Payday Super closely aligns with CloudPayroll’s Payday + 1 Business Day super automated payment model, reflecting a shared commitment to timeliness of superannuation payments.
CloudPayroll developed automated multiple payment frequencies to address long-standing payroll and superannuation potential challenges, including delayed contributions, administrative complexity and errors, while reinforcing the importance of treating superannuation with the same priority as employee wages.
CloudPayroll’s set-and-forget Payday +1 Business Day payment method ensures super contributions are processed closely with each pay run. This supports tighter cashflow management for employers, while giving employees the benefit of receiving their super sooner and greater visibility over their payments.
A manufacturing business using CloudPayroll’s automated super management feature said, “We like keeping things tight, so it made sense to move to payday plus one business day.”
A tourism business added, “We’ve always paid super monthly rather than quarterly. Switching to payday plus one business day was easy, and we’ve had no issues.”
As regulatory expectations continue to evolve, Payday Super and CloudPayroll’s Payday + 1 Business Day approach represent a shift toward real-time payroll accountability, bringing superannuation in line with modern payroll practices.
Payday Super will further enhance visibility of super contributions, enabling errors to be identified and corrected much earlier. With an estimated $18.9 billion in unclaimed superannuation held by the ATO as at 30 June 2025, more frequent and timely payments will help ensure employees receive the super they are entitled to, when they are entitled to it.
“Payday Super validates the approach CloudPayroll has taken for years, treating super as a real-time payroll obligation, not a deferred one. Our Payday plus 1 Business Day model was introduced many years ago to reduce risk, improve cashflow management and bring super payments in line with payroll to encourage better payroll discipline,” says Martin Gleeson, Managing Director at CloudPayroll.
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