Websites for Melbourne bookkeepers and BAS agents that show which Victorian payroll jobs you take on, from SRO payroll tax returns and WorkSafe remuneration figures to LeavePlus and portable long service returns, and which suburbs you look after, whether that's Footscray, Ringwood or out to Wallan.
Victorian employers often start looking for a bookkeeper with a date bearing down: payroll tax due on the 7th, a WorkSafe deadline for certifying last year's remuneration, or a LeavePlus return nobody has touched since the previous bookkeeper left. Within a minute on your site they want to know whether you handle that job and how you charge for it.
Victorian payroll work runs to a calendar: payroll tax by the 7th of each month, the annual reconciliation by 21 July, portable long service returns every quarter, WorkSafe's premium and certification dates once a year. A short run-down on your payroll page of which of these you look after, and when, says more than a paragraph about attention to detail. We link each date to the agency's own page, so a deadline that moves doesn't leave your site out of date.
A plasterer, electrician or small builder who hires workers for construction or maintenance work in Victoria for more than five days in a calendar month has to register with LeavePlus, the scheme that traded as CoINVEST until 2023. If you prepare those quarterly returns, put both names on the page, since some owners in the industry may still know it by the old one.
Employers in these three industries lodge quarterly returns with Victoria's Portable Long Service Authority, which is easy to leave off a services list. One line saying you prepare them, ideally on a page about the industries you know, lets a commercial cleaning owner or a disability support provider pick you out from a long list of search results.
On the site we built for Dr Tabara Dione, her post-nominals sit right next to her portrait at the top of the home page. A bookkeeper can do the same with a BAS agent number linked to the TPB Register and the bookkeeping body you belong to. If you're not registered, we set the page out so it describes the bookkeeping side only.
Name your own suburb and the council areas your clients come from, then say who you visit and who works with you remotely. A bookkeeper in Box Hill might call on businesses across Whitehorse, Manningham and Monash and handle the rest of Victoria by video. Working from home, you can give the suburb and keep the street off the page.
Plenty of owners want ten minutes on the phone before handing over their file. A button on every page that opens the scheduler you already use, such as Calendly, saves a round of phone tag. For people who'd rather write, a short form asks for industry, number of employees, pay frequency, software and whether any portable long service scheme applies.
National rules, then the SRO. TPB registration for BAS work is the same everywhere, and our main bookkeeper page explains the register, the practitioner symbol and where bookkeeping stops and BAS services start. One entry in the TPB's list matters here: it doesn't count advice on taxes and duties under state or territory law, payroll tax among them, as a BAS service, and the TPB's guidance (opens in a new tab) is worth reading before you word that part of your site. The State Revenue Office lifted the payroll tax-free threshold to $1,000,000 a year, or $83,333 a month, from 1 July 2025, and the standard rate is 4.85%. Employers with Australian taxable wages between $3 million and $5 million get a reduced deduction and those above $5 million get none. Monthly returns are due by the 7th of the following month, nil returns included, there's no June return, and the annual reconciliation has to be lodged and paid by 21 July, with no extensions.
Where Melbourne meets regional Victoria. Employers paying at least 85% of their Victorian taxable wages to regional employees pay 1.2125% instead, and the SRO's list of regional councils cuts across the city's fringe. Mitchell, Macedon Ranges, Moorabool and Greater Geelong are on it; Cardinia, Yarra Ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Melton are not. Mitchell and Cardinia are both among the seven municipalities that take in Melbourne's growth areas, as the SRO lists them, yet Wallan, in Mitchell, sits on the regional side of the line and Pakenham, in Cardinia, doesn't. If your clients run up the Hume corridor or down to Geelong, the towns you list on your site are part of telling owners you know where that line falls. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Melbourne businesses by phone and email, half an hour behind you all year round.
