✔️ Practical ✔️ Structured ✔️ Payroll Compliance Focussed
That’s the difference between:
❌ Watching tutorials
✔️ Processing payroll in Xero confidently in real scenarios
❌ Follow steps without understanding
❌ No structured learning path
❌ No real practice or data
❌ No way to test your knowledge
✔️ Structured, step-by-step payroll expertise
✔️ Practical payroll case studies
✔️ Downloadable payroll data to practise
✔️ Revision quizzes and final assessment
✔️ Clear explanations — not just clicks
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
✔️ Set up a payroll system in Xero that complies with Australian tax, superannuation, and leave requirements
✔️ Add employees and configure pay templates, pay items, and leave types correctly
✔️ Run payroll in Xero, including pay, tax, super, and leave, with accurate posting to the ledger
✔️ Understand payroll privacy and security principles — and why protecting payroll data matters
✔️ Control access using Xero user roles and permissions
✔️ Finalise year-end payroll, including Single Touch Payroll (STP)
✔️ Review payroll reports to ensure employee earnings, tax, and super are accurate and compliant
✔️ Apply Xero confidently in real payroll scenarios
✔️ Beginners starting with Xero Payroll
✔️ Business owners managing their own payroll
✔️ Bookkeepers and accountants expanding into payroll
✔️ Payroll officers or administrators wanting practical Xero skills
✔️ Anyone starting or transitioning into a payroll role
✔️ Step-by-step video walkthrough lessons with clear, structured explanations
✔️ Practical payroll processing scenarios for you to practise, including:
Individual, step-by-step walkthroughs
Downloadable payroll data files to practise with
Structured learning activities
Show & Tell videos
✔️ Revision quizzes after each lesson to reinforce your learning
✔️ Final assignment quiz to test your understanding
✔️ APEX Professional Excellence Certificate
✔️ A desire to excel
✔️ Basic English language, literacy and numeracy skills
✔️ Basic computer, internet and email knowledge
✔️ A personal computer
✔️ Internet access
✔️ A free Xero trial account
Most people begin by learning Xero for payroll through videos and tutorials
Now you can take the next step and start using Xero to process payroll accurately and with confidence