Payroll handled properly

We process your scheduled pay runs, calculate PAYG withholding and leave accruals, report each run to the ATO through Single Touch Payroll, prepare superannuation for the clearing house each quarter, and reconcile wages and withholding back to your accounts and BAS. We also set up new starters, process terminations and complete the end-of-year STP finalisation. The focus is accurate, on-time processing and clean records — the mechanics of paying people correctly and meeting your ATO and super reporting obligations period after period.

No — and that distinction matters. Our payroll service processes pay using the rates, hours, classifications and entitlements you supply. Interpreting modern awards, the Fair Work Act, enterprise agreements, minimum wages and leave entitlements is specialist employment-law and industrial-relations work that may require separate review by a suitably qualified adviser. We do not assume that scope in this service. Where we think award or Fair Work advice is needed, we will flag it so you can engage the right specialist rather than leaving you to discover a gap later.

They overlap, so the angle of each is worth knowing. This page covers the full ongoing payroll function — processing pay runs, super, PAYG withholding and records — managed end to end on your behalf. Our dedicated payroll and STP page goes deeper on Single Touch Payroll reporting and year-end finalisation specifically. If your main concern is getting STP set up and finalised correctly, start there; if you want someone to run the whole payroll cycle for you, this is the right page.

Single Touch Payroll requires employers to report payroll information — gross wages, PAYG withholding and superannuation — to the ATO each time you run a pay, rather than once a year. We lodge that report as part of every pay run through your software. At year-end we complete the STP finalisation that marks each employee’s income statement as tax-ready in their myGov account, which replaced the old payment summaries. Reporting each run keeps the ATO record current and means problems surface early instead of at year-end.

Superannuation guarantee is calculated on ordinary time earnings and must be received by each employee’s fund by the quarterly due date — generally the 28th of the month after each quarter ends. The key point is that it must be received by the fund by that date, not merely paid by you, so we allow processing time through the clearing house. Late super is not deductible and can attract the super guarantee charge, so we build these deadlines into your payroll calendar rather than treating them as an afterthought.

Yes. We run payroll directly in your Xero file so wages, PAYG withholding and superannuation post straight to your accounts. That keeps everything coordinated with your bookkeeping and BAS, avoids re-keying figures between systems, and means your reports reflect payroll automatically. If you are not yet set up properly — employees, pay items, leave and super choice — we configure that cleanly before the first live pay run so each run calculates consistently and reports correctly through STP.

At year-end we reconcile the full year of payroll, confirm gross wages, PAYG withholding and super all tie out, and complete the STP finalisation so each employee’s income statement is marked tax-ready. We also check that quarterly super has been accounted for and that your payroll records are complete and retained for the periods the ATO requires. This makes the lead-up to lodging your own returns smoother and reduces the chance of correcting figures after the fact.

Payroll feeds directly into both. The PAYG withholding from each pay run is reported on your activity statements, and wages and super need to reconcile to your ledger. When the same firm handles payroll, bookkeeping and BAS, those figures are consistent by design rather than reconciled after the fact. We can coordinate all three so what is reported to the ATO matches your accounts — our BAS agent and bookkeeping services explain how the pieces connect, and we tie payroll into them.