Workflow improvement suggestion – STP and Payday Super export

To the Reckon Accounts Product Team

I would like to suggest a workflow improvement for STP and Payday Super processing in Reckon Accounts Premier.

Currently, when completing a pay run in Single Touch Payroll Lodgements, the software allows exporting the STP JSON file directly from the pay event screen. However, after exporting, the window closes and users must then manually navigate to Super Data Report, select dates, and export the SAFF file separately.

This creates unnecessary duplication and increases the risk of errors, particularly under the new Payday Super requirements where super must be paid for each individual pay run.

The pay event screen already contains:

Pay run date
Employee selection
Gross totals
STP event data
Payroll context for that specific run

It would be far more efficient if:

The Single Touch Payroll Lodgements window remained open after exporting the STP JSON file.
The Super Export button generated a SAFF file for that specific pay run date automatically, without opening the Super Data Report or requiring manual date selection.
The SAFF export used the same pay date already shown in the STP event (e.g. 09/04/2026).
Optionally, Reckon could also:
- Mark the pay run as “Super Exported”
- Prevent duplicate exports
- Provide a combined “STP + Super Export” button for Payday Super workflows

This would align Reckon with the upcoming Payday Super requirements and significantly reduce the risk of:

exporting incorrect date ranges
duplicate super submissions
missing contributions
reconciliation discrepancies

The current process requires users to manually recreate the pay run using date filters, which is both inefficient and prone to error.

A direct SAFF export from the pay event screen would streamline the workflow:

Process Payroll → Export STP → Export SAFF → Pay Super

This would make Reckon far more practical for businesses processing payroll weekly under Payday Super.

Warm regards

Robert Frischke

Status: New idea

Comments

Eric Murphy

Nice idea Rob, added my vote.

Now that the SAFF method is going to become much more common with the small business house closure this would be handy improvements

Acctd4

Some users - especially those with only 1 or 2 employees - will login to their clearing house & just continue to enter submissions manually though 😬

So it would be a good option to have available for enabling in Preferences, but shouldn't be automatic as not everyone will be adopting the SAFF file process (assuming the funds don't disable this option of course, which doesn't appear to be the plan 😊)

Eric Murphy

That's true good thinking Shaz, not everyone will be using saff I think

1384335

Just to clarify, this wouldn’t replace or remove the existing Super Data Report workflow.

Users could still go to Employees → Super Data Export and run or review reports as they do now (or potentially preview from the pay run screen).

The goal here is simply to reduce the risk of error by using the same pay run context and date selection already defined in the STP event, rather than requiring users to manually recreate it in a separate screen.

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