This video explains how to lodge pay events to the ATO using Employment Era. It guides you through both immediate and manual pay event creation from the Pay Run, showing how to verify figures, handle warnings, and complete the lodgment process. The video also covers filtering employees, generating Excel reports, and managing terminated employees who have received ETP. Viewers will learn how to resolve issues in the warning section, submit pay events with two-factor authentication, and complete the declaration to queue the lodgment. The instructions are relevant for SCHADS employers and payroll administrators, providing clear steps to ensure accurate and compliant ATO submissions.
Today we're showing you how to lodge pay events to the ATO in Employment Era. As specialists who have processed thousands of successful lodgments, we'll ensure you understand exactly when and how to submit your pay events. You'll learn how to verify your figures, handle any warnings, and complete the lodgment process with confidence.
This can be done in two ways, from the Pay Run in Payap. When we're finalizing the Pay Run, you will be presented with the option to create a pay event: create pay event immediately or create pay event manually at a later date. You can edit this later if needed.
If you choose to create a pay event immediately, it will bring you directly to the newly created pay event for you to make the lodgment. In this case, I'm going to demonstrate creating a pay event manually at a later date. If you want to manually create the pay event at a later date, you can just come back to the Pay Run and select “Lodge Pay Run with ATO.”
Some things to note: you can filter employees by name or by employing entity if you have multiple employee entities. But please be aware that once lodged, all employees within the pay event will be lodged. From here, you can generate an Excel sheet containing the data from this pay event or an Excel sheet of the data for the year to date. You can easily customize the columns shown in the report by selecting the three blue lines here and choosing what you would like to see or remove.
Terminated employees who have received ETP will appear in the pay event as final, which will be checked. You can view the figures from the actual Pay Run by selecting “Show figures from this Pay Run.”
If there are any issues within the pay event, they will appear in the warning section. Where there are warnings, you will need to go back and resolve the issues mentioned. Once everything looks okay and the warnings have been resolved, you can select “Lodge with ATO.”
Once you've selected the “Lodge with ATO” button, you may be required to enter a verification code for two-factor authentication. Following this, you'll need to complete the Declaration checkbox, and the lodgment will then be queued for the ATO.
If you have any questions, just reach out to us at the support email or give us a call. Thanks.