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67 votes
Hi everyone, thank you for your feedback and for highlighting how much Award automation would help your payroll workflow.
While we don't have immediate plans to build this directly into Xero Payroll, there are fantastic tools available right now that solve this. We highly recommend exploring the Xero App Store, where several third-party integrations offer embedded Awards as part of their software. These apps are specifically designed to handle complex Award interpretation and can automate the manual matching process.
We are moving this status to Not in pipeline, but we’ll be sure to update you if that changes.
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Whitebream Australia
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What We’re Hoping Xero Can Improve
✔️ Automated award rate updates whenever SCHADS pay tables change
✔️ Built‑in award interpretation, reducing manual configuration
✔️ Simplified tools for maintaining classifications, penalties, and allowances
✔️ Improved visibility and accuracy across complex shift types
Impact for the Sector
This enhancement would:Improve payroll accuracy and compliance
Save businesses significant time and cost
Reduce risk associated with manual updates
Support disability, aged care, community, and social services providers who rely heavily on SCHADS workforce structuresAn error occurred while saving the comment Whitebream Australia
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Enhanced SCHADS Award interpretation in Xero Payroll, with automated and easy-to-update pay rate changes whenever the award is updated.
Why This Matters
The SCHADS Award is highly complex, with frequent adjustments to:Minimum hourly rates
Allowances
Overtime and penalty structures
Sleepover and broken-shift arrangements
Industry-specific entitlementsManually updating these changes every time Fair Work releases an adjustment is time‑consuming, prone to error, and risky from a compliance perspective—especially for organisations managing large casual and part‑time workforces.
Whitebream Australia
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13 votes
Hi there, we appreciate you raised this a little while ago. We don't have any plans to include this in Xero functionality in the near term.
Not getting a lot of support from other members we’ll soon remove this from Product ideas. If it’s still highly valuable to you, welcome to start it again and see if it gets renewed interest.
Whitebream Australia
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73 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. 🙏
Whitebream Australia
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56 votes
We can see you raised this a little while ago, thank you for your patience whilst it was being reviewed. We can see this idea has been steadily gaining support so have now updated the status accordingly. Whilst this is not currently on our product team's roadmap, they are keeping an eye on this idea and we will continue to share updates as things evolve.
Whitebream Australia
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73 votes
Hi everyone, thank you for your continued feedback. We appreciate you sharing how important selecting multiple employees is for you when running payroll reports.
The good news is our product team has reviewed this idea and agrees it is a valuable addition to Xero. We have updated the status to Accepted.
This feature is not currently on our immediate development roadmap, however by accepting it we are formally adding it to our backlog for consideration.
We will keep tracking interest here and update you as soon as we have news.
Whitebream Australia
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298 votes
Hey everyone 👋 Thanks so much for all the detailed feedback on applying work patterns for part-time employees. We’ve been following the conversation and understand that manually adjusting pay runs for pro-rata entitlements can be a real challenge. It’s clear that having this automated could save time and give you greater peace of mind.
I’m pleased to let you know our product team has reviewed this idea and we’re updating the status to ‘Accepted’. This means that while it’s not on our immediate roadmap, it’s something we see real value in and want to bring into Xero when we can prioritise the work.
In the meantime, the workarounds shared here, like manually adjusting hours in each pay run, remain the best approach. We really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, as your feedback plays a crucial role in shaping Xero. We’ll keep you updated on any developments…
Whitebream Australia
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87 votes
Hi there, as part of our ongoing review process, we’re in the process of updating our idea statuses to better track Xero Product Ideas.
We’ve taken another look at this idea. Whilst we can see the value for payroll administrators to be able to view the payslip in PDF from within the Employee’s record, this update doesn’t currently fit into our product team’s road map. We’ll move this idea to a status of Accepted and will continue to review this in future planning.
Whitebream Australia
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36 votes
Thanks for letting us know the report suggestions that are most important to you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
Whitebream Australia
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33 votes
"Thanks for the idea. We’ve reviewed your submission, and it is now available for the community to support.
To help your idea gain traction, please share it with colleagues so they can vote for it, too. The comment section is also open for other members to share how this feature would improve their Xero experience."
Whitebream Australia
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Hi Xero Team,
I’ve noticed many comments from users requesting this upgrade to the Payroll module, yet there still doesn’t seem to be any response or indication of an action plan from Xero.
Other payroll providers — including some free platforms — have already implemented similar functionality. If they can offer this capability, it’s unclear what is preventing Xero from doing the same. This upgrade would be a genuine value‑add and a significant win for many of your long‑term and loyal customers.
Could you please provide an update or clarity on whether this enhancement is being considered?
Thank you.