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10 votes
Timothy Belcher
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2 votes
Hi David, thanks for submitting this idea.
We can see how having access to NZ-compliant employment agreement templates, and advice on which one to use, would be a huge help for businesses. We're grateful for your engagement and letting us know the changes that matter to you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it can gain support from other community members. Along with votes, others can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
Timothy Belcher
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95 votes
Thanks for your strong feedback on logging start and end times in NZ Payroll timesheets. We understand some of you are currently using workarounds or additional softwares to track start and end times.
I'm pleased to let you know we're moving this idea to In discovery, which means the product team is now reviewing the viability of this feature. This is an important step as we explore what it would take to bring this functionality to NZ Payroll and how it could best serve your needs.
We'll keep you updated as we learn more.
Timothy Belcher
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1 vote
Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂
Timothy Belcher
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66 votes
Thank you for your engagement and sharing through product ideas, everyone. While we appreciate wanting more flexibility and detail in payroll reports, with payroll development quite separated for each region, and to help our product teams best understand the data that would be most useful for our customers we're going to close this idea and recommend starting ideas for the specific fields that would be helpful in reports and why you'd find this useful.
Taking a closer look at ideas for what's been mentioned in this thread we have a couple of ideas users in this idea may want to vote on;
Welcome to come back and share links for other idea you create that others in this idea may want to support. 🙏
Timothy Belcher
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13 votes
Thanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
Timothy Belcher
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44 votes
Hi team, we want to be upfront that we don't have immediate plans for enabling the ability to create multiple draft pay runs in NZ Payroll.
If this is something you'd like to see developed for NZ Payroll please add your vote here and we will continue to get a sense of the overall interest from community, and can share if there are any plans made.
Timothy Belcher
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32 votesTimothy Belcher
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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Timothy Belcher
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Vote Critical!!
Most payroll providers (including MYOB and others) already offer reducing balance functionality for deductions, and it would be a huge improvement if Xero did the same.
Why it matters:
Reducing balances remove the need for manual follow-up.
They ensure the correct deduction amount is applied each pay run.
They eliminate the risk of over-deducting, and avoid the admin burden of tracking balances separately.
Example:
If an employee has scissors sharpened for $150, I currently need to set up a recurring $15 deduction, then manually track when to stop it after 10 weeks. With reducing balances, the system would simply reduce the balance each week and automatically stop once paid off.
When you have dozens of employees at different stages of paying off tools, scissors, and other items, manual reminders (like calendar alerts) aren’t practical.
Some days I even consider moving back to MYOB because they already have this feature.
Please add reducing balance deductions to Xero Payroll. It will save small business owners significant time and prevent costly mistakes. -
111 votes
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.
An error occurred while saving the comment Timothy Belcher
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I’m from NZ and this is essentially
I need to allocate all costs and expenses to three different salon locations
This includes payroll
I can put employee into categories/groups. BUT I can pull a report that has these groups for payroll.
This is crazy
Timothy Belcher
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53 votes
Hi everyone, thanks for sharing your feedback on payroll tracking. We understand some of you want to see gross wages, tax and super broken down by department and timesheet categories.
In May 2025 we released an update which allows super and leave to be allocated to employee groups, which helps track full wage expenses across departments or cost centre.
As you’re aware, our timesheet reports can be filtered by tracking categories, however the reports summarise hours rather than a total wage breakdown.
We've shared this idea with our product team. We really appreciate the feedback however further payroll tracking features are not in the near term roadmap so we'll update the status to Not in Pipeline at this time.
We’ll continue to monitor your interest and feedback as we plan future improvements to Payroll reporting.
Timothy Belcher
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5 votes
Hey Timothy! It's great to see ideas like this from the community, thank you for posting it. After reviewing your suggestion for filtering payroll reports by tracking category, we've now made it visible so it can gain support from other community members. Community members can now add their votes and comment on how your suggestion would help them. 🙂
Timothy Belcher
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Most payroll providers (including MYOB and others) already offer reducing balance functionality for deductions, and it would be a huge improvement if Xero did the same.
Why it matters:
Reducing balances remove the need for manual follow-up.
They ensure the correct deduction amount is applied each pay run.
They eliminate the risk of over-deducting, and avoid the admin burden of tracking balances separately.
Example:
If an employee has scissors sharpened for $150, I currently need to set up a recurring $15 deduction, then manually track when to stop it after 10 weeks. With reducing balances, the system would simply reduce the balance each week and automatically stop once paid off.
When you have dozens of employees at different stages of paying off tools, scissors, and other items, manual reminders (like calendar alerts) aren’t practical.
Some days I even consider moving back to MYOB because they already have this feature.
Please add reducing balance deductions to Xero Payroll. It will save small business owners significant time and prevent costly mistakes.