How to automate payroll

The inputs collected, the payroll run and checked against last month, and every change explained – before anybody gets paid.

Why payroll takes three days

The payroll itself takes minutes. Getting the inputs takes days: overtime in one spreadsheet, leave in another system, new starters in an email. Then someone checks every payslip against last month, because one wrong digit is somebody's rent.

How Automize automates payroll

  1. Collects the inputs

    Gathers timesheets, leave, overtime, new starters and leavers from where they live, and reminds the managers who have not sent theirs.

  2. Loads them

    Enters them into SimplePay, PaySpace or Sage 300 People, checking each line against the employee record.

  3. Runs and checks it

    Runs the payroll and compares it with last month, with a reason for every change – a raise, a bonus, more overtime.

  4. Stops for you

    Shows you the changes and the exceptions, and waits. Nothing is paid until a named person signs off.

  5. Pays and posts

    Loads the payment to the bank for release, sends payslips and posts the payroll journal to your ledger.

What always comes to a person

Automize does the routine work and stops on anything that needs judgement. These always wait for someone on your team:

  • Every payroll run, before payment – always
  • A changed bank account on an existing employee
  • Net pay that moves more than your limit against last month

Ways to automate payroll with Automize

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Questions people ask about automating payroll

Collecting the inputs, loading them, running the payroll and checking it against last month can all be automated. Releasing the payment should stay with a person, and with Automize it always does.
If your inputs live in spreadsheets, Automize can read them, check them and load them into your payroll package – so the spreadsheet stays, but the retyping goes.
The Payroll Clerk runs payroll in SimplePay, PaySpace or Sage 300 People and posts the payroll journal to Xero, so your books stay up to date without anyone re-entering it.
Only the people who see it today. Payroll data stays on your machine – Automize holds the steps, not the payroll.

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