For hotels, restaurants and events
Payroll for hotels, restaurants and events
PayrollMaster runs payroll for hospitality teams that staff up and down with demand. Shift attendance is captured by QR, biometric or geofence; rest-day and public-holiday hours are rated at their own overtime types; minimum-wage floors are enforced; and casual shift workers run on the same payroll as permanent staff.
The problem
Why casual pay is where payroll breaks
For hotels, lodges, restaurants, banqueting and event staffing teams.
Demand arrives in spikes
A conference, a high season, a wedding for four hundred. You staff up for a week and down again — and payroll has to keep pace with a roster that changes weekly.
Split shifts and unsocial hours
Lunch and dinner, rest-day cover, a public holiday at full house. The type of hour matters as much as the number of them, and getting the type wrong is underpayment.
Casual staff churn
The person who worked three shifts last month may not be back this month. If onboarding a casual takes a week of paperwork, the roster wins and compliance loses.
Staff up for the season without payroll becoming the constraint.
How it works
How does casual payroll work?
Four steps, from the gate to a compliant payslip.
- 1
Capture the attendance
Hours come in by manual entry, QR code, biometric or geofence — whatever suits the gate, the field or the site. Hours are computed automatically rather than transcribed from a notebook.
- 2
Hold the wage floor
Minimum-wage floors apply by region and job category, not as one national number. Anything below the applicable floor is flagged before you pay it, not after an inspection.
- 3
Rate the hours
Overtime is computed by type — weekday, rest-day and public-holiday hours each pay at their own rate, across the whole crew, without anyone doing it by hand.
- 4
Tax it correctly
Sub-monthly earnings get sub-monthly PAYE, with prorated relief and below-threshold exemption. Fixed-fee task workers get withholding tax — resident or non-resident — with the certificate issued automatically.
What you get
What you get for casual and gig teams
Everything below is in the product today. Casuals run on the same payroll as salaried staff — same run, same statutory return, same filing.
See pricing- Two models — timesheet-based casuals and fixed-fee task/gig workers
- Attendance via manual entry, QR code, biometric or geofence, with automatic hours
- Overtime computed by type — weekday, rest-day and holiday rates
- Minimum-wage enforcement with region and job-category floors, and below-minimum flagging
- Sub-monthly PAYE handling with prorated relief and below-threshold exemption
- Task workers: staged payments, resident and non-resident withholding tax with automatic certificates
Every market you operate in
Casual teams in more than one country?
Minimum-wage floors and sub-monthly PAYE are maintained per market. Every worker is paid against their own country’s rules.
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Questions
Hotels, restaurants & events: common questions
Can I pay casual shift workers in a hotel or restaurant?
Yes. Casual shift staff run on the same payroll as permanent employees. Capture the shift, rate the hours by type, hold the wage floor, and pay them on the same run and the same statutory return.
How are public-holiday and rest-day shifts rated?
Overtime is computed by type, so rest-day and public-holiday hours are each rated at their own rate rather than folded into a single overtime number. Banqueting and high-season cover are priced correctly without manual work.
How quickly can I onboard event casuals?
A casual is added and can be paid on the next run — there is no separate system or parallel process for shift staff. Attendance capture (QR, biometric or geofence) means their hours are recorded from the first shift.
Is PAYE right for someone who worked a few shifts?
Yes. Sub-monthly earnings get sub-monthly PAYE, with prorated relief and below-threshold exemption applied. Somebody who worked four shifts is not taxed as though they earned a monthly salary.
Run one crew free
Start free, add a single crew, and run one real month — the attendance, the overtime, the wage floor and the PAYE that comes out of it. Compare it against your muster roll before you switch anything.