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#TipTuesday - What's in an STP submission? 💻
Hey everyone!
Welcome to the final #TipTuesday of 2024! Can you believe how quick time has just flown by!
Today we're going to explore STP submissions in a little more detail including some important things to understand when it comes to prefill data for BAS.
What is sent in an STP submission?
Since the introduction of STP back in 2018, there are two things included in an STP submission when you send it to the ATO; Employer Data & Employee Data
✨ Employee Data includes the Year to Date (YTD) breakdown of the employee’s pays which is used for their Income Statement.
✨ Employer Data includes a total gross and total PAYG for the pay run itself and is not a YTD balance. This is the data that the ATO have now started using to prefill the W1 and W2 fields in the BAS.
What should I be aware of?
Under the old STP Phase 1 method, you could potentially miss a submission and then just send the subsequent one when the next pay run rolls around and the employee YTD balances would update & be correct from the employee data.
There would be no bearing on BAS prefill as employer data wasn't being prefilled under STP Phase 1.
However, as you know we've switched over and are exclusively reporting STP under STP Phase 2 from 2023. The ATO is also using STP Phase 2 data to prefill using employer data, which just to reiterate, is the total gross & PAYG of that individual pay run itself (not reported as a YTD balance like employee data is).
Now, since its a total of that specific pay run this means it will impact prefill balances in the event you send through the same submission multiple times, miss a submission, the submission results in an error etc.
So with all that said, if you notice the ATO's BAS prefill balances are incorrect, its recommended that you edit the W1 & W2 fields to correct them to what they should be.
How does an update event affect prefill data?
An update event-type submission doesn't have any employer component in the submission, it only adjusts employee data. When you send an Update Event ie. to make changes to, or make corrections to employee balances it only adjusts that employee data only.This is why it only shows that an entry has been received in the ATO Portal but doesn't show any detail. Since there is no employer data component in the submission it won't make any changes to the BAS prefill either.
More info
I'd also recommend checking out our help guide on this here -
I know that's a lot of information but hopefully it helps in understanding how an STP submission works and also why, at times, BAS prefill balances may need amending.
We'll be back next year with more #TipTuesday, thank you to everyone who has contributed this year! 🙌
Rav
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Re: Our continuing backup saga
HI @PeterC67
There is no need to run the Clean Up Company Data function.
It is best to rename or remove the TLG file that is on the Hosted platform, when you are renaming or removing the QBW file, when it is being replaced by a rebuilt file that is being upload from your computer to the Hosted platform.
Ensure that the file that is uploaded from your computer to the Hosted platform, which initially goes to the Q:\Upload folder is moved (cut/paste) from that Q:\Uplod folder to where the company data file is normally accessed from.
For people who do not share their data file, typically the QBW file would be in the Q:\ (which is the root folder or the Q: drive).
For people who do share their files so that other Hosted users are able to access it, the QBW file would be in a shared folder location.
Datarec
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If you'd like to email me direct, I'll send you my help guide I've written up on this ☺️
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Sorry, this is for the desktop version. I have posted this question in the correct area now :-)
Re: Where has a deposit to sales order been posted?
Hi @Vanessa Hales ,
First, access the customer center and select the relevant customer. Upon selection, the customer transactions will be displayed. If the sales order indicates that it is paid and you have received the payment, there should be a corresponding payment transaction. You can view the account information in the payment row under the account column, as shown in the image below.
Hope this helps.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to post it in our community.
Kind regards,
Reeta
Re: Our continuing backup saga
So, we have had success, and have done a verify and integrity check on our data, locally.
How do I move it to the same folder when I re-upload it to the cloud?
IGNORE - Patience is a virtue. Just had to be a wee bit more patient.
We have gone from 15k file fragments to 3
PeterC67
Re: ✅RESOLVED - Reckon One & Reckon Payroll access issues (15 December)
Thanks for resloving the issue. I just logged in and it works. Processed our payroll and sent emails. All good.
Syed
Syed
✅RESOLVED - Reckon One & Reckon Payroll access issues (15 December)
✅ ISSUE RESOLVED - CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST UPDATE
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Hi everyone
We're currently investigating reports of Reckon One and Reckon Payroll being inaccessible to users.
When logging into Reckon One, you may be encountering the below error message.
Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this is causing. We've got our teams investigating as we speak and more updates will follow below.
Rav