Solving the payroll dilemma for Australian businesses
If you’ve been hesitant to give staff access to your Xero organisation to handle the payroll, your problems are now solved. As I announced at Xerocon, today we’re releasing payroll-only user privileges for Australian subscribers.
User privileges let you give people access to payroll in Xero without giving them access to the general ledger accounts.
This is perfect for situations where you want a staff member to process pay runs, but you don’t want him or her reconciling bank transactions or running P&L reports.
To set a user as a payroll-only user, just click General Settings, change his or her permission levels to “none,” then tick “payroll admin.” Or when you invite a new user, leave the “none” permission and tick “payroll admin.”
You can get more detail in the Help Centre. And if you haven’t started using Xero yet, just signup for a trial.
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9 comments
Glenys Proud
Will it be possible at any stage for employees to enter hours on timesheets via an app.?
Mike Keane
The option “none” is not appearing on my Xero?
It probably still is as I used it up until end of June. I have just emailed them now.
Thanks Stuart.
ticket number is 407897
Thanks @Stuart awesome news, and thanks for fast tracking this so promptly
Am liking what you have coming “entering time by employees”
stuartm
Great, but I’m looking forward to more enhancements to the user roles. For example, somebody with the invoice-only role can create new inventory items, but can’t edit them.
MarkB
I’ve signed up for a free trial of Xero, but would like to trial the Payroll module first [since its a new fin year] Is this possible ?
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