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What should I review in Deputy after registering an Australian Business Number (ABN)?

If your organisation has recently registered for an Australian Business Number (ABN), it’s a good idea to review settings across your Deputy account. Depending on how you use Deputy, your ABN may affect billing, new hire onboarding, payroll, compliance, government reporting, or integrations.

This article outlines suggested areas to review to help keep your account configuration and business details up to date.
 

Before you read

  • Target audience: This article is for users with System Administrator access.
  • Plan restrictions: This article is intended for Deputy accounts that operate within Australia. The sections covering Deputy HR and Deputy Payroll (AU) require the relevant add-on subscriptions.

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Why should I review my Deputy account after registering an ABN?

Some Australia-specific features in Deputy use your ABN to identify your business and support functionality related to payroll, new hire onboarding, tax reporting, and integrations.

Reviewing your settings can help you check:

  • Your business details are up to date
  • Payroll settings are configured correctly, if you use Deputy Payroll (AU)
  • Eligible employees can complete Australian onboarding processes, if you use Deputy HR
  • Australian government integrations, such as Australian Taxation Office (ATO), are configured as expected, if you use Deputy HR
  • Connected integrations continue to work as expected 
     

Billing and company details

Review your billing and company details in Deputy to check whether any updates are needed after registering an ABN.

In the Billing section of your account, you can:

  • Add or update your organisation's legal business name and company address details under the Edit Company Address section
  • Check the legal business name is correct in the Tax information section
  • Review and update the billing address, if needed

  • Review the details in the payment method details (Direct Debit, Credit Card), if needed

Check out: How to access your company billing and payment details

View of Billing page navigation for ABN updates.

 

Deputy HR

New hire onboarding (Deputy HR)

If you use Deputy HR for new hire onboarding, you should add your ABN as a business entity.

Adding an ABN allows you to use Australian onboarding features such as:

  • Superannuation choice during onboarding
  • SuperAPI integration, including stapled super fund identification during onboarding

Check out: Adding your Australian Business Number (ABN)


 

ATO connection and automations

After adding your ABN as a business entity, you can connect Deputy to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).

Once connected, you can activate the following automations (optional):

  • TFN Declarations:  Auto-submits tax file number declaration forms to the ATO
  • Super Stapling: Allow employees to retrieve existing super fund details via the ATO during onboarding

These automations can reduce manual steps when collecting tax and superannuation information during onboarding.

Check out: Setting up your business entity and default superannuation fund details (Australia only)
 

Deputy Payroll (AU)

Payroll settings

If you use Deputy Payroll (AU), review the payroll business entity associated with the ABN.

This includes checking your:

  • Business details, including trading name and contact information
  • Bank account details
  • Pay calendars
  • Superannuation settings
  • Extra earnings, deductions, and expenses
  • Payslip preferences
  • Accounting export settings

If your organisation has branches registered with the ATO under the same ABN, with separate branch numbers, you may want to check whether setting up ABN branching in Deputy Payroll is relevant for you. 

Check out: Introduction to the Pay tab in Business Settings.
 

Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting

Review your STP configuration, including:

  • Software ID registration with the ATO
  • Whether STP reports are submitted directly or through a Tax Agent or Registered Agent

Review these settings before you process your first pay run for the business entity.

Check out: How do I submit the pay run to the ATO via STP? and ATO Agent STP submissions
 

Multiple business entities 

If your organisation operates under more than one ABN, review your business entity structure in Deputy Payroll.

Each business entity has its own:

  • Payroll configuration
  • Bank account details
  • Pay calendars
  • STP configuration

Check out: How do I set up multiple business entities in Payroll?
 

Xero integration

If registering an ABN is part of a change to your organisation’s business structure, and you use Deputy with Xero, review whether your current Xero integration setup still reflects that structure.

You may like to take a look at the Xero integration guides for information about connecting your Xero organisation, syncing employee and leave information, and exporting timesheets.

Check out: Connect Xero