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Navigating Payday Super

SpinifexIT's Roadmap for Australian Compliance

Written By: Kristian Scheurer | Consultant
Published: April 13, 2026

Summary • 4 min read      

The Australian payroll landscape is preparing for one of its most significant shifts in years: Payday Super. This legislative change, effective July 1, 2026, will require employers to pay their employees’ Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions on the same day they pay their salary and wages.

At SpinifexIT, we understand that major regulatory updates can be daunting. We are committed to supporting our customers (and the broader SAP community) by ensuring our solutions, particularly Easy STP, are ready well ahead of the deadline.

Our Current Plans for Easy STP

While the Australian government has passed the legislation, digital service providers like SAP and SpinifexIT are still working through technical requirements from the ATO. However, we are already proactively planning several key enhancements to our Easy STP solution to help you transition smoothly:

  • New Fields and Table Support: As SAP delivers changes related to Payday Super, including new tables, or fields – SpinifexIT will incorporate these into our reporting engine and pre delivered field structure.

Phase 1: Our Easy STP solution will have a new Payday Super menu, with an initial 10 new reports to help you with preparation for Payday Super, as well as ongoing validation of the payments.

These reports fall into the following categories.

  • Configuration Checks: Reports to help check your Payday Super wagetype and superannuation configuration.
  • Proactive Pay Result Reconciliation Reports: These will include detailed comparisons of Qualifying Earnings (QE) cumulations against Ordinary Time Earnings (OTE) and Superable Earnings.
  • Superannuation Contribution Validation Checks: These will validate that the Superannuation Contribution amount is in line with the required percentage needing to be paid.
  • Enhanced Data Integrity Checks: Payday Super brings a heightened need for accurate data. We’ve included an additional report to validate the key Masterdata fields required for your Payday Super ATO submission at the employee level.
  • Superannuation Focused STP Data Reconciliations: These reports will reconcile and validate your Qualifying Earnings (QE)  and Superannuation Contributions generated to your STP file, ensuring the data being reported to the ATO is correct.

Please see a sneak peak of the Payday Super menu below: 

Critical Timelines

SAP have advised their changes are scheduled to be released on 14th May 2026.

SpinifexIT is planning an initial release of additional functionality from 22nd May 2026. 

In order to prepare for the SpinifexIT Easy STP enhancements, we recommend you prepare and plan to apply one of the below release and patch levels. We also recommend that you move to the required SAP HRSP support pack level.

Payday Super Enhancements Release Number Release Date
Phase 1
2025.R2.P4
22 May 2026
Phase 1
2026.R1.P1
22 June 2026
Phase 2
TBC
Phase 3 (if required)
TBC

Further enhancements are being planned for delivery over the next few months where we will further extend the existing functionality during a phased roll out.

What Should You Do Now?

While you wait for SAP’s release of the new functionality, there are steps you can take today to ensure your organisation is ready:

  1. Assess Pay Components: Review your current wage types against the new definition of legislated “Qualifying Earnings”.
  2. Audit Data Integrity: Focus on the accuracy of payee identity data, including legal names, TFNs, and residential addresses.
  3. Coordinate with Providers: Start discussions with your clearing house providers to ensure they can accommodate the new Payday Super payment schedule.

Whether you are an existing customer or just exploring our solutions, SpinifexIT is here to help you navigate the Payday Super journey with confidence.

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