Payday Super Is Live: What to Check in MYOB Acumatica Payroll Now

Payday Super stopped being a future deadline on 1 July 2026. If you run payroll in MYOB Acumatica, you’ve now processed a few pay cycles under the new rules, and here’s the uncomfortable part: pay runs that look completely normal on screen can still be quietly non-compliant. The software processed the pay, the super accrued, everyone got paid. Whether the right super amounts are reaching funds inside the new deadlines is a separate question, and it’s the one the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is now watching closely.

Most of the content written about Payday Super was published before the start date and framed as preparation. This post is the other half: the checks worth running now that the regime is live, specifically for businesses on MYOB Acumatica.

What changed on 1 July 2026

The old quarterly super guarantee cycle is gone for earnings paid from 1 July 2026 onwards. Under the new rules, your super contribution must be received by the employee’s fund within 7 business days of payday, not just sent by then. The ATO calls payday the QE day, the day you pay qualifying earnings.

A few points from the fine print that matter in practice:

• Received means received. The clock stops when the fund has the money and the data needed to allocate it, so clearing house processing time is your problem, not the fund’s.
• Business days exclude state-wide public holidays anywhere in Australia, even if your business isn’t in that state. A Queensland business can gain a day because of a Northern Territory holiday.
• Super is now calculated on qualifying earnings (QE), a new single earnings base that replaces ordinary time earnings for this purpose. Some pay items that weren’t previously superable are now, and a few work the other way.
• The quarterly maximum contribution base is replaced by an annual one, which changes how caps apply for high earners across the year.

The Fair Work Ombudsman’s summary is a readable overview of the employer obligations. The Small Business Superannuation Clearing House also closed permanently on 1 July, which mostly affects smaller entities, though we’ve seen it catch subsidiaries inside larger groups that were still using it quietly.

The first check: your pay item QE flags

MYOB’s guidance was to review every pay item after your final June pay run and before your first July one, marking each as liable or not liable for qualifying earnings. In MYOB Acumatica Payroll that happens on the Pay Item Liabilities screen (MPPP1025), which now carries separate columns for QE and super guarantee liability. The full walkthrough is in MYOB’s Payday Super transition guide.

If that review happened in a hurry during EOFY week, or you’re not sure it happened at all, run it again now. Compare your flags against the ATO’s list of what payments count as qualifying earnings, paying attention to allowances, bonuses and termination-adjacent items, because those are where the base moved. A wrong flag doesn’t announce itself. It just accrues a small shortfall or overpayment on every single pay run until someone notices, usually at the worst possible time.

Super batches now live on a 7-business-day clock

Quarterly batching habits die hard. Under Payday Super, the practical rhythm is a super batch with every pay run, submitted promptly enough that the money lands in funds inside the window. MYOB Acumatica’s super batch workflow handles the mechanics, but the timing discipline is yours: a batch created on payday and submitted two days later has already spent a chunk of its 7 business days.

New starters get 20 business days, once

The first contribution for a new employee, or the first to a new fund for an existing employee, has an extended deadline of 20 business days after the relevant payday. That’s breathing room for onboarding paperwork and fund choice, not a licence to relax. From that employee’s second regular contribution, the standard 7 business day window applies.

Bonuses and out-of-cycle payments follow the next regular run

Pay someone a bonus outside their normal cycle and the super on it is due with the contribution for their next regular payday, rather than starting its own clock. That’s a sensible concession, but it means your super batch for that next run needs to pick up the out-of-cycle amounts correctly. Worth verifying the first time it happens rather than assuming.

What happens if a payment lands late

The super guarantee charge has been redesigned around the new deadlines. Miss the window and the shortfall attracts notional earnings, an administrative uplift and potentially a choice loading, and some of those components can still apply even if you pay the base shortfall quickly. The redesigned charge is generally tax deductible where the old one wasn’t, but it’s not a cost anyone should be budgeting for.

The bigger shift is visibility. The ATO matches Single Touch Payroll (STP) data against what funds report receiving, so a late contribution is visible to them within weeks, not at the end of a quarter. If you do land late, acting quickly reduces the damage. Waiting to be contacted is the expensive option.

“The businesses having a rough July aren’t the ones that missed the deadline entirely, they’re the ones that did the version upgrade, ticked the boxes, and never re-checked the pay items that changed under qualifying earnings. One mis-flagged allowance across a hundred employees compounds every week. Fifteen minutes on the Pay Item Liabilities screen against the ATO’s QE list is the cheapest insurance in payroll right now.”

Josh Craig, Director, Auboros

Version and process checks worth five minutes

MYOB Acumatica Payroll version 2025.2.100 and later includes the Payday Super tooling, and the detail of what changed on which screens is in the official Payday Super release notes. If your environment hasn’t taken payroll compliance updates recently, confirm your version before anything else, because no amount of process discipline fixes calculations running on old rules. Compliance updates like this one are part of what a MYOB Acumatica support arrangement should be handling for you. The super guarantee rate itself is unchanged by Payday Super, sitting at the current 12%, so any variance you see should trace back to the QE base or timing, not the rate.

Beyond the version, the questions we ask in a post-go-live review are simple. Who owns the super batch each pay run, and is it a named person rather than a shared assumption? Does your cash flow forecast reflect super leaving with every pay run instead of quarterly? And did anything in your EOFY close get deferred in June that’s still sitting open now? We covered the preparation side in our MYOB Acumatica payroll guide before the deadline; this is the follow-through.

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Not sure your Payday Super setup is actually right?

Auboros is an official MYOB Acumatica partner based in Brisbane, working with mid-market businesses across Queensland, NSW and Victoria. A post-go-live payroll review is a short piece of work: we check your pay item QE flags, super batch timing and version status against what the rules now require, as part of our broader MYOB Acumatica services.

If you’d like a second set of eyes over your first months under Payday Super, book a free consultation. If everything checks out, you’ll at least have that in writing.