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Lightning Payroll can warn you before paying above the super concessional cap, to help employees avoid paying excess tax.

From the ATO:

"Concessional contributions are made into your super fund before tax, and include:

• employer contributions, such as  
  • compulsory employer contributions
  • any additional concessional contributions your employer makes
  • salary sacrifice payments made to your super fund
  • other amounts paid by your employer from your before-tax income to your super fund, such as administration fees and insurance premiums

Once the concessional contributions are in your super fund, they are taxed at the 15% rate. There are caps on the concessional contributions you can make each financial year. If you go over the cap, you may have to pay extra tax."

Lightning Payroll includes a setting to help monitor this cap under Employees >> Super >> Superannuation Contributions >> Alert When Over Concessional Cap? by ticking this box the program will alert you whenever the employee's super has exceeded the cap for a given year.

From 1 July 2021 the general concessional contributions cap is $27,500 per year, regardless of your age.

This alert will appear when you try to Save & Close an employees Pay who has gone over the cap.