Enabling a Council for a Company

Turn on a bargaining council for your company and capture the registration details that council requires.

Before you can enrol employees or generate submissions, you need to enable the council for your company and capture your company's details with that council. This is a once-off setup per company, updated only when your council details change.

Where to set it up

Council setup lives with your company's other payroll details.

1. Navigate to Payroll / Settings / Companies.

2. Open the company you want to set up.

3. Find the Councils section and add the council your company belongs to.

A company can be enrolled in more than one council. Each council is set up separately with its own details.

What you'll capture

Each council asks for its own set of company-level details. In general, this includes:

• Your company's registration or firm number with the council — this identifies your business to the council.

• The shift source — for councils that count shifts, you choose which time & attendance measure represents that council's shifts for your company (for example, an existing measure that already counts qualifying shifts).

• Any council-specific banking details, where the council requires payments to a specific account.

The exact fields differ by council. See the council's own page for the detail:

• BIBC company setup

Company details used across councils

Some details belong to your company as a legal entity — not to a single council — and are captured once on your company record, then reused by every council that needs them. These include your trading name, address, contact person and banking details.

If a council submission needs one of these and it hasn't been captured yet, you'll be prompted to add it on the company record. For where these live, see Employer Information.

After enabling a council

Once a council is enabled for your company:

• The council becomes available when enrolling employees.

• The council's submissions become available in Council Reports & Submissions.

Councils your company is not enrolled in never appear on employee profiles or in the reports area, keeping the screens clean and relevant to your business.