HR and compliance for Australian businesses

Compliance you can prove.

Checks that stop work when they lapse. Pay worked out from the award for hospitality, fast food and retail. Contracts that can't change after they're issued. And a dated record of all of it — so when a Fair Work inspector or a parent asks, you can show them.

Award pay built in for cafés, restaurants, fast food & retail · compliance for any industry
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safeguards held back for a higher plan
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expiry alerts: 30 days out, 7 days out, on the day
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Modern Awards, every adult rate tested to the cent
$0
setup fee, month to month
Why cink

What prove it looks like

Four things cink does for you, and the record each one leaves behind.

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Lapsed checks stop work
Every plan
You choose which documents stop work — a Working with Children Check, an RSA, a licence. The day one lapses, the employee, HR and their managers are told. With rostering, they can't be put on a shift or clock in until it's renewed. A manager can override the roster, but never quietly.
On the record
The date they stopped being cleared, the notices sent, and every roster override with the manager who made it.
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Pay checked against the award's own tables
4 Modern Awards pre-loaded
For the Hospitality, Fast Food, Restaurant and General Retail awards, every hour is priced by when it was worked — penalties, evening and night loadings, overtime tiers, junior rates and minimum engagement. Every adult rate is tested to the cent against the award's own summary of rates, on every change we ship.
On the record
A pay rate below the award needs a reason before it's saved. Approved hours that fall short with no reason stop at the payroll export until HR confirms them.
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Contracts that can't change after they're issued
Every plan
Each contract is fingerprinted the moment it's issued. If the document is altered before it's signed, cink refuses the signature and logs the attempt. Signing captures the employee's typed name, their confirmation they read it, and their consent to sign electronically.
On the record
The issued and signed fingerprints, the signature with its time and IP address, and the signing in the audit log.
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Under-18s need a verified guardian
On every plan, never gated
Hiring school-age staff is where compliance gets serious. If any date of birth on file puts someone under 18, onboarding can't complete until a parent or guardian consents — and the guardian's email is verified with its own one-time code, not ticked by whoever is holding the phone.
On the record
Both declared dates of birth, how HR resolved any mismatch, and a consent that can only be corrected through HR, never overwritten.

Behind all four is an audit log your owner and HR managers can open on any plan: pay-rate changes, overrides, signatures, and every email and notification cink sends.

What's in cink

From hire to pay run, in one place.

Onboarding, compliance and contracts are on every plan — we never gate a legal or child-safety safeguard by price. Rostering, timesheets and payroll come with the plan you pick, never as a per-employee surcharge on top.

Direct payroll sync is live for Xero today. MYOB is in development, and timesheets export as CSV for any other payroll system.

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Smart Onboarding
Roster managers onboard new staff in two steps — use a template plus start date. Tax, bank, contract and compliance docs handled automatically.
Tax & bank details encrypted
Onboarding form pre-filled from a role template
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Your Document Types
Start from a preset for hospitality, retail, childcare, community services or allied health, then add your own. You decide which documents expire, which need re-checking on a cycle, and which stop someone working.
Every plan
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Rostering & Shifts
Build weekly rosters by location. 24-hour short-notice warnings. Employees confirm shifts and request swaps directly in the app.
Shift swaps
Weekly roster with shift cost and hours summary
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Timesheets
Auto-created when you publish a roster. Hours arrive by clock-in, by the employee, or entered by a manager — and we record which, so an untouched copy of the schedule never gets mistaken for a verified one. Review only the exceptions; the rest bulk-approve.
Payroll export
Timesheet review queue with scheduled vs actual variance
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Award Interpretation
Weekend and public-holiday penalties, evening and night loadings, daily and weekly overtime at the award's tiers, junior rates by age at the shift date and minimum engagement — every hour priced by when it was worked, worked out from the employee's award and their location's timezone, then exported to payroll on the right earnings line instead of flattened into one.
4 Modern Awards pre-loaded
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Contracts & Policies
Reusable contract templates with digital signatures. Policy acknowledgements and learning resources with re-certification reminders. HR Professional approval workflow built in.
Digital signatures
Employment contract review and digital signature pad
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Position Descriptions
Attach a PD to each role template — fill in a structured form or upload your existing PDF. Snapshots are captured at hire so role history is always accurate.
Version controlled
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Clock In & Out
A shared tablet at the door works as a kiosk — staff tap their shift and enter a PIN — or they clock themselves in from their own phone. Real elapsed time flows straight into the timesheet, so what you pay matches what was worked.
No extra hardware
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Bring Your Team Across
Already have thirty people on the books? Import them from a spreadsheet. You get a dry run showing exactly what will happen to every row before anything is written, and invites go out in one batch when you're happy.
No re-keying
The perfect tool for ever-evolving teams.

Built for industries that never stop

Award rates, compliance expiry dates and rosters that turn over every week — the parts of your business that repeat constantly are the parts that can't afford a mistake. Those are the ones we handle.

The first four have their Modern Award pre-loaded, with penalty, overtime and junior rates calculated for you — MA000009 Hospitality, MA000003 Fast Food, MA000119 Restaurant and MA000004 General Retail. NFPs and community services get volunteer management, compliance tracking and program reporting; cink doesn't calculate SCHADS pay — hours go to your payroll system, which applies the award.

Everything outside onboarding and compliance works the same way whatever you do — but we'd rather tell you up front that we don't yet hold the award for your industry than have you find out at your first pay run. If yours isn't listed, talk to us: adding an award is data entry, not development, and we add them on request.

From hire to payroll

The whole employee lifecycle

Every step from the moment you hire someone to their first pay run, in one place.

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Onboard
Select role template. Employee gets email with steps.
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Sign & Comply
Contract signed, compliance docs uploaded, policies acknowledged.
3
Roster
Build weekly shifts. Employees confirm. Swaps managed in-app.
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Timesheet
Employees submit actual hours. Manager reviews and approves.
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Pay
Export approved timesheets to your payroll system. Done.
No lock-in

Month to month. Never per employee.

One flat monthly fee covers every active employee up to your plan's limit — staff turnover doesn't change your bill. Stay because it works, not because a contract says so.

No Frills
$49
/ month · onboarding & compliance
Up to 20 active employees · 1 site
  • Full onboarding with email notifications
  • Contracts & digital signatures
  • Compliance catalogue with expiry & re-verification tracking
  • Guardian consent & under-18 safeguards
  • Policies, learning & acknowledgement tracking
  • Position descriptions
  • Leave management
  • No setup fee, no lock-in contract

Rostering and timesheets start at Starter.

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Starter
$69
/ month · onboarding, compliance & rostering
Up to 20 active employees · 1 site
  • Everything in No Frills
  • Rostering, shifts & shift swaps
  • Timesheets, approvals & call-in-sick cover
  • Coverage heatmap by day and hour

Payroll export starts at Growth.

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Business
$179
/ month · all inclusive
Up to 150 active employees · up to 10 sites
  • Everything in Growth
  • Multi-rate payroll export (penalty & overtime lines)
  • Workforce planning (staffing baselines, labour %)
  • Structured offboarding & performance records
  • Priority support
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🤝 Not-for-profit discount: registered not-for-profits (ACNC registration required) get 20% off any plan above, plus volunteer management & volunteer rostering, and volunteers never count toward your employee limit. Talk to us to get set up.

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