If you pay contractors mainly for their labour, they are employees for superannuation guarantee (SG) purposes, and you may need to pay super to a fund for them. You can achieve this using the Ezipay system by following these steps:
Add a new Pay Schedule in payroll settings called “Monthly Contractor Super”
Set Frequency as Monthly
Set Included Employees as None
Add a new Employee
Set Award to No Award
Set Employment Agreement to No employment agreement
Set Pay Rate Template to Manually set rates
Set Pay Schedule to Monthly Contractor Super (as above)
Set Job Title to Contractor
Set Leave Allowance Template as No leave allowance template
Add a new Pay Run
Set Pay schedule to Monthly Contractor Super (as above)
Set Pay period ending to month end date applicable to the commencement of this new pay schedule e.g. 31st July
Set Date pay run will be paid to the same as the pay period ending as this is the first pay run
The Pay period starting date will now be updated to reflect the frequency of the pay schedule. e.g. 1st July
Select Create pay run with empty pays
The employees assigned to this pay schedule will appear automatically
Process the Pay Run
Before Finalise Pay Run you need to adjust the SG for each employee
Select the Employee by clicking on the employee name
From the employee Actions menu select Adjust Super and enter the amount required for the employee
Note that no earnings or leave should be present here - just SG
If you have leave accruals, Update Employee Leave Allowances set accrual units to 0 and disable the Can Apply For Leave for all categories.