Tracking categories (also referred to as Cost centres) are used by businesses to generate more detailed payroll journals that split wages and other payroll-related expenses by the specific team(s) employees work across.

Before you can assign values to your teams, create a tracking category type by navigating to Payroll > Settings > Company Setup > Journal Accounts and clicking + Add Tracking Category.

Note: If you use Xero for accounting, this name should match across both systems. Learn more here.

Name the category and click Create.
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Once Tracking Categories have been created, you can then assign values for each team. Click Set options or Edit under Options for each category:

Once you’ve created tracking categories and assigned them to the relevant teams, payroll exports will include the fields on payslip lines.

Tracking categories will appear as a new column on the payroll journal. Wages and super will be split across the relevant tracking categories applied to employee payslips.