Get ready for Payday Super in MYOB Acumatica Payroll

Payday Super is the biggest change to payroll processing this year. From 1 July 2026, employers will have to pay superannuation at the same time as wages – not quarterly.

For businesses already using MYOB Acumatica Payroll, the good news is that the system is already being prepared to support Payday Super. However, there are important configuration steps and process changes employers need to understand and complete well before the go‑live date.

This article explains what Payday Super is, when it starts, how MYOB Acumatica supports it, and what employers need to do to be ready.

Note: BusinessHub does not provide, and this article should not be relied on for, legal, accounting or taxation advice. This article is based on the Key Resources listed below and we recommend you review them below alongside this article. 

1. What Is Payday Super?

Payday Super is a legislative change that requires employers to pay employees’ superannuation at the same time as salary and wages are paid, rather than quarterly.

From 1 July 2026:

• Super must be paid each pay cycle (weekly, fortnightly, or monthly)
• Contributions must be received by the employee’s super fund within 7 business days of payday (unless an extended time applies, such as for new employees)
• Super is calculated on Qualifying Earnings (QE) instead of Ordinary Time Earnings (OTE). QE brings together OTE and other payments.
• Employers must report both QE and super liability via STP on every pay run.

The intent is to improve transparency, reduce unpaid super, and ensure employees receive their super entitlements sooner.

Key resources:

• MYOB: Payday Super Changes
• ATO: Overview of Payday Super
• ATO: Qualifying Earnings explained 
• ATO: Payday Super resources hub 

2. Which MYOB Acumatica Payroll Release supports Payday Super?

MYOB has introduced Payday Super readiness enhancements in the MYOB Acumatica 2025.1.5 and 2025.2.1 Payroll release. These releases are being deployed by MYOB in May and June 2026 and they include:

• Support for Qualifying Earnings (QE) data reporting
• Structural changes aligned to ATO STP and SuperStream reforms
• Foundations for paying super every pay run, rather than quarterly.
  

Employers using MYOB Acumatica Payroll should ensure they are upgraded to 2025.1.5 (or above) and confirm payroll updates have been applied.

Key Resources:

• MYOB Acumatica Payroll – Payday Super Release Notes (2025.1.5 and 2025.2.1)

3. Key Dates for Payday Super

Employers should plan well ahead of the formal start date.

Important: Any payroll paid on or after 1 July 2026 must follow Payday Super rules, regardless of the pay period dates.

4. Payday Super: Pre-Configuration

Even with the correct release, some important setup and review tasks are needed to ensure compliance. The 2025.1.5 and  2025.2.1 release notes outline the following key preparation steps.

Key configuration steps include:

4.1 Review and Update QE on the Pay Item Liabilities screen

This is the most important configuration task as soon as your site is upgraded to build 2025.1.5 (or above) and before 1 July 2026. Under Payday Super, SG and SGC are calculated from a new single earnings base called qualifying earnings (QE).

In the 2025.1.5 (and above) releases, a new Liable for Qualifying Earnings (QE) field has been added to the Pay Item Liabilities screen (MPPP1025). Here is how it works:

• On upgrade, all existing pay items already flagged as Liable for Superannuation Guarantee (SG) will automatically be flagged as Liable for Qualifying Earnings (QE) as well.
• New pay items created after upgrade will automatically be flagged as Liable for QE when you select Liable for SG
• In rare circumstances, a pay item may need to be flagged as Liable for SG but not Liable for QE — however in most cases both boxes should be ticked.

Action required before 1 July 2026: Review all pay items in the Pay Item Liabilities screen (MPPP1025) and confirm they are correctly flagged for both QE and SG in accordance with ATO guidelines. Do not assume the automatic flagging on upgrade covers every scenario — a manual review of each pay item is needed to confirm correctness. Pay close attention to allowances, commissions, salary sacrifice, and contractor labour payments.

