New Single Touch Payroll updates were implemented in December 2023 to guide our clients to submit ALL STP batches in line with helping meet your legal obligations to comply with ATO requirements, and changes implemented by the ATO with STP information prefilling in the ATO Portal Electronic Business Activity Statement, as of 1st July 2023. For more information, please see the following knowledge article links:
Change of colour for the next batch to submit in the STP batch list
As of 22nd January 2024, there is a new feature that has been switched on in Attaché Single Touch Payroll that makes it much clearer how to Identify the next STP batch that needs to be submitted in the STP batch list. This batch will display in a darker blue colour.
In the screen shot below, batch 10 currently cannot be submitted because batch 11 has already been submitted and is in the status ATO Confirmed. Therefore batch 12 is the next batch to submit and displays in the darker blue colour.
Further notes based on the scenario and screen shot above
As per the article link above: Single Touch Payroll 2 Updates December 2023.
Batch 10 when opened will display the message: This will need to be submitted to the ATO in FY2024, and a tool is being built to resolve this and allow submission.
Batches 13 and 14 will display the message: A previous batch is unconfirmed after the last ATO confirmed batch that needs to be submitted.