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Getting started: Company settings

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Employment Hero's Company Settings feature allows organisations to keep their essential details up to date and customise configurations to align with their operations. This feature supports a streamlined, compliant setup for all company-specific information, from branding with your logo to defining employment details. With Company Settings, you can manage core details effectively, ensuring a consistent, organised structure across your Employment Hero platform.

In this guide, we will cover how to update key information to best suit your organisation's needs. Click on the topic you want to learn about:

Add or edit company details

Edit your company details

As your business evolves, you'll regularly update key details, from changing phone numbers to refreshing your company name or logo. These updates are a natural part of adapting to growth and new directions.

With the Company Details feature, you can easily update and manage essential organisational information—such as your head office phone number and company name—across the Employment Hero platform, ensuring that the latest details are visible to all users.

  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click the Company Details button.
  3. Complete the following fields:
    • Company name.
    • Phone.
    • Industry category.
    • Company size.
  4. Click the Save button.
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Add a logo to your Employment Hero account

Your logo will show in various places across the platform and can also be used in reports, documents and policies.

Helpful Hint

This functionality is now located in Settings > Company > Branding. If you want to learn how to add a logo to documents, see this article.

  1. Click the Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click  Branding.
  3. Click the Logo button. 
  4. Upload the image you want to use as your logo.

Important

The maximum uploaded file size allowed is 2MB, and the recommended image file size is 267px x 267px.

Edit your company address
  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click the Company Details button.
  3. Complete the following fields:
    • Address line 1.
    • Address line 2.
    • Suburb.
    • Country.

  4. Choose whether to select the Use this suburb and state as the default work location and public holiday calendar for new employees tick box.

    Helpful Hint

    If you select this tick box, the Employment Hero platform will assign your organisation new employees to this location by default.

  5. Click the Save button.

Manage your employing entities

Add an employing entity
  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click the Employing Entities button.
  3. Click the Add button.

  4. Complete the following fields:

    • Name.
    • Country.
    • Business Number.

    Helpful Hint

    The business number, also known as the Company Registration Number, is an eight-number long code. However, if your number does not have eight numbers, please add leading zero's' to make sure it saves successfully

    • Set as default employing entity.
  5. Click the Save button.
  6. The employing entity will automatically be enabled, meaning you can add employees to this entity.
Edit an employing entity
  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click the Employing Entities button.
  3. Click the Actions button.
  4. Click the   Edit Entity button.
  5. Make the required changes and click the Save button.
     
Disable an employing entity

Important

The disabling of an employing entity is only available when an entity has assigned employees. Disabling will stop the employing entity appearing throughout the platform, but it can be re-enabled if required.

  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click the Employing Entities button.
  3. Click the Actions button.
  4. Click the Disable button.
Enable an employing entity

Important

You can only re-enable ‌an entity after it has been disabled. All new employing entities are enabled by default.

  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click the Employing Entities button.
  3. Click the Actions button.
  4. Click the   Enable button.
Delete an employing entity

Important

The deletion of an Employing Entity is only available when an entity has no assigned employees. Deleting will permanently get rid of this employing entity.

  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. In the Company section, click the Employing Entities button.
  3. Click the Actions button.
  4. Click the   Delete button.
     

Manage your employment details

Two-level leave approval

Switching on two-level leave approval will require both the primary and secondary managers to approve a leave request.

  1. Click the   Settings menu.
  2. Click the Employment Details button.
  3. Under Two level leave approval field, click:
    • Yes; to require both an employee's primary and secondary managers to approve leave.
    • No; to only require an employee's primary manager to approve leave.
  4. Click the Save button.
Negative leave balance
The negative leave balance allows employees to get into a negative leave balance if they take more leave than they have accrued.
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