Pay Cat

The Pay Cat integration connects Astalty to your payroll so approved timesheets flow straight through, without exporting and importing CSV files by hand.

What it does

• Sync timesheet batches directly to Pay Cat, or export them as a compatible CSV.
• Map pay groups so each shift is paid at the right rate — including per-shift pay group overrides.
• Map cost codes to Pay Cat locations so wages are split across your business.
• Sync approved leave into payroll, creating a matching leave application automatically.
• Configure sleepover shift export behaviour to match your payroll requirements.

How it works

Once connected and configured, the integration is driven from your timesheet batches. When you export or sync a batch, Astalty pushes each timesheet line to Pay Cat using the pay group (and any cost code) attached to the shift. Leave approved in Astalty is created in Pay Cat in the background.

Mappings are set once and then applied on every sync, so day-to-day you simply approve timesheets and send the batch.

Connecting it

Setting up Pay Cat is a two-step process — first choose it as your payroll platform, then connect the integration.

1. Set Pay Cat as your payroll platform. Go to Settings → Scheduling and, under Payroll & Awards, set the Platform to Pay Cat.
2. Connect the integration. Go to Settings → Integrations — the Pay Cat card now appears. Select Connect and follow the prompts to authorise the connection. Once authorised, choose the Pay Cat business Astalty should sync with. See Businesses and employing entities.
3. Configure it. Once connected, select Configure to map your pay groups, cost codes, and leave types, and to set your sleepover export behaviour.

Businesses and employing entities

The business you choose is a payroll file, with its own employees, settings and pay runs. The list contains every business the Pay Cat user who authorised the connection can access, so if a payroll file is missing, that user needs access to it in Pay Cat.

Additional employing entities — extra ABNs that pay some of the employees inside that same payroll file — are never listed there, because Pay Cat assigns each employee to an entity on their own employee record. Once a business is selected, the Pay Cat card lists any additional employing entities inside it, so you can confirm your other entity is already covered.

Pay Cat runs on the same payroll platform as Employment Hero, so Businesses and employing entities there explains this in full.