Employment Hero and LoggerIQ, side by side
Employment Hero starts from HR and payroll and sells rostering as an add-on. LoggerIQ starts from rosters and clock entries and includes HR. Here is how the published prices and rules line up.
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What you get, what you pay and who gets billed
The LoggerIQ column is what ships today. The Employment Hero column is what Employment Hero's own pages say, each with a numbered source at the foot of the page. Where they are ahead, the row says so.
| Topic | LoggerIQ | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price and billing | ||
| Published price | US$5 per user per month. Tax included. The same in every country. Free for up to 5 people and 1 site. | HR Essentials A$10 and HR Engage A$14 per employee per month. Payroll plan A$10. HR Elite and Employment Unlimited by quote. GST is extra under their terms. Source 1 |
| What the price includes | IncludedRosters, clock entries and timesheets, award interpretation, leave, kiosk, onboarding, documents, letters and policies with e-signature, expenses and Virtual HR. Payroll is the one thing not in the price. | IncludedHR plans: leave, employee records, documents, onboarding and offboarding, policies. Payroll plan: pay runs and award interpretation. Source 1 |
| What costs extra | IncludedNo add-on modules to unlock what you were shown. Payroll is not in the price. | Costs extraPer employee per month: rostering and time and attendance A$4 (minimum A$40 a month), chat A$2 (minimum A$20), HR advisory A$14, managed payroll A$20, learning and assistance programmes. Source 1 |
| Minimum spend | No minimum monthly invoice | 10 users on every HR and payroll plan, billed on the higher of contracted or active users. Each add-on has its own monthly minimum. Source 1 |
| Who is billed | Billed: workers; kiosk-only workers; managers and admins. Free: pending invites; leavers; auditors. Seats added or removed mid-month are prorated. | Active or pending employees and admins at month end, for sign-ups from 1 December 2025. Source 2 |
| Contract | No lock-in contract: cancel any time to stop the next charge | A minimum term may be agreed, with no cancellation or downgrade during it. After that, month to month with 30 days' notice. Source 2 |
| Free trial | 30-day free trial of Pro. Free for up to 5 people and 1 site. | We could not confirm this from their public pages. |
| Shift work | ||
| Award interpretation | With limits11 modern awards: Hospitality, Retail, Fast Food, Cleaning, Security, Restaurant, Clubs, SCHADS, Hair and Beauty, Aged Care and Nurses. Every pay line names the clause it came from. | IncludedModern award interpretation in the Payroll plan. Award-based roster costing is in the rostering add-on. Source 1 |
| Shared kiosk | IncludedA shared tablet at the site where people clock in with a PIN or card. | Costs extraHero Time Clock, a kiosk or mobile clock, in the rostering add-on. Source 1 |
| HR | ||
| Onboarding and documents | IncludedOnboarding, documents, letters, policies and forms, in the price. | IncludedIncluded in every HR plan. Source 1 |
| E-signature | IncludedBuilt in, typed or drawn, for letters, policies, declarations and forms. Each signature is bound to the exact content signed. | IncludedHR plans track issued and signed HR documents. Source 1 |
| Pay | ||
| Payroll in Australia | Not offeredNot available yet. Approved hours go to Xero as a draft timesheet or out as an import file for MYOB or Employment Hero payroll. | Costs extraThe Payroll plan at A$10 per employee per month or inside Employment Unlimited. Source 1 |
| Platform | ||
| Mobile app | With limitsAn installable web app that works offline and queues clock entries. The native iOS and Android app is built and in testing, not yet in the stores. | IncludedThe Employment Hero Work mobile app. Source 1 |
| Integrations | With limitsXero and QuickBooks Online, payroll import files, single sign-on and badge readers. A short list, kept working. | IncludedA public integrations directory. Source 3 |
| Where the data is held | Records stored in Australia. Some processing, including AI, runs overseas; see the trust page. | We could not confirm this from their public pages. |
The honest read
Where Employment Hero is ahead, where LoggerIQ is and why.
Employment Hero is broader on HR and payroll. Its Payroll plan runs unlimited pay runs with award interpretation, it offers an HR advisory service, learning and an employee assistance programme. Its Employment Hero Work app is in the stores. LoggerIQ does not run Australian payroll yet and has no HR advisory service.
For a roster-led team the shape of the bill matters. Rostering, time clocks and timesheets are an add-on with a monthly minimum, every HR and payroll plan has a 10-user minimum. People still pending count as billable at month end. A minimum term can be agreed and the plan cannot be downgraded during it.
The two also work together: LoggerIQ writes approved hours as an Employment Hero timesheet import file, so a business can roster and approve hours in LoggerIQ and keep Employment Hero for payroll.
What 25 people cost a month
HR Essentials plus the rostering add-on is the closest match to what LoggerIQ includes. Payroll is left out on both sides; Employment Hero's Payroll plan would add to this.
Who takes a paid seat at LoggerIQ and who does not:
- Workers: billed. Anyone who clocks in, takes a shift or submits a request is a seat.
- Kiosk-only workers: billed. Someone who only ever clocks in at a shared kiosk still counts, because their hours are kept and paid like everyone else's.
- Managers and admins: billed. People who run rosters and approve hours are seats too.
- Pending invites: free. Someone you have invited or imported costs nothing until they accept and join.
- Leavers: free. When someone leaves, their seat stops. Their records stay, at no charge, for as long as the law asks you to keep them.
- Auditors: free. Read-only access with an end date for your auditor costs nothing.
- Everyone on the team
- 25 users × US$5US$125
- Tax
- IncludedUS$0
- A month
- US$125
Tax included: nothing is added at checkout. See pricing
- HR Essentials
- 25 employees × A$10A$250
- Rostering and time and attendance
- 25 employees × A$4A$100
- GST at 10%
- AddedA$35
- A month
- A$385
Fees are exclusive of GST under the platform terms, so 10% GST is added. Source 1
We do not convert between currencies: exchange rates move and each bill is charged in the currency shown. Compare at the day’s rate.
Sources
Every Employment Hero fact on this page, with the page it came from and the day we read it. Anything we could not confirm is left out.
Employment Hero is a trademark of its owner. LoggerIQ is not affiliated with or endorsed by it. Found something out of date? Tell us at support@loggeriq.io and we will correct it.
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Free for up to 5 people and 1 site. Pro is US$5 per user per month, tax included, with every feature except payroll and a 30-day free trial.
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