BetterWrk Payroll
Run payroll in the country where the work happens.
Tax, filings and bank files included. One workspace, each country’s rules. Payroll reads the same employee record the rest of the business uses, so the monthly reconciliation between HR and payroll stops being a job.
Coverage
One workspace. Each country’s rules.
Multi-country payroll fails when a vendor claims every country is equal. They are not. These are the markets live-verified today.
Other jurisdictions are assessed as part of your Fit Blueprint, and where a market is thinner we will say so rather than discover it during your first run.
Live-verified today
Coverage is stated deliberately narrowly. If your country is not listed, ask — the honest answer may be that we would integrate with a local provider rather than claim to replace them.
Getting live
Set up, test, then go live.
Set up the company
Entities, pay groups, calendars and statutory registrations per jurisdiction.
Bring in people
From the shared employee record where People is in scope, or by migration where it is not.
Enter opening balances
Year-to-date figures so the first run is correct rather than approximately correct.
Run a test
A parallel run checked against your current payroll, line by line, before anything is committed.
Go live
Switch by pay group. Filings, payslips and bank files run from the same record from then on.
Integrated workflow
What Payroll sends and receives.
The reconciliation between HR and payroll exists because they are usually two systems holding two copies of the same person. Here they are not.
- Receives from People
- Joiners, leavers, role and pay changes, absence and time — as events, not a monthly file.
- Receives from Sign
- Signed offers and contractual pay terms, already structured.
- Sends to Finance
- Labour cost by entity, cost centre and job, ready to post rather than ready to re-key.
- Sends to People
- Payslip availability and payroll status, visible to the employee in one place.
- Sends outward
- Statutory filings and bank files in each jurisdiction’s required format.
- Feeds ProcessScout
- Late approvals, repeated corrections and the exceptions that make every month harder than it should be.
Adaptation
What ProcessScout changes here.
Payroll is the highest-risk area in the suite, so it carries the strictest change controls. Improvements here always require your named approver.
- Pay elements, allowances and deductions specific to your workforce
- Approval and cut-off rules that reflect how your managers actually work
- Reporting your finance team needs rather than the report the system happens to produce
- Removal of the manual checks people invented because they did not trust the previous system
Change control in payroll
No change to pay calculation, statutory logic or bank file generation is released without automated tests, human review and explicit customer approval. Feature gates apply here as everywhere else, so a change can be withdrawn without a release cycle.
Enterprise controls
What your risk team will ask about.
- Permissions. Pay data is scoped separately from general employee data, by entity and role.
- Audit. Every change to a pay element, rate or run, with who approved it.
- Approvals. Run approval, off-cycle payments and adjustments all require named authority.
- Segregation of duties. Preparing a run and approving a run are separable roles.
- Retention. Payroll records retained to each jurisdiction’s statutory period.
Fit examples
How a requirement gets answered.
- Native
- Gross-to-net, statutory tax and filings, payslips and bank files in supported jurisdictions.
- Configured
- Your pay groups, calendars, pay elements, cost allocation and approval structure.
- Integrated
- A local payroll provider in a jurisdiction we do not run, or a benefits and pension provider you keep.
- Built
- An industry-specific pay rule — shift, award or placement structures without a standard equivalent.
Find out what your pay cycle actually costs.
A Trail Map follows one pay cycle end to end and documents the manual checks, corrections and reconciliations nobody has ever added up.