Payroll with Employment Hero

In this article we show you how to use Employment Hero integration with Tātou.

If you are looking to setup the integration, please see Getting connected with Employment Hero

Employees

The employee integration is unidirectional, from Employment Hero to Tātou. You can create, update and delete* employees on Employment Hero and it should reflect on Tātou.

Deleting employees on Employment Hero will set them as inactive on Tātou

To be able to link the accounts, the integration uses the Employment Hero Employee ID as Tātou Staff ID. If you created the employee manually on Tātou, you can link them by setting the Staff ID manually, as image below:

Included fields

• Status

• First name

• Last name

• Nickname

• Gender

• Phone number

• Birth date

• E-mail

• Job title

• Start date

• Passport Nationality: default to “Australia”

• Address (address, city, region, country and postcode)

• Emergency contact (name, relationship, phone number and address)

Pay Period (timesheets)

Before you start sending timesheets to Employment Hero, you need to make sure the Employment Hero account is setup to receive Tātou data. There are three main things you need to check in your EH account: Locations, Pay Categories and WorkTypes.

Setting up Employment Hero Locations

Tātou Costing Code → Employment Hero Location

As part of the setup to sync timesheets, you need to make sure that all Costing Codes on Tātou are correctly linked with Locations External Id on Employment Hero, as image below:

Setting up Employment Hero Pay Categories

To setup Pay Categories on Employment Hero, go to Payroll Settings → Pay Categories. Use the External Id to link Tātou with EH as example:

Beta features are available for early adopters and may change without notice

For each Pay Category, create a Work Type and map them together. This work type will be automatically selected when sending timesheets for these pay categories. See example:

Setting up Employment Hero Work Types (optional)

Tātou Task Code → Employment Hero Work Type External Id

If you need to automate Work Types on Employment Hero, you can set its External Id as Tātou’s Task Code as image below.

Please make sure the Work Type is available for your employees. You can check this on Employment Hero → Employee → Work Types.

If the Work Type is not available for the employee, it’ll fail to set automatically.

When creating Work Types for piece rate, remember to link with a Pay Category that accepts Fixed Units instead of Hours.

Sending to Payroll

To check and sync a pay period, go to Tātou → Reporting → Pay Periods and Send to Payroll

On Employment Hero you will receive timesheets pending to approval.

Selecting employees to send payroll data

During the sync process the integration will ignore employees who the Contract Type is “Contractor”.

Pay Earnings

When finishing a Pay Run on Employment Hero, it sends back to Tātou information about the pay earnings. You can check it by browsing the employees timesheets tab, as image below:

Employment Hero’s Earning Lines are matched with Tātou’s Earning Types using the table (following the presented order or priority):

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