4.2 Validate Employee Super Details

• Ensure every employee has:
  • A valid super fund
  • Correct USI / ESA details
  • Accurate member numbers
• Address errors now to avoid failed payments under tighter timelines. Act now - you do not need to wait until your upgrade to complete this step.
• The ATO's Super Fund Lookup and the MYOB Super Funds List can help verify USIs for employee funds.

4.3 Review Contractor Setup

• Payday Super extends SG obligations to some contractors.
• Contractors “paid mainly for labour” may require super to be paid each pay day.

4.4 Confirm Payroll Frequency

• Since super must be paid every time employees are paid, some businesses may reconsider pay frequency for cashflow reasons.

4.5 Confirm Clearing House Arrangements

• The ATO Small Business Superannuation Clearing House (SBSCH) closes on 1 July 2026
• Employers must transition to a compliant alternative prior to commencement.

MYOB Acumatica supports Payday Super through a clearing house model. You have two options:

• MYOB Pay Super — MYOB's integrated clearing house service (via SuperChoice), which connects directly to MYOB Acumatica payroll.
• External clearing house — your own preferred clearing house, configured via SuperStream.

For most employers, using MYOB Pay Super will be the simplest path as it is natively integrated with MYOB Acumatica. See below for how to enrol. If using MYOB Pay Super, your employer bank account must be registered and verified within the Pay Super service before you can begin submitting contributions. Allow sufficient lead time — bank account verification can take several business days.

4.6 Understand the Maximum Contributions Base Threshold Change

The pay item threshold for all pay items with the Employer Super employer type is changing in 2025.1.5 (and above). This is updated automatically based on business date:

• Before 1 July 2026: threshold is calculated quarterly.
• From 1 July 2026: threshold is calculated annually.

No manual reconfiguration is needed for this change — MYOB Acumatica handles it automatically. However, payroll administrators should be aware of this change as it affects how the maximum contributions base is applied for high-income earners.

The ATO and MYOB both recommend starting Payday‑style super payments early to test processes and reduce risk.

5. Payday Super: Process Changes

Once Payday Super starts, super becomes a real‑time payroll obligation, not a separate quarterly task. What changes in practice?

5.1 Super Is Paid Every Pay Run

• Super contributions are calculated and paid alongside wages.
• No more holding super until quarter end.

From 1 July 2026, after each pay run is finalised:

• Go to the Create Superannuation Batch screen.
• Select the pay run that was just paid.
• Submit your batch to your super clearing house or the Pay Super service as usual.

You must submit super within 7 business days of each pay run. With the increased frequency of super payments, it is important to make super submission part of your standard pay run close-off process — do not leave it to be done later.

5.2 Tighter Timeframes

• Payment Timing: At the same time as salary and wages (payday).
• Fund Receipt Deadline: Within 7 business days after payday.
• New Employee/First Contribution Exception: Within 20 business days of the employee's first payday.
• Fund Allocation/Return: Super funds have 3 business days to allocate or return contributions.
  
• Errors or delays can trigger the Super Guarantee Charge (SGC)

To help manage the increased frequency of super batches and make it easier to keep track of adjustments, several improvements have been made to the Create Super Batch screen (MPPP5005) in 2025.2.1. These improvements are available immediately on upgrade — you do not need to wait until 1 July 2026 to benefit from them.

Main table improvements:

• A new Adjustment Type field has been added, showing whether each line is an original pay run, a Negative adjustment, or a Positive adjustment.
• Negative and positive adjustment pairs are now linked — selecting or deselecting one part of an adjustment automatically does the same for the other.
• The Pay Run From/To filter now only lists original pay runs (adjusted pay runs are hidden from view, but their contributions are still included in results when they fall within the selected date range)

New Adjusted Contributions tab:

A new Adjusted Contributions tab has been added to the Create Super Batch screen, giving you a single place to see and manage all unpaid super adjustments:

• The tab shows all unpaid adjustments for completed pay runs that haven't yet been added to any batch, within the 90 days before the selected start date.
• Use the new Add Selected Adjustments action to add the adjustments you want to pay — they will appear in the Contributions tab, ready to be included in your batch.

This improvement is particularly valuable under Payday Super, where pay adjustments need to be processed and paid quickly to remain compliant.

