Connect payroll
Connect Xero Payroll or Employment Hero, so your crew come in once and their approved hours go back without retyping.
Connecting payroll does two things. Your employees come in, so each one can be linked to someone in your crew. Then each pay period, approved hours go back to payroll as a timesheet.
Your payroll still does the pay. It works out awards, penalties, super and tax. We only send hours and pay items. We never send pay amounts.
Only the owner can connect payroll, link the crew and send timesheets. The office and workers never see it.
Connect Xero Payroll
- Go to Settings, Payroll.
- Press Connect Xero Payroll.
- Sign in to Xero and pick your organisation.
- You come back to the Payroll screen. Your employees come in straight away.
This is a separate sign-in from the Xero connection for invoices. You can have one, the other or both. Xero asks you to allow reading employees, pay items and payroll calendars, and writing timesheets. Nothing else in Xero is changed.
Connect Employment Hero Payroll
- In Employment Hero Payroll, click your name at the top right, then My Account.
- Generate an API key and copy it.
- Go to Settings, Payroll and press Connect Employment Hero Payroll.
- Paste the key and press Connect. If the key reaches more than one business, pick yours.
The key is stored encrypted and is never shown again. It acts as the payroll user who made it. If that person leaves or makes a new key, connect again with a new one.
Employment Hero has its own award interpretation. Employment Hero works out overtime is on to start with: whole shifts go on ordinary time and Employment Hero classifies them, so nothing is classified twice. Turn it off on the Payroll screen to send hours already split by your pay rules.
ELMO
ELMO is listed but not available yet. ELMO switches on API access for each customer, and we are working through that with them.
What comes in about each person
Only their name, email, phone, start date, finish date and their payroll ID. Pay rates, tax file numbers, bank and super details, addresses and dates of birth never come in.
Bring employees in again
Press Bring employees in again after you add someone in payroll. People you have already linked stay linked.
Disconnect
Press Disconnect on the Payroll screen. Nothing more is sent. Your links and pay item choices are kept, so connecting the same payroll again carries on where you left off.