The award, built in.
Pick each worker's SCHADS classification and contract type once. The rates come from the Fair Work Commission's own pay data.
Timesheets That Do the SCHADS Maths.
Every completed shift becomes a timesheet on the worker's award classification: day, afternoon, night, weekend and public holiday hours at their own rates, casual loading and allowances worked out for you. Check the week, then send it to Xero as draft timesheets in one go.
The Short Version
Every shift, its own timesheet.
Clock off and it's done: each part of the shift at its own rate, casual loading and allowances on top.
Into Xero in one go.
Tick the week's pay cycles and send them to Xero as draft timesheets. No re-keying hours.
What's Actually in It
1. The SCHADS Award, Built In
Set each worker up once: their award classification, full time, part time or casual, their Xero pay calendar and the allowances they're owed. Orangised won't roster anyone until their classification (or payroll group) and contract type are in, so no shift ends up with no rate to pay it at.
- SCHADS Award classifications (and the Nurses Award), every pay point with its clause, from the Fair Work Commission's pay database
- Rates and allowances refreshed from the Fair Work Commission twice a month, so a new award year means no new rate card
- Casual loading added for casuals, automatically
- Allowances switched on per worker: first aid, broken shifts, sleepovers, laundry and uniform, board and lodging, and the vehicle allowance per kilometre
- Rather use your own rates? Payroll groups set your own hourly rate for each time band, and manual allowances your own amounts
2. Every Shift Becomes a Timesheet
When a shift is clocked off or marked completed, Orangised writes the timesheet: the hours split by when they happened, each part at its own SCHADS rate. Nobody looks up a penalty rate. Nobody does the maths.
- Weekday hours split into day, afternoon (after 8 pm) and night (before 6 am), each at its own rate
- Saturdays at time and a half, Sundays at double time, public holidays at double time and a half, casual loading on top
- Overnight shifts split at midnight, each part paid as the day it fell on
- Sleepovers: the sleepover allowance for the night, the hours either side at shift rates, and any active work rounded up to the hour
- Kilometres your team enters at clock-off paid as their vehicle allowance
- Cancelled shifts paid only when you say so; shifts set as not payable never are
3. Into Xero as Draft Timesheets
Tick the week's pay cycles and send them. Each worker's hours land in Xero as a draft timesheet against the right pay item, ready for your pay run.
- Orangised sets up the pay items in Xero for you: classification rates, the penalty rate for each part of the week, casual and not, and allowances
- Workers synced to Xero as employees, with their pay calendar, employment type and ordinary rate
- Pay cycles follow your Xero pay calendars, weekly, fortnightly or monthly
- Each pay cycle goes once: what's been sent is never sent again
- Anything that can't go comes back with the reason, and the rest still goes
4. Checked Before Anyone Gets Paid
Every worker's pay cycle sits in one list with its status and total. Open one to see each shift and allowance, the hours, the rate and the dollars, and fix it before it goes anywhere.
Every line, open
Open a shift to see how its total was reached: the times, the hours and the dollars.
Rates changed?
Recalculate a pending pay cycle in one click after a rate or a shift changes.
Hold one back
Archive a shift to keep it out of this pay run, and restore it when it's sorted.
Nothing lost between weeks
A shift that runs past the end of a pay cycle is split by date, each part in its own cycle.
The Full Payroll List
Everything in payroll and timesheets. What it doesn't do is in the answers below.
Award Setup
Set it once, per worker.
- SCHADS Award and Nurses Award classifications, searchable, with each pay point and clause
- Rates and allowances refreshed from the Fair Work Commission's pay database twice a month
- Contract type per worker: full time, part time or casual
- A Xero pay calendar per worker
- Staff can only be rostered once their classification or payroll group and contract type are set
Timesheets From Every Shift
Clock off, timesheet done.
- A timesheet for every worker on every completed shift: individual, group, house, admin and training
- Weekday day, afternoon and night hours at their own rates
- Saturday, Sunday and public holiday rates
- Casual loading for casuals
- Overnight shifts split at midnight
- An appointment that runs past the shift paid too, less an unpaid break on long shifts
- Cancelled shifts paid only when you choose; non-payable shifts never
Allowances
What they're owed, on top.
- Vehicle allowance per kilometre, from the kilometres entered at clock-off
- Sleepover allowance per night, plus active work rounded up to the hour
- First aid allowance
- Broken shift allowance, with one or two unpaid breaks
- Laundry and uniform allowances, per shift or per week
- Board and lodging allowances
- Award amounts from the Fair Work Commission, or your own
Your Own Rates
For anyone off the award tables.
- Payroll groups: your own hourly rate for each time band
- Manual allowances: your own amounts for full time, part time and casual staff
- Pick award rates or your own rates per worker
Checking the Pay Run
Before anyone gets paid.
- One row per worker per pay cycle, with status and total
- Pending, Sent to Xero and Archived
- Open a pay cycle to see every shift and allowance, line by line
- Recalculate a pending pay cycle
- Archive a shift out of the pay run, and restore it
- Shifts that cross a pay cycle boundary split by date
- Workers without a pay calendar flagged, so nobody gets missed
- Export the list to CSV
- Each worker's sent pay cycles on their staff profile
Xero Payroll
Hours in, nothing re-keyed.
- Pay cycles sent to Xero as draft timesheets, one worker or the whole team at once
- Pay items created in Xero for classification rates, penalty rates and allowances
- Workers synced to Xero as employees, with their pay calendar and ordinary rate
- Pay calendars read from Xero
- Each pay cycle sent once, and a reason for anything that could not go
- Sync on demand, or switch on automatic sync in the background
Accountants, Allied Health and Contractors
Everyone else who gets paid.
- An accountant login that can check pay cycles and send them to Xero
- Employed allied health practitioners paid through the same timesheets, on award or your own rates
- Contract practitioners bill you instead: each completed session makes a bill, and they send their invoice as a PDF from their portal
- Contractor invoices marked paid by your accountant
Want to see your pay run in it? Book a demo. We set up your portal for you and walk your team through it.
The Honest Answers
What it does, what it doesn't, and no fine print.
No. Orangised works out every timesheet and sends the hours to Xero as draft timesheets. Xero runs the pay: the pay run, tax, super, payslips and Single Touch Payroll all happen in Xero, the way they do now. Xero is the payroll Orangised talks to; without it you still get every timesheet and a CSV export, but nothing gets sent.
Read Up on the Rules
Plain-English guides on the NDIS rules this part of the job runs into, sourced and kept up to date.
