Embedded payroll infrastructure — Australia
Your platform is expanding into the hardest payroll country in APAC. Ledra Pay gives you government-sourced gross-to-net calculation and Single Touch Payroll lodgement behind one API — so you ship Australia in weeks, and your product stays yours.
What's at stake
Every platform that enters this market carries the same quiet fear: that an award rate, a super calculation, or a missed lodgement turns a launch into a headline. The rules are real, and they changed recently.
Intentional underpayment now carries criminal penalties for companies and officers — not just back-pay orders. "We didn't know the award" is not a defence.
Disaggregated gross, income types, and tax treatments are lodged with the tax office each payday. There is no quiet way to get it wrong.
Penalty rates, loadings, allowances, and a 12% super guarantee — logic that has tripped up Australia's largest employers, with remediations in the hundreds of millions.
Your guide
We know what it feels like to stare down a market entry where the compliance burden is larger than the product work. We've spent years inside Australian awards, superannuation, and statutory reporting — the exact logic that makes platforms hesitate at the border.
Ledra Pay packages that expertise as infrastructure: a government-sourced Australian regulation pack, computed by an accredited third-party payroll engine and wrapped in an auditable evidence chain, with the STP Phase 2 lodgement rail in build. The pack’s rules trace to the statutory register and every pay-run write is evidenced — calculation correctness sits with the accredited engine provider, while Ledra Pay orchestrates, evidences and lodges, and you keep payroll approval and the customer relationship.
Open-source calculation engine — regulation logic is inspectable end to end.
Production packs carry a named maintainer for statutory updates; country certification is pursued per pack.
The same engine and compliance layer maintained across 11 EU countries in production.
We own calculation correctness. You own approval, experience, and your customer.
Who owns what
The same three stages, mapped to owners — and to the AU setup checklist and STP & BAS lodgement in our guide. Green is Ledra Pay; grey is you (approval + disbursement); ochre is the ATO submission rail we're building.
Live demonstration
Move the slider. Gross-to-net below is computed in your browser with resident PAYG scales, the Medicare levy, the low income tax offset, and the 12% super guarantee — and you can flip between the current pack and the legislated 1 July 2026 rates, exactly as pack versions work in the API.
Indicative figures for an Australian tax resident claiming the tax-free threshold. Medicare levy at 2%, LITO applied, super guarantee at 12% of ordinary time earnings. From 1 July 2026 the 16% rate drops to 15% (legislated; 14% follows in 2027) — it ships as pack release AU-2026.1, selectable above. That toggle is how statutory updates work here: versioned packs, never silent changes. The production pack handles awards, allowances, salary sacrifice, HELP debts, and termination payments.
The embeddable component
The same payslip as a standard web component — drop it into your product, theme it with CSS variables (this one is wearing this page's palette), localise it. No payslip layout to build — and the same component renders a German Entgeltabrechnung in euros, or a UK / US / NZ payslip, when you switch country. The full set — onboarding, employees, leave, pay runs — runs in the component playground →
<ledrapay-payslip-viewer country="AU"> · sample data, real component, themed inline
For your engineers
The plan
Sandbox keys on day one. Onboard a tenant and employees over REST, attach the Australian regulation pack, and run your first calculation the same week.
Days, not quartersFeed us the inputs from a live payrun. We return results; you diff them line-by-line against your incumbent. Zero production risk — the numbers earn your trust before anything goes live.
Proof before commitmentSwitch calculation to the maintained pack, with STP lodgement following on the rail as it completes certification. Statutory updates arrive as versioned pack releases — scoped and predictable.
MaintainedTwo ways this goes
The rules behind the API
Every rule this platform automates, explained in plain English with government sources — researched, adversarially verified, and maintained as the law moves.
This week
Thirty minutes with our team: a real payrun end-to-end through the API, the STP payload, and a shadow-run plan for your data.