Kristal Young, like many of the thousands of others in yellow vests who handed out for the party at polling booths across NSW on Saturday, responded to a flyer in the mail about a month out from the election. She was promised $330 for the day and a generous bonus if the party's vote topped 5 or 10 per cent.

The party's bill for its labour could hit nearly $1 million. Its lead candidate, Peter Jones, says up to 3000 people handed out how-to-vote cards.

But Ms Young, from Sydney's northern beaches, has not yet been paid and is beginning to fear she won't be.

"It's all been very faceless," she said. "I haven't spoken to a single person. It's weird."

A Facebook group with disgruntled employees complaining about payment had attracted about 70 members on Tuesday.

Ms Young says she began questioning her arrangement with the party on polling day.

No one seemed to show up to ensure that work had been done. Nor had she provided a tax file number or bank account details as one usually would for an employer.

Mr Jones, whose mobile phone redirected to a voicemail message assuring employees they would be paid, declined to say where the party would find the money to pay employees.

"We're doing it [payment] now," he wrote in a text message.

One of the party's founding members, Balmain architect Jeff Madden, who quit about six months ago, said the party was then about $50,000 in debt. "Since then they've been spending a lot of money, I don't know how they've got that, or if they do."

An email sent to employees on Tuesday promised payment by April 30. That's 20 days later than employees were initially promised.

Recipients were instructed not to contact the party for a week and warned that being "rude or obnoxious" would result in later payment.

People who "defamed" the party were warned they would not be paid at all. "We'd just love to meet you in court," Mr Jones wrote. He blamed an "unlawful campaign of harassment and intimidation" for payment delays.

The party says it is in the process of establishing a "secure website" to collect employees' payment details.

Like others, Ms Young says she did not originally realise who she had volunteered to work for. The flyer bore no signs of its connection to the micro-party and carried a large picture of the NSW coat of arms. She presumed it was the Electoral Commission.

It directed people to a to a website - electionwork.com.au - which only had a small, one-line acknowledgement in its footer saying it had been authorised by Mr Jones and No Land Tax.

But the payment fallout is not the strangest thing to happen to the party this week.

There has been no sign of its candidate for the seat of Bega, Clyde Robert Archard. Fairfax's Bega District News noted a local man by that name died in World War II. A LinkedIn profile exists for a Sydney chef by the same name.

"I have no idea," Mr Jones said when asked if his candidate was alive. Mr Jones said they had never spoken.

The party has so far secured about 1.8 per cent of the vote in the upper house, or about 3 per cent less than it had hoped for. It is still in contention for the final seat in the legislative council but below the threshold of 4 per cent at which parties qualify for public funding of about $7 per vote. The party has said only workers' bonuses will be affected by a failure to claim public funding.

The party recruited candidates from NSW real estate agents.