For our Australian customers, that moment is arriving on 1 July 2026, with the introduction of Payday Super: a significant legislative change that affects how and when superannuation contributions are calculated, reported, and paid. It’s one of the more substantial updates to superannuation obligations in years, and it requires real changes to how payroll software works.
Here at 2cloudnine, we’ve been ready for this. Here’s what’s changing, what we’ve built, and why it matters.
What is Payday Super?
From 1 July 2026, employers must pay employees their super guarantee on payday, at the same time as their salary and wages. Contributions need to reach the employee’s super fund within seven business days of payday.
The big shift is timing: rather than employers remitting super on a quarterly cycle, contributions will need to be paid each pay run. That’s a meaningful operational change for most finance teams and payroll administrators alike.
But the changes go deeper than cadence. The updates also cover the definition and calculation of qualifying earnings (which is a new term that brings together ordinary time earnings (OTE) and other payments) as well as new annualised maximum contribution base and updated Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting requirements, and the ability to submit and monitor super contributions directly from the payroll platform.
What we’ve built
To meet these requirements, 2cloudnine is delivering the Hibiscus Release, scheduled for late May 2026, containing all the mandatory compliance features for Payday Super. All Australian customers will need to be on this release before 1 July.
A few things worth highlighting:
Qualifying earnings. The definition of earnings that attract super is expanding to include specific types of bonuses and commissions. We’re providing a detailed knowledge article to guide customers through reviewing and updating their pay codes, so nothing gets missed.
The maximum contribution base. The quarterly super cap is transitioning to an annualised cap, including certain salary sacrifice contributions. Once upgraded to the Hibiscus release, the system will automatically track this annual cap across the financial year for all pay batches from 1 July 2026.
Clearing house integration. Super Choice is our primary partner for this rollout, featuring a deep API integration that allows customers to manage contributions and resolve failed payments directly within the 2cloudnine platform. Other clearing houses remain available, though customers using those will be responsible for manually ensuring payments reach the fund within the 7-business-day window.
Payment failure visibility. If using the integrated Super Choice workflow, failed payment notifications from super funds come directly into the payroll platform, with full visibility into which record failed and why, enabling immediate correction.
What Australian customers should do now
Three actions to prioritise: review your pay codes to identify bonuses, commissions, or pre-tax deductions that may need updating; watch for the booking email communications about scheduling your Hibiscus upgrade; and brief your finance team on the shift from quarterly to per-pay-run super payments from 1 July.
Your Account Manager is available to walk you through the upgrade process, and there will be resources to support our customers and partners through the transition.
Built for compliance, wherever you operate
Payday Super is an Australian change. But the story it tells is a global one.
2cloudnine customers operate across the globe. Every market has its own regulatory landscape, its own reporting requirements, and its own cadence of legislative change. What Payday Super illustrates is the way our platform is built to respond: not as an afterthought, not through workarounds, but through purposeful product development that keeps customers on the right side of the rules.
Whether it’s STP reporting in Australia, real-time information (RTI) obligations in the UK, or state-specific payroll tax rules in the US, the principle is the same. Compliance should be something your payroll platform handles, not something your team scrambles to manage manually.
That’s what being Salesforce-native makes possible. Our platform lives inside the same ecosystem your business already runs on, which means updates, integrations, and compliance features can be delivered with the kind of speed and traceability that legacy systems simply can’t match.
