Strategic Partnerships
Partner with Australia's most trusted payroll network
At Australian Payroll Association, our purpose is clear; to create confidence in how people are paid.
Payroll in Australia is complex. Legislation changes frequently, the rules continue to evolve, and the pressure to get it right never goes away. That’s where we come in.
Payroll is our speciality, and we lead it.
It’s all we do, and we do it exceptionally well.
When you partner with APA, your brand aligns with Australia’s most trusted authority in payroll. You connect with employers who value certainty, seek compliance and appreciate clear, practical guidance in a highly regulated space.
Why partner with APA?
Reach the right people
Our community is made up of payroll professionals, leaders and decision makers who value clarity, expertise and results. If your business helps employers manage payroll more effectively, you’re speaking to the right audience.
Partner credibility
APA is the recognised voice of payroll in Australia, trusted by thousands of professionals for compliance, education and advisory support. When we work with a brand, our members take notice.
Tailored for impact
From bespoke activations and thought leadership to digital, event and member communications, we design partnerships to meet your goals, and ensure your message reaches payroll decision makers across Australia.
Let’s build something valuable together
If your business helps employers improve payroll outcomes, we’d love to connect. Let’s create a partnership that brings value to our members and results for your business.
Platinum Partner
Frontier Software
Gold Partners
The Access Group
The Access Group is one of the leading providers of business management software to UK, Ireland and Asia Pacific mid-market organisations. It helps more than 55,000 customers across commercial, public sector and not-for-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. It’s innovative Access Workspace cloud solutions transform the way business software is used, giving every employee the freedom to do more.
Datapay
Navigate payroll complexity with Datapay: Payroll made powerful. Trusted by over 1,300 organisations, Datapay is cloud-based payroll software built specifically for medium to large enterprises in Australia and New Zealand. Datapay helps you modernise your payroll with precise configuration to your requirements, robust API integration to connect your systems and data, and comprehensive support from local payroll experts.
Ramco Payce
Ramco Payce is a comprehensive cloud-based payroll processing application enabled with AI and ML, which provides a seamless and holistic approach to payroll, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and a streamlined workflow for enhanced organizational performance. It is a unified global payroll solution for payroll administrators, implementation consultants, managers, and employees in a SaaS model or managed services.
- Organically grown system with a single code-base catering to 60+ countries on a single platform. Ramco leverages a proprietary IPO Engine for faster payroll processing. The payroll engine can be extended to cater to 150+ countries with the ICP model.
- Payce is a low-code/no-code application with built-in configurators and pre-built integrations with leading HCM providers
- Anomalies are tracked through clear graphical representations, enhancing clarity and decision-making, including reasoning for the anomalies.
Deel
Rippling
Activpayroll
Affinity
Attura
Aurion
biotime
BIPO
BundyPlus
CloudPayroll
D-BIT Australia
DayForce
Deputy
Discovery Consulting
Discovery Consulting is an SAP Gold Partner and we guide organisations through cloud-first business-transformation programmes, covering organisational change, business-process refinement, solution architecture and programme governance, so you realise fast, measurable value from SAP Business Suite. Our passionate Australian-based team combines 20+ years of multi-industry experience with the latest SAP go-to-market offerings, including HXM Now and S4 Now Business AI accelerators enabling faster, smarter, and more efficient implementations. Additionally for payroll users, Discovery's Work Schedule Builder lets you construct, approve and publish compliant work patterns directly inside SAP SuccessFactors. Casual only roles, variable hours, job shares handled in minutes, not days.
Employment Hero
foundU
G-P
G-P (Globalization Partners) is the recognised leader in global employment, ranked No. 1 in every industry analyst report. G-P’s global employment platform delivers everything companies of all sizes need to manage the full employee lifecycle with its trusted Global HR Agent, G-P Gia, and AI-powered Employer of Record (EOR) and Contractor products. G-P helps companies to hire, onboard, pay, and manage global teams quickly and compliantly without the hassle of setting up local subsidiaries or branch offices. G-P supports teams in 180+ countries with more than a decade of global employment experience, the largest team of in-country HR, legal, and compliance experts, and its unmatched proprietary knowledge base.