WorkSafe. WorkSafe Victoria says a business employing workers in Victoria generally has to register for WorkCover insurance, unless it has no apprentices and doesn't pay more than $7,500 in remuneration in a financial year. Its key dates for 2026–27 put the average premium rate at 1.8% of rateable remuneration, with a 5% discount for paying the annual premium by 17 August 2026, 3% by 1 October, and 1 November as the due date without a discount. Remuneration for 2025–26 had to be certified by 23 October 2026 for large employers, and small employers have until 19 March 2027. Owners often hand that remuneration figure to their bookkeeper, so if you prepare it, the payroll page should say so.
Two portable long service schemes. The Portable Long Service Authority covers community services, contract cleaning and security. Employers register within three months of starting in the industry, lodge a return each quarter, in October, January, April and July, and pay within 14 days a levy of 1.65% of covered workers' ordinary wages for community services, or 1.80% for cleaning and security. Construction has LeavePlus. Its returns are due 14 days after each quarter ends, even for a quarter with no construction work, and its charge has been 2.7% of ordinary pay since 1 July 2009. From 1 July 2026 repair and maintenance of lifts and escalators also falls under the scheme, first reported on the return due 14 October 2026. If you lodge returns for either scheme, name it in your services list.
Long service leave and young staff. Wage Inspectorate Victoria was renamed Workforce Inspectorate Victoria on 12 December 2025, and it still enforces the Long Service Leave Act 2018 and the Child Employment Act 2003. Under the first, most workers, casuals included, become entitled to long service leave after seven years' continuous employment with one employer, accruing a week for every 60 weeks of service, and are paid any unused leave if they leave after that point. Under the second, an employer usually needs a licence to employ anyone under 15, paid or voluntary, though parents employing their own child in the family business are exempt. Both are questions an employer may put to whoever runs their payroll. If you're comfortable answering them, a sentence on the payroll page with a link to the inspectorate (opens in a new tab) is plenty.
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Coaching for doctors, run by a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist. Her post-nominals appear beside her portrait in the opening section, and every discovery-call button opens the scheduler on her coaching platform. Put your BAS agent number where her qualifications are and a free ten-minute call where her discovery call is, and the layout fits a bookkeeper working alone.
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A family dispute resolution practice in Sydney. Its packages carry their prices on the site and link to online booking, alongside six service pages and a five-step intake form. Monthly bookkeeping, quarterly BAS, and payroll with SRO and LeavePlus returns could be priced and set out the same way; where a fee depends on the state of the books, an enquiry form can stand in for the booking button.
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$399
For a sole bookkeeper: packages, BAS agent number, the suburbs you visit, the Victorian returns you prepare and a call booking button, all on one page.
Suits a practice that runs payroll
$899
A home page, a payroll page setting out your SRO, WorkSafe and portable long service work through the year, and an about page with your registration, software and service area.
$1,499
For a practice with staff: separate pages for BAS, payroll, construction clients, cleaning and community services clients, catch-up work and the team, plus a contact page.
Name the work and link to the SRO and WorkSafe for the figures. The payroll tax threshold rose on 1 July 2025 and WorkSafe's dates shift every year, so a link stays accurate where a copied number goes stale. If you'd still like a date shown, changing it later is a text edit on an existing page, covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
If builders and trades make up a real share of your work, yes. A page in your own words about their BAS, the taxable payments annual report and LeavePlus returns tells a tiler in Epping or a sparky in Frankston that you've done it before. With only a few such clients, a paragraph on the payroll page does the job.
On the 3-page or 8-page site, an area page helps where you visit clients in person: Geelong and the Surf Coast, the south-east growth suburbs, the inner north. Each one names the suburbs, how often you're there and how remote clients work with you. If all your work is remote, a single service-area paragraph is enough.
A free first call is easiest as a button to the scheduler you already use. If you want people to choose a paid catch-up review, book a time and pay in one go, we can build that booking and payment system into your site; it's quoted separately once we know how you want it to work.
By phone and email. Send us your packages, registration details, the suburbs you cover and a photo; we build the draft, send you the link, and you ask for changes until it reads the way you want. Nothing is paid until you approve it. We're 30 minutes behind Melbourne all year and reply within 24 hours.
Send us your packages, the Victorian returns you prepare, your BAS agent number if you have one and the suburbs you cover. We'll quote first, build the draft, and you pay only once you're happy with it.
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