Our Mission

Paying your employees is simple. Create multiple pay cycles, import timesheets, generate payslips or export your data.

Easily make adjustments to employee's hours, assign new pay items, add rates, allowances and deductions.

Payslips can be sent to your employees via email once a pay run has been finalised and sent to your bank. After that, it will be available in their portal whenever they need it.

Configure rules for overtime, weekends, breaks and allowances and more. Timesheets are then automatically interpreted against any defined rules.

Astute Payroll generates an industry standard ABA file, ready to upload into your online banking.

Any adjustments to an employee’s timesheet will be time and date stamped, recorded and kept on the system for future reference.

Complete payroll flexibility. You can create multiple pay runs at different frequencies – weekly, fortnightly, monthly or one-off payments like employee bonuses.

Through our Astute based solution, we have integrations with Bullhorn, JobAdder and Xero to name a few. We also support export files for accounting applications such as MYOB, SAGE, D365, and many more HRIS and Finance Systems. 

Each integration partner has developed a turnkey solution to fulfil a critical business need and seamlessly connects with Astute Payroll. 

Transfer HR data from your CRM or HRIS into Astute Payroll automatically. Then transfer payroll and invoicing data into your GL. Easy

Using integrations to extend Astute Payroll means no more IT costs maintaining servers and onsite equipment.

We have a large selection of integrations giving you and endless variety of ‘cloud stack’ combinations.  Using Astute Payroll’s import/export tool or our API, we can easily push ledger updates into your accounting software and employee data into you HRIS system. 

Create an engaging onboarding experience that prioritises compliance as well as clearly conveying your employer brand, security requirements and policies.

Automatic email reminders prompt employees to start their personalised onboarding and or learning and development journey. 

Store contact information, emergency contacts, bank details and other important employee data in a single and secure location.

Give employees the option of changing their details while tracking every update for audit purposes.

Empower your employees with an easily accessible online profile, detailing all their important employment information such as leave, wages, payslips, and more. 

Employees can see all their job details including timesheets and expenses, as well as wage information for each job they’re assigned to.

Employees with leave entitlements can view their balances and submit leave requests for processing. 

Completing superannuation membership information couldn’t be easier, with our fully compliant SuperStream feature.  Self-Managed Super Funds can also be nominated by your employees.

Timesheets can be completed and managed on the go. Employees can enter and save their hours progressively, then easily submit them at the end of pay period. 

Payslips are available to employees any time they need them. They can be viewed, downloaded and printed as required.

With two factor authentication on their Profile page,  you and your employees can feel at ease knowing there is an additional layer of security protecting their privacy. 

Easily handle multiple jobs, projects, shifts, and leave all on one timesheet.  

Our timesheet handles any scenario you can think of, including multiple jobs, projects, shifts, internal project capture, tenders, and more. Say goodbye to paper timesheets, manual checks, and wasted time. 

Time blocks provide great flexibility in how hours are allocated during a day. They can be used to record hours for a specific job or project or provide traditional shift functionality. 

Set up the type of breaks can be taken, the length of breaks, and what jobs they relate to, then add rounding features to ensure you stay within your business rules.

Astute Payroll records every action taken on a timesheet and who made it. Easily check the status of a timesheet and follow the process from submission right through to payment. 

Incorporate leave into timesheets for additional ease of use for your employees.  

Easily create any type of allowance and have your employees process this directly from their timesheet. Some allowances can be set to be triggered automatically by a rule. 

Need more than one Approver? No problem. Set a group of Approvers for your employee to choose from. 

We know the week doesn’t always start on Monday. Choose a weekly starting day and allow your employees to log their time on an hourly or daily basis. Paying fortnightly or monthly? No worries, we’ve got that covered too.

Employees and approvers are automatically reminded by email to complete or review a timesheet. 

Need to attach documents to timesheets? Done. Have employees upload documents as attachments and have those attachments automatically flow through to payroll.

Astute Payroll gives you an easy-to-use leave management tool that calculates leave balances in real time. Management has visibility into leave entitlements and resource availability. 

Leave requests can be set to be applied for in full days, half days, quarter days or hours. You can even accept partial days by specifying start and end times. 

With our team calendar view Astute Payroll gives leave Approvers visibility into how a leave request affects the rest of their team.

No more paper and spreadsheets. Astute Payroll gives you real time visibility into leave requests and leaves balances with configurable and easy to use reports. 

Empower employees with online leave requests. Email reminders and flexible workflows speed up the leave approval process and ensure accuracy and compliance.

Astute Payroll turns the complexities of PAYG, Payroll Tax, Superannuation, and Workplace Insurance into simple processes and reports.

Capture your PAYG withholding obligations quickly and easily with the PAYG Tax Report.  

Payroll tax

Astute Payroll provides a report for any selected month with your gross wages and taxable pay by State. The relevant threshold is applied then the set tax rate added. It’s so so simple!

Workplace Insurance

Astute Payroll’s Workplace Insurance report calculates wages by State then applies the relevant workplace insurance rate. Send this report to your insurer and you’ve just saved yourself valuable hours.

Superannuation

Select a time period, slice and dice your super data any way you like and save your favourite report settings. Check whether your employees are SuperStream compliant, then download the contributions as a SAFF, ready to upload into your SuperStream Gateway.

 Talent management can be complex and confusing. We simplify the process and ensure for compliance. 

Our platform includes:

Single Touch Payroll submissions can be made directly to the ATO using your company’s myGov credentials.

With a direct integration with the ATO, Tax File declarations can easily be completed and submitted online using your company’s myGov credentials.

Fully SuperStream compliant, including a feature that lists full fund identification data instantly.

Increase compliance by giving employees specific worksite documents that only pertain to them. Profiles can be set against customers, workplaces, or individual jobs, and can include both documents and videos. 

All acceptances are time stamped and stored on your employee’s profile permanently. Leaders have full access to reports, which shows all acceptances across the workforce. 

Group PDF, MP4, GIF, or JPG files on a profile and they will automatically appear for employees to view/read them when they log into the platform. 

Access tools to slice and dice your data in a way that suits you. Save your favourite report settings for future reference and get total visibility of your workforce compliance data.

Manage every aspect of how your employees are paid. Create powerful pay rules for automation or manually adjust specific details of an employee’s pay.

Create your rules your way then update and use them with any employee in any pay cycle. Not everyone interprets Awards and Agreements the same way. We give you the power to choose your own interpretation. 

Astute Payroll’s Pay Rules engine allows you to automate most payroll decisions including time of day, day of week, shift duration, split shifts, allowances and public holidays.

Allow your employee to manually select a rule on their timesheet, or have it automatically calculated and added in payroll.

Create your individual rules, then add them to multiple rule groups, saving you endless complication and messy overlapping.

If you ever need help creating or updating pay rules, get in touch with our Support team and we’ll help you with a support plan that suits your needs.