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Flare Employee Benefits Is your payroll the right fit
A concise, practical look at what payroll fit means, how to assess the options available…
Connected Payroll Software for New Zealand
Payroll that fits your business
ELMO matches you to the right payroll with a curated network of best-of-breed payroll partners suited to your industry, scale and complexity.
Trusted by 2,000+ organisations across Australia and New Zealand
Simplify complex payroll tasks
Pay your people right, on time
The right fit
ELMO works with a curated network of payroll providers and helps match you with a solution suited to your organisation. If you already have a payroll system you trust, connect it where a supported integration is available.
Connected from the get-go
Keep your core employee information aligned between HR and payroll, with clear ownership for each field, rather than forcing every detail into one system.
Backed by local experts
Work with specialists who understand Australian payroll complexity, guide you to the right fit and stay with you well beyond go-live.
ELMO Payroll features
Start your pay run on solid ground
Start with your industry, scale, award complexity and business circumstances
Get matched by our experts to a best-of-breed payroll partner from our curated network
If you already have a payroll system you love, talk to us about connecting it
Use two-way sync to keep mapped employee data flowing between HR and your payroll engine
Give every mapped field a clear owner and use intelligent conflict detection to surface mismatches for review
Track changes through the Integration Dashboard and its audit trail
Support compliance references including STP Phase 2 in Australia, Payday Filing and KiwiSaver in New Zealand, ABA bank files and SuperStream.*
Keep payroll aligned to relevant local requirements through the selected payroll engine.
Work with local experts to understand your requirements and identify the right payroll fit.
Get support from sales through implementation, adoption and optimisation.
Keep access to specialists who understand ANZ payroll complexity.
Keep a trusted view of mapped workforce data across ELMO and payroll.
Reduce duplicate entry and manual reconciliation between connected systems.
Bring payroll into the wider ELMO platform alongside your people processes.
See the business impact
Keep payday running smoothly
Find a payroll fit that works
Match your payroll approach to your industry, scale, complexity and changing business needs rather than forcing your organisation into a one-size-fits-all system.
Reduce reconciliation work
Keep core employee data aligned between HR and payroll, with clear field ownership and mismatches surfaced for review before they create extra work.
Support when you need it
Set up done? Continue to get access to local specialists after your go-live.
Avoid pay-run surprises
Use conflict detection and an audit trail to catch issues in mapped data before the pay run.
Don’t just take our word for it
What our customers are saying
“Our payroll processing time decreased by 75% since adopting ELMO Payroll, freeing us to focus more on our people.”
Peter Legg
South Sydney Rabbitohs
“The automations, workflows and notifications we have set up for onboarding have been life changing. We have reduced a 102-step process to just 30 steps.”
Wendy Baker
Brosnan
“ELMO is not only saving us time and money but it has empowered our employees to self manage their own rosters, timesheets and leave, further lightening the workload.”
Kassandra Paterson
Cheil
Faq’s
Find the answers you’re looking for
Frequently Asked Questions in a connected Payroll Software.
The best payroll software depends on your industry, operational scale, workforce complexity, particularly around Holidays Act compliance, Payday Filing, and KiwiSaver administration.
ELMO Payroll helps mid-market New Zealand organisations by matching them to the right specialist engine from its curated network, while connecting employee records directly to the ELMO platform via two-way sync for accurate, audit-ready workforce data.
Businesses need two-way sync to save time on manual double data entry and reduce payroll errors caused by out-of-date data between separate systems. It automatically keeps mapped employee information aligned across both HR and payroll, so teams can spend less hours reconciling records before every pay run.
Award interpretation is challenging in Australia because modern awards and agreements have complex rules around pay rates, overtime, penalty rates, allowances, and leave calculations. Mid-market Australian businesses with multi-site or shift-based teams face compliance risks if these rules are managed manually or miscalculated.
Generic payroll tools may lack the specialised logic needed to manage distinct industry awards accurately. That’s why selecting a payroll engine specifically configured for your award complexity is essential to stay compliant and pay staff correctly.
Built-in payroll relies on a single generic payroll engine developed by one vendor. In contrast, the ELMO Payroll Network is a curated network of best-of-breed reseller partners, letting businesses work with a payroll engine that fits their scale and complexity. The payroll partner integrates directly with your HR system with two-way sync. This provides deep payroll capability while keeping your workforce data unified and accurate.
Two-way sync uses intelligent conflict detection to flag any data mismatches early so administrators can review them before processing pay. With two-way sync available across the ELMO Payroll Network, employee details are mapped between your HR and connected payroll system using field-level ownership. This means HR Core manages general employee details while pay rates, deductions, and terminations remain in the payroll engine.
Modern payroll engines automate award rules by calculating correct base pay, overtime, penalty rates, and allowances directly from workforce hours. With ELMO Payroll, your organisation is matched to a specialised partner engine from our network of payroll partners, that meets your industry and specific award rules. Two-way sync keeps mapped employee data aligned, accurate, and audit-ready between payroll and the ELMO platform.
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*Based on the Total Economic Impact™ study by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by ELMO Software.
