The Small Business Super Clearing House (SBSCH) — the free ATO-run service that has paid super for hundreds of thousands of Australian small employers since 2010 — closes permanently on 30 June 2026. After that date, no new contributions can be lodged through SBSCH and the service is decommissioned. Every employer currently using it must switch to a commercial clearing house before 30 June.
This is not optional and there is no extension. The closure is part of the broader transition to Payday Super, which starts 1 July 2026 — and SBSCH was never built to handle per-pay-cycle contributions.
Commercial clearing house options. Most modern payroll software ships with an integrated clearing house: Xero Auto Super, MYOB Super Portal, QuickBooks Super, Reckon GovConnect. These charge nothing extra (the cost is bundled into the payroll subscription) and the integration handles SuperStream formatting automatically. Standalone clearing houses include Beam (used by many funds including Australian Super, Hostplus, REST), ClickSuper, and SuperChoice — these typically charge a small per-employee or per-payment fee.
What to do, in order. First, check whether your current payroll software has an integrated super solution — if you use Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks or Reckon, the answer is almost certainly yes. Second, register and verify the integration before your final SBSCH run — most clearing houses need 1–2 weeks to verify your business and connect to your default super fund. Third, run your last SBSCH payment with enough lead time for the funds to clear by 30 June (10 business days is safe). Fourth, run your first commercial-clearing-house contribution as a small test before relying on it for a full payroll cycle. Fifth, update your default super fund details, employee TFN records, and any direct-debit authorisations.
Common mistakes during the switchover. Double-paying super because the new clearing house processes a contribution while the old SBSCH instruction is still pending — always wait for SBSCH confirmation before queuing the same payment elsewhere. Missing employees who joined late in the year and haven't been added to the new clearing house yet. Forgetting to update the choice-of-fund and stapled-fund logic in your payroll system if you're moving providers as well as clearing houses.
Get the switch done in May 2026. June is going to be a logistical squeeze for everyone — your accountant, your bookkeeper, the clearing houses themselves — and a missed contribution becomes Super Guarantee Charge territory fast.