GCE Payroll Advisers Inc.
Humanforce
The intelligent platform for your shift-based workforce. Almost every shift has its no-shows, late arrivals, and special requests, but, you’ve also got to deal with the big shifts in how people work – everything from new employee expectations to new technologies, new regulations, and other major changes. Humanforce brings a whole new approach to managing your teams where you can simplify the process, see everything at once, and stay ahead of the curve. That’s why thousands of businesses of all sizes – hotels to hospitals, resources to recreation, stadiums to shops and more - use Humanforce to get ready for the next shift.
Infinet Cloud
Kainos
Lightning Payroll
MyHR
OneAdvanced
PayCompAI
PayComplAI provides a comprehensive two-part solution for modern payroll governance. Our structured Compliance Framework software maps your gaps and builds resilient practices, while our AI-Powered Audit software validates every pay run before it’s approved as well as historic pay runs. Used together, they transform compliance from a reactive burden into a proactive, trusted advantage.
PaySauce
Paytools
Peninsula Australia
Prince Consulting
Prince Consulting specialises in workforce management, compliance, and employment tax solutions. Our services include implementation of rostering, time and attendance, HR systems and large-scale payroll remediation and audits. We are also registered tax agents and offer tax advisory services and technology compliance platforms across superannuation, payroll tax, workers compensation and long service leave. We leverage our end to end payroll compliance expertise, combined with deep experience in project delivery, to help organisations achieve accuracy, efficiency, and compliance across their workforce operations.
Pronto Software
ReadyTech
ReadyTech (ASX listed, RDY), exists to help communities thrive. From education and workforce management to local communities, government, justice systems and beyond, we create awesome technology that helps our customers navigate complexity, while also delivering meaningful outcomes. Our Workforce Solutions product suite provides a range of powerful cloud payroll and workforce management solutions for businesses in Australia & New Zealand. Whether you prefer to do it yourself in-house or require us to manage it for you, ReadyTech has a tailored payroll and HR solution for your business.
RemCheck
RemCheck is a one-stop solution that supports employers in their ongoing compliance with modern awards. With our legal knowledge of modern award interpretation principles combined with intuitive calculations, RemCheck assists employers to ensure they are compliant with their pay obligations or identify any shortfalls which require remediation. RemCheck’s calculations are tailored to each employer’s workplace practices and contractual arrangements to ensure a fair and accurate outcome.
SAP
Tanda
Timecloud
Timecloud is a powerful all-in-one workforce management solution that takes the stress out of payroll and powers productivity for practical businesses. Easily manage time & attendance, staff leave, employee rostering with time clocks, mobile app, payroll integration, and advanced reporting. Gain real-time workforce insights and ensure you stay on top of your workflows
UKG
Verve Strategies
WageSafe
Do you know if you delivered the right pay today? - WageSafe is changing the game, with a revolutionary product that allows business owners, managers and or payroll/HR teams to audit the payroll process in real-time. We understand labour law is complex and compliance is a must, getting WageSafe accreditation will help move your business towards zero tolerance of underpayments.
Workplace Law
Your partner in workplace relations. Since 2003, Workplace Law has operated as a specialist law firm focussed on providing advice to employers in all aspects of employment law and workplace relations.
Yellow Canary
Yellow Canary is a compliance technology provider that helps payroll teams prevent and detect underpayments across pay, modern awards, Enterprise Agreements, superannuation, and Long Service Leave. Trusted by leading employers, we empower payroll to improve accuracy, minimise risk, reduce manual effort and support ongoing payroll compliance.
Zalaris
Zalaris is a global SAP Partner and provider of a wide range of SAP based HR & Payroll solutions and services. In APAC, Zalaris specialises in helping mid-sized organisations transform their HR & Payroll operations by adopting SAP SuccessFactors solutions and offering consulting, implementation, integration, and support services. At Zalaris APAC, our core focus is our HR & Payroll cloud solution, PeopleHub, certified as an SAP Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution. PeopleHub is easily optimised to meet the specific needs of our customers. With flexible and robust smart-shoring options and capabilities, we deliver comprehensive, high-quality consulting services that offer excellent value for money and low risk.
BSCAA