~$1bn
Combined Woolworths + Coles underpayment remediation. Even the largest, best-resourced employers lost it in the seams between systems — rule errors repeated cycle after cycle.
Smartta
Partners
Running an all-in-one? Keep the simplicity — lose the blind spots.
Consolidating onto one platform is good judgment — fewer vendors, fewer logins, fewer places for data to disagree. But one platform, on its own, only gets you halfway. Smartta is the other half: it keeps your clients compliant across the seams a suite can't absorb.
Works with Workday, UKG, Deel, Deputy, Humanforce — we complement, never replace.
The handoffs, governed
Between your systems — today
✓
Pass
Pay vs award
Checked before payday
!
Flag
Credential vs registry
Flagged before the shift
×
Hold
Offer vs payroll setup
Held before the first run
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Kept
Every decision
One receipt, kept outside your platforms
The suite proves what happens inside it. Smartta proves what happens between them.
Nothing gets replaced. Your consolidation plan proceeds exactly as it was.
Your instinct is right
Consolidate. Genuinely.
Moving payroll, HR, onboarding, and time onto one platform is good judgment, not naivety. Fewer vendors, fewer logins, fewer places for data to disagree. Do it wherever you can.
We mean it — we've told businesses evaluating us to buy the suite instead, by name, in writing, when consolidation alone covered them. If that's you, this page ends early and saves you money.
The part nobody mentions
The platform keeps its promise — for the systems it's allowed to absorb.
In a care or complex-workforce business, some systems can't move in. The government's screening registries stay the government's. The clinical and care-rostering system stays specialist software. The agency runs its own platform. And if you ever buy another business, you inherit their "one platform" too.
The villain isn't the platform — it's good software. The villain is the handoff: every place work crosses between the platform and the systems it can't absorb, carried by a person remembering.
10 yrs
Intentional underpayment became a criminal offence in January 2025. "The platform was supposed to check that" is not a defence — and it can't check systems it doesn't contain.
$44.6m
Recovered by the Fair Work Ombudsman in nine months of 2025–26 across health & social. Enforcement is live, not theoretical.
7 vs 5
Years your records must survive vs years platforms typically last. Consolidating is itself a system change that can strand your history.
The plan
Three steps to the version you actually wanted.
1
Consolidate what can move
Pick the suite and migrate payroll, HR, onboarding, and time. We'll pressure-test the shortlist with you — no horse in the race.
2
List what's left
The registries, the care system, the agency portals, the second jurisdiction, the business you acquired: the map of where risk lives.
3
Govern the handoffs
Smartta checks every decision crossing between the platform and the leftovers — pass, flag, or hold — and writes the receipt.
Most checks pass silently. The simple version of your business is supposed to feel simple.
Where we come in
We don't replace your platform. We cover its blind side.
Smartta sits across whatever your stack ends up being — the platform you consolidate onto and the leftovers it can't absorb — and does the one job no platform can do for itself: checks every decision that crosses a handoff, independently, and keeps the receipt.
122+
Modern Awards encoded as executable, expert-validated rules — the maths checked every cycle, every worker.
2nd opinion
Independent by design — a platform can't audit itself. The check that counts when the question is whether the platform got it right.
1 receipt
Per decision: who, why, what data, which rule — kept outside your platforms, so it survives every migration.
0 rip-outs
Nothing gets replaced. Your consolidation plan proceeds exactly as it was.
Two endings
The same consolidation project, two years later.
Consolidated — and still exposed
- The platform runs beautifully; the handoffs still run on people remembering.
- A mis-keyed rate pays slightly wrong every cycle until it's a remediation program.
- An expired registration is found after the shifts were worked and paid.
- "Why was this allowed?" takes weeks of exports — and the old system's history is gone.
Consolidated — and covered
- Fewer systems and every handoff checked — the simplicity you actually ordered.
- Pay independently verified against the award before payday, every worker, every cycle.
- Credentials checked before the shift, expiries flagged a month out.
- Every decision carries a receipt that outlives every platform you'll ever migrate off.
Co-sell
Are you a platform?
Partner with Smartta to keep your clients compliant across the seams your suite can't reach. We complement your platform, name you as an integration, and never compete for the modules you own.
Step two takes twenty minutes
Bring your list of systems.
In one 30-minute session we'll cross off what your platform absorbs, map the handoffs in what's left, and tell you honestly if consolidation alone covers you.
Figures cited from public sources: Woolworths and Coles underpayment remediation (Federal Court proceedings); Fair Work Ombudsman recoveries (2025–26); criminal wage theft under the Fair Work Act from 1 January 2025. General information, not legal advice.