Beam for employers

Beam makes super payments easy. Beam makes light work of admin.

Beam is the new way to manage super in payroll and streamline your employee onboarding.

Beam has a range of helpful services to lighten the load for employers – simple super payments, STP reporting and employee onboarding.

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Super payments

A simple way to pay and track your team’s super. With Beam, you can process super payments in a few clicks, giving you time back to focus on growing your business.

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Single Touch Payroll (STP)

Beam’s STP solution works with your payroll provider to support your reporting obligations to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Better yet, Beam helps you maintain compliance and meet your super obligations automatically.

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Super Fund Onboarding (SFO)

A readily available tool for employers, SFO allows you to add new employees, invite them to validate their personal details, record their choice of super fund and their Tax File Number declaration in one secure place. Together with Australian Retirement Trust we offer employers a digital onboarding experience.

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How employers can benefit from using Beam

All of your information in one place

Beam integrates seamlessly with payroll software so you can manage your payroll, super and STP reporting obligations all in one place.

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Fast payment process

Forget about third-party portals and file uploads, Beam makes it possible to process and submit super contributions all in your payroll software. Super contributions are beamed to all employees’ super funds in a single send.

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Easy administration

Beam can complement payroll software providers to offer their technology an STP solution, so you can report payments such as salaries and wages, PAYG withholding and super information each time you pay your employees.

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Paperless super fund onboarding process

SFO can give your team a digital onboarding experience to help with choice and stapling obligations. Together with Australian Retirement Trust, we offer employers the ability to manage their employees’ records, tax and super fund information (TFN, super choice) digitally in one place.

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Beam super payments

Make super simple

Beam super payments is designed to save time when processing super contributions.

Forget about third-party portals and file uploads, Beam makes it possible to calculate, process and submit super contributions all in the one place — your payroll software.

Super contributions are beamed to all employees’ super funds in a single batch. You’ll be alerted of any errors before you submit plus, you’ll receive notifications so you can track all your contributions every step of the way.

Features and benefits
Getting started
Making payments with Beam

Features and Benefits

Fast payment process

Super is calculated and tracked when you record your employees’ pay. When super is due, you can create a single contribution file including payments to all super funds in a single batch. No need to go to a super portal or export data.

Ability to offer multiple payment options

We offer software providers multiple payment options, so they can choose the payment option to best support your business. Our software partners can choose from EFT, BPay, and Direct Debit, or they can choose our direct to fund payment option for a faster payment.

Payment history

Increased ability to self-serve with visibility of your payment history and an automated returns process so you never have to chase a lost payment.

Notifications and alerts

Your contribution data is validated upfront, so you’ll receive notification of any issues in your super data before you submit it.

Payment tracking

You’ll receive payment notifications so that you can track your contributions every step of the way. See when your payment has been received, reconciled and forwarded to super funds.

Secure

The privacy of your and your employees’ information is important to us, and Beam is designed with multiple layers of security to protect your information.

Getting started

Discover Beam

To get started, check if your payroll provider is connected with Beam. Check out our list of payroll partners

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Register access with Beam

If your payroll provider is connected with Beam, you can easily sign-up by completing the Beam Onboarding Wizard through your payroll software.

Process your payroll

Once you’ve completed the Beam Onboarding Wizard, you can start making super contributions with a few clicks. Beam won’t affect how you process your payroll, so you can process your payroll as usual and superannuation will be calculated and tracked for when you record your employees’ pay.

Make super payments

When you’re ready to make a payment to your employees’ funds, just select the contribution to pay, submit and Beam takes care of the rest!

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Making payments with Beam

Step 1. Create a batch

When super is due create a single batch, including payments to all super funds.

Step 2. Data Validation

With contribution data validation, you’ll be notified of any issues in your super data before you submit.

You’ll also be alerted of any errors like missing employee information or invalid super fund details. Once you fix these, you can submit.

Step 3. View payment notifications

Once submitted, you’ll receive payment notifications to track your contributions every step of the way. See when your payment has been received, reconciled and forwarded to super funds.

Beam also provides responses back from super funds including member numbers and returned payment information, so you’ll never lose a payment again.

Beam Single Touch Payroll

Compliance made easy

Beam STP helps you save time and meet your STP reporting requirements with just a few clicks.

Now you can report payments such as salaries and wages, PAYG withholding and super information each time you pay your employees all from your payroll software.

Getting started with Beam STP

Beam STP integrates with your payroll software to help you meet your employer reporting obligations to the ATO.

If you would like to use the Beam STP solution, check if your payroll has partnered with Beam. See the list of Beam partners.

You can also suggest Beam to your payroll provider by completing this form and we’ll get in contact with them to see how we can better support you and your business.