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

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    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.

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    Samantha Harrison commented  · 

    AU Payroll - Option to allocate employee salary to project costs.
    We have run into the same issues. Processing a Payrun through ABA and Xero not then being capable of reading the ABA data from the pay run to allocate the individual wages to a project cost. Xero Support say its for anonymity - there is a huge need clearly for years to seperate the individual transaction value to Head office, admin costs, or project cost. It makes zero sense as Xero is creating this ABA Data and subsequently the journal data in the first place. Why wouldn't it be a priority to close the circle correctly and have the details for the payment listed within the journal entry

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