Partner API
Build Payroll Into Your App
Give your customers full Australian payroll — STP Phase 2, payday super and PAYG included — without building a payroll engine or leaving your product. Our partner API powers co-branded payroll for timeclock, farm-management and industry software platforms today.
What you get as an integration partner
- Your brand on the whole flow: the OAuth sign-in and consent screens render in your colours, logos and styles. Give us your website URL and we pull your CSS — branding setup is a day, not a project.
- Silent sign-in: OAuth 2.0 + JWT with refresh tokens means your customers authorise once, then deep-link straight into payroll from your app with no second login.
- Reseller billing built in: create customers via the API under your reseller account. We bill you at partner rates; your customer sees one product and one bill — yours.
- Webhooks with a head start: event webhooks with delivery/error logs, plus a bundled test web server so you can catch deliveries before you've built your own endpoint.
- A real API console: manage clients, inspect call logs and payloads, and control branding from the API Management screen — no support ticket required.
- Support that stays yours: point in-product help at your own support pages. Your customers stay your customers.
How a partnership works
- Scope the integration — a walkthrough call with the team that built the API (you talk to engineers, not account managers).
- Brand the flow — we pull your site's CSS into the sign-in experience and set your logos and support links.
- Build against the API — OAuth, webhooks, and the console are already battle-tested by existing integrators.
- Sign up customers programmatically — your app calls the customer-create endpoint; each customer lands as a full subscription under your reseller account, billed to you at partner rates.
- Renewals run themselves — subscriptions renew automatically; renewal notices route to you.
Who this is for
Software platforms whose customers run payroll: workforce management and time-and-attendance apps, industry management systems, franchise systems and bookkeeping platforms. If your users export timesheets to a payroll product today, this replaces that hop with payroll inside your app.
Frequently asked questions
Do my customers pay Lightning Payroll directly?
No. With the reseller model we bill you at partner rates and your customer pays you — one product, one bill. A lighter referral model (customers pay us, you earn a referral fee) is also available.
How long does the co-branding take to set up?
About a day. We pull the styles from your existing website into the sign-in flow, then you review.
Is the payroll compliant?
Yes — the same engine thousands of businesses use: Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2, payday super and PAYG withholding for Australia.
Do you support both Australia and New Zealand?
Yes. Both jurisdictions run on the same API, so one integration can serve customers on either side of the Tasman.
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