About Reckon Payroll

Payroll software that simplifies the management of wages, leave, super, and Single Touch Payroll, all for just $12 per month. Unlike other payroll solutions, you won't be charged based on the number of employees you have, saving you money as your business grows. Intuitive navigation, clear workflows, and simple data entry make paying your staff easy, allowing you to dedicate more time to running your business.

Pricing starting from:

$14.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Key benefits of Reckon Payroll

- Quick & easy payroll software: A modern design and clear workflows make managing pay runs, wages, leave, superannuation and Single Touch Payroll a breeze.

Simply enter your default settings, add employee details and hit pay!

- Unlimited employees: Easily manage wages, leave, super and STP for unlimited employees. Our pricing isn’t based on your employee count. So, for just $12/month you can add as many employees as you need - saving you money as you expand.

- STP Phase 2 and ATO compliant: Process pay runs & send your STP reports directly to the ATO each payday in just a click. You can even keep track of ATO messages and access past submissions.

- Automatic compliance updates: It’s simple to stay up to date with the latest payroll and tax compliance changes with updates such as PAYG tax tables, superannuation guarantee rates and SuperStream requirements automatically pushed into Reckon.

- Trusted Australian payroll software: Our payroll software is designed and built for the Australian market with local support available when you need it.

Reckon is a proud Australian, publicly listed company with over 30 years of experience in the industry - so your payroll is in safe hands!

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premises

Markets

Australia

Supported Languages

English

Pricing starting from:

$14.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Features

Total features of Reckon Payroll: 10

  • API
  • Benefits Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Multi-State
  • Payroll Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Self Service Portal
  • Tax Compliance
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Vacation/Leave Tracking

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Reviews

Overall rating

5 /5
(7)
Value for Money
4.9/5
Features
4.9/5
Ease of Use
4.7/5
Customer Support
5/5

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Domenic
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Powerful functionality. Easy to use.

Reviewed on 08/01/2025

Easy to use, has powerful functionality and works well for our business.

Easy to use, has powerful functionality and works well for our business.

Pros

Powerful payroll system, yet easy to use.

Cons

There is nothing we dislike. We like using it.

Alternatives Considered

MYOB Business, QuickBooks Online and Xero

Reasons for Switching to Reckon Payroll

Ease of use, and value for money. The look and feel was good too.
Daniel
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Reckon payroll easy use

Reviewed on 28/03/2024

Love the way the program works and would highly recommend it to other companies

Love the way the program works and would highly recommend it to other companies

Pros

Set up was a very easy and smooth transaction. Use was extremely easy and is so streamlined that I can complete payroll within an hour.

Cons

Monthly subscription is not ideal, but seems to be what every company is doing.

Khalil
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Recommendation

Reviewed on 28/12/2024

Good but not fully satisfied with the recent jump in increasing the fees

Good but not fully satisfied with the recent jump in increasing the fees

Pros

Ease of use and fast to process pay run.

Cons

Needs more improvements on how to find tasks

Vanessa
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source

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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I Reckon it's good!

Reviewed on 02/12/2024

For someone that has never used a payroll system before, I find it very user friendly and easy to...

For someone that has never used a payroll system before, I find it very user friendly and easy to use

Pros

It is extremely easy to use and the support is great

Cons

I actually have not found any reason yet, but I doubt there will be

Alternatives Considered

Xero

Reasons for Switching to Reckon Payroll

It seemed a lot easier to use and it was better priced long term
Anu
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Recon one payroll software

Reviewed on 04/11/2024

Pros

Very user-friendly accounting and payroll software for small and medium scale businesses.

Cons

Reckon one has been great from the beginning, after the upgrade in early 2023 the software became more user friendly

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Reckon Payroll FAQs

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Reckon Payroll offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: $14.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Payroll - $12/month Payroll + Accounting Essentials - $12/month Payroll + Accounting Plus- $32/month

Reckon Payroll has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200

Reckon Payroll supports the following languages:

English

Reckon Payroll supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Reckon Payroll integrates with the following applications:

AroFlo, Braintree, Crystal Payroll, Dext, GovReports, IODM Essentials, Link4, Mailchimp, Novatti, PayPal, PaySauce, Shopify, Staffology Payroll, Stripe, Wageloch, WooCommerce, Zapier, Zed Axis, Zoho CRM

Reckon Payroll offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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