Licensed software

Software we built, licensed to you

Two enterprise-grade products, written and maintained by Averro, and set up for a fraction of what an enterprise suite costs to implement. Averro Books keeps our own accounts. Averro Roster & Pay takes a team from the clock-in to the payslip. You license them the way larger firms license SAP or Workday: your own deployment and database, hosted in Sydney, looked after by the people who wrote it.

Enterprise-grade payroll

Averro Roster & Pay

From the clock-in to the payslip.

Built first for a Victorian employer with a mix of employees and ABN contractors, and configurable for yours. Staff clock in on their own phones, managers approve what was actually worked, and pay runs with the tax and super already worked out.

  • ✓QR and GPS clock-inStaff scan the code at your site. Location is checked against the site, and anything outside the radius is flagged for review rather than silently blocked.
  • ✓Rosters staff can seeBuild the week with hours and cost shown as you go. Staff see their shifts, and availability and shift swaps come as add-ons.
  • ✓Pay runs you can checkPay profiles hold your weekend, public holiday and overtime rates. Runs are drafted, reviewed and then finalised, with PAYG from the ATO's current scales and super calculated every pay.
  • ✓Employees and contractors, handled apartEmployees get payslips with the content Fair Work requires. ABN contractors get a recipient-created tax invoice where both businesses are GST registered and an RCTI agreement is in place, and a payment statement otherwise.
Built and audited, now taking on its first clients
Enterprise-grade accounting

Averro Books

Double-entry books, with the BAS worked out.

The back office Averro runs its own company on, in production since August 2026. Invoices go out branded and follow themselves up, every figure traces back to the document it came from, and the quarter's BAS is a report rather than a weekend.

  • ✓Invoices that follow upBranded PDF invoices sent from the app, with payment details on every one and reminders on a schedule until they are paid.
  • ✓A real ledgerDouble-entry throughout. Trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet and aged receivables, each figure traceable to its source.
  • ✓GST and BASCash-basis GST with the quarter's G1, 1A and 1B figures ready for lodgement, and lodged periods locked so they cannot drift.
  • ✓Bills, retainers and engagementsSupplier bills, recurring monthly retainers and per-client engagements, in the same books as everything else.
In production at Averro since August 2026, licensed to other businesses by arrangement

How licensing works

You get software that is set up for you and kept current. We keep the code, which is why every client gets each fix and improvement as it ships.

01

Walk-through

We walk your process through the product before anything is signed: a pay cycle on a demo copy of Roster & Pay, or a month of invoicing and the BAS in Averro Books.

Before anything is signed
02

Setup

A one-off setup builds your own deployment and database, loads your staff or opening balances, and configures your business details, pay profiles or chart of accounts.

You approve the setup
03

Go live

We run the first pay cycle or the first month alongside you, then hand over with training for whoever runs it day to day.

You sign off the first run
04

Licence term

A monthly licence scaled to your team, plus hosting, covers updates and support for a fixed first term, and then runs month to month.

Then month to month
Every licence

What comes with it

The same commitments on both products, because they run on the same foundations.

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Deployment
Your own application and database. Nothing is shared with another client
Setup cost
A fraction of what an enterprise suite costs to implement, scoped to the size of your business
Hosting
Sydney data centres, with HTTPS, security headers and certificates managed for you
Sign-in
Password plus an authenticator-app code for every admin, with repeated attempts throttled
Records
Built around the seven years Australian law sets for employee and company records
Your data
Yours throughout. Every pay run exports as CSV and PDF, invoices are PDFs, and a full export of your data is available on request
Updates
Fixes and improvements included for the life of the licence
Support
The team that wrote it, on the same contact as the rest of your IT

Questions buyers ask first

Do we own the software?

No. You license it for a term, the same way businesses license SAP or Workday. Averro owns and maintains the code, which is what lets every client get each fix and improvement. Your records are yours throughout.

Does Roster & Pay lodge Single Touch Payroll?

No. It works out the pay and produces the payslips, then exports each finalised run as a file for your STP-enabled payroll software or your accountant to lodge. Contractor payments sit outside STP anyway. Super is calculated every pay and paid to funds through your usual clearing house.

Can it handle our award?

Pay profiles hold the weekend, public holiday and overtime rates your award or agreement sets, and each worker has their own base rate. Evening or night penalties and allowances go on as manual pay lines, and a shift that crosses midnight is paid at the rate of the day it started. We set the profiles up with you at the start. Which award applies, and whether someone is an employee or a contractor, stays your decision, and we recommend confirming both with your accountant.

What makes it enterprise-grade?

The controls the large suites are bought for: a separate deployment and database for every client, two-factor sign-in for admins, an audit log of sign-ins and key actions, records kept for the seven years Australian law requires, and large automated test suites. Roster & Pay was audited end to end before release. What you do not pay for is the months-long implementation project.

Does Averro Books replace our accountant?

No. It keeps the books properly and produces the BAS figures, so your accountant spends their time reviewing rather than reconstructing. Lodgement stays with you or your registered agent.

Is there a minimum term?

Yes. A licence has a fixed first term, because your deployment is built and configured at the start. After that it runs month to month. Our managed IT plans are separate and have no lock-in.

Where is our data kept?

In Sydney, in a database that belongs to your deployment alone. Nothing is pooled with other clients.

See it running on your numbers

Book a walk-through and we will take your process through either product before anything is signed.