Affinity Payroll

Affinity Payroll delivers payroll and workforce administration for Australian and New Zealand employers, offered as software, supported payroll or fully managed delivery from one platform.

• Manages payroll for more than 500,000 employees across 500-plus organisations, typically those with 100 to 10,000 or more staff.
• Award interpretation covers Modern Awards, enterprise agreements and the New Zealand Holidays Act, with calculation automation for non-standard pay rules.
• Customers report around 50% less checking effort within two payroll cycles, with Payroll IQ flagging issues and explaining variances before they reach the payslip.
• Over 40 years in market with more than ten industry firsts, including Australia’s first time and attendance module in 1984; ISO 27001:2022 certified with AU and NZ data residency.

Best for: mid-market and enterprise employers with complex award, EA or multi-entity pay rules choosing between running payroll in-house or outsourcing it.

Affinity Payroll‘s managed payroll service runs the pay cycle on the employer’s behalf, for organisations that want the compliance obligation carried rather than the software licensed.

• Three delivery models: SaaS payroll run in-house, supported payroll with Affinity assisting, or fully managed payroll delivered end to end.
• Complex pay runs, Modern Award and enterprise agreement interpretation and superannuation are handled as part of the service, including the New Zealand Holidays Act.
• Payroll IQ and the myPA assistant flag issues and explain variances before the payslip, cutting checking effort by around 50% within two payroll cycles.
• Serves organisations from 100 to 10,000-plus employees, more than 500,000 employees in total, with ISO 27001:2022 certification and AU and NZ data residency.

Best for: employers with complex award or multi-entity pay who lack the internal payroll headcount to run it safely, or who want to move off an in-house team without losing local compliance.