Guided Payroll and HR Implementation Journey (New Zealand)
Welcome to your Guided Payroll and HR Implementation. In this journey you will have access to our live and on demand workshops that will guide you through the set up, to ensure you can get immediate value from our platforms. We also have Q&A sessions where you can work through your questions that come up outside of our live workshops, to ensure you can promptly and efficiently work through your implementation.
On this page you will find:
- An overview of your implementation journey
- Links to register for your workshops and Q&A sessions
- Implementation support resources, including our Employer Launch Kit and Helpcentre
Have questions? Our dedicated Guided Implementations team is here to help you at any time during your journey by contacting onboarding@employmenthero.com
Your Combined Guided Implementation Journey

Your Workshops and Q&As

Initial Payroll Settings
Enter or check your company details, and setup your banking details so you can generate bank files.

Adding Pay/Deduction Categories, Leave Categories & Accruals
In this core workshop you will learn how and why you need to manage and create pay and deduction categories. Also included is creation and modification of leave categories and accruals and setting up Custom Leave Templates.

Employee Data
Importing your employee data is a key part of working in the payroll system. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge on how to export a template to capture your data and also how to import the completed data template into your payroll.

Testing/Running a Payroll
his workshop will provide you with an overview of the process to run a payroll, from creating a pay run to finalising a pay run and then lodging your pay event with your tax authority. You will also be exposed to adjusting tax, leave and super within a pay run as well as deductions before finalising a pay run, publishing your payslips, downloading your bank file and final reporting to your tax authority.

Connecting your Payroll and HR through System Integration
Your consultant will demonstrate how to integrate Employment Hero Payroll and HR platforms. You will complete this action live with your consultant during the webinar. This is so that the consultant can assist with any questions or errors that may come up and offers you the optimal beginning to linking your two platforms.

Organising employees
See how to create reporting lines and set up teams for automation.

Time and attendance
Learn how to configure leave and timesheet features.

Setting up employee engagement tools
Set up your company values, learn how to use the company feed, and send out surveys.

Launching Employment Hero 🚀
See how to prepare the platform for launch, customise your invitations, and manage and track employee activations.

Configuring Chart of Accounts using API

Configuring Chart of Accounts Manual File Upload

Testing/Running a Payroll
This workshop will provide you with an overview of the process to run a payroll, from creating a pay run to finalising a pay run and then lodging your pay event with your tax authority. You will also be exposed to adjusting tax, leave and super within a pay run as well as deductions before finalising a pay run, publishing your payslips, downloading your bank file and final reporting to your tax authority.

IRD connection, Entering Opening Balances and Historical Data (NZ)
Learn how to configure leave and timesheet features.

General Payroll Q&A
In this Open Forum webinar, our Payroll trainer will host and facilitate a Q&A session. Topics covered in the session will relate to any aspects of your general payroll and employee settings.

General HR Q&A
See how to prepare the platform for launch, customise your invitations, and manage and track employee activations.
Want more Payroll or HR content?

Explore our Payroll workshops
See over 15 on-demand workshops to help you in your Payroll journey.
→ Installing an award
→ Workzone/Clock me in
→ Rostering

Explore our HR workshops
We’ve got you covered from leave balances to launch, and everything in-between.
→ Customising Onboarding
→ HR Documents & templates
Implementation Support Resources

Additional Workshop Materials
Here you will find a summary of the information covered in each workshop, including knowledge base articles from our Help Centre and FAQs

Employer Launch Kit
Here you will find resources such as launch presentations, manager and employee navigation videos, onboarding guides, our daily use guide, email templates and posters to support you in your launch

Access our Help Centre
Have a question? Search our help centre for step-by-step pictorial guides, FAQs and more

Dedicated Support
We strongly encourage you to attend our Q&A sessions for any questions outside of a workshop session. However if these times do not work for you please send through an email