SCHADS payroll calculated from the roster.
Parkway pays support workers under the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award (MA000100) from the same shifts you rostered and billed. Penalty rates, overtime, broken shifts, sleepovers and public holidays are worked out shift by shift, and a person approves every finding before it touches a pay run.
An award engine built for disability support
Each worker carries a SCHADS classification and pay point. Parkway applies Saturday, Sunday and public holiday penalties, overtime, minimum engagement, broken shift and sleepover rules to every rostered shift, and costs the shift at roster time so the pay figure and the billed figure come from one record.
- Classification levels and pay points per worker
- Weekend, public holiday, overtime and minimum engagement rules
- Broken shifts and sleepovers handled as SCHADS defines them
Checked against Fair Work, every wage review
The engine compares its rates and allowances with the Fair Work Commission's Modern Awards Pay Database for MA000100 and reports any drift. The July annual wage review becomes a check you can see, not a hand edit nobody verifies.
- Live comparison with the FWC pay database
- Drift reported by classification and allowance
- Advisory report, so a person confirms each rate change
Findings are prompts, never silent changes
When Parkway spots a pay issue, such as a missed penalty or a shift that crosses into overtime, it raises a finding for the payroll officer. Nothing changes a pay run on its own. That is how payroll stays auditable when the award is this detailed.
- Every finding shows the shift and the rule behind it
- Approved by a person before pay changes
From pay run to the bank
Parkway builds payslips, PAYG withholding and leave balances, and either sends the pay run to Xero Payroll as draft payslips with earnings, PAYG and super, or produces an ABA bank file itself. Kilometres logged on shift are paid once per trip, even when a trip serves two participants.
- Payslips, PAYG and leave accrual
- Draft payslips sent to Xero Payroll
- ABA file export for direct bank upload
SCHADS payroll software: straight answers
Which award does Parkway support?
The Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS, MA000100), which covers most disability support workers in Australia.
Does Parkway replace Xero Payroll?
It can sit in front of it or beside it. Parkway calculates the pay run from the roster and sends draft payslips to Xero Payroll, or produces payslips and an ABA bank file without Xero.
How does it handle the July wage review?
Parkway checks its SCHADS figures against the Fair Work Commission's pay database for MA000100 and reports every difference, so the new rates are confirmed before the first pay run after 1 July.
Can Parkway change someone's pay automatically?
No. Pay findings are prompts. A payroll officer approves each one before it changes a pay run.
How much does Parkway cost?
Pricing is set after the pilot. Pilot providers run the full platform now with the Parkway team beside them, and places are offered from the waitlist.
Read how it works in the Parkways manual
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The same platform also runs
Checked against the live product on 16 October 2026.
Built inside a registered NDIS provider
Parcare Lifestyle runs its rosters, pay and claims on Parkway every day. A limited number of other providers are piloting it now.