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    Not in pipeline  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    Thanks for the great discussion and all the votes on this idea. We know that without the ability to set specific leave approvers, it can be harder to keep governance clear, avoid self-approval and ensure requests go to the right person.

    While we’re not planning to develop dedicated approval workflows in the near term, we want to share a tip that many have found useful. You can help streamline the process by guiding employees to select their direct manager from the approver list. While all payroll admins and leave approvers are listed, this step helps make sure requests reach the right person and keeps oversight clear.

    Your feedback here is incredibly valuable for future planning and we’ll continue to keep an eye on this idea’s traction. We’ll keep it open for voting and will share any updates if plans change down the track.

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    Barbara Sivira commented  · 

    Not only the option to specify leave approval for each employee, but as my previous post that there should also be a box to select if the payroll admin is also authorised to approve leave. The current option can give e.g. in an accounting firm who there could be up to 5 staff members with payroll admin access to be able to approve leave. clients don't like this idea as there could be more than 5 users to choose from when a leave request is submitted for approval. can Xero look into adding a box to select for payroll admin user access.

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    Barbara Sivira commented  · 

    Would be ideal that all payroll admins should have an option to approve leave. currently as a bookkeeper in a firm, we have several accountants/bookkeepers that have payroll admin access and clients would like to have the list of approvers for leave to exclude users that should not be approving leave. In other words users such as accountants/bookkeepers in firms should not be shown as leave approvers. currently there is no option for this and we are having our clients requesting the removal. maybe this could be something that Xero should be looking at, the only option available is for employees that can be authorized not payroll admins.