Employment Hero is an HR platform with payroll built in. We are a financial platform with payroll built in.
If your business needs onboarding workflows, performance reviews, employee benefits, and a learning library alongside payroll, Employment Hero is one of the best in the category. If what you actually need is payroll that connects to your books, your BAS, and your super — without the HR platform overhead — myaccountant is built for that.
Where Employment Hero is genuinely strong.
Employment Hero has built something real. If your business has HR needs that go beyond payroll — if you are onboarding enough people that a repeatable workflow matters, running performance reviews that need structure, managing employee benefits programs, training staff through a formal learning library, or maintaining employment contracts that need version control and e-signature — Employment Hero gives you all of it in one platform with payroll at the centre. The award interpretation engine (originally KeyPay, now Employment Hero Payroll) is among the strongest in the Australian market. For growing businesses that have crossed into real HR complexity, Employment Hero is a legitimate answer.
Who Employment Hero is for. Where the scope is more than you need.
Employment Hero is at its best for businesses where HR is a distinct function — where there is someone whose job includes running onboarding programs, maintaining performance cycles, administering benefits, or delivering training. That function does not need to be a full-time HR hire; it could be a founder's partner, a COO, an office manager with HR responsibility. But HR needs to be real work that someone does. When it is, Employment Hero's HR suite pays its way.
Where the scope is more than you need is for the very common Australian small business where HR is informal. The owner does their own onboarding — it is an afternoon of conversations and a few forms. Performance reviews happen in the kitchen or not at all. Benefits are a salary, super, and occasionally lunch. Training is on-the-job. For this business, paying for a platform that includes onboarding workflows, performance tooling, benefits administration, and learning libraries is paying for capability that will never be used. What the business actually needs is payroll that is fast, compliant, and connects to the books — which is a different product.
What myaccountant is shaped around.
myaccountant is a financial platform. Payroll sits next to your Business module, your Property module, your Personal module, all in one login. The pay run posts to your books automatically. The wages and PAYG flow into your BAS. The super is staged for the national super network after every pay run. The Payroll Overview tells you what needs fixing; the Super Overview reconciles what you reported against what arrived. What you do not get is onboarding workflows, performance tooling, benefits administration, or a learning library — because those are a different product and we do not pretend to offer them. What you do get is payroll integrated with the rest of the financial picture, at a price that reflects that scope.
Three specific things, if you want the detail.
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Scope: HR plus payroll, vs. books plus payroll.
Employment Hero's scope is HR adjacent to payroll — the employee lifecycle from onboarding to performance to learning, with payroll as one module. myaccountant's scope is financial adjacent to payroll — the ledger, the BAS, the super, the property books, with payroll as one module. Same depth, different adjacency.
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Pricing: per employee plus minimums, vs. per business flat.
Employment Hero charges per employee per month with monthly minimums. The HR suite commands a price that reflects the HR capability. myaccountant's Payroll module is $10 per business per month for up to 50 employees — flat. For a business that does not need the HR suite, the flat-rate maths is visibly different.
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Audience: a business with an HR function, vs. a business with a ledger.
Employment Hero is built for businesses where HR is real work. myaccountant is built for businesses where financial management is real work and HR is handled informally. Most Australian small businesses are the second kind. Which you are depends on your headcount, your industry, and whether the words "performance review" mean a structured cycle or a coffee.
Closing
If your business has real HR needs and you want a platform that handles them alongside payroll, Employment Hero is one of the best answers in the Australian market. If your business has payroll but not HR — and what you actually need is payroll that connects to the books, the BAS, and the super — come and see ours.