STP Compliant & Registered BAS Agent
PAYROLL SERVICES IN MELBOURNE
Professional payroll services for small businesses, sole traders, and growing companies across Melbourne. Every pay run is processed by a Certified Practising Accountant and Registered BAS Agent, with Single Touch Payroll, superannuation, and end-of-year finalisation all managed on your behalf.
- Xero, MYOB & QuickBooks certified
- Registered BAS Agent
- Fixed monthly pricing
- Servicing all of Melbourne
Your local Registered BAS Agent for accurate, on-time, fully compliant payroll across Melbourne.
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Accountscape is certified and accredited with Australia’s leading payroll and accounting software platforms, so every client’s payroll is processed using tools that are trusted, current, and fully compliant.
Why Payroll Is More Complex Than Most Business Owners Think
Most business owners underestimate how complex payroll actually is until something goes wrong. Then it becomes an expensive lesson.
Getting payroll right in Australia means correctly managing every one of these:
- Award rates, penalty rates, and allowances that change every year
- Single Touch Payroll (STP Phase 2) reporting to the ATO every pay run
- Superannuation paid to the correct fund on time, every quarter
- PAYG withholding calculated accurately and reconciled through BAS
- Leave accruals, personal leave, and long service leave
- Termination pays, redundancies, and unused leave payouts
- Fair Work compliance and record-keeping requirements
Get any of it wrong and the penalties add up fast. Fair Work fines, Superannuation Guarantee Charges, ATO penalties, or angry employees demanding underpaid wages.
That is why more Melbourne small businesses are outsourcing payroll to a Registered BAS Agent who does it properly the first time.
Who Our Payroll Service Is For
Our payroll clients are business owners across Melbourne who want their team paid correctly, on time, and fully compliant without wasting hours every fortnight doing it themselves.
- Small businesses with 1 to 30 employees
- Trades businesses managing apprentices, contractors, and site workers
- Cafes, restaurants, and hospitality juggling casual staff and penalty rates
- Retail and service businesses with rotating rosters
- Professional services firms paying salaried employees
- Owner-operators paying themselves and a small team
If your payroll is behind, error-prone, or eating hours of your week, we can help.
What Our Payroll Service Covers
Every payroll engagement at Accountscape is fully managed end to end. You submit the hours (or we set up a system where employees submit their own), and we take care of everything else.
Weekly, fortnightly, or monthly pay runs processed accurately and on time, with payslips distributed and every pay run reported to the ATO through Single Touch Payroll (STP Phase 2).
Super contributions calculated correctly and submitted to the right fund before every quarterly deadline. PAYG withholding calculated accurately and reconciled through your BAS.
Annual leave, personal leave, long service leave, and every other entitlement tracked accurately, shown correctly on payslips, and reconciled throughout the year.
STP finalisation lodged with the ATO by the deadline. Employee income statements finalised in myGov so your team can lodge their tax returns on time.
We work with a lot of small business owners who come to us after trying to handle their own payroll. Here is what messy payroll actually costs them.
Vishnu
CPA
The Real Cost of Getting Payroll Wrong
- Superannuation Guarantee Charge (SGC). Miss a super deadline by one day and you owe the SGC, which is not tax deductible. Penalties, interest, and admin fees add up fast.
- Fair Work underpayment claims. Underpaying employees, even accidentally, can result in back-pay orders and penalties up to $18,780 per breach. Recent underpayment scandals have cost businesses millions.
- ATO penalties for STP breaches. Missed or incorrect STP submissions result in penalties per employee, per pay period.
- Incorrect terminations. Miscalculating redundancy or termination pay can trigger legal action, especially when unused leave is involved.
- Time cost. Business owners spend an average of 4-6 hours per pay run doing it themselves. Multiply by 26 pay runs a year and that is hundreds of hours you could be spending on the business.
Payroll mistakes cost money. Professional payroll management prevents them.
5 Star Rated Payroll Services
Professional accounting services trusted by locals for their personal and business taxes.
Ally
Google Review
Really easy experience processing my taxes with Vishnu. He's a great communicator and made the process incredibly seamless. I'd highly recommend!
Ben McLean
Google Review
Vishnu at Accountscape has been very helpful organising my books and everything tax related. Very knowledgeable, I highly recommend Accountscape's services!
James Tennant
Google Review
Vishnu is an excellent representative of Accountscape. He takes a personal interest in my business and often comes up with helpful suggestions. His work is fast and professional and I highly recommend him.
Steven Penna
Google Review
Vishnu has been very efficient and easy to deal with. Highly recommend. I'm a small business owner and he took the time to answer all my questions and guide me with my BAS Lodgements. Very economical. Highly recommend.
AATC Tennis Coaches
Google Review
Vishnu from Accountscape has been helping our business with our financial needs for some time now. We have found him to be very accommodating with all our requests. He manages our accounts and ensures we never miss deadlines for our BAS.
Melissa Manuelpillai
Google Review
Vishnu has been an amazing, honest book keeper for me. He is very detail orientated, prompt with his email responses and is great at explaining things in an easy way that even I can understand!
Jason Benson
Google Review
I found the bookkeeping service to be of high quality. Fast and efficient. Really accurate. Nothing is too much trouble. Has been a real quality find for our business. We have gone from a sole trading business to a company and the help of these guys has been impeccable.
Rob Riordan
Google Review
Accountscape makes the process of compliance reporting completely effortless. Highly recommend.
Why Choose Accountscape for Payroll
There are plenty of payroll providers in Melbourne. Here is why our clients choose us and stay with us.
You deal directly with a CPA
No junior payroll clerks, no offshore teams. Every question is answered directly by a qualified Certified Practising Accountant and Registered BAS Agent.
Every pay run on time, every time
No missed pay runs, no forgotten super, no late STP. Your employees get paid correctly, and the ATO stays happy.
Fixed monthly pricing
Predictable pricing based on your employee count. No hourly billing, no surprises.
Full compliance included
Award updates, Fair Work compliance, STP Phase 2, super deadlines — all monitored and managed on your behalf.
Ready to Get Payroll Off Your Plate?
Book a free, no-obligation consultation today. In 15 minutes we will understand your situation, answer your questions, and give you a clear plan and fixed monthly price to take payroll off your desk for good.