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Employment Hero Payroll

by Employment Hero
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Quick facts
VendorEmployment Hero
Year launchedN/A
StatusActive
LocationLevel 2, 435A – 437 Kent St Sydney NSW 2000
Countries served7+
Languages38
Integrations37+
Free tierNO
Free trialNO
Contact salesYES

About Employment Hero Payroll

Employment Hero Payroll is a world-class, premium powerhouse within the Global HRMS, Workforce Management, and Automated Payroll space.

Employment Hero Payroll is a world-class, premium powerhouse within the Global HRMS, Workforce Management, and Automated Payroll space. This platform completely excels at taking the manual headaches out of managing hourly workforces by matching timesheet logging and geofenced time tracking with an automated award interpretation engine that applies exact labor regulations instantly. Its primary advantage is its unified design. By combining recruitment, digital onboarding, performance tracking, and payroll compliance within a single cloud database and connecting it to the employee-focused Swag app, it removes the need for fragmented, disconnected software solutions. While the minimum monthly plan limits make it less ideal for tiny micro-companies, Employment Hero Payroll is a fantastic, highly efficient tool for Growing Businesses, Multi-Location Enterprise Teams, and HR Leaders who want to save administrative time, ensure absolute tax compliance, and provide their workers with a premium digital workplace experience.

Pros & Cons

Pros
  • Built-in candidate tracking tools and AI screening assistants allow teams to hire and onboard talent from a single dashboard.
  • Deep, native integrations with platforms like Xero and QuickBooks eliminate manual double-entry ledger bookkeeping errors.
  • The Swag App gives employees a modern, intuitive layout to manage their work life, view pay logs, and check schedules effortlessly.
  • Eliminates the stress of manual shift matching by automatically applying exact, localized union and labor rules to live timesheets.
Cons
  • Locking down advanced timekeeping, geofencing, and learning systems requires paying extra module fees that inflate base plans.
  • Users note that getting help from the ticketing system can feel slow during high-volume end-of-month pay cycles.
  • Setting up complex custom shift parameters and multi-location pay tiers demands significant technical care during onboarding.

Features

Key features

Hero AI Recruitment Agent

Leverages smart automation to rapidly screen resumes, review candidate applications, and schedule prospective interviews to speed up the hiring pipeline.

1-Click Statutory Compliance Gateway

Automates critical regulatory tasks like Single Touch Payroll (STP) filings for Australia, real-time RTI reporting to HMRC in the UK, and automated pension management.

Unified Swag App Payroll Hub

Provides an all-in-one mobile app where workers can securely download digital payslips, log daily hours, track time off, and access financial wellness benefits.

Automated Modern Award Interpretation

Houses a comprehensive calculation engine that automatically applies complex regional labor laws, overtime rates, penalty pay tiers, and shift rules without manual calculations.

Additional features

Paperless Digital Employee Onboarding

Enables newly hired team members to digitally sign work contracts, submit emergency contact sheets, and complete tax verification forms before day one.

Advanced Multi-Worksite Timesheets

Allows managers to track individual employee hours down to specific cost centers, field worksites, roles, and functional tasks.

Biometric Kiosk Time Clocking

Uses face confirmation on physical tablet kiosks to prevent "buddy punching" time fraud at physical business locations.

Geofenced Shift Tracking

Limits worker shift clock-ins to pre-approved geographical map boundaries, ensuring accuracy for on-site and field-based service teams.

Dynamic Time-Off & Leave Management

Tracks individual vacation accruals and automatically adjusts active team schedules when time-off requests are approved.

Digital Expense Lifecycle Management

Provides a clean space where staff can scan receipt photos via mobile, allowing managers to instantly push approved costs into active pay runs.

Automated Bonus & Allowance Matrix

Automatically figures out recurring allowances, performance bonuses, and custom pay additions based on tailored company guidelines.

Interactive Power BI Reporting Engine

Integrates with visual data tools to help executives track exact labor expenditures, active tax liabilities, and cross-departmental variances.

Central Employee Engagement Feed

Features an interactive company communication wall for making team announcements, launching shout-outs, and monitoring worker satisfaction scores.

Enterprise Custom Workflow Automator

Lets HR managers build custom conditional rules to handle complex data updates, notifications, and cross-department assignments automatically.

Pricing

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Countries & Languages

7
Countries served
38
Interface languages
10
Billing currencies

Available in

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Interface languages

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanItalianDutchPortugueseSwedishDanishNorwegianFinnishPolishHungarianRomanianGreekCzechSlovakSlovenianLithuanianLatvianEstonianRussianBulgarianUkrainianSerbianCroatianTurkishArabicHebrewJapaneseChineseKoreanThaiVietnameseIndonesianMalayFilipinoen

Billing currencies

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