How to Submit a Pay Batch

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Go to Agency Portal > Payroll Australia > ATO Electronic Report > STP Pay Batch Submission. The Single Touch Payroll Pay Batch Submission screen opens.

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If necessary, use the search criteria at the top of the screen to search for the closed pay batch that you want to submit. The closed pay batches that meet your criteria are listed in the search results list in the bottom half of the screen.

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The search results list, tick the checkbox next to the pay batch that you want to submit. Note that you can only submit pay batches that do not currently have a status of Queued, Submitted or Completed.

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Click . A declaration screen is displayed, listing each pay company for which an individual submission will be sent to the ATO if you submit the pay batch. The declaration statement that applies to the listed pay companies is also displayed on the screen.

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Read the declaration text and if you do not accept the terms of the declaration or you do not want to submit now, click Cancel. Otherwise, to continue submitting, tick the check box and click Accept & Submit. If you have accepted the declaration an individual submission is created for each pay company to which payees, who were paid in the pay batch, belong and the submissions are queued for sending to the ATO. The submission status of the pay batch changes from Not Submitted to Queued and when the submissions are sent out of FastTrack360, the submission status of the pay batch changes automatically from Queued to Submitted.

It is possible that different pay companies may have different declaration types. Therefore, if the pay batch you submit includes payees belonging to different pay companies that are subject to different declaration types, the declaration screen might be displayed multiple times, once for each pay company/declaration type combination that applies. Therefore, it may be necessary to read and accept multiple declaration types when you attempt to submit a pay batch. For more information, see Declaration Types.

You can tick multiple pay batches on the Agency Portal > Payroll Australia > ATO Electronic Report > STP Pay Batch Submission screen and click to simultaneously submit multiple pay batches, so long as none of the selected pay batches have a status of Queued, Submitted or Completed.

When you submit, take note of the pay batch number of the pay batch or batches that you have submitted as this will come in handy when checking the submission status of the pay batch.