During integration, what data is imported from your Payroll classic platform to your HR classic platform?

14 October 2026 05:41 Updated

Integrating Employment Hero with your payroll platform makes Employment Hero your source of truth for information such as company settings, payroll settings, and employee file data. When you connect the two platforms, Employment Hero will import your organisation details, payroll settings, and employee files from your payroll platform automatically.

After this initial connection, the data will only flow automatically from Employment Hero to your payroll platform, as this data connection is not bidirectional. Employment Hero becomes your source of truth, where you and your employees update details as they change, and once saved, those changes will automatically reflect in your payroll platform.

During integration

Employment Hero allows you to connect your payroll platform to Employment Hero with one click; which we refer to as a one-click integration (OCI). When you first integrate your platforms, we will pull the data from the payroll platform into Employment Hero. If there is a conflict during this OCI process, you can then decide whether to use Employment Hero data or your imported payroll data.

Employee file

The table below shows which employee file fields are imported during integration from each payroll platform, comparing Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

Section	Platform Field	EH Payroll*	Keypay
Personal details.	Account email
	Title
	First name
	Middle name
	Last name
	Preferred name
	Gender
	Address line 1
	Address line 2
	Address line 3
	Postcode
	Country
	Date of birth
	Personal mobile number
	Home phone
	Emergency contact
Employment details.	Employing entity
	Employee code
	Primary cost centre
	Start date
	Termination date
Employment history.	Job title
	Start date
	End date
	Employment type
Pay details.	Pay Schedule
	Tiered Leave Template
	Leave allowance template
	Pay rate
	Work Hours
	Ordinary work day
	Leave Details
	Leave Category
	Leave rule
Pay Frequency.	Annum.
	Monthly.
	Fortnightly.
	Hourly.
	Daily.
Bank details	Account name
	Singapore bank account number
	Account number
	Amount
	Statement text
Tax declaration	Tax file number

*Employment Hero also integrates with KeyPay. However, we can not guarantee the same level of functionality as our Employment Hero Payroll offering.

** An employee on a base hourly salary will not have their leave deducted automatically in MYOB; i.e., their leave request syncs over to MYOB, but we will not deduct their hours automatically.

Organisational details

The table below shows which organisational detail fields are imported during integration, comparing Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

Section	Platform Field Name	EH Payroll*

*Employment Hero also integrates with KeyPay and QuickBooks Online. However, we can not guarantee the same level of functionality as our Employment Hero Payroll offering.

Payroll settings

The table below shows which payroll settings are imported during integration, comparing Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

Section	Platform Field Name	EH Payroll*	Xero
Leave categories	Leave categories
Pay categories	Pay categories
Pay schedules	Pay schedules
Cost centres	Cost centres	Known as locations.
Work types	Work types

*Employment Hero also integrates with KeyPay and QuickBooks Online. However, we can not guarantee the same level of functionality as our Employment Hero Payroll offering.

Ongoing Synchronisation

Once you have integrated Employment Hero with your payroll platform, we will send the following data through to your payroll platform automatically.

Employee file

The table below shows which allowance fields are imported during integration, comparing Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

Section	Platform Field	EH Payroll*	Xero
Personal details	Account email
	Title
	First name
	Middle name
	Last name
	Preferred name
	Gender
	Address line 1
	Address line 2
	Address line 3
	Suburb
	Country
	Date of birth
	Personal mobile number
	Home phone
	Emergency contact
Employment details	Employing entity
	Employee code
	Primary cost centre
	Start date
	Termination date
Employment history	Job title
	Start date
	End date
	Employment type
Pay details	Pay schedule
	Tiered leave template
	Leave allowance template
	Pay rate
	Work Hours
	Ordinary work day
	Leave Details
	Leave Category
	Leave rule
Pay Frequency.	Annum.
	Monthly.
	Forthnightly.
	Hourly.
	Daily.
Bank details	Account name.
	Singapore bank account number
	Account number
	Amount
	Statement text
CPF (Central Provident Fund) details	Electronic service address (Self-managed fund)
	Member number (Self-managed fund)
	Account name (Self-managed fund)
	Account Singapore bank account number (Self managed fund)
	Account number (Self-managed fund)
	Fund name
	Fund ABN
	Product identification number (SPIN/USI)
	Member name
Tax declaration	Tax file number
	Tax file exemption reason
	Tax-free threshold
	Seniors and pensioners tax offset
	Zone, overseas forces, dependent spouse or dependent (invalid and carer) tax offset
	Higher Education Loan Program (HELP), Student Start‑up Loan (SSL) or Trade Support Loan (TSL) debt
	Financial supplement debt
	Signature time stamp

*Employment Hero also integrates with KeyPay and QuickBooks Online. However, we can not guarantee the same level of functionality as our Employment Hero Payroll offering.

** An employee on a base hourly salary will not have their leave deducted automatically in MYOB; i.e., their leave request syncs over to MYOB, but we wll not deduct their hours automatically.

Leave

The table below shows which employee file fields are imported during integration from each payroll platform, comparing Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

Platform Field Name	Employment Hero Payroll*	Xero
Leave category
From
To
Comment
Total hours requested
Leave details: Date
Leave details: Hours

*Employment Hero also integrates with KeyPay and QuickBooks Online. However, we can not guarantee the same level of functionality as our Employment Hero Payroll offering.

Extra Information

In all cases, when you change a leave request from any status to approved, we will sync this information to all payroll systems.
In all cases, when you change a leave request from any status to declined, we will not sync this information and generate a payroll admin email.
When connected to Employment Hero Payroll or KeyPay and when you delete a leave request on Employment Hero, we will sync this deletion to the respective payroll platform.

Payslips

The table below shows which expense fields are imported during integration, comparing Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

	Employment Hero Payroll*	Xero
Do they sync automatically?
Can I sync them manually?

*Employment Hero also integrates with KeyPay and QuickBooks Online. However, we can not guarantee the same level of functionality as our Employment Hero Payroll offering.

Rostering

The table below shows which leave fields are imported during integration, comparing Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

	Employment Hero Payroll*	Xero
Can I access Rostering?

Timesheets

The table below compares how payslips are handled during integration across Employment Hero Payroll, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.

Platform Field Name	Employment Hero Payroll*	Xero
Date
Start time
End time
Work type
Cost centre
Breaks
Total (excluding breaks)
Automatic sync
Manual sync

*Employment Hero also integrates with KeyPay. However, we can not guarantee the same level of functionality as our Employment Hero Payroll offering.