The office person inheriting payroll
Turn “payroll is part of your role now” into a bounded handoff: the step being learned, the source records, the reviewer and the backup.
Employer-sponsored individual learning
Ordering coming soonA clearer start
to payroll work.
For the person who has just inherited a payroll duty, the finance function adding payroll, or someone exploring a place on the team.
Build an understanding of the cycle, the evidence and the next question to ask. Employer sponsorship supports one person's learning on their own P.A.Y. account.
Three starting points
Different responsibilities.
One useful foundation.
Every learner works through the common core, then chooses the track that fits today's purpose.
A new payroll or finance function
Map the interfaces between the local team and central payroll or finance. Separate a request, a payroll result and an accounting handoff.
An aspiring or new team member
Use fictional work to explore the role, identify an interesting task and choose a realistic next learning step.
Inside the optional 75-minute orientation
Make the work
visible.
The 45-minute common core uses a small fictional pay run to practice a reviewable method. Follow it with one 20-minute track and a 10-minute closing review.
Includes a learner guide, fictional inputs, a comparison worksheet and a separate worked solution for licensed self-study. The orientation uses non-scored practice and reflection.
- 1Start with the job you are learning5 min
- 2Map the cycle before touching the numbers10 min
- 3Separate the source from the screen10 min
- 4Trace a small fictional run15 min
- 5Turn an exception into a useful handoff5 min
One license / Two learning experiences
Choose your starting point.
The Quick Start is an optional orientation alongside the full Foundations level. Its 75 minutes are not added as mandatory course time.
Existing Level 1
Payroll Foundations
5 lessons · 83 min
Estimated full-level study time.
- Follow the payroll cycle.
- Set up an employee with evidence.
- Understand hours and earnings.
- Separate deductions and taxable wages.
- Review and explain a paycheck.
The level keeps its existing lesson assessments, final and mastery requirements.
Optional companion
Payroll Foundations Quick Start
45 + 20 + 10 = 75 min
Estimated orientation pacing.
- One 45-minute common core.
- One chosen 20-minute workplace track.
- A 10-minute reflection and next step.
- Fictional practice and a licensed self-study solution.
- A separate public, free manager planning guide.
Use the closing review to choose a concrete next learning step. The level’s own assessment requirements continue to apply.
Both are covered by the same $79 USD one-time Foundations edition license for one named learner.
Plan individual learning
Sponsor the person
doing the learning.
$79USD / named learner
Ordering coming soon. A free P.A.Y. account and a current Foundations license are required to open the protected learner materials.
One learner. Their own account.
Each learner uses their own P.A.Y. account and individual Foundations license. Employer funding supports that person’s learning. Ordering details will be available when checkout opens.
Use the free manager guide to agree a purpose, reviewer and next activity. It gives the manager and learner a shared starting point for a useful learning conversation.
Current license and assessment rules continue to apply. Review the Academy and employer license terms.
Planning questions? Email Rob.
Public / Free to read
Make the handoff part of the learning.
A separate 15-minute manager guide: 5 minutes before the session, 10 minutes after it. Set the purpose, support a conversation and agree the next step.
Educational, non-scored orientation practice. Actual work assignments and access follow the employer’s own supervised process.