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

Our platform includes:

     STP Reporting

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

     TFN Declarations online

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

     SuperStream

Astute Payroll by Deel is fully SuperStream compliant, including a feature that lists full fund identification data instantly.

     Bespoke worksite set ups

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. 

     Record & audit acceptances

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. 

     Multimedia capabilities

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. 

     Reporting and filing

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.

Create an engaging onboarding experience that prioritises compliance as well as clearly conveying your employer brand.

Our platform includes:

     Auto Reminders

Automatic email reminders prompt employees to start their personalised onboarding journey. 

     Consolidated information

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

     Track changes

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. 

     Job and wages history

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

     Leave management

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

     SuperStream management

Completing superannuation membership information couldn’t be easier, with our fully compliant SuperStream feature. APRA funds are loaded and maintained in our database for you. Self Managed Super Funds can also be nominated by your employees.

     Online timesheets

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

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

     Safe and secure

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.  

     Many jobs, one timesheet

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

     Time blocks

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. 

     Breaks

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.

     Easy auditing

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. 

     Employee leave

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

     Allowances

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. 

     Multiple approval paths

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

     Highly configurable

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.

     Auto reminders

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

     Attachments

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

Astute Payroll automates, simplifies and improves the expense management process. 

     It’s mobile

Manage the entire expenses process on a mobile device or computer, making it simple for employees and managers to complete expenses on the go. 

     Real time reporting

No more paper and spreadsheets. Astute Payroll gives you real-time visibility into reimbursable expenses with configurable and easy-to-use reports. 

     Submit expenses on a timesheet

Give employees the ability to submit expenses and timesheets on the same screen. This saves them precious minutes and ensures your procedures are maintained. 

     Attachments & notes

Need to attach a document other than the receipt and maybe even make some notes? Easy. Astute Payroll gives you full flexibility to offer both to your employees.

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. 

     Full day, half day, or hours

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. 

     Team calendar view

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

     Live management reports

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. 

     Requests and approvals

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

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.

     Take control

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. 

     Any rule you want

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.

     Manual or auto

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

     Rule groups

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

     We’re here to help

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.

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

     Timesheet adjustments

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

     Payslips

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.

     Powerful pay rules

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

     Easy wage processing

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

     Connect with your other services

Using Astute Payroll’s import/export tool or our API, easily push general ledger updates into your accounting software including MYOB, Xero, and more. 

     Notes & history

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

     Multiple pay cycles

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

     Last minute changes? No worries

Need to make some last minute changes to an employee’s pay before executing a pay run? No problem. With Astute Payroll, you can make adjustments at every step.

Get your invoices out to clients quickly and easily with our simple yet powerful Invoicing function.

     Auto late payment reminders

Never chase an invoice again with Astute Payroll’s auto late payment reminder emails. Set the ‘days overdue’ trigger and even customise your messages.

     Accept credit cards and direct debit payments

Got a direct debit facility? Great. With Astute Payroll you can integrate it and accept payments by direct debit and credit cards. Give us a call to see if we integrate with your bank.

     Consolidate invoices

For those who are time billing, Astute Payroll gives you a range of consolidation methods to suit your needs. Get the right data onto the right invoice and get paid.

     Viewed invoices

Choose a send method that allows you to see whether an invoice has been viewed by your recipient. 

     Multicurrency support

We support a number of foreign currencies, giving you options and the flexibility you need. 

     Multiple billing entities

Multiple businesses that you need to bill through? Sure. Astute Payroll lets you choose which entity to bill from for each invoice that you send out.

     Statements

Let your customers know exactly what they’ve paid and what they owe. Schedule statements to be sent automatically to the right people at the intervals you choose.

     Credits & refunds

Turn an often messy situation into a simple process. We’ve made it easy to create credit notes from overpayments then turn them into a refund to the customer or a credit to their next invoice.

     GL Integrations

Astute Payroll plays nice with most accounting and general ledger applications like MYOB, Xero, NetSuite and more. Create your invoices, send them, then auto update or export out to your GL.

     Advanced receipting

Getting paid should be easy. Apply all of the payment to one invoice or distribute the payment over multiple outstanding invoices from a particular client.

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

     PAYG Withholding

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.

Get total visibility into all aspects of your workforce with Astute Payroll’s sophisticated reporting tools. Deep-dive into your payroll, invoicing, compliance, tax, super, profit, costs, and other data, for better decision making.

     Are you making money?

Gain visibility into your top line numbers, analyse your revenue, costs and margin on your time billing activities. 

     Export all data

Our reports enable you to export data in multiple formats. You can set up scheduled extracts for the majority of your data at the frequency of your choosing, or just do it as a once off as required. 

     Keeping your data secure

Managing your data is serious business, so that’s why we use 256-bit SSL encryption. Rest assured that Astute Payroll is as secure as your online banking.

     Visas and tickets

Have visibility of employees working on Visas and their upcoming expiry dates. Upload documents to their profiles to save on paper storage.

     Status reports

See what’s happening across your business on a single screen. Check which timesheets, leave requests, or expense reports have been submitted and/or approved.

The Astute Payroll has joined forces with some of the most reputable software companies out there. 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 more. 

     A turnkey solution

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

     No more double-entry

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

     Moving fully to the cloud saves $$$

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

     We’re friends with everyone

We have a large selection of integrations giving you and endless variety of ‘cloud stack’ combinations.