The things people ask before they download.
What is PayCheckup?
An app that checks an Australian payslip against the modern award that covers you. You scan the payslip, answer a few questions about your job once, and it compares what you were paid to what the award says you should have been.
How much does it cost?
Checking a payslip is free, and always will be — so is the letter asking your employer to confirm which award covers you. PayCheckup Plus, for the letters that follow up on something the check found, is AUD $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year through the App Store. There's no free trial: you only subscribe once you've seen what the check found.
How many questions do I have to answer?
Usually three or four — how you're employed, how you're paid, and which state you work in. A couple more only if your situation raises them, like your age if the award has junior rates. You answer them once per job; later payslips just get scanned.
Where does my payslip go?
Nowhere. Your payslip is read on your device and stays there. PayCheckup downloads the award pay data it needs, and sends anonymous counts of which steps people reach so we can see where the app is confusing — no payslip content, no pay figures, nothing that can be linked to you. You can switch that off in Settings.
Does it use AI?
No. Not for the check, not for reading your payslip, not anywhere in the app. Nothing you enter is sent to an AI service, because the app never contacts one. The comparison is arithmetic against the Fair Work Commission's published figures — the same numbers anyone can look up, applied to your payslip.
Is this legal advice?
No. PayCheckup tells you what the published award figures say about your payslip, so you can ask a better question. It helps you put that question to your employer in the right words, and makes sense of what comes back. If you're not happy with the answer, it'll open an email to the Fair Work Ombudsman — free, independent, and with everything you've already said and been told pasted in.
What if my award isn't covered?
It'll tell you up front, at the point you pick your award, rather than after you've entered everything. You'll still get your rate checked against the minimum where we hold it, and a free letter to ask your employer for what's missing.
Who is it for?
Anyone in Australia who gets a payslip and has ever wondered whether it's right — retail and hospitality workers, nurses, warehouse and transport staff, and people on a plain contract with no award at all.
