To submit a closed pay batch via STP, follow the procedure below.
Before you submit a pay batch, you can check what you are about to submit by referring to the submission report.
How to Submit a Pay Batch to STP | |
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1 | Navigate to Payroll > ATO Report > STP Pay Batch The STP Pay Batch screen opens. |
2 | In the Search section at the top of the screen, key or select any criteria that identifies the closed pay batch that you want to submit and click Search. The closed pay batches that meet your criteria are listed in the Results section of the screen. |
3 | In the Results section of the screen, tick the checkbox next the pay batch that you want to submit and click Send. You can select multiple pay batches to be submitted at the same time by ticking the checkbox next to multiple pay batches. You cannot submit pay batches that have a status of Queued, Submitted or Completed. The STP Declaration screen opens, prompting you to sign off a declaration for each pay company that will report payments as a result of submitting the selected pay batches. |
4 | 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. 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.
Once you submit a pay batch, the overall submission status of the pay batch will initially be set to Queued while the system prepares to send a submission for each pay company that is linked to the pay batch. The submission status will automatically update to Submitted when the relevant submissions have been sent to the ATO and the status will apply until a response is received from the ATO. For more information, see How to Check the Submission Status of a Pay Batch.