Certificate in Xero Payroll

Australian payroll in Xero, from set-up to the end of the financial year. After a first pay run in Xero's demo company, you'll set up an employer's payroll, add employees, run pay runs, pay annual, personal and parental leave, pay super, deal with Single Touch Payroll filings and the ATO's responses and reconcile payroll in the accounts. It finishes with corrections and leavers, the year end and fringe benefits, and a capstone where you take over a payroll mid-year.

Some. If you can find your way around Xero and reconcile a bank account, you're ready, and you don't need any payroll experience. If Xero itself is new, start with the Certificate in Xero.

Not to start. Xero's free trial is enough to set up your practice payroll, and if it runs out before you finish, a monthly Xero plan that includes payroll keeps the same file going. Never practise in a live payroll: real pay runs are reported to the ATO through Single Touch Payroll.

Xero Payroll if you need to run payroll in Xero, with every awkward case worked through in the software. Bookkeeping & Payroll if you want the whole bookkeeping job, with payroll worked out by hand so you know what the software is doing. Taking Bookkeeping & Payroll first and this course second works well.

No. You run a fictional Adelaide restaurant's payroll and then a garden centre's, in a practice file of your own. Reporting through Single Touch Payroll needs a real employer, so your practice pay runs send nothing, and you learn to read the ATO's responses without risking anyone's pay.

By teaching you where each figure comes from. Rates and thresholds change with each financial year, so you learn the process in Xero, the current numbers always come from the ATO, and Xero keeps them up to date.

Yes. It's Australian payroll throughout: PAYG withholding and Single Touch Payroll, super, and leave under the National Employment Standards. The pay run routine itself transfers well if you later work with payroll elsewhere.

Yes. Complete the course and pass its final assessment and you get an industry-recognised OBA certificate of completion that an employer can verify online. It isn't Xero's own advisor certification. What it shows is practical: you can run a full payroll cycle in Xero.

Download the free info pack first. It walks you through every module, what you'll build and what you need before you start, so you can enrol knowing exactly what you're getting. If you'd like to talk it through, get in touch and we'll help you choose.