About the video: Single Touch Payroll lodgement, shown near the end of the film, is coming soon and isn’t available yet.
Overview
The Payroll section lets you manage your entire payroll process — from setting up employee pay details, to running pay runs, issuing payslips, and tracking pay history.
Single Touch Payroll (STP) is coming soon. STP reporting uses a separate application that has not officially launched. ATO lodgement is not currently available.
All Payslips
This page lets you search and review all payslips across your account. Use the date range picker to filter by pay period.
Search Filters
| Filter | Description |
|---|---|
| Date Range | The pay period to search within. Defaults to the current month. |
| Employee | Optionally filter to a specific employee. |
Results
The results show a summary row with totals across all matching payslips:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Total Gross | Sum of all gross wages. |
| Total PAYG Withheld | Sum of all income tax deducted. |
| Total Super | Sum of all superannuation contributions. |
| Total Net Pay | Sum of all net amounts paid to employees. |
Below the totals, payslips are grouped by employee. Each row shows the payslip ID, bank date, pay period, gross amount, deductions, tax withheld, and net pay. Click the payslip ID to view its full details.
Getting Started with Payroll
1. Set Up Your Team
Navigate to Employees and toggle each team member on as an employee. This creates their Employee Card with regional defaults.
Then complete their employment details:
- Tax Scale — select the correct ATO withholding scale.
- Salary or hourly rate — their base pay.
- HELP/HECS liability — toggle on if applicable.
- Superannuation — employer contributions are calculated automatically.
- Default Pay template — review the template to ensure all recurring items are correct.
For a full guide on every field, see the Employee Details help page.
2. Review Default Pay Templates
Each employee has a Default Pay template that defines their standard payslip — base pay, tax deductions, and employer contributions. When you create a payslip, it's pre-filled from this template.
Review each employee's template before running your first pay run to make sure the calculated amounts look correct.
3. Run Payroll
Use the Pay Run page to generate payslips for all active employees in one go. See the Pay Run help page for details.
Permissions
| Action | Owner | Super Admin | Manager | Accountant | Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View all payslips | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Search/filter payslips | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Create payslips | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Run pay run | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Send payslips | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Delete payslips | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
About the Manager role. Managers do not have access to the payroll section at all — they cannot open it, and cannot view payslips. Payroll is limited to Owners, Super Admins and the Accounts role.
About the Accounts role. The role picker calls this role Accounts; it is shown here as Accountant. It has full access to payroll, employee and Time in Lieu features. It cannot manage account settings or API tokens, approve payments, or change an account owner's role.
Tips
- Run payroll on a consistent schedule. Whether weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, keeping to a regular cycle makes reconciliation easier and keeps your team's expectations clear.
- Review before you finalise. Always check the summary totals on the pay run confirmation page before moving on.
Use the search to reconcile. Filter by date range to match payslips against your bank transactions for the same period.
STP is coming soon. The separate STP application has not officially launched; Beeswax STP lodgement is not currently available.