Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following HR plans: Free, Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following Payroll plans: Standard, Premium
Available for the following user access level: Admin
Within your organisation, there would be many different employee payment rates, depending on the pay conditions assigned to your employees. Automating the calculations of these rates will reduce the management time spent on making sure the correct application of penalty rate multipliers, whether you have applied the correct loading rate, and so on.
The Update Pay Categories feature allows you to synchronise the pay categories created on your payroll classic platform and make them selectable within Employment Hero. Making sure Employment Hero has the latest payroll configuration data and your employee records have the correct information.
Note: for EH Payroll Classic-connected orgs, updates to Pay Categories from payroll are now automated, meaning that any Create/Update/Delete/Restore pay category actions on payroll will be immediately synchronised to Employment Hero without having to click on “Update from payroll” button.
Getting started
- Click the Settings menu.
- Click the Pay Categories submenu.
- Click the Update From Payroll button.
Helpful Hint
The Pay Categories page will now show a grey Updated button and means Employment Hero has successfully imported your pay categories from your payroll classic platform.
Further information
Once you have connected your payroll and HR platforms, Employment Hero becomes the source of truth for your company settings, payroll settings, and employee file data. To read further details on how to manage pay categories on your payroll classic platform, refer to the following article.
When you first connect the two platforms, Employment Hero will pull the data from the payroll classic platform into Employment Hero, such as your pay category data. Any additional changes to pay schedules after this initial integration, requires you to update your pay schedule data manually.
Once you have imported any recent changes from the payroll classic platform, you can make amendments to an employee's file, such as their salary history. To read further details on how to update an employee's salary history, refer to the following article.
Employment Hero will show a pay category as disabled if the data no longer exists on your payroll classic platform. You can not delete disabled pay categories if you have used them previously in Employment Hero. The reason for this is platform data accountability and to make sure that when you use the Audit Trail feature, we display the correct logs of what changes occurred within your platform.
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- Update pay schedules This feature allows you to synchronise the pay schedules created on your payroll classic platform and make them selectable within Employment Hero.
- Leave categories This feature allows you to synchronise the leave categories created on your payroll classic platform and make them selectable within Employment Hero.