First Choice required a change in Employee Number ID's

Question

I had change from Ozedi to first choice as a super clearance house

First choice wasn' First choice wasn't happy with the employee' Number ID’s

This is at April 2026

I went through the process, lodging all STP’s up to date  and then submitting a Nil” for a financial year after tha successful STP submissions

All made to the ATO via GovConnect.

I had already lodged my STP’s upto April 26

I submitted a nill statement through STP reporting tool.

Now moving forward

Do I have to resubmit the previous STP’s upto April 2026, ?

Or will the next STP I submit carry the YTD information, and that is all that is required

Acctd4 · Answer

Hi @tonys63

You shouldn't have needed to make any STP adjustments - I've had employee number "space v no space" differences in STP submissions & it was unaffected, so as far as I'm aware, it's not impacted by spaces, only different characters 🤔

If you Preview a new STP submission now, what does it show ?  This will determine what you need to do next 😊

NOTE: STP doesn't submit each pay run's totals independently.  Instead, it just updates (eg increases/decreases) all relevant STP YTD balances.  So technically, you shouldn't need to do anything as the fresh submission upload should automatically update all those YTD balances accordingly.

tonys63 · Answer

I moved from Ozedi to First Choice super

my files uploaded to Ozedi and STP all fine up to April 26

Prior to April 26 in my reckon hosted company file the Payroll Number Identifier for each employee included a space, as in E 0010

In April 26 i moved to First Choice super

First Choice super will not accept a saff upload file where the Payroll Number Identifier includes a space  as in E 0010

In order for First Choice super to accept a saff  the Payroll Number Identifier can not include a space

I therefore had to change the Payroll Number Identifier to E00010

With a format without spaces for the First Choice Super upload to work

So to change Payroll Number Identifier the steps were

1    complete all stp uploads,

2  STP upload a NIL year end statement

3   change the Payroll Number Identifier in reckon

4  Then upload a new SAFF to First choce

Now with a new employee numbers in Reckon when do i have to redo all the previous weekly STP uploads,

or will the next usual week STP I upload have the YTD's and there is no need to re upload the first 40 weeks

Apologies for the confusion

Rav · Answer

I have a space after the letter and before the Numbers, and that did not comply with the First choice protocol, hence i need to change the Employee ID Numbers in reckon, in order for First Choice to accept the SAFF files

Is the above referring to the employee number or the Member Number of their super fund membership?

The employee number should not be changed, or at least done so in the rarest of circumstances as it will impact STP data as Shaz has mentioned above. Can I just confirm whether its the Member Number that you need to correct and remove the spaces rather than the employee number itself.