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Microkeeper sends each pay run to Reckon as an invoice, with its wages, super and PAYG withholding against your Reckon accounts.

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Required accessSettings to connect and sync, and Report and Payroll to send pay runs

This guide covers how to:

  1. Connect an ABN to your Reckon book.
  2. Sync your Reckon accounts and Classifications.
  3. Send a pay run to Reckon.

Before you connect Reckon

Set the ABN's accounting system to Reckon. See Choose the accounting system for each ABN.

Connect an ABN to your Reckon book

  1. Navigate to Menu > Settings > General > Global, then click ABN and Pay Cycles.
  2. On the ABN, click Connect to Reckon.
  3. Sign in to Reckon and allow Microkeeper access.
  4. If your Reckon login has more than one book, choose it in Select Organisation and click Connect.

Reckon's Sign In screen, with Username/User ID and Password, and Sign in with Office 365 or Google

The ABN then shows the book's name beside the Reckon logo. Connect to Reckon is also on the ABN's Chart of Accounts and on a pay run's 3. Export. Each ABN connects to one book.

Sync your Reckon accounts and Classifications

  1. Open the ABN's Chart of Accounts, from ABN and Pay Cycles.
  2. Click the Reckon button with the cog.
  3. Click Sync Accounts to bring in your Reckon accounts.
  4. If you use Classifications, click Sync Tracking.

The Reckon window on the Chart of Accounts, with Sync Accounts, Sync Tracking and Delete All

Sync again whenever you add, rename or remove an account or Classification in Reckon. See Sync accounts from Xero or Reckon.

Send a pay run to Reckon

  1. Navigate to Menu > Payroll > Payruns and open the pay run.
  2. Click Complete Payrun, then 3. Export.
  3. Check each line's Description, Account and Classification, and click Save Settings if you change anything. See Map each pay run line to an account.
  4. Click Send to Reckon.

Microkeeper shows a message with a link to the invoice in Reckon.

The payroll invoice in Reckon

  • Customer: Microkeeper, which is added to your book the first time you send.
  • Reference: Payrun-MK-PayCycle-, then the pay cycle's ID and the pay period, such as Year 2026 - Run 49.
  • Date: the pay run's Payment Date.

To change an invoice, correct the mapping or the pay run, then click Send to Reckon again. Microkeeper finds the invoice by its reference and updates it, rather than adding another.

Reckon troubleshooting

Why does Microkeeper say my Reckon connection has expired?

Open the ABN's Chart of Accounts, click Disconnect, then Connect to Reckon and sign in again.

Why does Microkeeper say it could not find a name for an account code?

An account was renamed or removed in Reckon since you last synced. Open the Chart of Accounts, click the Reckon button, then Sync Accounts, and check the mapping on 3. Export.

Why does sending to Reckon say to check writing permissions?

Microkeeper couldn't add the Microkeeper customer to your book. Check the Reckon login that connected Microkeeper can add customers and invoices, then send again.

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