Check Company Data

Form ID: (MP.PP.50.20)

On the Check Company Data form, you can run a series of validation checks on the data in your system, to ensure that it is suitable for sending to the ATO via Single Touch Payroll. Details of any errors encountered are displayed—these errors will prevent STP data from being sent, and must be corrected before you try to send data to the ATO via STP.

Form Toolbar

The form toolbar includes a single form-specific button.

Button Description
Run validation Runs the validation checks and populates the main table with the details of an errors found.

Main Table

The main table displays the details of any errors found by the validation checks.

Element Description
ID The ID number of the entity that has an error. Click on the ID to open the entity's record in the appropriate window:
  • Employees open in the Employees (EP.20.30.00) form.
  • Branches open in the Branches (CS.10.20.00) form.
  • Pay items open in the Pay Item Liabilities (MP.PP.10.25) form, as this is the form where you can edit pay items' reporting categories.
Entity Name The type of entity: Payer, Employee or Pay Item
Error Details of the error.

Validation Checks

The validation process checks a variety of payer, employee and pay item details for data that is missing or invalid.

Payer Details

The following details on the Branches (CS.10.20.00) form must exist and contain valid information:
  • CDFId
  • ABN
  • Company ID
  • Company Name
  • Phone 1
  • Address Line 1
  • City
  • Post Code (only if the Jurisdiction Country is AU - AUSTRALIA)
  • State (only if the Jurisdiction Country is AU - AUSTRALIA)

Employee Details

The following details on the Employees (EP.20.30.00) form must exist and contain valid information:
  • Last Name
  • Date of Birth
  • Post Code (only if the Country is AU - AUSTRALIA)
  • Payment Summary Type - this is set on the Employment tab of the Pay Details (MP.PP.23.l0) form.
The following details are not mandatory, but if they do exist, they must contain valid information:
  • Phone 1
  • Address Line 1 and 2
  • City
  • State

Pay Details

The following validation rules are applied to the Pay Details (MP.PP.23.10) form:
  • When Employment Basis Code is V (Voluntary agreement), an Income type of VOL (Voluntary agreement) must be provided.
  • Levy exemption? must only be selected if the Tax scale is 2 or 6.
  • Levy reduction? must only be selected if the Tax scale is 2 or 6.
  • The country code cannot be au, nf, cx, cc or hm.

Pay Item Details

The following validation rules are applied to pay items:
  • Taxable Income pay items must have a reporting category.
  • Employer Super pay items must have a reporting category.
  • Salary Sacrifice Employee Super pay items must have a reporting category.
  • Allowance pay items cannot have the "Allowances" reporting category, as this category only applies to Payment Summaries, not STP.