How Do I Connect Lightning Payroll To Inland Revenue For Payday Filing?

Lightning Payroll uses an Inland Revenue login and token before it can submit or check Employment Information. This is done from the payday filing screens inside the desktop app.

How to connect

1. Open the payday filing or mailbox screen from Pays.
2. Click Connect to IRD.
3. Your browser will open so you can sign in to myIR and approve access.
4. After the browser page says the token was saved, return to Lightning Payroll and click Check for token.

What the token does

The token is the temporary authorisation Lightning Payroll uses to talk to Inland Revenue on your behalf. You need it before you can submit Employment Information, retrieve returns, or check pending responses.

If no token is found

• Wait a few seconds after approving access in your browser, then click Check for token again.
• Make sure you completed the myIR approval in the browser window that Lightning Payroll opened.
• If you cancelled the browser step, click Connect to IRD again and repeat the login.

Once the token is received, Lightning Payroll will show that the IRD connection is active and you can continue with the submission or mailbox task.