Since the launch of Payroll in Xero earlier this year, Xero has been working to enhance the product, based on feedback from thousands of users.

You can now run final pay and transaction reports, get calendar overviews showing birthdays, leave, holidays and pay runs, and customise logos and photos. Based on suggestions from users, they’ll soon be including features like timesheets, leave balances and employee self-service in the Xero Me mobile app.

More Flexibility with Payroll

From 19 October, Xero are unbundling payroll from all current plans to give you more flexibility and only pay for what you use. You’ll be able to add payroll as an option to any of the three regular Xero plans for just $10 per month. It comes with one employee included. You’ll be able to include additional employees for $1 per unique employee per monthly billing cycle.

As part of this change, Xero are also reducing the base cost for their Premium plan from $75 per month to $70.

Xero NZ Plans from 19 October 2015

The exception is Premium customers with pricing protection from when payroll was first launched. If that’s the case, you will automatically retain your current plan and pricing until 30 March 2016, providing you stay on the same plan and don’t use payroll. After this date you will be migrated to the relevant new plan.

What about Existing Customers?

Customers who haven’t completed a payroll run since 1 September 2015 will be automatically transferred to their relevant plan without the payroll option. Customers who have completed a payroll since September 1st will be automatically transferred to the relevant plan with the payroll option. You can add Payroll or easily upgrade your plan at any time. If your requirements change you can move to a smaller plan or remove payroll once every 30 days.