Payday Super Ready With Canyou

From 1 July 2026, super must be paid on the same day as wages and land in your employee's fund within seven days. If an employee's super details are wrong, you'll have almost no time to fix them before you're already in breach.

The good news: Canyou handles all of it automatically. But there are two things you need to set up before your next new starter arrives after 1 July.

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Your Pre-1 July Checklist

Step 1: Set up your default super fund in Canyou

Your default fund needs to be configured inside Canyou — not just in your payroll system. This is the fund employees see during onboarding if they don't have an existing fund or choose not to nominate one.

If this isn't set up, employees won't be shown a fallback option during onboarding, and Canyou can't automatically register them if they abandon the super choice form.

→ Go to Settings > Super in your Canyou account and confirm your default fund is configured.

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Step 2: Connect Canyou to the ATO (enables automatic super stapling)

This is the most important setup step. It's a one-time process that takes about five minutes, and once it's done, Canyou will automatically retrieve each new employee's existing super fund (called their "stapled fund") directly from the ATO during onboarding — no manual lookups, no chasing employees.

Follow these steps to connect Super Stapling in Canyou:

1. Log in to Canyou.
2. Navigate to Settings and select Superannuation.
3. Open the Super Stapling settings.
4. Follow the guided setup process to:
   • Connect to the ATO
   • Notify the ATO of a hosted software service
   • Verify and confirm the connection

The entire setup is guided step-by-step within Canyou, making it easy to complete.

Important: If you manage multiple businesses in Canyou, you will need to enable Super Stapling for each business individually. For BAS Agents and Tax Practioners, the ATO hosted service connection only needs to be completed once. After it has been established, it can be used across all of your businesses.

Video Guide

For a walkthrough of the process, watch this video:

Watch the video →

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What Canyou Does From Here

Once those two steps are done, here's what happens automatically for every new employee:

• Their stapled fund is retrieved from the ATO and shown to them during onboarding — they confirm it with one click, no manual entry required
• If they choose to join your default fund, Canyou registers their membership before their first payday
• All super details are validated in real time — typos, incorrect USIs, and inactive memberships are caught before they reach payroll
• If an employee abandons onboarding without completing their super choice, Canyou applies their stapled fund automatically (or registers them with your default fund if no stapled fund exists)
• From 1 July, Canyou will also support Member Verification Requests (MVRs) — a direct check with the super fund to confirm an account can receive contributions before payment is made

The result: no bounced payments, no compliance gaps, and no manual follow-up.

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Why This Matters More From 1 July

Under the old rules, super was paid quarterly. You had up to 120 days to catch and correct errors. From 1 July, you have seven days from payday — and by the time a payment bounces back, you may already be late. The liability sits with you as the employer, regardless of why the details were wrong.

Getting your setup right before the deadline means Canyou handles all of this for you, automatically, from day one.

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Need Help Getting Set Up?

Join one of our upcoming setup webinars. We'll walk you through both steps live and make sure you leave with everything configured.

Register for the webinar →

If you'd prefer to do it yourself, the step-by-step guide is available in Canyou under Settings > Super.