Payday Super is a change to how you calculate and when you pay your employees’ super guarantee. From 1 July 2026, you must pay employees their super guarantee on payday, at the same time as their salary and wages.

You can read more about the requirements from the ATO here.

Qualifying earnings (QE) is a new term for the types of payments you make to employees that are used to calculate the super guarantee (SG) under Payday Super. This term is similar to the OTE amount used to calculate the super guarantee prior to 1 July 2026.

Qualifying earnings include the following (per the ATO).

You can see specifically what payments count as qualifying earnings here.

Beam is a super clearing house and is the primary method of paying Super in Tanda. You can read about Beam and Payday Super here. To learn more about Tanda's integration with Beam, see this article.

The following changes have been made in Tanda to manage higher volumes of super batches more effectively and provide greater visibility into each one, helping ensure they are paid accurately and on time.

Super batches can now be automatically created after posting a pay run. Turn this setting on under Payroll > Payroll Settings > Company Setup > Super Batch Settings.

With this ticked, a new super batch will be created for your pay run once posted. Only the employees from that pay run will be included in the batch.

The following updates have been made to make monitoring super batches easier.

Tanda now communicates with Beam more frequently each day. In addition, batch updates are now more detailed, allowing you to see exactly what stage each super batch is at in Tanda, with the following statuses:

In addition to the above super batch statuses, you'll see a new column on pay runs indicating the associated batch status: Paid, Unpaid, Partially Paid, Due Soon, Unfinalised, or Needs Action.

You can filter pay runs by these statuses to quickly find any that need attention. After July 1, pay runs with super unpaid for more than 7 business days will be flagged as Overdue.

Push notifications are now also available for super batch status updates. Configure these under Notifications > Notification Settings:

The Super Accruals Report now includes a ‘Business days taken to pay’ column, allowing you to easily confirm the number of business days between the payment date of the pay run and when the super accruals were actually sent to the fund.

Qualifying Earnings have been added to the Employee Year to Date Balances report. Note that the values in this column will remain at $0.00 until the 2026-2027 financial year, as they only become relevant from 1 July 2026.

This change from a quarterly to an annual MCB has been implemented in Tanda for the 2026–27 financial year.

The income limit for the 2025–26 financial year is $62,500 per quarter as listed on the ATO website. For 2026–27, the MCB is expected to be $250,000 for the financial year.

The MCB for a financial year is calculated using the following formula (rounded down to the nearest 10 dollar multiple): Concessional contributions cap × 100 ÷ charge percentage.

Learn more about the Maximum Super Contribution Cap in Tanda here.

You can also customise what is classified as 'Qualifying Earnings' in Tanda for custom setups.

Tick the Qualifying Earnings tickbox to include it in super calculations. This option is available for Earnings Rates, Leave Types, Lump Sums and Termination Payment Types.

For FAQs and more information about Payday Super, please see this post.