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Key features of TechnologyOne’s SaaS payroll software
TechnologyOne Payroll automates complex pay environments while maintaining accuracy, compliance, and audit visibility at scale.
Unlock potential and elevate success thanks to TechnologyOne Human Resources & Payroll.
Run accurate pay cycles with automated gross-to-net calculations, superannuation, deductions, and allowances.
Reduce manual intervention and processing risk across every pay run.
Automate payroll costs to post directly to Financials as each pay run completes.
Labour costs, leave liability accruals, and cost-centre coding are all driven from a single data source - no manual journal entries, no reconciliation lag.
Gain immediate visibility over labour costs, accruals, and budgeting impacts as they occur. Support accurate forecasting and financial control without waiting for period-end reporting.
Generate compliant reports aligned to regulatory requirements - including Single Touch Payroll reporting and equivalent obligations in other jurisdictions. Maintain audit-ready records at all times.
Enable employees to access payslips, payment summaries, and personal details through secure self-service tools, on any device. Reduce payroll queries while maintaining data privacy.
Maintain full visibility over payroll transactions with detailed audit logs and role-based permissions. Strengthen governance and reduce operational risk across every pay run.
Zero touch compliance built-in, not bolted on
TechnologyOne Payroll keeps your organisation current with legislative requirements. Statutory updates are delivered twice annually thanks to SaaS+, so you're always on the correct version without managing separate upgrade projects.
Introducing
AI that works across your payroll and ERP
TechnologyOne's agentic AI product, Plus, works across your ERP, including Payroll, to simplify how you work.
Ask questions about your payroll data in plain language, get instant answers from your secure environment, and action tasks within one secure interface without navigating multiple screens.
No clicks. No screens. Just conversations.
Use natural language to ask questions, access payroll insights and take action across your ERP.
Plus proactively surfaces unusual pay variations before your pay run is finalised, giving you time to investigate and correct before payment is made.
Generate payroll cost projections aligned to your budget cycles, using live data from within your ERP environment.
Your payroll data never leaves your TechnologyOne environment. Plus runs on your own tenant, with the same security and governance controls as what you currently have.
All AI-enabled features are underpinned by TechnologyOne’s ISO 42001:2023 certification, delivering innovation with the highest standards of trust and security.
A solution for your industry
Who benefits from TechnologyOne Payroll?
TechnologyOne’s Payroll software supports complex, regulated organisations that require accurate pay processing, strong compliance, and clear financial oversight.
Local government
Manage large, complex council workforces with automated pay processing, configurable pay rules, and compliant public sector reporting.
Education
Process payroll for academic and professional staff across varied employment arrangements, with automated entitlement calculations and audit-ready records for funding and compliance reporting.
Government
Run payroll across state and federal agencies within strict regulatory frameworks, with detailed audit visibility and workforce expenditure aligned to budget.
Why choose TechnologyOne’s Payroll software?
Payroll gives you confidence that every pay cycle is accurate, compliant, and financially aligned, embedding control directly into payroll operations.
Compliance as a continuous service
With TechnologyOne Payroll delivered via SaaS+, compliance updates are absorbed automatically: no upgrade projects, no manual patches, no compliance risk sitting with your team.Fewer errors, stronger controls
Automated calculations, structured approval workflows, and pre-pay run exception reporting catch issues before they affect employees. Detailed audit trails mean every change is on record.
A single source of truth across payroll and finance
Labour costs post to the general ledger in real time, cost-centre coding is driven by position data, and leave liability accruals update automatically, giving finance teams an accurate, current view of workforce costs.Smarter payroll decisions with Plus
With Plus, payroll teams can surface anomalies, query workforce data, and generate cost forecasts using plain language, without leaving the TechnologyOne environment.
Customer story
How GOTAFE modernised payroll with TechnologyOne
Before moving to TechnologyOne, GOTAFE's payroll team had to download, clean, and interpret spreadsheets before answering a basic headcount request from their executive team. After the move, the team now uses connected workforce and payroll data to understand costs and report with confidence.
Read their customer story here
Resources for payroll professionals
Practical guides, customer stories, and expert perspectives to help you get more from your payroll function.
Ready to modernise your payroll operations?
Getting your people paid accurately and on time is non-negotiable. Book a demo with one of our experts to see how TechnologyOne Payroll can simplify pay processing and strengthen governance across your organisation.
Book a demoFrequently asked questions (FAQs): TechnologyOne Payroll
Read some of our most frequently asked questions (FAQs) below if you need more information on TechnologyOne Payroll.
Payroll by TechnologyOne is a purpose-built SaaS product designed to manage complex pay environments with accuracy, transparency, and compliance.
It automates payroll calculations, supports configurable pay rules, and integrates directly with Financials and Human Resources to provide real-time visibility over labour costs and reporting.
See the features and modules available in TechnologyOne Payroll.
Unlike standalone payroll tools, TechnologyOne Payroll is built within an ERP environment.
This means payroll data connects directly with Financials and, where implemented, Human Resources, providing real-time costing, stronger governance, and eliminating data duplication across systems.
Yes. Payroll can be implemented as a standalone product, allowing organisations to manage pay processing, compliance, and reporting without requiring Human Resources.
If both products are implemented, they operate within the same ERP environment to provide seamless workforce continuity from employee record to pay processing.
Payroll is hosted on TechnologyOne’s secure SaaS platform, designed to protect sensitive payroll and employee data. It includes role-based access controls, audit visibility, and strong governance frameworks aligned to public sector standards.
The platform supports compliance requirements across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
SaaS+ is TechnologyOne’s all-inclusive offering, specifically tailored for the industries we serve. With SaaS+, implementation, support, and upgrade costs are included, with TechnologyOne taking full ownership of the outcome of the solution experience, not just the software.
For more details, visit the SaaS+ information page .
Plus is TechnologyOne’s new agentic AI product, purpose-built for TechnologyOne customers. It represents the next evolution of enterprise software — AI that doesn’t just provide answers but takes action on behalf of the user.
Plus, stands for Predict, Learn, Uncover, Simplify. It interprets intent, anticipates needs, and delivers outcomes in a single interaction. Whether accessed through text or voice, Plus transforms how people work by connecting enterprise-wide data and managing tasks automatically.
Plus works straight out of the box, with zero implementation. Once licenced, simply turn it on using a feature flag enablement and go. When enabled, processes automatically run in the background to configure Plus and its permissions for you.
Guide is the only student experience using true agentic AI that’s deeply integrated into an institution’s ERP and core systems, enabling personalised student guidance, proactive support, and real outcomes, not just answers.
Guide is a conversation-based interface powered by advanced agentic AI that transforms complex institutional data into clear, timely guidance for students, delivered through natural language conversations.
As a personalised digital companion, Guide supports learners across their academic, social, and professional journeys.At the same time, Guide provides staff with deeper insights, enabling more meaningful, tailored support for every student.