Payday Super guides for bookkeepers
Short, sourced answers to the questions a practice actually asks now that super is due every payday. Every date in these guides is checked against the same engine that runs the free deadline checker, and every rule quotes the ATO page it comes from.
Payday Super deadlines explained for bookkeepers
The 7-business-day rule, what "received" means, how business days are counted nationally, the longer windows, and a checklist a practice can run every pay cycle.
Read the guide →Which public holidays move a Payday Super deadline? Every state counts
The ATO's definition is national: an NT holiday moves a Perth deadline. Every state-wide holiday from July 2026 to June 2027 in one table, plus the ones that do not count and why.
Read the guide →Does Melbourne Cup Day move a Payday Super deadline? (2026)
Short answer: no. Cup Day 2026 is a business day for Payday Super in every state. The three late-October paydays it touches, worked out, and the reason in one paragraph.
Read the guide →The new-employee 20-business-day rule under Payday Super, and the bunching rule that follows it
First pay for a new starter: 20 business days, not 7. The ATO's worked example, the bunching rule for the second pay, and the two ways practices get it wrong.
Read the guide →Clearing-house cut-offs and send-by dates: working back from the Payday Super deadline
"Sent" is not "received". How to walk a deadline back through your clearing house's processing time to a send-by date you can actually work to, per client.
Read the guide →Why most Payday Super calculators get the date wrong
The ATO counts every state's holidays, wherever you are. Most calculators count yours, or only the national ones. What each mistake does to a Perth employer's 25 September pay run — and how to tell which kind of tool you are looking at.
Read the guide →Tools that go with them
- Deadline checker — payday in, fund-receipt date and send-by date out; optional email reminders 5, 3 and 1 business days before the send-by date, for that one deadline.
- 2026–27 deadline calendar — every weekly, fortnightly and monthly pay run already worked out, with six .ics feeds you can subscribe to.
- Due dates around public holidays — every 2026–27 payday a holiday moves (or does not), worked out day by day.
- SuperDue itself — every client's pay runs on one board with alerts before the deadline. Free for up to 3 clients.