Timelines vary depending on your setup, but most standard implementations take 6 to 10 weeks from payment. That covers a full implementation, including discovery to understand how your business runs and tailoring your file to match your exact pay conditions.

If you're eligible for a micro implementation, you could be up and running in around 3 weeks. These skip the discovery and testing stages because they're closer to a ready-to-go setup, so they suit providers with simpler, more standard requirements. Need to move faster than that? Chat with our sales team about your timeline and they'll let you know what's possible.

Plenty of payroll platforms say they handle the SCHADS Award. Ours is the only one built on a template that's actually been independently tested and reviewed by SCHADS experts, not just built to a spec and shipped. That's because our team lives and breathes the Award: we're SCHADS specialists first and payroll people second, so we understand exactly how sleepover shifts, broken shifts and classification levels should play out in a pay run. It's a big part of why over 500 businesses trust Pay Cat to pay more than 30,000 employees, and counting.

Switching feels bigger than it is, but staying costs you more: hours every pay run manually checking shift rates and classifications, plus the compliance risk if you get it wrong. Businesses that switch to Pay Cat have cut time spent per pay run by up to 90 percent, because our software automates the SCHADS interpretation itself, no manual inputs required.