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  1. The Employees endpoint in the NZ Payroll API returns all Employees of the Organisation. There is no way to distinguish between the "current" Employees and "old/former" Employees.

    This means any UI showing the Employees includes everybody rather than just the current Employees. Where the user should only be selecting "current" Employees we should be able to provide them a drop down that is limited to the valid choices!

    This is not currently possible because the API does not expose the status of the Employee.

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  2. 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

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  3. Our app allows adding earnings lines for commissions to payslips. We would also like to add messages to the payslip at the same time (via the API) to indicate what each commission was for. Currently the payslip API doesn't allow this that I can find. So our clients have to cut and paste payslip messages from our app to the payslip in the Xero website, which is very cumbersome and error prone.

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  4. 3 votes

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  5. 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!

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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…

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  8. 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

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  9. Have an endpoint where it is possible to get an updated list of all the US supported states in the api us payroll

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  10. We want to automate our payroll process by automating the transfer of Wages and PAYG data from Employment Hero to XERO’s BAS Lodgement.

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  11. 2 votes

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  12. It would be great to have webhooks for timesheets. Same for leave requests (requested by others).

    This allows us to create a better experience by having to know if a timesheet has been marked as paid and etc and allowing us to prevent any further edits and etc. Additionally, you may have different personas that may edit directly on Xero itself so it would be important to receive those hooks when it happens.

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  13. For the PayRunStatus in GET PayRuns you show DRAFT and POSTED, it should also be possible to get FILED status so we can see if it's been filed for STP.

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  14. Provide validation errors with a code attribute on the returned object or prefix the error code to the returned message.

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  15. 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…

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  16. From review of the Xero's instructions there are several steps and places that you need to go just to terminate an employee. Surely this can be incorporated into a Wizard feature whereby you choose to terminate one or more selected employees and Xero takes you through the necessary steps to effectively and correctly terminate an employee/s.

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  17. When feeding timesheets into Payroll, there is nowhere to specify an hourly rate for Ordinary Hours. The only way to get around this is to set up a default pay per employee that pays 0 hours at the required rate. It works, but is not very intuitive.

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  18. Have an "Approve and Next" button for Timesheets, so that once you have approved a timesheet you don't have to click close and then click into the next persons timesheet, you would just click "Approve and Next" and it takes you to the next one. Saves time. Like when approving the Payslips, this option is there, but not in Timesheets.

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  19. The Xero AU Payroll Employees API does not update or return the “last updated” timestamp when employee bank account or superannuation details are changed. Our HR system relies on this timestamp to detect updates, and without it, outdated data may overwrite correct information in Xero. This poses a risk of employee pay or super being sent to incorrect accounts.

    Please review and update the API so these changes correctly trigger a timestamp update, ensuring accurate and reliable data sync between systems.

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    1. Give payroll admins the ability to move the status from "draft" to "pending approval" as is possible in NZ and UK or
    2. Give permissions to users with approval power to see the timesheet in the "draft" status through "Xero me" or
    3. Permit users with approval power to see the "timesheet" module in addition to "Xero me"

    Similar case - https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/50247837-au-timesheet-approval-process-upgrade

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