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  1. In Payroll NZ it is not possible to filter payruns by payroll calendar id or period start or end date whereas it is in payroll AU
    GET https://api.xero.com/payroll.xro/2.0/payRuns
    would be a big help to have this!

    3 votes

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  2. For PayrollNZ Employee currently it is not possible to add or update the payrollCalendarID, whereas it is possible in PayrollAU

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  3. I want to retrieve a list of unprocessed timesheets.

    In the Australian Payroll API you can filter the list of timesheets you retrieve by modification date, so you don't get 1000s of historical timesheets.

    However, in the New Zealand Payroll API this is not possible.
    Please add the ability to filter the list of timesheets by either status or modification date.

    5 votes

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  4. Xero lets you define public holidays, assign them to holiday groups, and assign a holiday group to an employee. I'd really like to be able to:

    • Retrieve the list of holiday groups and holidays defined for each.
    • Include the name of the assigned holiday group for each employee when retrieving the list of employees.
    7 votes

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  5. There is no way to distinguish between archived and active Pay Calendars via the API.

    An argument could be made for excluding them from this API call all together. At the very least there should be a way to tell if a Calendar is archived or not.

    3 votes

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  6. There is no way of telling is a pay item is inactive in the current API, meaning when you retrieve one and try and use it with the API somewhere later it fails. If you can make something inactive in Xero, the API should really provide this info.

    Adding the status field (or returning only active ones) would make this better.

    1 vote

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  7. When I email my client's their payrolls, after posting them, I tell them how much to pay HMRC too, I'm currently trying to automate a lot of this with the UK Payroll API.

    I could potentially work this out, by going back months, and calculating how much they paid, how much employment allowance is left over, etc, but it would be a lot easier for me if the payroll API were expanded to include this.

    I especially would appreciate some way of finding the current Employment Allowance balance, so I could update clients when it's about to run out.

    Thanks!

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  8. 1 vote

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  9. One of my clients moved to KeyPay integrated with Xero in February, as we have to pay over 200 employees per month.

    I've just found out, because I ran an activity statement for March and it didn't show any W1 or W2, that the Xero API prevents KeyPay from posting wages and PAYG accordingly! Pretty useless, that! And I can't even run a report in Xero as it doesn't show in there either.

    As I've just discovered this, it means I've also under-reported the February W1 and W2 to the ATO so I'll have to amend it. And run reports…

    3 votes

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  10. It would be nice to be able to hook into the leave events, requested, accepted, rejected etc.

    My use case for this is automatically adding leave requests to a calendar, and updating existing ones when their status changes.

    8 votes

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  11. Currently there is no way to determine the end date for a twice monthly calendar.

    I can think of two solutions:
    1. Expose the "calculatePeriods" function as an end point
    2. Add EndDate to the result of the PayCalendars end point

    4 votes

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  12. Can you please add a way to inject via an API a QR code onto Pay Slips and Invoices. This way people can pay invoices using 3rd party apps, and get digital details of the payslip

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  13. Also known as a group certificate, in Australia at the end of financial year employees need to be given a payment summary.

    To my knowledge this is not yet possible in Xero API. It would be great if this was added.

    7 votes

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  14. We only have 10 people over the pay period and yet xero doesn't recognise this - because they are in the same period and one is replacing the other xero wants us to upgrade the licence. Yet we only have 10 employees, but are paying 11 in the same period. Xero is not recognising dates and should be able to recognise a replacement employee.

    1 vote

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  15. I would like to add Employee photo and emergency contact information using API , in API documentation, there is no field/tag to upload employee photo and emergency contact . Please add this feature as well.

    Thanks!

    18 votes

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  16. Instead of the basic rate or overtime rate box, it would be helpful to have a breakdown of their day. Where they've been and how long for.

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  17. The Xero Payroll UI shows detailed the Employee Taxes in Paystub/payslip such as Federal Income, SSN, Medicare, State Withholding etc.

    However the Paystubs API only returns the total of that taxes

    3 votes

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  18. The basic method to terminate an employee is to set their termination date. However to re-instate an employee requires accessing the web-interface and choosing the re-instate button.
    As far as I can tell, this only removes the termination date from the employee record. It should be possible to remove that value in the API to allow re-instatement easily.

    5 votes

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  19. It indicates you can do this for Invoices by setting the “Accept” value in the http header to “application/pdf”. I want the same functionality for the Paystubs/Payslips

    34 votes

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  20. We are building some automated processes that help us process payroll approvals and provide tax information to a growing number of clients and it would be very useful to have access to the payroll taxes and filings information in Xero. In particular I would like to see the following information exposed in the US Payroll API:

    1.) ALL pay run data that is included on the Xero web UI. Currently, benefits and employer taxes are not included in the API data, making it impossible for us to communicate the total cost of a payroll to an approving party.

    2.) Taxes…

    2 votes

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