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Single Touch Payroll (STP) essentials explained
What is Single Touch Payroll (STP)?
Single Touch Payroll, or STP, is the ATO’s way of tracking wages, tax and super each pay cycle. Instead of waiting until the end of the year, your payroll software reports in real time.
Every Australian employer needs to use STP. From payroll software for small businesses to enterprise-level companies, we make compliance simple, while still scaling with you as your team grows.
Why every employer must use STP
Even though STP is a legal requirement, it’s designed to make your life easier. It saves you from end-of-year paperwork headaches, reduces errors, and keeps payroll data accurate. Your team can even see their pay and super straight away in myGov.
STP Phase 2: What’s changed
Phase 2 adds more detail to each report, including income types, employment categories and termination reasons. While it sounds like more work, it actually removes the need for extra forms like TFN declarations. With Employment Hero, it all happens automatically in the background.
STP and the ATO: How it works
Every time you process a pay run, your ATO-approved payroll software sends the details directly to the tax office. Employees see their income and super updated instantly in myGov. It’s secure, automatic and keeps your business compliant with every pay run.
How Employment Hero simplifies STP compliance
Have confidence in compliance with ATO-certified software
Don’t let compliance keep you up at night. Employment Hero payroll is fully ATO-certified and Phase 2 ready, so you can always meet your reporting obligations without breaking a sweat. Give every pay run a once-over before it’s sent, with automatic flags to help you spot inconsistencies and fix them fast. With secure online lodgement, you’ll stay compliant and audit-ready without the stress.
Automate payroll and save hours every cycle
Handle STP reporting in just a few quick clicks with automated payroll. From generating pay events to pre-lodgement checks, Employment Hero removes manual steps and reduces the risk of mistakes. Automate recurring pay runs, streamline approvals, and free up hours every pay cycle.
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Support for Tax and BAS Agents
With our Partner Dashboard, tax and BAS agents can handle client pay events without the back-and-forth. No more chasing emails or digging through scattered records: everything’s tracked right inside the STP event. You’ll have a clear audit trail at your fingertips, and if you’ve got Standing Authority, you can lodge events instantly. Compliance has never been this smooth.
Integrated Payroll and HR in one platform
STP is just the start. With Employment Hero, you also get powerful payroll and HR tools: including automated pay runs, time and attendance, leave management, superannuation tracking, rostering, payslips, and real-time reporting. Manage your people and payroll in one simple, connected Employment Operating System.
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Handle STP Phase 2 reporting requirements without breaking a sweat. It’s easy with Employment Hero.
ATO compliance has never been easier
Our STP feature is housed in the same software as your payroll data, meaning no manual exporting of data is required to complete the report. Never worry about reporting errors or corruption of data again.
Minimise STP errors
Any issues relating to payroll data or employee/business details will be displayed as required to be corrected before lodging. The pre-lodgement validation ensures you are significantly more likely to lodge an event successfully.
Enjoy peace of mind over STP Phase 2
STP Phase 2 reduces the compliance burden for employers, outsourced payroll providers, and individuals, streamlines reporting, and saves time by eliminating the need for manual reporting to multiple agencies.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Employment Hero’s Single Touch Payroll software is an ATO-certified solution integrated within its payroll platform, designed to simplify STP Phase 2 reporting for Australian businesses. It streamlines the process of reporting payroll information directly to the ATO, supporting businesses with compliance.
Our software is ATO-certified and integrates STP reporting directly into the payroll process, eliminating the need for manual data export and reducing the risk of errors. It also identifies potential payroll data or employee/business detail issues before lodgement, increasing the likelihood of successful and compliant event reporting.
The software handles a range of mandatory and voluntary reporting requirements for STP Phase 2, including mandatory termination reporting, voluntary child support reporting, TFN declaration reporting, disaggregation of gross pay, and the correct application of income types and country codes.
If you’re an Australian employer, you’ll need to use Single Touch Payroll regardless of how big or small your business is. Luckily, Employment Hero makes it effortless, with built-in compliance so you never have to worry about making a slip-up.
Getting started is simple. Just confirm your business details, choose who will lodge pay events, and enable STP in your payroll settings. We also provide step-by-step guides and support to help you lodge your first pay run without a hitch.
Yes. BAS and tax agents can manage STP events directly in Employment Hero, with all actions recorded in a secure audit trail. Agents with Standing Authority can even lodge pay events instantly on your behalf.
We know mistakes happen: that’s why we make them easy to spot and fix. Employment Hero lets you update or correct pay events and re-submit them securely to the ATO, so your records stay accurate and compliant.
Absolutely. Employment Hero Payroll is fully certified with the ATO and Phase 2 compliant. You can trust that every pay event is lodged securely and meets the latest reporting standards.
Yes. STP in Employment Hero is part of a wider payroll and HR platform, so you can manage pay runs, super, rostering, leave and reporting all in one place. It’s everything you need to take care of your team and your compliance in a single system.
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