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Payroll that talks to HR, time, onboarding and compliance
Small payroll inefficiencies quickly lead to extra admin and compliance risks. Employment Hero unifies your pay runs and records on a single platform, keeping your team in complete control.
What’s standing in the way of smoother payroll runs?
PAIN POINT #1
Manual payroll work creates unnecessary pressure every pay cycle
For payroll professionals, even routine tasks can become time-consuming when employee updates, leave data, timesheets and pay-related information need to be checked or chased across multiple systems. That manual handling increases the risk of delays, inconsistencies and last-minute issues at exactly the point accuracy matters most.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero helps reduce repetitive payroll admin by improving how employee changes, leave information and payroll inputs are captured and managed, making each pay cycle easier to run with accuracy and confidence.
PAIN POINT #2
Staying on top of compliance can feel like a constant moving target
Payroll teams are expected to get every detail right, from recordkeeping and super obligations to employee entitlements and audit-ready documentation. When information is incomplete, scattered or manually maintained, it becomes harder to validate what’s correct and keep a clear trail behind payroll decisions.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero helps payroll teams maintain cleaner records, stronger visibility and more reliable documentation, making it easier to support compliance requirements and reduce risk.
PAIN POINT #3
Limited visibility makes payroll issues harder to catch early
When key payroll-related information sits across spreadsheets, inboxes and disconnected systems, it’s harder to spot missing details, identify changes that affect pay or stay ahead of potential issues before payroll is processed. That lack of visibility can create unnecessary stress and make payroll harder to manage proactively.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero gives payroll professionals clearer oversight of employee information, leave and pay-impacting changes, helping surface discrepancies earlier and flag potential issues before they flow through to payroll.
Ready to automate your pay runs?
Built-in award interpretation to automate complex pay conditions
Employment Hero eliminates manual checking by building award interpretation rules straight into the platform. Penalty rates, overtime and allowances are calculated automatically based on the exact hours your people work. Instead of cross-checking complex payroll rules, your team gets consistent calculations that flow directly into the pay run, drastically reducing compliance risk.
A unified system connecting timesheets, leave and pay runs
Employment Hero brings your critical workforce data together into one unified platform. Approved timesheets and leave requests submitted via the mobile app flow automatically into the active pay run. This removes data re-keying and manual spreadsheet transfers, allowing payroll teams to spend less time piecing data together and more time reviewing exceptions.
Employee self-service to keep payroll records current
Employment Hero centralises employee data and gives your team structured update workflows. Staff can update their bank details, tax file declarations and personal information directly through the app, which instantly updates the central system. This cuts out back-and-forth email chains while ensuring you have an accurate, live source of truth for every pay cycle.
Automated audit trails for stress-free compliance reporting
Employment Hero automatically tracks and logs every pay run adjustment, approval and record change. All supporting documentation and payroll data live securely in one place, making historical records easy to retrieve. Built-in reporting tools give you instant visibility over workforce costs and leave liabilities, ensuring your organisation is always ready for audits.
How one payroll service cut processing time by 50%
Pay the Nanny
Payroll service | 3 employees | Australia and New Zealand
THE CHALLENGE
Pay the Nanny had outgrown a patchwork system made up of separate tools for billing, payroll, timesheets and spreadsheets, creating reconciliation risks and increasing the potential of costly errors as the business scaled. With thousands of payrolls being processed each year across Australia and New Zealand, the team needed a payroll platform that could integrate with its own software, support both countries and reduce the time spent manually matching invoices, payments and payroll records. Employment Hero provided API-friendly payroll infrastructure, cross-country functionality and customisable pay conditions, helping turn a fragmented process into one connected workflow.
“We’ve easily cut payroll time in half. But more than that, we’ve saved thousands of dollars by avoiding reconciliation mistakes.”
