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by Beam
|03/12/2025
Payday super is a big change for the Australian super industry but it’s going to have a particularly big impact for employers. Even more so for employers who pay super through manual processes, third party portals or the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Small Business Superannuation Clearing House (SBSCH), which is closing when payday super begins.
For employers, the key changes from payday super include:
While it does mean a big change to how things are done, the transition to payday super can be made much simpler with the right tools, such as Beam’s supertech.
Wondering how Beam can help? We’ve asked a Beam user directly to share how it’s helping them get payday ready.
Soonah Walkom is the Head of Bookeeping at We Love Bookkeeping, a Gold Coast based business that provides payroll services, including superannuation. Soonah uses Beam to manage superannuation payments for her clients, who range from small to medium in size. “We’ve got businesses that are just the ‘mum and dad’ up to our largest one with about 175 employees,” she explained.
“I will admit I was probably a little bit late to the party in terms of more automated super solutions and registering for Beam,” Soonah said when we asked how she got started with Beam. “I think we’ve had so many changes in our payroll industry, and it’s hard to keep up and know which ones to adopt,” she explained.
“But once I did switch to Beam, the efficiencies I gained were second to none. Super at the end of the month or quarter used to take a couple of days to do but it’s been cut down to a day, or even half a day now,” she said.
When we asked what got her to make the switch, Soonah said it was because “Beam allowed me to do it all in one.”
For Soonah, there’s two things that have made a big difference when paying super with Beam. And these two things will be essential for employers to keep up once payday super begins.
Beam is built to double check data before a payment is submitted, meaning less instances of erroneous payments and resulting delays. “Beam automatically flagging errors means you’ve got that time before you lodge to fix them to make sure your payments are paid on time,” Soonah explained.
“You also actually get information about what the error is, whether it’s a missing ABN, there’s been a merger with another super fund or a member number is no longer applicable, for example. So we know exactly what to go and fix. It becomes a 5-minute task, rather than having to go through employees or files and work it out.”
In instances where a payment is returned, Beam has features in place that make it much easier to correct this quickly and meet the tighter timelines of payday super.
“I think Beam has an advantage in that it gives you automatic notifications if a payment is rejected,” Soonah said. “That notification actually tells you what the error is too, so you know straight away. I know a lot of other software doesn’t do that, so you actually need to go and check and reconcile everything which takes time. It’s much easier with Beam.”
As someone who feels confident in meeting the requirements of payday super, we asked Soonah to share her top tips for employers who are starting to get ready.
“I think it’s really important to look at your payroll program as step one. Do a review of your current systems and processes and see if there’s super compliance integrated so you know you’ll be payday ready,” she said.
She also stressed that it’s not too early to get in the habit of paying more frequently now. “I’ve been encouraging most of our clients to do monthly super even now with the quarterly requirements. But it’s actually been a lot of our business owners coming to us and asking to start paying weekly so they don’t get caught out once payday super starts,” she said. “We’ve got about 20% of our clients who are now paying super weekly. And it’s been easy, because we’ve got that functionality with Beam in our software already.”
And her final tip? It’s all about looking for the positives. “It’s actually less admin, because you’re doing it on the day that you pay, so it’s a one step process with your pay run instead of another task you have to do at the end of the month or quarter.”
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