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Unipay Payroll
for Every Industry

Payroll customisation, flexibility, and functionality for any size business

Unipay Payroll is currently used by businesses in the following industries:​

  • Retail
  • Manufacturing
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Mining
  • Tool Supplies
  • Childcare
  • Real Estate
  • Recruitment
  • Animal Health
  • Panel Works
  • Finance
  • Auctioneering
  • Rental Vehicle
  • Fuel Retailing
  • Food Production
  • Subsidiary businesses of overseas companies

Easy transition to Unipay Payroll

  • Unipay will support you to identify the data needed for migration from your existing system
  • Your data will be converted and uploaded into Unipay Payroll, without manual keying by your staff to minimise disruption to your business
  • We validate the accuracy and completeness of your migrated data with you prior to commencing pay runs in Unipay Payroll
  • We provide system training during installation and guide you through a parallel and live pay run to establish your confidence with Unipay Payroll
  • We continue to support you. Our knowledgeable and responsive Australian based support team is just a quick phone call or email away. Our customers commend us on our prompt and professional friendly customer service
  • With Unipay we give you flexibility with no lock-in contracts. Only pay month-by-month

Payroll Functions

  • Automatic and manual pay runs are quick and easy to run;
  • automatically generate, manually enter or import pay run transactions
  • public holiday hours automatically processed in pay runs
  • import data from time and attendance systems
  • import timesheet data from Excel spreadsheets
  • use of employee payment templates with predefined fields for accuracy of data entry
  • bulk posting templates customised to your specific needs support data entry speed and accuracy
  • termination calculation template
  • Allows for multiple pay periods and frequencies - weekly, fortnightly, monthly
  • Manage different payments, allowances, deductions, and charges with ease
  • Optional pay rate averaging function for long service leave and annual leave payments
  • Payroll transactions for any employee can be automatically split across up to 30 different cost centres
  • Tax made easy;
  • financial year tax scales maintained by Unipay
  • tax averaging option for commission/bonus paid employees
  • tax monitoring to identify employee YTD tax position
  • tax rulings and government debt repayments easily maintained
  • Generate bank upload files to process pay run payments;
  • easily divide employee payments between up to nine bank accounts
  • option to generate monthly payment upload files for third-party creditors (ATO, superannuation, garnishee agencies etc.)
  • Unipay Payroll can export general ledger files that can be imported into most accounting systems eliminating the need for manually processing your payroll journals
  • Year End processing quick and simple and can be done even after processing a new financial year pay run
  • Payslips;
  • email and/or print
  • reprint capability
  • customise payslip content
  • add a message and/or attachments
  • optional password protection on emailed payslips
  • Generate general ledger posting files for import into accounting systems;
  • payroll general journals
  • month end accruals (standing journals)
  • intercompany postings

Reporting

  • Extensive inbuilt reports and User defined customised reports
  • Output to screen, spreadsheet, pdf or printer
  • Retrospective reporting capability as all historical data is retained
  • Report on any/all payroll or employee data in Unipay Payroll, including payroll transactions, costings, leave liability, MTD & YTD
  • Sales Extra Hours Report - allows for reconciliation of extra hours worked against commissions received
  • Leave;
  • current, future and historical leave liability enquiry function
  • leave reports by leave type for individual employee, departments, GL account/s or whole organisation
  • Extra Hours Report - allows for reconciliation of extra hours worked against payments made
  • Business decision making;
  • management requests for information straightforward and comprehensive
  • source data for individual employees, departments, GL accounts or whole organisation
  • Consolidated reporting for organisations with multiple entities
  • Payroll audit report can be automatically emailed to designated person for review and storing
  • Compliance reporting functions;
  • Single Touch Payroll (STP)
  • Superannuation (SuperStream and Kiwi Saver)
  • Payroll Tax (accommodates exemptions where applicable and includes Cost Centre dissections)
  • Workers Compensation (accommodates exemptions where applicable)
  • Separation Certificates for Centrelink
  • Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA)
  • Full-time Equivalent

Tools

  • Remuneration Calculator instantly shows you PAYG tax, gross and net pay amounts based on a gross or net amount entered. The gross and net amounts can be expressed as a per hour, per pay or per year basis
  • Leave Entitlements Calculator lets you instantly calculate leave entitlements that an employee would accrue over a given period of employment

Employee Records

  • Unipay Payroll provides a wizard for you to easily create new employee records
  • Add regular transactions for individual employees to automatically generate in pay runs
  • Facility for Employee HR notes, documents, and reminders
  • Export Tax File Number (TFN) declaration file to upload via ATO Business Portal

Software

  • Unipay Payroll is a Windows application designed to run on a Windows platform and can be hosted on a local server, PC or cloud server
  • The payroll system (programs and data) is all contained in a single easy to manage folder
  • The functionality of the system is extensive and fulfils a wide range of business requirements and operational models
  • The system provides multiple user access levels appropriate to varying payroll system responsibilities and reporting needs

Risk Contingency

Unipay offers a Remote Storage Backup Service (optional extra). In a situation of IT infrastructure failure, Unipay can restore you to an operational payroll system from your most recent backup in minutes.

Overseas Parent Companies

  • For parent companies based overseas conducting business in Australia or New Zealand, payroll may need to be managed locally to comply with the local taxation system and to pay local and foreign employees. In Unipay Payroll you can easily;
  • process pay runs for employees to be paid in different currencies
  • process payments for local employees and overseas employees in the same pay run
  • generate records to pay employees in any currency
  • convert currency for net wage/salary