Comparison
Tanda 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.
Tanda
Award covered shift industries
- Retail, hospitality, aged care, manufacturing and other award covered shift work.
- Rostering, wage cost forecasting and timesheet approval at scale.
- Businesses whose pay rules come mainly from a published modern award.
- Teams comfortable configuring and maintaining interpretation rules themselves.
Project Payroll CrewTime
Enterprise agreement construction payroll
- Builders paying under a bespoke enterprise agreement with multi year rate steps.
- Minimum weekly super floors, RDO banking and site allowance schedules.
- Crews splitting a day across jobs, with labour posting to cost codes.
- Businesses who want the agreement build and its upkeep handed over, not handed back.
Compared
Tanda and Project Payroll CrewTime, capability by capability
Built for construction sites
- Tanda
- Built for shift based workforces across several industries
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Built for site work: multiple jobs a day, sheds, gates and crews
EBA (not just award) interpretation
- Tanda
- Strong modern award interpretation. For complex agreement specific questions, independent reviews report mixed experiences with interpretation support
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- We encode your agreement: minimum weekly super floors, multi year rate steps, RDO banking and site allowance schedules, then test it against synthetic pay runs before go live
Multi job days with cost codes
- Tanda
- Timesheets against locations and teams
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- A single day splits across jobs, each block carries its cost code
Condition flags for site allowances
- Tanda
- Allowances configured from shift and award rules
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Worker flags, foreman confirms, rules engine prices height, confined space, wet weather and travel
Offline first punch
- Tanda
- Time clock built around connected sites and tablets
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Punch works with zero signal and queues until coverage returns
Kiosk mode
- Tanda
- Tablet time clock available
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Site Sheet kiosk designed for flat batteries and shared devices
RCTI for labour hire
- Tanda
- Not part of the product
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Labour hire worker type with recipient created tax invoices from captured hours
Payroll included end to end
- Tanda
- Time and attendance with payroll exported onward
- Project Payroll CrewTime
- Capture, interpretation, pay run, STP and super with wages in one chain
Tanda does award interpretation well. The difference is scope: an award is published and shared, your enterprise agreement is not, and someone has to read it, build it and prove it before a pay run relies on it.
Where we are different
What construction native actually means
Your agreement, clause by clause
We read the instrument you actually pay under, build each clause in the engine, and document how it was interpreted so it can be checked later.
Proven before go live
Synthetic pay runs and a full parallel run compared line by line means the rules are tested against real scenarios, not discovered in week three.
RDO banking and rate steps
RDO calendars, banked days, shutdown periods and multi year rate steps are read from the agreement, so balances and increases arrive without a diary reminder.
Labour lands on the job
Every pay line carries a cost code, so job costing sees real labour the same week rather than a reconstruction at month end.
More on the capture side in CrewTime, the pay rules in the EBA knowledge hub and the numbers on pricing.
Tanda comparison questions
Does Tanda handle enterprise agreements?
Tanda supports award interpretation strongly and can be configured for agreement rules. For bespoke construction agreements, independent reviews report mixed experiences with support on complex interpretation questions, which is the work we take on for you.
Is Tanda a bad choice?
No. It is built for different environments: award covered shift industries where rostering and wage cost control are the hard problems. Construction agreements shift the hard problem to interpretation and job costing.
Who maintains the pay rules over time?
We do. When rates step up or the agreement is replaced, we rebuild and verify the rules and tell you what changed.
Can we move mid year?
Yes. Mid year switches are routine, including STP2 continuity, leave balances and long service leave snapshots.
What about payday super?
Super pays with wages in the same run, which is what payday super expects, including Cbus and Incolink.
Reviewed August 2026. Comparison based on publicly available information.
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