— Mark Hudson, Founder, Pay the Nanny
OUTCOMES
Reduced payroll processing time by 50%
Saved thousands of dollars by avoiding reconciliation mistakes
Unified payroll operations across Australia and New Zealand in one system
Staying compliant in high-pressure payroll environments
Payroll professionals work at the point where compliance, accuracy and timing all meet. Between interpreting pay rules, managing leave, processing terminations, maintaining employee records and preparing for changing super obligations, even small manual errors can create outsized risk. Employment Hero helps payroll teams build more consistent workflows, stronger controls and clearer visibility across day-to-day payroll compliance.
Award interpretation
Support payroll outcomes across complex pay conditions
Payroll teams often manage a mix of ordinary hours, leave, allowances, loadings and other variable pay inputs. When those calculations rely on manual handling or disconnected systems, it becomes harder to maintain consistency and reduce the risk of errors. Employment Hero helps connect payroll data, employee records and pay conditions in one platform, supporting more accurate pay processing and stronger confidence in each run.
Super reform
Payday super: 1 July 2026
Super will need to be paid on every payday, not quarterly. Employment Hero’s payroll engine is being updated to calculate and remit super on each pay run, including for part-time, casual and shift-based clinical staff.
Leave and termination records
Maintain better control at high-risk payroll moments
Leave payouts, final pay, notice periods and employee exits often create some of the most sensitive payroll compliance moments. When these processes are managed across spreadsheets, inboxes or disconnected handovers, important details can be missed or delayed. Employment Hero helps payroll teams maintain more structured workflows and connected records across leave and termination events, supporting better follow-through and reduced administrative risk.
Payroll records and audit readiness
Keep payroll data clearer and more accessible
Payroll professionals need confidence that employee records, pay history, super details, leave balances and supporting payroll information are complete and easy to retrieve. Employment Hero helps centralise payroll-related records in one place, improving visibility across key data points and making it easier to respond to questions, reviews or audits with stronger supporting information.
Employment Hero works alongside the tools your team already runs on
Xero
Payroll figures sync to Xero automatically after every pay run, no double entry, no manual reconciliation at period end.
MYOB
For business running MYOB, Employment Hero connects directly, keeping payroll and accounts aligned without additional admin.
QuickBooks Online
If you use QuickBooks, payroll data flows across automatically so your business’s finances stay current.
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Frequently asked questions
The platform automates the calculations that usually cause errors, including award interpretation, leave accruals, overtime, penalty rates and superannuation. Timesheets flow straight into pay runs, so you're not rekeying hours or chasing approvals by email. The result is fewer manual touchpoints, which means fewer mistakes and less time spent on corrections each cycle.
Yes. The payroll engine is built to interpret modern awards and can be configured for enterprise agreements, including allowances, loadings, overtime and time off in lieu. This reduces the manual overrides your team relies on today and helps keep every pay run aligned with your obligations, even as award rates change.
It varies by business, but the biggest savings come from automated award interpretation, timesheet imports and self-service for employees. When staff update their own details, submit leave and view payslips themselves, your inbox quietens down and pay runs move faster. Many teams cut their processing time significantly once these workflows are in place.
You get real-time reporting across pay runs, costs, leave liabilities and superannuation, with the ability to break figures down by team, location or entity. This gives you the visibility to answer finance and leadership questions confidently without exporting and rebuilding reports by hand.
Yes. If you process payroll on behalf of several clients, you can manage multiple entities with the right separation, permissions and reporting for each. This keeps your work organised and makes it easier to scale your service without adding tools or manual workarounds.
Plenty of payroll teams feel that way until they tally the hours lost to manual award interpretation, timesheet chasing and reconciliation, plus the compliance risk that sits underneath. Even a short review can show where time and risk are hiding, so you can judge whether the change is worth it for your situation.
Absolutely. The best way to judge fit is a tailored demo where we show how the platform handles your awards, pay runs, reporting and integrations. You'll see how it works for your specific payroll setup rather than a generic walkthrough, so you can make a confident decision.
Make every pay run easier to manage
Give your payroll team a simpler way to manage the moving parts around pay runs, compliance and employee changes, with connected tools that help reduce manual admin and keep everything running smoothly.
