Using Paysense
These tutorials are written for payroll professionals who use the Paysense web app day-to-day. They walk through the platform task-by-task, with screenshots from the live application, so you can follow along in your own tenant.
You don't need any developer experience to use these guides - if you can run a payroll on a spreadsheet, you can run one in Paysense.
How the tutorials are organised
The guides are grouped by what you're trying to achieve. Work through each section in order the first time you use Paysense, then come back to specific tutorials whenever you need a refresher.
| Section | When to use it |
|---|---|
| Getting started | Setting up a brand new business in Paysense for the very first time, through to onboarding your first employee. |
| Team management | Inviting colleagues into the business and controlling what each of them can see and do. |
| Managing employees (coming soon) | Recording leave, changing pay details, and offboarding. Onboarding a new employee is covered in Getting started. |
| Running payroll | Creating pay runs, finalising them, and paying employees, then lodging Single Touch Payroll (STP) events with the ATO and sending super contributions to your clearing house. |
| Reporting (coming soon) | Producing payslips, payment summaries, audit logs, and webhook activity reports. |
Before you begin
To follow along you'll need:
- A Paysense user account with access to your tenant
- The Australian Business Number (ABN) of the business you're setting up
- The business's registered address and a primary contact (name, email, mobile)
- (Optional but recommended) The business's bank account details for paying employees
- (Optional) The business's default super fund details (Fund name, USI, or ABN)
You can complete the optional steps later from the business dashboard, but adding them up-front makes the rest of the setup smoother.
Start here
If this is your first time in Paysense, jump straight into Getting started and follow the Add a Business tutorial.