Earlier this month, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Payday Superannuation) Bill 2025 passed the Australian Senate and entered into law. Payday Super requires employers to pay their employees’ superannuation entitlements on the same day as their wages. The change will formally take place at the beginning of the 2026-27 financial year on 1 July 2026.
Sybiz has put together an evolving guide on Payday Super, including the Ordinary Time Earnings pay item flag on pay items (available in Sybiz Visipay 25.10 and renamed to Qualifying Earnings from Sybiz Visipay 26.00) to be reported to the ATO via STP2 from 1 July 2026. The guide also contains a lists of steps Sybiz Visipay users can take now to be ready when Payday Super takes effect, such as reviewing all pay items to ensure they’re correctly categorized where the superannuation guarantee applies.
Businesses might also want to consider the additional workload on payroll staff related to Payday Super to manage the tighter timeframes and the upsurge in touch points — a business that pays employees weekly but only pays superannuation quarterly would see their superannuation contribution batches go from 4 times a year to 52 times a year.
Whilst there are some details still to emerge from the ATO as to what reporting changes are required, Sybiz is confident that the solution provided by SybizSuper, and our long-standing relationship with SuperChoice Services Pty Ltd (the clearing house behind SybizSuper) will handle the transition with ease. If your business requires a new clearing house solution, consider learning more about Sybiz Super and signing up ahead of time if it is right for you.
If you are currently using the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House or another mechanism that will not be available or capable of supporting Payday Super, it would be wise to transition to an alternative ahead of time, as leaving things to the last minute may result in the inability to comply from 1 July 2026.
For more information, please watch the recordings of our two webinars on the subject, Getting Ready for Payday Super from 12 September 2025 and Payday Super Update from 7 November 2025. Please be aware that the information contained within these webinars is subject to change based on the emergence of final details in the lead up to 1 July 2026. A further webinar will be held on 13 March 2026.
