Optional Pro+ add-on

Payroll administration, alongside your invoicing.

Prepare ordinary pay, issue payslips and keep employee records together. Employees can view their own payslips and submit time, leave and expenses through a secure portal.

A$19/month includes 3 employees. A$3 per additional employee.

We count distinct employees recorded as paid in your monthly payroll billing period, regardless of how many pay runs you create. Additional employees are billed in arrears. Pro+ is required separately. Employee portal access does not use invoice team seats.

STP reporting and payments happen externally

Before subscribing, arrange an existing STP reporting provider or registered agent and a super payment provider. Free Invoice App does not lodge STP, register as your tax agent, transfer wages or pay super.

Download a payroll CSV to help reconcile information with your reporting provider. It is a general payroll record, not an ATO lodgement file or a guaranteed import into another product. Confirm your provider’s workflow before purchasing.

An ABA file prepares bank instructions; you must verify the bank details, upload the file to your bank and approve payment yourself. Recording an external reference in this app does not verify that the bank, fund or ATO received it.

From employee setup to completed payroll

  1. Set up your employer name and ABN, employees, agreed pay rates, tax declarations, super settings and opening year-to-date and leave balances.
  2. Invite each employee using their email. They confirm their email and link their own portal; other employees and invoice team members cannot access their records.
  3. Review time, leave and expenses. Create a full-period ordinary pay draft and import approved timesheet hours. Approved leave and expenses feed the pay review.
  4. Review gross pay, PAYG, super, deductions, net pay, year-to-date amounts and leave balances. Finalise only after checking the calculations and employment terms.
  5. Download payslips. Employees receive a secure portal notification; check notification status and ensure they receive their payslip within one working day of pay day.
  6. Transfer wages, lodge STP and pay super through your external arrangements. Save completion references in the payroll record and mark wages as paid.

Check that the supported scope fits your business

This release supports ordinary, full-period weekly, fortnightly and monthly pay with payment dates in the 2026-27 financial year. Employees can have hourly ordinary rates or annual salaries. Tax settings cover supported resident, foreign-resident, tax-free threshold, no-TFN and Medicare exemption scales, plus study-loan withholding. Standard super calculations use the configured qualifying earnings and year-to-date cap.

Annual and personal leave accrual, approved paid and unpaid leave, reimbursements and after-tax deductions are supported. Check awards, agreements, eligibility and opening balances yourself. The app does not determine award rates or check whether employment terms comply with an award.

Overtime, penalty rates, partial pay periods, termination payments, leave loading, salary sacrifice, working holiday maker tax and other special payments are outside this release. Medicare family adjustments and other tax variations require an externally reviewed arrangement. Do not combine unsupported special payments into ordinary hours. Manual tax or super adjustments require a recorded review reason.

Keep your existing reporting arrangement for these cases. Do not enter TFNs, medical details or identity documents in free-text fields.

Billing, corrections and retained records

The A$19 monthly base charge is paid in advance. The first 3 distinct employees marked paid during the billing month are included; each additional employee costs A$3. Four employees total A$22 for that month, and ten total A$40. Repeating a pay run for the same employee does not add another employee charge.

Cancel payroll renewal in account settings. Access continues to the end of the paid billing period while Pro+ remains active; unbilled additional employees are still payable. Ending Pro+ stops new payroll work and schedules payroll cancellation. Saved payroll records and payslips remain available after cancellation.

Finalised payroll is retained with its audit history. Void the latest affected run to correct a mistake, then prepare a replacement. Voiding does not reverse wages, STP or super already submitted elsewhere, and does not remove an employee already counted as paid from that month’s billing.

Ready to add payroll administration?

Manage payroll in account settings