Skip to content
← Share and support customer ideas for Xero

Settings and activity

2 results found

  1. AU Payroll - Ability to apply work patterns to part time employees

    340 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    79 comments  ·  Payroll & expenses » Payroll  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    In development  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    Hi 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.

    Luke Reade supported this idea  · 

  2. AU Payroll - Assign multiple tracking categories to pay items

    136 votes

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

    We’ll send you updates on this idea

    48 comments  ·  Payroll & expenses » Payroll  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    Not in pipeline  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    Heya team, thanks for all your input here. We hear you, and understand that being able to assign multiple tracking categories to pay items would improve your reporting capabilities, and simplify tracking costs for various projects, locations, or departments.

    For now, we’d suggest using manual journals to split and reallocate payroll costs after a pay run. Alternatively as some have shared, you could create specific pay items for each tracking category combination, although we recognise this may not be suitable for all.

    While this isn’t in our plans at this stage we understand the rationale here and will consider how tracking works within payroll closely as we continue to develop our roadmap.

    If there are any changes or news for tracking in payroll we’ll be sure to update you of this here.

    Luke Reade supported this idea  · 
    An error occurred while saving the comment
    Luke Reade commented  · 

    I've just spent some time trying to find how to do this - to view, by month, tracking category breakdown of staff salaries paid, for the purposes of both 1) grant reporting and aquittal, and 2) budget management. What's the point of staff filling out time sheets, assigning hours to tracking categories, and then not seeing this breakdown, having to use a spead sheet to convert hours (in 'timesheet details' report) to dollars spent, including superanuation etc).

    We should be able to do a monthly P&L, click on salaries and see a column with the tracking category breakdown. This could also be done in timesheet details report giving a column in $ not just hours.

    We could do this for non-salary expenses by having charts of accounts that reflect budget line items, but salaries are different in that a staff member could spend various times on different tracking categories.