STP Phase 2 · PAYEVNT.0004 · AU-hosted

The STP gateway that shouldn't be this cheap.

KeyPay charged $4–$6 per employee, per month. Employment Hero bought KeyPay and killed simple lodgement. So we built what they took away — then priced it like infrastructure. From $9/mo. Unlimited employees.

No per-employee fees
No contracts
Hosted in AWS Sydney
Pay event · Period 12 · FY 2026-27
Aria Patel
Software engineer
$4,820.00
Marcus Chen
Account manager
$3,950.00
Priya Singh
Designer (PT)
$2,640.00
Total gross
3 employees
Accepted
Do the math

How much you'd pay on every other STP gateway

A 100-employee small business sends fortnightly pay events. Here's what that costs.

Employment Hero
$400/mo

$4/emp/mo minimum across 100 staff. KeyPay’s simple lodgement was killed at acquisition.

Xero Payroll
$500/mo

Bundled into a Xero subscription. $5/employee adds up fast.

Legacy gateways
???/mo

Contact sales for pricing. Web-1.0 docs. Multi-week onboarding.

We're a fraction of the price because STP lodgement is plumbing. We don't need $500/mo from you — we need your pay events to clear the ATO, and the margin on that is near-zero.

Features

Everything you need for STP Phase 2

From employer setup to EOFY finalisation — Beeswax STP covers the full lodgement lifecycle.

Employer & employee management

ABN-validated employer profiles, encrypted TFN storage, address, super, and tax declarations — all in one place.

Disaggregated pay events

Capture STP Phase 2 line items: gross, OTE, allowances, leave, lump sums, super, and PAYG — with helpful validation as you go.

Direct ATO submission

PAYEVNT.0004 XBRL generation, ebMS3/AS4 signing via LS-ATO, and async lodgement to EVTE or production endpoints.

YTD running totals

Automatic year-to-date accumulation per employee, drill-down by income type, and EOFY finalisation in a single click.

OSF-aligned security

Mandatory MFA, full audit logging, encryption at rest, and an OWASP ASVS L2 self-assessment to back it up.

Who it's for

One product, three kinds of buyer

We don't care how you run payroll. You enter pay events, we lodge them to the ATO.

Employers

Lodging for your own business? $9/mo for up to 3 ABNs. Unlimited employees. Free forever for up to 4 active employees — same as the ATO no-cost register threshold.

Bookkeepers

$29/mo flat for unlimited clients. Bulk operations across employers. Tax-agent lodgement. Stop paying Xero $10/client wholesale and start running your book for under $1/day.

Sole traders

Free forever up to 4 employees. Lodge from a phone in under five minutes. No card on file, no contract, no upgrade nag.

How it works

Lodge a pay event in four steps

From draft to ATO acceptance in minutes — not days.

1

Set up your employer

Add your business ABN, branch, BMS ID, and ATO software credentials. Validated on entry.

2

Add employees

Capture TFN, address, super fund, tax declaration and income type. TFNs are encrypted at rest.

3

Build a pay event

Enter disaggregated line items per employee. Totals and validation happen as you type.

4

Submit to ATO

One click generates the XBRL, signs the ebMS3 envelope, and lodges to ATO EVTE or prod.

Built for ATO Operational Security Framework

Beeswax STP is designed against the OSF's 12 control areas — every requirement is mapped, evidenced, and audited.

Mandatory MFA (TOTP) AU data sovereignty TLS 1.2+ in transit Encrypted TFNs at rest 12-month audit retention ABN entity validation OWASP ASVS L2
Pricing

Pricing that shouldn't exist

Three plans. No per-employee fees. No setup costs. No annual contracts. Pick the one that matches what you do — not what features you might need.

All prices AUD ex-GST. Cancel any time. Free tier forever.

Free

Sole traders and micro-businesses

$0/month
  • 1 employer (ABN)
  • Up to 4 active employees
  • Unlimited STP lodgements
  • YTD & EOFY finalisation
  • Email support
Get started
For bookkeepers

Practice

Accountants, bookkeepers, tax agents

$29/month
  • Unlimited clients (ABNs)
  • Unlimited employees
  • Bulk operations across clients
  • Registered tax-agent lodgement
  • Priority support
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Need something custom for very high volume? Get in touch.

Stop paying per employee.

Free for up to 4 employees. $9/mo unlimited. $29/mo for bookkeepers. Takes under 10 minutes to set up, no credit card required.

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