Employee Actions

The people work, in the pay run

Every pay has routine steps, then the exceptions: starters, terminations, repayments, allowances. Paytools turns each into an action with an owner. No spreadsheet needed.

Fortnightly Pay, Period Ending 21 June 2026 Pay day Wed 24 Jun
Main Pay (12) Employee actions (6)
Termination — R. Okafor
3 of 5 steps · final pay this run
In progress
Final pay date confirmed
Unused leave calculated
ETP classified · D. Wong
Final pay approved · K. Lewis
STP finalisation event
Termination — P. Silva
0 of 5 steps · effective 21 Jun
Scheduled
Parental leave — T. Nguyenends 27 Sep
Verify for this period · J. Murphy
Scheduled
Overpayment — A. Chen4 of 6
$58.33 instalment applied · D. Wong
Done
The life of an employee action

From the email that starts it to the record that proves it

Follow one change to one employee through Paytools. It arrives, it lands in the right pay, it gets done, it gets checked and it stops when it's meant to.

01
When the change arrives

Every change becomes a piece of work with an owner

HR sends a starter. A manager emails about a higher-duties allowance. Finance flags an overpayment. Each one becomes an employee action: who it's for, what has to happen, which pay it belongs to, who's doing it. Not a flagged email, not a row in a spreadsheet only one person can find.

"I wish this product existed when I was still a Payroll Manager, it would have been a game changer."

GM
Director · Whisper Payroll
02
In the pay run

What has to happen to which employees, and whether it's done

Open the pay and the period's employee actions are right there, built-in to the routine checklist. One list: employee, action, due date, status. Filter by type or location. Work it down as you go. No second screen, no second spreadsheet, no reconstructing the list from memory each fortnight.

"Paytools provides a clear, structured view of all critical payroll activities, ensuring nothing gets missed."

DW
Senior Manager, Payroll · Cerebral Palsy Alliance
03
The ones that run for months

Flag it once. It follows the employee until it stops.

Parental leave for sixteen weeks. WorkCover top-up until further notice. A repayment over six pays. A deduction that starts in November. Set the start and the end when you create it and the action appears in every run it belongs to, then drops off on the date you said. Nobody has to remember. Nobody finds out three pays later.

"Paytools just makes it a whole lot easier to run things."

VO
Manager, Operations & Advisory · Volvo
04
Under and overpayments

Recovery that shows up in the run, not in a folder

Log the overpayment, agree the plan and each instalment appears as a step in the pay it's due in, with the balance owing beside it. Underpayments get the same treatment from identification to remediation. Reason codes you manage yourself, so the register matches how your organisation actually categorises errors, and an export finance can read.

"Paytools saves me from breaking into a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering if we've forgotten something critical."

NW
Platform Payroll Lead · ITW Construction
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