AccountRight Plus and Premier, Australia only. For New Zealand information, see Integrate MYOB Payroll.

You use the payroll feature to:

• process pays for your employees
• calculate superannuation amounts and make superannuation payments
• track employee entitlements (such as personal and annual leave)
• pay superannuation and other payroll liabilities
• print or email pay slips and paycheques
• submit payroll information to the ATO for Single Touch Payroll
• prepare payment summaries.

How to get started

For an overview of how to get started with the payroll features in AccountRight, watch this video:

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

• Load tax tables PAYG withholding taxes are amounts that are calculated and deducted from employee pays according to the rules established by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). In AccountRight, these calculation rules are stored in a tax table file that you need to load into your company file.
• 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, entitlements 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 Create a card record for each of your employees and enter details such as their addresses and payroll information. There's no limit to the number of employee cards you can create.
• Enter pay history and leave balances If you have already paid the 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 Single Touch Payroll From 1 July 2019, most employers need to be reporting their payroll information to the ATO after each pay run. It's easy to set up and will make end of year a breeze (no more payment summaries!). See Setting up Single Touch Payroll reporting.

Optional payroll setup tasks

You may also want to do the following tasks if they're relevant to your business.