Single Touch Payroll support for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

Your registered BAS or tax agent. We prepare, reconcile and support the numbers behind it; the submission itself is theirs, every time.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for single touch payroll support — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Single Touch Payroll support sits inside payroll operations, alongside Payroll processing, Contractor payments, Super guarantee processing. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

We match the gross pay, PAYG withholding and superannuation figures each STP report is built from to what's booked in the payroll clearing account and general ledger, income type by income type, before your registered agent reviews the event. A mismatch is flagged against that event, not found in a year-end pile.

There's no amended-return process. STP corrects forward, through an update event or the next regular run that restates the year-to-date total. We log every correction against the event it repairs and reconcile the restated figure to the ledger.

From 1 July 2026, the super guarantee obligation is tied to the individual payday, not the quarter. We now reconcile the super figure against the ledger on the same per-event cadence as gross and withholding.

No — 14 July for most employers, 30 September for a business whose only employees are closely held payees. We flag which deadline applies at setup so the reconciliation is timed to the date that governs.

All three. We tie gross pay, PAYG withholding and super to the ledger every event, and flag where a super figure looks inconsistent with the earnings it's calculated from, without setting the OTE determination ourselves.

By checking the category mapping every pay event against the chart of accounts, so a miscoded category surfaces at the second or third run, not the fiftieth.

An update event corrects a figure mid-year and restates the year-to-date total. Finalisation, due 14 July or 30 September for closely held payees, confirms the full year is complete and ready to pre-fill tax returns.

Yes — reconciled against FBT calculations and super contribution reports as they accrue, because both feed into finalisation and an employee's tax return.

We track it every cycle and itemise whatever's left rather than carry it forward unexplained — usually the first sign an STP event and its ledger entry have parted ways.

We reconcile the software's figure against what's booked and flag inconsistencies with reported earnings. Confirming a shortfall is your registered agent's determination, not ours.

No. Running the pay cycle is a separate function, done by you or your payroll provider. We start once an event is prepared, tying its figures to the ledger before it goes to your registered agent for review and transmission.

No. We don't lodge STP events, don't ascertain a BAS position, and don't contact the ATO. Every reconciled figure is handed to your registered BAS or tax agent, who reviews and transmits it.

The event's detail report, its clearing-account entry and its ledger tie-out, kept together as a workpaper at the time we checked it — not a figure we'd have to reconstruct after the fact.