Microkeeper is built for rosters and awards. We are built for payroll and books.
Microkeeper is strong when rosters and awards are the centre of payroll. myaccountant is for businesses where payroll is simpler, and the real question is how it connects to books, BAS and super.
Where Microkeeper is genuinely strong.
Microkeeper does hard work well. Modern award interpretation is one of the hardest problems in Australian payroll, more than a hundred awards, complex allowance rules, shift loadings, penalty rates, span-of-hours calculations, different rules per classification. Microkeeper has built a serious engine for this, and they onboard you onto it directly during setup so the rules that apply to your industry are correctly configured from day one. For hospitality, healthcare, aged care, retail, and manufacturing, the industries where these calculations are an hourly reality, Microkeeper's depth on awards and rosters is a genuine asset. If your business is shift-based and award-governed, Microkeeper is one of the better tools for your job.
Who Microkeeper is for. Where the fit narrows.
Microkeeper is a workforce-management platform. The product shape assumes you have shifts to roster, hours to track, awards to apply, timesheets to approve. When those assumptions match your business, hospitality, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, the platform is coherent and capable. The whole flow from roster to timesheet to payroll is one system.
The fit narrows when payroll is simpler: salaried staff, regular hours, project work, or a small team on a fortnightly cycle. In those businesses, rostering depth is often not the thing that needs solving.
What myaccountant is shaped around.
myaccountant was built as payroll inside a financial product, not workforce management. Pay run journals post to the books. Wages and PAYG feed the BAS. Super is prepared from the pay run and reconciled per employee.
Three specific things, if you want the detail.
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Centre of gravity: rosters, vs. books.
Microkeeper's centre is the roster, how people will work this week, what awards apply, how the timesheets translate to pay. myaccountant's centre is the ledger, how payroll flows into your books, your BAS, your super obligations. If rosters are not the central complexity of your business, the workforce-management architecture is doing work you are not using.
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Integration: connects to accounting, vs. is accounting.
Microkeeper integrates with accounting platforms. myaccountant keeps payroll beside Business, Property and personal records. The difference is connection versus same record.
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Payday Super: ready, vs. ready.
Both Microkeeper and myaccountant handle per-pay-run super payment, both are ready for the 1 July 2026 rules. The difference is in how visible the readiness is. myaccountant's Payroll Overview shows per-employee readiness as a named stat card; missing fund details surface as a list before they become problems. For smaller teams especially, visibility beats capability: knowing the whole team is ready is what matters on payday.
Closing
If your business runs on shifts, rosters and modern awards, Microkeeper is a serious tool. If payroll's job is to connect cleanly to books, BAS and super, come and see ours.