Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following Payroll plans: Essentials, Standard, Premium, Core Payroll
A payment file is a file format used by all major New Zealand financial institutions and specifies how to make payments from one bank account to another. The most common way for employers to pay employees is via a payment file.
This feature allows you to download your pay run as a payment file, that you can then upload to your nominated bank account portal. You need to have set up this feature within your organisation's business settings before you can use this feature. To read further details on how to undertake this process, refer to the following article.
Getting started
The below premises will run you through how to download a payment file and also how to set up your default payment file option.
Download a payment file
- Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
- Click the Pay Run menu.
- Click the required finalised pay run.
- Click the Actions tab.
- Click the Download Payment File button.
- Click the Download BECs File button.
- Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
- Click the Pay Run menu.
- Click the required finalised pay run.
- Click the Actions tab.
- Click the Download Payment File button.
- Click the Payment File Settings button.
- Select the BECs payment account from the BECS Payment Account drop-down.
- Click the Save button.