How Do I Process End of Year Single Touch Payroll in the Web or Mobile App?

Note: this method only works if you have submitted STP for at least one event throughout the financial year being reported.

Before You Begin

Online and mobile users must have a valid SSID registered before sending STP. See How Can I Send STP Using Lightning Payroll? for setup details.

Submitting the Final Pay of the Financial Year

1. Open the pay run that contains your last pays for June.
2. Click the Single Touch button in the Pays screen, then select Submit Payroll To ATO.
3. On the Single Touch Selection screen, select the employees to submit and confirm the event type (New or Update).
4. Tick the Final pay for the financial year? checkbox.
5. If you are submitting as a third party, also tick Submit as a third party/tax agent? and choose the appropriate role.
6. Click Next. If this is your first STP submission, you will be prompted to agree to the ATO declarations before continuing.
7. If the app detects this is likely your last pay for the financial year and the Final pay for the financial year? checkbox is not yet ticked, a prompt titled Final Pay Of Financial Year? will appear asking whether this is the last pay for these employees. Answer Yes to set the final pay indicator automatically.
8. Review the preview and submit to the ATO.

Sending a Second Submission to Cover All Employees

A New event only includes employees from the current pay run. If some employees were paid earlier in the year but are not in this final pay run, send STP a second time from the same pay run with Final pay for the financial year? ticked. The second submission will be an Update event, which lets you include all employees paid during the financial year. It is safe for an employee to appear in both the New and Update finalisation events ÔÇö their figures will not be doubled up.

Checking ATO Responses

To check for responses, click Single Touch in the Pays screen and select Single Touch Mailbox. Lightning Payroll checks for new responses automatically overnight. Responses from the ATO can take anywhere from two minutes to three days.

Verifying Finalisation Status

To confirm which employees have been finalised, go to Reports and open the STP Finalised Employees For Financial Year report. Set the date range to cover the financial year and use the Tax Readiness Filter to find employees who have not yet been marked as tax ready. This report shows the processed date, submission date, and whether each employee's submission was marked as a final event.

For further detail on the desktop version of this process, see How Do I Process End of Year Using Single Touch Payroll?