Payroll processing for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — payroll processing is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to ATO. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside payroll operations more broadly, that stays with your registered BAS or tax agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for payroll processing — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Payroll processing sits inside payroll operations, alongside Contractor payments, Single Touch Payroll support, Super guarantee processing. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

We hold the cutoff and chase the input actively — a direct follow-up, not a queued email — in the window before the run is due. If it still can't be resolved before the pay event is finalised, the fix goes out as a same-cycle off-cycle correction rather than letting an incomplete STP event go through.

Yes, split cadences are common and we run each group on its own cutoff and approval schedule inside the same payroll system, as long as the provider (Xero Payroll, MYOB, QuickBooks AU) supports multiple pay schedules on your plan.

You do. Every scheduled or off-cycle run is routed to you for a final look and sign-off before it is finalised — we prepare it, you approve it, your registered BAS or tax agent lodges the STP report under their own registration.

It depends on the entitlement calculation and how quickly we're told about the termination — there's no single national same-day rule, but the Fair Work Ombudsman expects final pay within a reasonable time. We prepare the check as soon as we have the details and route it for your approval immediately rather than waiting for the next regular cycle.

That determination sits with your HR adviser, bookkeeper or registered agent, based on the applicable Modern Award or enterprise agreement. We keep the classification and pay-rate fields accurate in the system and flag anything that looks inconsistent with what's on file, so the right person can make the call with current data.

We flag it before the run reaches your approval screen — a spike or drop against the prior cycle, a rate that doesn't match what's on file, hours that don't line up with the roster. You get the anomaly and the context, not a silent pass-through.

Account setup, provider selection, and cadence (weekly vs. fortnightly vs. monthly) are decisions you make, usually with input from your registered agent on cash flow and award coverage. We work inside whatever cycle and provider you've already chosen.

As a tracked off-cycle event, not a silent re-entry. We log what the correction fixes, which prior run it relates to, and route it for approval the same as any other run — so there's a clean trail for your registered agent at the next STP lodgment.

Your registered BAS or tax agent, under their own registration. We prepare accurate, STP-ready run data and flag the SG figure each cycle; BAS agent registration, the STP lodgment, and the SG determination stay with them.

We check the TFN declaration, Super Choice form and work classification against a short list before including anyone in their first run, so a gap gets caught before cutoff. If something is still missing, we flag it rather than push a run through with incomplete onboarding data.