When adding an employee, enter their basic pay details on the Employee details tab (Payroll menu > Employees > click an employee).

This is where you'll record their:

• personal and contact details (name, address, phone and email, etc.)
• pay details (pay rate, hours per week, etc.)
• banking details (bank account details for electronic wage payments)

Personal and Contact details

Enter the employee's details here: who they are, some details about them and how they can be contacted. If you'll be emailing their payslips you'll need to enter their email address here.

Pay details

Enter the hourly rate or annual salary based on what the employee is paid, and the typical hours per week they will work. This caters for fulltime, parttime and casual employees. If needed, when you do a pay run you can change the number of hours an employee has worked.

Changing the employee's pay rate? This is where you change it.

If you're in Australia, enter the employees Tax file number. If they don't have one, select the applicable option instead.

Banking

If you're in Australia, or if you bank with ASB, ANZ, BNZ or Westpac in New Zealand, you can pay the employee electronically. First, make sure you've enabled electronic payments in your payroll settings (Payroll menu > Payroll settings). You will then be able to enter your employees' banking details.

If the employee wants to split their pay between two bank accounts, select this option and enter the required details for both accounts.

See Paying employees electronically to learn more about setting up and processing electronic pays.

Once you’ve finished entering details on this tab, click Next at the bottom of the page to continue to the Tax tab where you’ll enter the employee's tax details.