PaySauce Has Launched in Australia

PaySauce Has Launched in Australia. Here Is What We Are Here to Do.

Asantha Wijeyeratne, CEO and Co-Founder, PaySauce

Running a small business in Australia is not simple.

Award rates. Penalty rates. Super obligations. Fair Work compliance. Most small business owners are managing all of it alongside everything else that comes with running a business day to day. Payday can easily become the most stressful part of the week, and the most time-consuming.

For many, it is held together by a mix of tools that were never quite designed to work together. A timesheet app, a separate accounting platform, a manual bank upload to finish it off. It gets done. But it takes longer than it should, and there is always a small voice wondering whether it was done right.

I built PaySauce to change that.

Ten years proving the model works.

We have spent a decade building and refining PaySauce in New Zealand. Today we process NZD $200 million in payroll every month across more than 8,500 customers, and hit a record NZD $9.4 million in annualised recurring revenue for the December 2025 quarter.

That is a proven payroll platform, not a startup with a pitch. And now we are in Australia.

Why Payday Super makes this the moment to act.

From 1 July 2026, Payday Super changes the payroll obligation for every Australian employer. Super contributions must be paid on every single pay run, not quarterly. For small business owners already juggling complex Fair Work award conditions, that is one more obligation to get right every single fortnight.

PaySauce handles Payday Super automatically. When the rules change, business owners do not need to keep track. It just happens. We also use Australia's New Payments Platform (NPP) to process near-real-time payments to employees, removing the manual bank upload step entirely.

For bookkeepers and accountants advising small business clients, this shift is significant. The compliance burden on micro-businesses is growing. Having payroll software that keeps up, and that your clients can actually use without calling you every fortnight, matters more than ever right now.

The team behind the Australian launch.

I relocated from New Zealand to Melbourne personally to lead this expansion. That reflects how seriously we are taking it. I have spent 30 years building payroll businesses and a decade refining PaySauce. I know the complexity Australian small businesses face, and I know what it takes to build something that genuinely removes it.

Joining me is Chris Ridd as Executive Director. Chris was Managing Director of Xero Australia, where he led the platform from a small startup to Australia's largest cloud accounting software. He understands what it takes to build payroll and accounting tools that small business owners and their advisors genuinely trust.

"The Australian market has nearly 700,000 micro-businesses that are underserved. Many are managing one of their most complex obligations with tools that were not built for the job. That is a real problem with real consequences, and PaySauce solves it in a way that actually fits into a business owner's day." — Chris Ridd, Executive Director

Also joining the team is Mel Shortland-Power as Go-To-Market Lead. Mel spent four years at Xero as Head of Bookkeeping and Global Head of Partner Community. She has deep relationships across the Australian accounting and bookkeeping profession and understands what advisors need when recommending payroll software to their clients.

"The most powerful thing a software company can do is take something genuinely complicated off a business owner's plate and make it invisible. PaySauce does that for payroll. With Payday Super coming in July, the compliance burden on micro-businesses is only getting heavier. Bookkeepers and accountants are going to be fielding a lot of questions. PaySauce gives them a confident answer." — Mel Shortland-Power, Go-To-Market Lead

This expansion is backed by a $4 million AUD capital raise led by Artemis Capital and endorsed by the Australian Payroll Association.

Payroll software built for small business. Designed for their advisors too.

PaySauce works for business owners who want to run payroll from their phone in minutes. It also works for bookkeepers and accountants who want a payroll platform they can recommend with confidence, one that handles award calculations, super, tax and Fair Work compliance reporting automatically, and that their clients will actually use.

Whether you employ two people or fifteen, whether you are in hospitality, dairy, retail or professional services, PaySauce is built for the way Australian small businesses actually work.

Backed by experts. Easy to use. Paid correctly. On time. Every time.

Asantha Wijeyeratne, CEO and Co-Founder, PaySauce