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Superannuation · what changed on 1 July
The ATO’s free clearing house has closed.
If you used it to pay super for your staff in one go, it stopped working on 1 July 2026. At the same time, super stopped being a quarterly job. Here is what actually changed, and what your options are.
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What the clearing house did, and why it went
Every employee can be in a different super fund. The Small Business Superannuation Clearing House let you make one payment to the ATO, and the ATO split it up and sent the right amount to each fund.
It was built for a world where super was paid four times a year. That world ended on the same day it did.
Super, four times a year
Until 30 June 2026
One payment to the ATO each quarter, free, covering every employee.
Registrations for the service had already closed to new users in October 2025.
Super, every pay run
From 1 July 2026
Payday Super commenced. Super is now paid at the same time as wages.
Contributions need to reach the fund within seven days.
The clearing house could not work that way, so it was retired.
Two changes landed in the same month
On their own, each one is an annoyance. Together they turn a quarterly chore into a job you now do every single time you pay someone, without the free tool that used to make it simple.
19
or fewer employees was all it took to qualify. If you had staff, you were almost certainly eligible.
13×
more often, roughly, if you pay weekly. Super moved from four times a year to every pay run.
7 days
is how long contributions have to reach the fund once wages are paid.
What your options actually are
The ATO points former users in three directions. They are not equally good, and which one suits you depends mostly on how much you want to keep doing by hand.
Your super fund's clearing house
Most funds run one. Usually free. The catch is that it sits outside your payroll, so you are still moving numbers between two systems every pay run, and doing it far more often than before.
A commercial clearing house
Does the same distribution job the ATO used to. Often batch-based and manual, and usually another subscription on top of whatever you already pay for payroll.
Payroll that pays super itself
The super is calculated and sent as part of running the pay, so there is no separate step to remember and nothing to reconcile between systems. This is what we do.
How it works with PaySauce
Talk to a payroll personOne click sends everything. Not a bank file to upload, not a separate super run to remember.
01
Run the pay
Hours come in, the pay is calculated, and you check it. Award rates, PAYG and super are worked out as part of the run.
02
Press once
That single action pays your staff, pays the ATO, and pays every employee's super fund. There is no bank file for you to handle.
03
Super is already done
Because it goes with every pay run, there is no quarterly deadline to chase and no clearing house to replace.
$50 a month, plus $5 per employee
Your first employee is included. No tiers and no add-ons, and there is a 90-day money-back guarantee if it turns out not to suit you.
Real businesses. Real paydays.
PaySauce is fantastic. To be a one-stop shop, that one-click payroll, that does our staff pay, pays our PAYG, pays our super, makes sure that we're compliant.
G
Griffintine Dairy
The first PaySauce customer in Australia
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