When an employee leaves your business you may need to pay out their unused annual leave balance. That is, the balance of annual leave that builds up over time that your employee has not used to go on holiday. Check out our video on how to properly pay out an employee’s annual leave balance when…
When an employee goes on leave, they should enter a leave request in Xero for the number of working hours they will be away. Once you approve the request and run the payroll for that period, your employee’s accrued leave balance will reduce by the number of approved leave hours. If you do not follow those…
Xero has made it easy to add new employees to payroll. Check out our video tutorial above. It will step you through how to add an employee to payroll in the Australian version of Xero’s demo company. The tutorial and written guide assumes that you have already completed the payroll settings necessary to successfully add…
If you have casual employees on your payroll in Xero, you may need to add and approve timesheets so you can pay them. Check out our video tutorial for a comprehensive look at all the steps involved in adding a timesheet for your employee and approving it for payment in Xero. First, we take a…
It happens to us all: you’ve put the payroll together and before you know it, there are changes to be made. Someone has worked extra hours, there’s an allowance to add or tax changes to be made to an employee’s pay. So now you’re wondering, how do I make changes to a draft pay run…
Once you have posted a pay run in Xero and paid your employees, you need to reconcile the general ledger. In this video tutorial, we will use Xero’s demo company to reconcile the Wages Payable account after posting a pay run and making salary and wage payments to our employees. The Pay Run Reconciliation Process…
The first step in paying your employees in Xero payroll is to add a pay run. After that, you can post the pay run and finish by emailing payslips to your employees. Check out our video tutorial where we use the Demo Company to demonstrate how to start a pay run, post the pay run…
Setting up a Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF) and assigning it to an employee in Xero is easy to do. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to add an SMSF and assign it to an employee in Xero’s Australian Demo Company. To add a self-managed superannuation fund, first go to the Superannuation tab of the payroll…
Setting up a regulated super fund and assigning it to an employee in Xero is easy to do. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to add a super fund to payroll and assign it to an employee in Xero’s Australian Demo Company. To add a superannuation fund, first go to the Superannuation tab of the…
Sometimes employees accumulate a lot of annual leave and prefer to be paid the money instead of taking a holiday. When this happens, you can “pay out” or “cash in” some of their annual leave in Xero. Check out our video tutorial where I will show you two methods of how to pay out some…
