MYOB vs Flare support
Hi Team, We've received an email message below:- Complete your ATO setup to keep onboarding compliant. From 1 July 2026, new super stapling requirements will apply when you onboard new employee...
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Hey Kris_KP
Stapled fund lookups are becoming a compulsory act for a business to attempt when providing digital onboarding. This comes into effect 1 July 2026.
Flare is an MYOB owned business that powers onboarding for your MYOB clients. Flare will need to be authorised in the ATO Access Manager in order to attempt the stapled fund look up. If authorisation is not provided, businesses will need to perform a manual stapled fund look up which may increase the risk of payment delay for newly onboarded employees.
The business’ Principal Authority/Authorised Administrator can do this easily in the ATO Access Manager. Check out our support article for more information. Hope this clarifies things, feel free to reach out if you have further questions.
In simple words, is this compulsory or not
Hey Helen_Keegan
From 1 July 2026, employers must attempt a stapled fund lookup where a new employee does not nominate a super fund.
You can complete this:
- manually via the ATO, or
- by authorising Flare to handle it as part of onboarding
Flare is optional. If you don’t authorise it, you can continue to manage this manually.Our business owner is having issues adding via the ATO. Can you please send/attach an article on how to manually staple the fund. Thank you
Afternoon DWheeler,
If you have processed at least one payroll, which includes the employee, that has not provided details, the steps are as follows:
Log into your ATO portal > access your client/self > Business > employee super accounts > enter employee details, TFN, date of birth, address and request. All this is under the Business Header where the STP reporting etc.
Please remember to include in your employee engagement letters that your default fund or stapled fund look up will be used if the information is not provided.
Happy Stapled Fund Look Up.
