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Sorry about that, blame the ATO. You will see a line item on your software maintenance invoice which is to cover the fee's. Honestly it is not a lot of money and represents good value.

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The Actual Process

See the xxx document your Support contact for Important Setup information.

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1.Process the Payroll as normal,

be it direct entry, via time sheets, or a combination. Arrive at the point where you are ready to get approval.

2 .Print the 'Approval' Report, normally this will be 'Payroll 3 - Pay Summary Listing'.

• Payroll
  • Reports
    • Report Manager - Reports
      • Payroll 3 - Pay Summary Listing

3. Gain approval as per your Company's Standard Operating Procedures.

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Once you have sign off, you can proceed with the payroll.

Print / Email Payslips - as per normal procedure, see document xxxx

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4. Produce ABA file for bank & upload. - as per normal procedure

5. Print / Email Payslips - as per normal procedure, see document xxxx

Single Touch Reporting

Once the Payslips are run & the ABA file has been uploaded to the bank, we can now commence the new part of the process.

6 .Close the Pay Period.

You will have done this before, but now you cannot leave it open, it must be closed prior to processing STP.

Select 'Post+Advance Pays'

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The defaults on the following screen are normally fine, just double check that we are posting into the correct GL period.

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Click OK

Now proceed to the Single Touch Payroll Screen

Tools

     Single Touch Payroll

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Single Touch Payroll Create File Screen

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7 Single Touch Reporting

Once the Payslips are run, the ABA file has been uploaded to the bank & the Pay Period is closed, we can now commence the new part of the process.

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The screen is broken up into 3 sections.

Last Pay Run.

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Next Pay Run.

This is a double check that you have CLOSED the Pay Period

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It also gives you a clue as to what should be in the following section (ie the Pay Period & Run No should be less 1!)

This Pay Run

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You must set the following:-

• Process → New
• Date Pays Paid → The date your payroll arrived at the bank.
• Pay Period → The current Pay Period
• From / to → The Pay period from / to Dates
• Statement Declaration Accepted → Tick if you agree with the Declaration

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Once those fields are OK, you can then press 'Create Compile File'

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This create the file & produces the actual Payroll report that is sent to the ATO in the next step.

• You will get a 'Processing Complete' box, click 'OK'.

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This should equal your previous Payroll Reports.

Now Click on the 'Sent ATOUpload File' button

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A new screen is displayed

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The browse box will display the status of previous submissions.

Firstly, Validate File.

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If all goes well, you will get a successful Validation.

You may now 'Send to ATO'

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Once this has occurred, you will be able to click on the latest Issue ID and receive the status from the ATO.

The Message you are looking for is 'ATO_SUCCESS'.

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Procedure Complete

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Possible messages are:-

"INVALID_API_REQUEST"

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