5.3 Expanded STP Reporting

• Each pay run reports:
  • Year‑to‑date Qualifying Earnings (QE)
  • Year‑to‑date super liability

From 1 July 2026, qualifying earnings (QE) are included in STP reporting as a year-to-date figure. Reporting of QE stops once the annual maximum contributions base is reached. Year-to-date SG liability continues to be reported as before.

Note that STP reporting requirements for contractor payee types are not changing — contractors remain voluntary to report via STP, even though QE now includes contractors treated as employees for SG purposes.

5.4 Higher Compliance Risk for Delays

• Late or missed payments attract:
  • Daily compounding interest
  • Administrative uplift charges
  • Potential penalties
• Unlike the current system, the ATO assesses and enforces delays more actively.

Under Payday Super, contributions must be received by the employee's super fund by the due date — not just submitted to a clearing house. Clearing houses require processing time to forward payments to funds. This means:

• Submit super to the clearing house promptly after each pay run finalisation.
• Do not accumulate multiple pay runs before submitting — treat super submission as part of your pay run close-off process.
• Rejected contributions should be treated as urgent — the Payday Super obligation clock continues to run regardless of clearing house processing issues.

6. Enrolling in MYOB Pay Super

MYOB Pay Super is MYOB's integrated super payment service, powered by SuperChoice. It allows super contributions calculated in MYOB Acumatica payroll to be submitted directly to the clearing house without manual intervention or re-keying of data. Payments are distributed by SuperChoice to employees' super funds via SuperStream.

MYOB Pay Super for multi-entity is being introduced in the 2025.2.3 release onwards.  You can elect to participate in the Early Access Program to trial this new feature in June 2026, ahead of the general release of this functionality later in 2026.  Log a service request with BusinessHub if you would like to enrol in the MYOB Pay Super for multi-entity EAP release in June 2026.

If you would like to use MYOB's Pay Super service to streamline your Payday Super payments — connecting MYOB Acumatica directly to SuperChoice as your clearing house — here is how to get set up.

1. Check prerequisites. Ensure the business has an ABN, you have admin access, and any outstanding super via another method is finalised. You will need the CDFid of the main company branch that will be used to submit contributions. This is taken from the CDFid Management (MYSM2030) form, which is only available to the PartnerSupport user – please reach out to BusinessHub for help.

2. Sign into MYOB Acumatica using your my. MYOB (purple 2FA) credentials.

3. Go to Payroll > Payroll Preferences > Pay Superannuation tab →tick MYOB Pay Super Service then click Register.

4. Sign in with your my.MYOB (purple 2FA) credentials. This links your Acumatica company to the MYOB Pay Super service.

5. Enter your business and bank account details. You need to nominate the bank account used for super payments.

6. Set a payment limit. Choose a monthly or quarterly debit limit for security.

7. Assign Pay Super roles. Allocate Creator, Authoriser, or Administrator roles to users. Each user will need to verify their mobile phone number separately via text message.

8. Verify the bank account. Complete MYOB’s bank verification before making payments.

9. Review employee super details. Confirm funds, USIs, member numbers, and that funds are marked to pay via Pay Super.

Key Resources:

1. MYOB Pay Super Service Product Disclosure Statement.
2. How to Register for Pay Super

Final Thoughts

Payday Super changes when super is paid – not how much is paid – so it requires stronger payroll discipline and system readiness, and it has cash flow implications.

For MYOB Acumatica Payroll users:

1. Check when you’ll be upgraded to release 2025.1.5 or 2025.2.1. Ensure that your upgrade date is suitable, and you won’t have an open pay run that evening. If you need to change your upgrade date, contact BusinessHub ASAP.
2. If you’re not already using MYOB PaySuper to process your super payments and you’d like to start, make the transition now.
3. Validate employee and fund data early.
4. Review payroll configuration as soon as your upgraded.
5. Begin transitioning to a Payday Super rhythm before July 2026.

Starting early reduces risk, avoids last‑minute disruption, and ensures you stay compliant from day one.

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