Single Touch Payroll - Replace Lodged Report

A full replacement provides the ability for an employer to replace the latest submit action that was sent to the ATO in error or contains significant corrupt data. Once the replacement is successful, the original data will be replaced with the new submitted data.

• A replacement may only be used to replace the latest successful submit report.
• You are only allowed to replace a lodgement once every 24 hours.
• A replacement cannot apply to an update report.

Replacing an "Auto Generated" Pay run

This section is for replacing a lodged report that was automatically generated by the payroll system.

• Click S.T.P. icon from the application toolbar
• Find the last successful lodged pay run with "Auto Generated" payroll type
• Click the Lodge icon
• The lodgement window appears and you should see the word "Replace" instead of "Lodge"
• Click Replace to lodge the replacement report

Replacement only allowed for the latest successful Submit report, when you try to replace a lodged pay run that is not the last successful Submit report, you will get a warning message to use the Replace / Update icon and lodge an update report.

Replacing a "Manually Created" Pay run

This section is for replacing a lodged report that was created manually.

• Click S.T.P. icon from the application toolbar
• Find the last successful lodged pay run with "Manually Created" payroll type
• Click the Replace / Update icon
• The single touch payroll report window appears and the report type is to "Replace"
• Review the current employees' details
• Click Save to save the replacement report
• Click the Lodge icon
• The lodgement window appears
• Click Lodge to lodge the replacement report