Why does KiwiSheets exist?
Most Excel templates online are built for the United States market: dates in MM/DD/YYYY, amounts in dollars, sales tax instead of GST, and columns that do not match anything a New Zealand business actually uses.
So you end up spending half an afternoon rebuilding it anyway.
KiwiSheets does the opposite: Every template is made from the start for New Zealand — GST at 15%, NZD, fields for an IRD or GST number, DD/MM/YYYY dates and references to the rules that actually apply here. Download, open, and get going.
The people behind the templates
Hannah Mitchell
Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ)
Hannah is a New Zealand chartered accountant who has worked with small businesses and sole traders for over a decade. She checks that every accounting, GST and payroll template lines up with IRD requirements, the 31 March balance date and KiwiSaver — so the numbers hold up when your accountant looks at them.
Tama Reweti
Spreadsheet specialist
Tama builds and tests the spreadsheets themselves. He makes sure the formulas work, the layout prints cleanly, and the file opens correctly in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice — on Windows and Mac. If a template can break, he tries to break it before you ever download it.
How we work
New Zealand from the first cell
Dates in DD/MM/YYYY, amounts in NZD, GST at 15%, room for an IRD or GST number. Accounting templates keep the IRD and the 31 March balance date in mind; payroll templates keep KiwiSaver and the Holidays Act in view.
Tested before it goes up
Every file is opened and checked before it is published: do the formulas work, do the totals add up, does it look tidy on print? We would rather have fewer templates that work than a hundred half-finished ones.
Free, no asterisk
No fine print. The file you download is the whole file — every tab, formula and function. Ads on the site pay the bill, not your contact details.
Users decide what comes next
When several people ask for the same kind of template, it jumps to the top of the list. The best ideas come from people standing in front of a real problem.
Who uses the templates?
Our templates are downloaded by everyone from sole traders to clubs and teams inside larger organisations. Typically:
- Sole traders and contractors — invoices, mileage logs, GST overviews and budgets, without buying accounting software from day one
- Small businesses — rosters, stock control, cashflow budgets and timesheets, ready to share with the accountant
- Clubs and volunteers — membership lists, subs tracking, event budgets and receipt summaries
- Households — home budgets, savings goals, mortgage overviews and planning anything from a wedding to a move
What they all have in common: they would rather not spend an evening setting up a spreadsheet. We have done that for them.
Missing a template?
Tell us what you are after, or report a mistake in a file. Specific requests from users are the first thing we look at when planning new templates.