Microkeeper is built for rosters and awards. We are built for payroll and books.
Microkeeper holds a specific piece of Australian small business well — the shift-work, award-heavy, roster-driven end of the market. myaccountant is built for the larger population: the businesses where payroll matters but awards are straightforward, where the real question is how payroll connects to the books, the BAS, and the 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 powerful. The whole flow from roster to timesheet to payroll is one system.
Where the fit narrows is for the many Australian small businesses whose payroll is simpler than that. Professional services firms paying salaried staff. Trades businesses where the work is project-based rather than shift-based. E-commerce businesses with a small fulfillment team on regular hours. Knowledge-work businesses where payroll is ten salaried employees on a fortnightly cycle. For these businesses, the rostering and award-interpretation depth is not earning its place — what the business needs is payroll that connects cleanly to the books, the BAS, and the super. That is a different product than workforce management.
What myaccountant is shaped around.
myaccountant was built from the start as payroll inside a financial platform, not payroll inside a workforce-management platform. Every pay run's journal posts to the books automatically. The wages and PAYG flow into the BAS without re-keying. The super payment is staged for the national super network the moment the pay run is finalised, and the Super Overview reconciles it per employee. The Payday Super readiness dashboard shows who is set up and who needs attention. For a business where payroll connects more to accounting than to rostering, the shape of the product matters.
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 Xero and other accounting platforms — you run payroll in Microkeeper, then sync to your books. myaccountant is a financial platform with payroll as one module — your Payroll lives next to your Business module, your Property module, your personal books, all in one login. The integration is not a connection; it is the same system.
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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 and you should consider it carefully. If your business runs on a ledger — where payroll's job is to connect cleanly to the books, the BAS, and the super — come and see a platform built for that.