Integrating with Xero Payroll

What if we have employees outside of Xero or in multiple Xero entities?

Some companies may have employees under different entities within Xero, or even a combination of employees within Xero and outside of Xero. Neither of these is an issue.

If you have multiple entities within Xero, it is simply a matter of clicking on the 'Connect to Xero' button as many times as needed, then signing on to Xero and selecting the appropriate company. HR Partner will automatically keep an identifier in the backend of the system so it knows which Xero company each employee belongs to when syncing data moving forward. 

If you have employees outside of Xero, you can choose to either bulk upload them with a CSV file or upload them individually. You can read more about uploading employees into HR Partner here. You can have some employees that are connect to your Xero account and others that are not (and perhaps have different leave policies that apply to them.)

Connection options

Once the connection to Xero has been made, there are a couple of other options that you can activate by going to the save Integration screen above.  If you revisit this screen after you have made a connection, you will see the following options:

The options are explained here:

Push any approved leave requests from HR Partner to Xero - By ticking this box, any employee leave requests that have been Approved by an Admin user in HR Partner will be sent back to Xero. This will make payroll entry a lot easier for your payroll team, as the leave dates and type will be ready to incorporate into the next pay run (or future pay run depending on the leave timeframe).

Don't sync employee middle names (Xero Australia Payroll only) - You have the option to omit the employee's middle names from the data brought across from Xero. The Australian payroll system has the employee names broken down into first, middle and last names, and by default, the sync will concatenate all three together. You may not want that and you may only want the first and last names, in which case you can tick this box to leave off the middle names. This only applies to Australian Payroll systems.

Default Statutory Sick Leave (Xero UK Payroll only) - You need to select the specific statutory leave type that applies to any sick leave requests that your employees may choose. Whilst HR Partner will give you just the single leave type called 'Sick', you will need to map this to one of the multiple Statutory leave types that are preset in your Xero system. This only applies to UK Payroll systems.

Remember to hit the "Save" button after making changes here. You can turn these options on or off anytime without impacting the connection.

Disconnecting from Xero

The connection to Xero will constantly run in the background until you choose to disconnect it. To disconnect from Xero, simply go to the same Integration screen as above, and click the red 'Disconnect From Xero' button. This will only take one second, but after this, your employee information will no longer be synced between Xero and HR Partner (however it will remain in HR Partner).

At any time, you can re-establish the connection with Xero again, and the system will continue syncing your information between the two platforms.

Manually refreshing data from Xero