Payroll software for NZ businesses

Whether you're running a team of under ten or leading a business of 200+, Employment Hero adapts to your needs. Add new team members in seconds, integrate with your accounting, HR and rostering tools and customise settings for different pay groups or locations.

Cut down on manual admin and reduce errors, track time and attendance accurately for shift and casual workers, access your payroll data securely from anywhere and scale easily as your team grows. As a single source of truth, you'll have records ready for an audit on request.

Yes. We are built for complex payroll situations. Employment Hero adapts pay calculations for full-time, part-time and casual employees, as well as independent contractors.

Most NZ payroll tools store data – our Employment OS runs pay cycles for you. Intelligent automation coordinates employee data across hiring, HR, rostering and payroll in one platform, instead of stitching together separate tools. We integrate with Xero, MYOB and NetSuite for accounting, and every plan includes local NZ support. The result: less double-handling, fewer compliance errors, and one bill instead of three.

Yes. Employment Hero automatically calculates Average Weekly Earnings (AWE), Relevant Daily Pay (RDP) and Ordinary Weekly Pay (OWP) – the three core Holidays Act formulas – for annual leave, sick leave, bereavement leave and public holidays. Our system applies legislative updates automatically, so your team is paid correctly even when the rules change.

You have two options. With Employment Hero’s payroll software, your business stays the employer of record – we’re IRD-recognised software, so you can run pay and file Payday Filing directly to Inland Revenue from the platform. If you’d rather have someone else handle PAYE, KiwiSaver and IRD payments on your behalf, our Managed Payroll service operates as a PAYE Intermediary and takes care of it end-to-end.

Yes. Employment Hero payroll integrates directly with Xero, MYOB and NetSuite – your payroll journal flows straight to the general ledger after every pay run, no manual exports. HR data stays in sync because Employment Hero’s payroll and HR sit on the same platform. We also connect with rostering, time and attendance, and accounting tools across NZ – see our integrations page for the full list.

Every plan includes a local NZ-based support team you can reach by phone or email – no overseas call centres, no email-only ticket queues. We also assign a dedicated implementation specialist for your first pay run, and our help centre is available 24/7. Want it fully managed? Our Managed Payroll experts can run your entire payroll process for you, from pay runs to IRD filings.

Employment Hero protects payroll data with enterprise-grade encryption (in transit and at rest), role-based access controls, multi-factor authentication, and regular security audits. We use secure cloud servers with disaster recovery in place, and we follow strict access protocols so only authorised users can see sensitive pay information.

Payroll is included in our Employment Unlimited plan, priced per employee per month. That gives you payroll, HR, hiring and employee experience in one platform – better value than paying for a standalone payroll tool plus separate HR and recruitment software. See our pricing page for current rates.