Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus
Available for the following Payroll plans: Standard, Premium
Question
How do I add an employee to my Employment Hero Payroll platform?
Answer
You can use the Employee Wizard feature to add a new employee to your organisation's Payroll Classic platform.
Important
If you are using both our HR and Payroll platforms, add your employees via your HR platform. Please make sure you have selected a default nominated super fund before letting your employees begin this process.
Add employee via the employee wizard
- Log into your Payroll Classic platform.
- Click the Business menu.
- Click the Dashboard sub-menu.
- Click the Add Employee button.
- From here, you can add the employee's personal details:
- Title.
- First Name.
- Middle name (optional).
- Surname.
- Date of birth.
- Gender.
- Residential address.
- Postal address, if different to residential address.
- Email address.
- Mobile phone.
- Employee notifications.
- Self-service.
- Click the Next button.
- Enter the employee's employment details in the following fields:
- Award
- Employment agreement.
- Pay rate template.
- Pay condition rule set.
- Employee start date.
- Primary location of work.
- Pay schedule.
- Timesheets.
- Employment type.
- Primary pay category.
- Leave allowance template.
- Pay rate.
- Standard hours per day
- Once the relevant fields have been entered, click the Next button.
- Enter the required tax file details and click the Done button.
- Enter the employee's banking and super details in the following fields:
- The method in which you will pay the employee:
- Electronic.
- Manual deposit.
- Cash/cheque.
- BPAY.
- Account name.
- BSB and Account number.
- Super fund.
- The method in which you will pay the employee:
- Click the Next button.
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