Comparison
Aussie Time Sheets vs Project Payroll CrewTime for construction
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Who each one is for
Different tools, built for different environments
Both products are good at what they were designed for. The question is which environment you actually run payroll in.
Aussie Time Sheets
One workplace, one entry point
- A single site, or a small number of fixed sites, where everyone starts and finishes in the same place.
- A wall-mounted clock at a factory door, a workshop bench or a depot gate.
- Businesses that want biometric identity verification at a fixed entry point.
- Teams whose payroll already runs in one of the 70 plus payroll and HR systems PaySync feeds, including Employment Hero.
Project Payroll CrewTime
Multiple sites and moving crews
- Crews who split a day across jobs and cost codes, with no fixed shed to walk past.
- Builders paying under an enterprise agreement sitting on top of the award.
- Site allowances driven by job, location, project value band and condition flags.
- Businesses who want capture and the pay run in one chain, with no export step.
Compared
Aussie Time Sheets and Project Payroll CrewTime, capability by capability
Where the workplace is
- Aussie Time Sheets
- A fixed workplace with a terminal at the entry point. Their published industry list is manufacturing, engineering, agriculture, mining, healthcare and childcare, hospitality, tourism and transport, retail and wholesale, technical, cleaning, and automotive. Construction is not on it
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Six active jobs, hi-vis, gloves, dust and no fixed shed. The phone in the pocket is the terminal
Published list price
- Aussie Time Sheets
- Monthly cloud subscription by headcount band. Gold (Workforce TNA Enterprise): $70 for 1 to 9, $100 for 10 to 19, $150 for 20 to 49, $250 for 50 to 99, contact us for 100 plus. Silver (Workforce TNA Premier): $50, $75, $125, $175. Bronze (uAttend): $28, $48, $84, $134, $170. On the time and attendance line alone this is cheap: at 40 employees Gold is $150 a month, under $4 per employee
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- $15 per employee per month with the payroll engine, the agreement build and CrewTime in the one price
Hardware cost and ownership
- Aussie Time Sheets
- Bought separately: fingerprint clocks from $290, face scan from $475, kiosk tablet $600, biometric terminals $550 to $750. You own it, mount it and maintain it
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- No hardware to buy. Phones the crew already carry, plus an optional shed tablet in kiosk mode
When a crew opens a new job next week
- Aussie Time Sheets
- A new workplace generally means a terminal for it, or workers clocking somewhere they are not
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Create the job, assign the crew, they clock on at the new address the same morning
Enterprise agreement interpretation
- Aussie Time Sheets
- Award rules on the capture side, then export to payroll for the pay calculation
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- We read your specific enterprise agreement clause by clause, build it into the payroll engine and keep it current when rates move
Site allowances by job
- Aussie Time Sheets
- Not part of the product
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Site allowance by project value band, multi-storey by floor, height and confined space by condition flag
Multi job days with cost codes
- Aussie Time Sheets
- One punch in and one punch out at one workplace
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- One day splits across jobs, each block lands on the right cost code
Offline punch
- Aussie Time Sheets
- A wired or wifi terminal at a fixed point
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Clock on with zero signal, queued on the device and synced when coverage returns
RCTI for labour hire
- Aussie Time Sheets
- Not part of the product
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Labour hire worker type with recipient created tax invoices generated from captured hours
Site diary and client docket sign-off
- Aussie Time Sheets
- Not part of the product
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Equipment, works, weather, photos and client sign-off on the same record as the hours, with a docket PDF per job per day
Payroll included end to end
- Aussie Time Sheets
- Time and attendance, with PaySync feeding a separate payroll product
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Capture, interpretation, pay run, STP and super with wages in one chain
We will say the cheap part out loud: as a time and attendance layer their pricing is hard to beat, and at 40 employees Gold works out under $4 per employee per month. The point is what that buys. It is the capture layer, plus hardware capex, and payroll remains a separate product with a separate bill and a reconciliation in between. Competitor figures are Aussie Time Sheets' published list price as at August 2026, AUD excluding GST, and may have changed.
Where we are different
What construction native actually means
The site is the terminal
A terminal works when the workplace does not move. Construction moves, sometimes twice in a day, so capture has to travel with the crew and still know which job and cost code the hours belong to.
Your agreement, built and verified
Award rules configured on the capture side still leave the pay calculation, and the interpretation risk, with you and your payroll product. We read your agreement clause by clause, build it in the engine, and test it against synthetic pay runs before go live.
One vendor, one bill
Software plus hardware plus a payroll product is two vendors, a capex line and a reconciliation. One system removes the reconciliation entirely.
Australian construction obligations
Cbus and Incolink, redundancy fund contributions, RDO calendars, fares and travel, LAFHA and payday super are core, not custom fields added to a time clock.
More on the capture side in CrewTime, the pay rules in the EBA knowledge hub and the numbers on pricing.
Aussie Time Sheets comparison questions
Is Aussie Time Sheets a bad product?
No. They are a long standing Australian specialist with a large customer base, and for a factory, workshop or depot with a fixed entry point they are a sensible and inexpensive choice. Their own published industry list does not include construction, which tells you plainly what they were designed for.
Their subscription looks cheaper than yours. Is it?
On the time and attendance line alone, yes. At 40 employees their Gold plan lists at $150 a month, which is under $4 per employee. That figure covers capture only. Add the hardware, then add a payroll product per employee per month, then add the time someone spends reconciling the two. Our $15 includes the payroll engine, the agreement build and CrewTime.
Do we need to buy hardware with Project Payroll?
No. Crews clock on with the phones they already carry, and an optional shed tablet runs kiosk mode for flat batteries and workers without a phone. There is no terminal to buy or mount.
Can we keep our time clocks and use Project Payroll for pay?
You can, and hours can be brought in from other capture systems. You would still carry a hand off between two systems, which is the thing CrewTime removes.
What does Project Payroll cost?
Pricing is published on our pricing page, per employee per month, plus a one off setup fee per enterprise agreement we read and build.
Reviewed August 2026. Comparison based on publicly available information.
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