Payroll Overview

A high-level overview of your payroll — employee count, recent payslips, and pending leave requests.

Overview

The Payroll Overview gives you a snapshot of your payroll at a glance. It's the landing page when you navigate to the Payroll section from the main menu.

Summary Widgets

The dashboard displays three key metrics:

Widget Description
Employees The total number of users on your account who are toggled on as employees (receiving salary).
Payslips This Period The number of payslips created in the current pay period.
Leave Requests Pending The number of leave requests awaiting approval.

Office Closures

The Office Closures card lets you manage company-wide shutdown periods, such as public holidays and scheduled breaks.

  • Use the card's menu button to add a new closure, then set a name (e.g. "Christmas Day"), a start date, and optionally an end date for multi-day closures.
  • Closures apply account-wide: they book mandatory leave for all employees and are excluded from milestone deadline calculations as non-working days.

See Office Closures for more detail.

From the dashboard, use the sidebar menu to access:

  • Employees — manage your team, toggle employee status, and access individual profiles.
  • All Payslips — search and filter all payslips across your account.
  • Pay Run — create a new pay run to generate payslips for all employees.
  • STP Lodgement — lodge payroll data with the Australian Taxation Office via Single Touch Payroll. <!-- /region -->

Payroll Add-on

The Payroll Dashboard and all payroll features require the Payroll add-on on your subscription. If you don't have it enabled, you'll see a prompt to upgrade.

The add-on is tiered by team size — from $12/month covering up to 2 employees, through to $129/month covering up to 100 (see the Subscription help article for the full tier table). Your tier caps how many active employees you can have; upgrade to the next tier as your team grows.

Only the account Owner can upgrade the subscription. Other users will see a message to contact their account owner.

Permissions

Action Owner Super Admin Manager Accountant Basic
View payroll dashboard ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Access payroll features ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Upgrade subscription ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
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