AU Payroll - Schedule superannuation payments
Add in ability to forward date when a superannuation payment is processed. I would like to submit the authority when I review the monthly super but have the payment not made until it is actually due, which would be a date in the future that I enter.
Hi there. With Payday Super changes coming soon, we know many of you will be thinking about how the new super payment timing will work for your business. It’s something we’re keeping a close eye on too.
While this particular idea isn’t currently on our product team’s roadmap, it’s on our radar and we’re actively monitoring the feedback here.
There are also a couple of related ideas focused on super payment timing that are already in development:
AU Payroll: Superannuation > standardised payment date aligned with PayDay Super - In Development
AU Payroll - Payday super reminders - In Development
If either of these would help, we’d really appreciate you adding your vote.
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VJ Boland
commented
What can we do to get this on the product teams roadmap as this is critical for all of the businesses I look after and after reading the comments here, many others. The inability to schedule is actually going to create a lot more work for anyone who does payroll in advance and uses readily available scheduling tools.
Sorry Xero, I feel you have been mostly asleep at the wheel on payday super with mostly cosmetic changes to date and I hope to see something meaningful in the next fortnight -
Margaret Nicholas
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This is essential to me, I often do payrolls in advance if going away or to prepare for Christmas shutdown periods. The super payment should be processed on the same day as the payroll payment so being able to approve it for a future date is required.
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Michelle Yee
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This is an extremely important feature. Can you provide an update on when this will be available?
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JACQUIE HAPGOOD
commented
I would like to request the ability to schedule superannuation payments for a future date.
I operate multiple companies, many of which have payroll amounts that are consistent from pay period to pay period. This allows payroll to be prepared well in advance.
It would be extremely beneficial to be able to process and authorise superannuation payments ahead of time and have them automatically paid on a nominated future date. This functionality would reduce administrative burden, improve cash-flow management, and assist businesses in complying with the Payday Super requirements commencing from 1 July 2026.
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Bree Luke
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Xero where is this at?????
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Loretta Sutcliffe
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Now that we are transitioning to payday super a lot of us have to preset payroll payments. Is it possible to have the ability to change the processing date otherwise we are processing a day or 2 earlier than the payroll is being processed so this is not ideal if we processed say monday 30th June if the payroll is paid 1st July! Or in some cases we preset when there are holidays say xmas how do we preset super? We dont wish to process all on same day before the payruns are paid. This is an important item to add into the process of paying superannuation. I highly recommend this be considered. MYOB now has the ability to preset different date as I tried it recently.
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Adam Burstin
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I have had clients who have also questioned what they do over the Xmas period when they close. They would prefer not to worry about organising super payments over this time, so the ability to do this would be very helpful.
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Natalie Smith
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This is definitely needed with the implementation of Pay Day super - our office shuts down over Christmas and we can schedule bank payments for pay runs, but we now need to have someone make the super payments on the due dates regardless of being on leave.
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ANZSBT ANZSBT
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I participated in a Xero payday super webinar last week and brought this up. the person answering suggested it be made a product idea however here it is from more than 3 years ago. we pay salary and often process ahead of time as we can do that with payroll & automatic bank transfers. Super? nope, gone the day the code is put in so if processing a few payrolls in advance due to leave etc, will now have to attend the office (am the only employee & only person able to approve unless manually change every time unavailable) on every payday regardless of what is happening. Xero, this is not new and is critical to business operation
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Alan Macdonald
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We run a monthly payroll for work done to the 21st of the month for payment on the 28th of the month.
When the payrun is completed sometime between the 21st and the 28th of the month, I would like to schedule the superannuation payment to be on the SAME DAY as the employee payments. Otherwise, I need to remember to go back to Xero on the 28th of the month to make the superannuation payment which is not ideal.As you are aware, payday super is approaching fast and you have made aware of this issue for some time now.
What is the latest on this?
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kate schiftan
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it is critical to be able to schedule the Super payment just like you can the wages especially if you want to manage multiple clients payroll
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Sarah Thompson
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Create the ability to approve and then delay an auto super payment, so you can set up multiple pay runs in advance but delay the direct debit of the super until the day the wages are uploaded to employee bank accounts. This would help when a payroll admin goes on leave (especially in a small business) where there may not be another available auto super authoriser.
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Tom Gough
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Thank you, this would be highly important for our clients if a fix could be provided.
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Suleman Dib
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We manage payroll for multiple clients and often process payroll in advance due to public holidays and shutdown periods.
Currently, superannuation payments processed via Xero are debited immediately upon submission. However, with Payday Super, this will create a mismatch where super is paid before employee wages are paid.
This is counterintuitive from both a cash flow and payroll accuracy perspective.
This is particularly relevant over shutdown periods such as Christmas, where access to systems (including 2-factor authentication) may be limited, increasing the risk of missed or delayed superannuation payments across multiple clients.
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Lisa Keating
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Ability to future date/set a specific date for automatic superannuation payments the same way that you can set a payment date for the Pay Runs.
In the situation where there is a holiday period such as Christmas/New year payroll administrators may process payroll/s in advance with a future payment date. Payday super requires that the super is paid on pay day, however if the automatic super payment batch is processed in advance it will pay the super immediately and not at the same future date as the payroll payment. If you can select a specific payment date for payroll, you should also be able to select a specific payment date for super. This will be more important with the more frequent superannuation payments required under the new Payday Super rules and the likelihood of needing to process payrolls and super in advance.
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kate schiftan
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given payday super is coming, it would be ideal to be able to schedule the super payment for the same date as the wages ABA when sending to clients, this would save time going back in on the wages payment date
I would consider this to be a really important functionality required to compy with the new ATO legislation as at 1 july -
Anthony Walsh
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The one thing I'd like changed in Xero. Especially important when pay day super starts.
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Margaret Nicholas
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Auto super - set up payments in advance and allow for a description
When I process payrolls in advance it would be good to have the option to process the super on an advance date as well. Currently we can only process super immediately which is quite restrictive.
Also can we have an option to add a description to each payment so we can easily identify which payroll its for. -
Sharyn Keron
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I came here to see if this had been suggested. We have started doing same day super payments already, but if I am running a pay run early like now for the xmas 28.12 FE pay run, I don't want our super to pay until the actual wages payment date preferably. So now I need to log back in especially to pay the super on the 29, 30 or 31.12. Also some months the pay FE date and actual pay date will roll into a new month. I would like both the payroll and super that belong together to stay in the same month. So if my pays are processed on a Mon say 31st of a month and then I load the super after completing the payrun, the Super will go through on the 31st, but the pays will actually debit to the bank on 2nd of the month on the Wednesday when actually paid. So the two will be in different months on the books. So when loading the super on the Monday it would be nice to be able to select the Wednesday 2nd for the super payment to be processed.
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Michelle Yee
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Having the ability to set a super pay run, schedule the timing and know it's "processed", similar to salary pay runs. Would enable better time usage, cashflow management, and continue to make Xero competitive against other payroll systems.