senior staff payroll so payroll admin can't access the information of the senior management team. I think the access rights in Xero need to be a bit more flexible as it seems an all or nothing system at the moment. Other accounting packages do have more flexibility with access rights and I think this lets Xero down.

The long list of names that can approve a timesheet in the app will only confuse our staff, many of the users listed work for our accountant and the names are completely unfamiliar to our staff, in fact, they will think something has gone wrong. You should be able to give time sheet and leave approval in the app to specific users.

Payroll Admin currently does not have an option to remove the access for changing employee bank details. We require multiple staff to be able to access payroll & run pay runs for our clients however they should not all have access to change employees bank details for added security & fraud prevention. We were alerted to this when increasing security across our company due to a security breach and this is essential to protect clients and staff. Thank you.

Very important for "payroll managers" to be able to access Xero payroll - but business owners will not necessarily want them to be able to access other functions and information in Xero.

I agree, not every employer wants their employee admin person to see their working bank account and all other financial matters in their xero file.
It is critical that this function be a standalone function.

Please create the option for employees to be allowed to submit draft timesheets on behalf of another, without granting them access to the full functionality of Payroll Admin. If employees can approve another's timesheet, surely there should be an option to submit a draft one on behalf of another as well?

Junior Payroll Admin should be able to submit timesheets for approval without access to the pay rates/employee details of everyone on file. If the payroll supervisor can then approve timesheets without Admin access, then why not the position below?

It would be great to have read-only access to payroll - all of it - for auditors.
They need access to the staff files, the individual transactions and the reports - as they have with the rest of the business.

Also useful to have permission level for payroll book keeper or other staff, but to restrict some information such as Manager's salaries, etc.

Not every employer wants their employee admin person to see their working bank account and all other financial matters in their xero file.
It is critical that this function be a stand alone function.

I agree with Ariella's comments below. We are an accounting firm that processes payroll on behalf of our clients, which necessitates that our staff have Payroll Admin access. However, they are not part of the client organisation and it's therefore ludicrous that they have access to approve our clients' employees' leave. It's a serious design flaw in Xero Payroll and should be rectified immediately!

If Xero could be like MYOB when it comes to payroll securities and only have certain staff have access to payroll and others to only timesheets. Pays are confidential and if you need help with timesheets they have access to all staff's payroll information. I shouldn't be all or nothing !!!

Hi Kelly, Our client is looking for someone to enter times and approve timesheets for all employees without having access to other payroll records.

In the absence of the ability to import timesheets into the payroll system from an external source (eg. excel spreadsheet) can we have specific authorities assigned to the payroll system. One being the ability to enter and approve timesheets only, without having any access to any other payroll information.

Can we have the ability to have a user only able to access and input timesheets, but not have access to payroll and reporting.

I would like to create a user role that has the ability to submit and approve leave requests on behalf of employees, but does not include Payroll Admin permissions (and therefore access to all the business' accounts).