Setup a Pay

How to get started

Before you start using the payroll features, you need to do the following tasks:

You can use the Payroll Easy Setup Assistant to do these tasks. To access the Payroll Easy Setup Assistant, go to the Setup menu, choose Easy Setup Assistant and then click Payroll.

• Enter general payroll information Enter the current payroll year, number of hours in your normal working week, your Withholding Payer Number (if you have one) and the default superannuation fund for your employees in the General Payroll Information window, accessible from the Setup menu.
• Review payroll categories The components of an employee’s pay, such as wages, superannuation, leave, and taxes, are called payroll categories. These are assigned to an employee’s card to calculate their standard pay.
  Review the details of each payroll category to make sure it matches the way you do business.
• Enter employee details Get your employees to self-onboard to automatically submit their personal, contact, tax and super details straight into AccountRight. Or you can add your employees manually.
• Enter pay history and leave balances If you have already paid an employee in the current payroll year, you should enter the amounts you have paid your employees. These amounts will be used on payment summaries and some reports. They are not recorded as transactions in your accounts. You can enter pay history for specific months, quarters or for the year to date. See Enter employee payroll information for help entering your employees' pay history. If the employee has carried-over leave from previous years or has accrued leave this payroll year, see Adjusting leave entitlements.
• Set up Pay Super Sign up for Pay Super to make super payments directly from AccountRight, meet your employee super obligations and always stay on top of government changes. It's included with your AccountRight subscription.
• Set up Single Touch Payroll Employers need to report their payroll information to the ATO after each pay run. It's easy to set up STP and it makes end of year a breeze. See Setting up Single Touch Payroll reporting.

What about the tax tables? The latest versions of AccountRight automatically download and use the latest tax tables for your pay runs. Learn more about the PAYG tax tables.