Available for the following EmploymentOS plans: Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite
Available for the following user access levels: Admin
To help your organisation meet compliance requirements, you can require approval before payruns are finalised for each pay schedule in Employment Hero Payroll. This lets you enforce dual control where needed, or allow direct finalisation for schedules that do not require approval.
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This article explains how to:
Enable or disable payrun approval for a pay schedule
Use this process to turn the payrun approval requirement on or off for any pay schedule. When approval is enabled, payruns for that schedule must be approved before they can be finalised. When disabled, payruns can be finalised immediately.
- Log in to Employment Hero.
- Go to Settings on the left-hand side navigation menu.
- Click on Payroll.
- Click on Pay Schedules.
- Select the pay schedule you want to update.
- Find the Require approval for payruns toggle and turn it on or off as needed.
- Click Save.
- If you enable approval and no employee approvers are assigned, a warning appears: "No approvers assigned — only admins and owners can approve payruns for this schedule."
- Turning approval off does not affect payruns already pending approval—those must still be approved or declined as normal.
- Approval is off by default for existing pay schedules.
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