Data & Payment Standards Guidance

Note: Once guidance notes have been endorsed by the Superannuation Data Standards Technical Group (SDSTG), formally known as the SuperStream Standard Technical Committee (SSTC), it is expected by the ATO that the guidance notes will be implemented throughout the entire industry.

These guidance notes will be assessed annually by the ATO. It is expected if you are unable to implement any guidance note you will contact the ATO to advise the reason of non-compliance and a future implementation plan.

When technical documents are re-versioned, relevant guidance notes will be included in any updated Message Implementation Guides (MIGs) and/or User Guides making them enforceable under the Data & Payment Standard from the date the updated guidance documents are published.

Guidance Notes Issued

ID

Description

Date

G052 Unexpected OtherContributionsAmount Tuple (PDF, 43KB) 22/02/2022
G051 SuperStream payments using NPP (PDF, 119KB) 19/11/2021
G050 Legislative change for LISC and LISTO (DOCX, 88.33KB) 20/04/2017
G049 RecordCount validation (DOCX, 87.56KB) 20/04/2017
G048 Rollover reconciliation rules (DOCX, 87.84KB) 20/04/2017
G047 SourceABN and SourceUSI for IRR & RTR (DOCX, 86.31KB) 20/04/2017
G046 Fund USI parameter in MROR and CTER (PDF, 50.22KB) 01/06/2016
G045 Schema values under rollover MIG v2.0 (PDF, 52.81KB) 01/06/2016
G044 Orphan IRR (PDF, 82.5KB) 19/04/2016
G043 Invalid TFN values in SuperStream messages (DOCX, 80KB) 07/04/2016

G042

Member ID parameter included in MRORs (DOCX, 80KB)

13/11/2015

G041

Electronic Error Messaging property (DOCX, 80KB)

13/11/2015

G040

MemberID parameter included in MRORs

Superseded – please see G042

16/10/2015

G039

Essential information for refund of SuperStream contributions (DOCX, 119KB)

16/10/2015

G038

Basic character set for string elements in SuperStream messages (DOCX, 81KB)

01/10/2015

G037

Invalid TFN values in SuperStream messages

Superseded - see G043

28/08/2015

G036

ABN unknown to SMSF service provider (DOCX, 82KB)

11/08/2015

G035

Response messaging phases and dates

04/06/2015

G034

Duplicate employer contexts (DOCX, 85KB)

20/05/2015

G033

Expected timeframe for a CTER response (DOCX, 83KB)

05/05/2015

G032

Employer with no entitlement to an ABN

Superseded – see Contributions MIG v1.4

04/05/2015

G031

Requirements for Entering Decimals for Weekly Hours Worked in the Member registration request (MRR) Message (DOCX, 76KB)

Download the ‘patch file’ for emsup.02.08.data.xsd referred to in the guidance note

12/03/2015

G030

Multiple instances of the same member within an XBRL document (Duplicate TFN)

Superseded – see Contributions MIG v1.4

11/02/2015

G029

Allowable characters for organisation name in SuperStream messages (DOCX 76.6KB)

11/02/2015

G028

Use of additional punctuation in name titles (DOCX, 84KB)

11/02/2015

G027

Requirements for Entering Decimals for Weekly Hours Worked in the Member registration request (MRR) Message

Download the ‘patch file’ for sprcnt.0001.memreg.request.02.01.report referred to in the guidance note

Superseded - please see G031

11/02/2015

G026

Multiple employer IDs with the same ABN (DOCX, 86KB)

15/12/2014

G025

Employer with no entitlement to an ABN

Superseded - please see G032

28/11/2014

G024

International addresses in SuperStream contributions (DOCX, 83KB)

18/11/2014

G023

Requirements for entering ‘BPAY’ as a contributions payment type (DOCX, 78KB)

Download the ‘patch file’ for dtyp.0.2.3:sbrPaymentMethodCodeItemType referred to in the guidance note

24/09/2014

G022

Default values for mandatory fields when data is unavailable (DOCX, 80KB)

27/10/2014

G021

Use of the payment reference number (spaces) (DOCX, 101KB)

25/09/2014

G020

Limiting the size of large contributions files (DOCX, 367KB)

17/06/2014

G019

Contributions for defined benefits (DOCX, 108KB)

07/05/2014

G018

Updated error handling guidance (2014) (DOCX, 186KB)

04/08/2014

G017

Sending Member Registration Outcome Response (MROR) messages (DOCX, 316KB)

01/10/2014

G016

Optimisation of responses for contributions (DOCX, 240KB)

04/08/2014

G015

SuperStream alternative file format guidance (DOCX, 75KB)

View the alternative format (XLSX, 32KB)

04/04/2014

04/08/2014

G014

Telephone numbers (DOC, 86KB)

09/09/2013

G013

Must Understand Attribute (DOC, 95KB)

03/09/2013

G012

Applying maximum severity to outcome response messages (DOC, 95KB)

02/09/2013

G011

Zero length parameters on outcome response messages (DOC, 105KB)

29/08/2013

G010

ABN in conversation ID (DOC, 104KB)

29/08/2013

G009

Field specification (DOC, 175KB)

14/08/2013

G008

Schematron error for TFN validation (DOC, 177KB)

14/08/2013

G007

Conversation ID and Part ID (DOC, 172KB)

02/08/2013

G006

Updated error handling guidance (Jun 2013)

Superseded - please see G018

03/06/2013

G005

Unique Transaction ID (Conversation ID) (DOC, 213KB)

08/03/2013

G004

XPath – Message Error Handling (DOC, 213KB)

18/04/2013

G003

ebMS AS4 Message Structure (DOC, 213KB)

18/04/2013

G002

IP vs URL address for Fund Validation Service (DOC, 213KB)

08/03/2013

G001

Unique Superannuation Identifier – SPIN (DOC, 213KB)

21/03/2013

 

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