Single Touch Payroll Submission

This screen enables you to approve and declare the Single Touch Payroll (STP) Reporting Data and submit it to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Likewise, this screen allows you to review your STP submission status.

Prerequisites

Rules and Guidelines

  • In processing Single Touch Payroll, you run your pay as normal. STP-related information is automatically generated during the Update Payrun step.

    You may review the data via the Single Touch Payroll Report and Single Touch Payroll Exceptions Report produced via the Update Payrun.

    Once reviewed and checked that the data is correct, you can then go to the Single Touch Payroll Submission screen, search for the payrun you created the file/s for, and send the data to the ATO by clicking the Send to ATO button. You will be required to approve and declare the submission (i.e. on the pop-up that will display once the button is clicked). Each ABN/ Company within a Payrun Group will have its own STP File that will require submission.

  • The layout of this screen varies depending on the status of the file you are currently viewing:
  • It may be the case that once you click on the Send to ATO button (i.e. for Status 'G' Data Generated), it may not immediately be received by the ATO. Once the file has been received by the ATO, the Data Generated status 'G' will become 'S' Submitted to ATO.

  • The ATO will then process the data in one to five days, and may identify issues in the data. Any issues encountered by the ATO will be available on this screen's Issues reported by ATO section (i.e. available for Status 'E' Processed with Issues), and can be corrected in time for the next payrun.

    You may download the errors in CSV by clicking the CSV file button.

  • If you want to "Single Touch" the process, you may add the Task ID STP Declaration and File Submission to the One Step Payrun Template. Doing so enables the parameters on the One Step Process Payrun for the automatic processing of Single Touch Payroll so that every ABN/ Company within the Payrun Group will be approved,declared, and submitted.
  • This screen has Payrun Environment level of security. It takes into account the Environment you are in when displaying STP records. The Results List will only display records that belong to the Active Pay Environment. When in a Blank Environment, records from ALL Environments will be displayed.

 

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