Odoo Partner · Australia
Odoo Partner Australia, Senior-Led ERP for Australian SMEs
Odoo Partner Australia — GST, BAS, Single Touch Payroll, Superannuation & Peppol Implementation
GST and BAS. Single Touch Payroll Phase 2. Superannuation Guarantee at 12%. Peppol e-invoicing. The Australian compliance stack is its own thing — and it deserves an Odoo partner who treats it that way, not as an afterthought to a US implementation.
Get a Senior-Led ConsultationAs an Odoo Ready Partner, Octura Solutions delivers senior-led Odoo ERP implementations for Australian SMEs, with hands-on expertise in BAS, Single Touch Payroll Phase 2, Superannuation, and Peppol e-invoicing.
The Myth: An American or UK Setup Will Work in Australia
It is tempting for partners with a US or UK practice to pitch Australia as a quick-tweak market: change the currency, swap a couple of tax codes, done. The reality is that the Australian compliance stack is genuinely distinct. The ATO requires Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 reporting on every payday — not monthly, not quarterly. Quarterly BAS reconciles GST, PAYG withholding, and PAYG instalments together. Superannuation Guarantee is 12% from 1 July 2025 with strict quarterly clearing-house deadlines. Peppol e-invoicing is mandatory for federal government suppliers and increasingly expected B2B. None of that is a tweak. All of it is the implementation.
The Reality: The ATO, Fair Work and Peppol All Show Up in the System
Doing business in Australia means an Odoo instance that reports payroll to the ATO in real time, generates a quarterly BAS that ties back to the GL line by line, calculates Superannuation correctly across Award and EBA conditions, supports Fair Work-compliant payslips, handles per-state payroll-tax thresholds (not the same in every state), and either sends or receives Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 e-invoices. Done well, all of this lives inside one Odoo instance and your accountant signs off the year-end without re-keying anything. Done badly, you have an Excel layer between Odoo and the ATO.
Gold Partner vs. Ready Partner: An Honest Australian Comparison
| Feature | Large Gold Partners | Octura (Ready Partner) |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work? | Junior consultants on a regional pool | Senior architects who have shipped Australian implementations before yours |
| GST and BAS | GST coded, BAS reconciled in Excel | GST configured by tax code, BAS generated from Odoo and tied to the journal entries |
| Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 | Third-party bolt-on, manual lodgement | STP Phase 2-compliant payroll events lodged on each payday |
| Superannuation Guarantee | Calculated per pay, paid manually | SG calculated correctly across OTE rules, posted to clearing-house, deadlines tracked per quarter |
| Fair Work and Awards | Generic payslip template | Award-aware payslips with overtime, allowances, leave loading, and the right line items by classification |
| Peppol e-invoicing | Not configured | Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 send and receive via accredited Access Point |
| Multi-currency | AUD-only baseline | AUD / NZD / USD with daily RBA reference rates |
| Pricing transparency | Day-rate billing, change-order fees | Fixed-price packages, no surprise invoices |
| Post-go-live support | Handed to a generic support queue | Same architect stays with you across STP and SG rate changes |
Built for Australian Operations
We do not just toggle the timezone to Sydney and ship a US setup. We configure Odoo for businesses that lodge BAS to the ATO, run Single Touch Payroll on every payday, calculate Superannuation correctly across Award and EBA conditions, and operate in a regulatory environment that genuinely differs from anywhere else. Our consultants have shipped these configurations end-to-end across distribution, services, and light manufacturing.
- ✓ GST configured by tax code (taxable, GST-free, input-taxed) with quarterly BAS generated from Odoo journal entries — not from spreadsheets
- ✓ Single Touch Payroll Phase 2: ATO-compliant payroll events lodged on each payday, with year-end finalisation in Odoo
- ✓ Superannuation Guarantee at 12%, OTE calculation across overtime and allowances, clearing-house posting with quarterly deadlines tracked
- ✓ Fair Work-aware payroll: Modern Award classifications, EBA support, overtime, allowances, leave loading, public-holiday rules per state
- ✓ Peppol BIS Billing 3.0: send invoices to government and B2B receivers, receive supplier invoices into Odoo, configured against an accredited Peppol Access Point
Three Reasons Australian SMEs Choose Us
ATO-First Configuration
We design the Odoo finance and payroll model around what the ATO expects — STP Phase 2 fields, BAS reconciliation, lock-date discipline — instead of bolting compliance on at the end. Your accountant signs off the year-end without redoing your books in a spreadsheet first.
Senior-Only Consultants
No bait-and-switch. The architect on your sales call configures your tax codes and your payroll calendar. Our consultants average 8+ years of Odoo experience, including Australian implementations across distribution, services, and manufacturing.
Mandate-Ready Payroll
We track ATO and Fair Work changes because they change our deliverables. SG rate increases, STP Phase 2 expansions, Award rate updates — your instance is updated on a schedule, not a panic project on the eve of the change.
Is a Gold Partner the Right Fit for You?
If you are an ASX-200 firm with 1,000+ users and a dedicated transformation office, a large Gold Partner with regional pods is the sensible choice. We would say so. But if you are a 10–250-user Australian SME that needs STP Phase 2-compliant payroll, BAS that ties out, and Peppol working in 8–12 weeks — without a junior consultant learning the ATO on your project — we are the right partner.
Ready for Senior-Led Odoo in Australia?
Book a free 30-minute consultation with a senior Odoo architect. No sales reps, no juniors — an honest conversation about whether Odoo fits, what ATO compliance actually requires, and what an STP- and BAS-ready implementation looks like for your business.
Get a Senior-Led ConsultationFrequently Asked Questions
01Does Odoo handle GST and BAS for Australian businesses?
Yes. We configure GST tax codes (taxable, GST-free, input-taxed, exports) on every product, customer, and supplier, so each transaction is coded automatically at the line level. The quarterly BAS is generated from Odoo with G1, G2, G3, 1A, 1B, W1, W2, T1 and the rest of the labels populated from the underlying journal entries. You can drill from any BAS field into the contributing transactions, which is exactly what your bookkeeper or external accountant needs at quarter-end and what the ATO will ask for in a review.
02Is Odoo's payroll Single Touch Payroll Phase 2-compliant?
Yes — Odoo's Australian payroll lodges STP Phase 2 events to the ATO on every payday. We configure the data fields STP Phase 2 added (employment basis, country code for foreign employees, cessation reason, disaggregation of gross, child support, etc.), connect Odoo to your SBR-enabled lodgement endpoint, and configure year-end finalisation. Mid-year onboarding from another system gets a YTD update event so you do not lose history when you switch to Odoo.
03How is Superannuation Guarantee handled?
Superannuation is calculated on Ordinary Time Earnings per pay using the current SG rate (12% from 1 July 2025), with explicit handling of overtime, allowances, leave-loading and any salary-sacrifice arrangements. The contribution is posted to a Super liability account, paid via a clearing house (we integrate with the major ones), and the quarterly deadlines (28 October, 28 January, 28 April, 28 July) are tracked with alerts before the SG charge would apply. Choice-of-fund stapling is honoured at onboarding.
04Do you support Modern Awards and EBAs in payroll?
Yes. We configure Modern Award classifications, ordinary hours, overtime multipliers, weekend and public-holiday loadings, allowances (meal, travel, tool, etc.), annual-leave loading where applicable, and shift-work patterns. EBA-covered employees get a layer that overrides the Award where the EBA is more generous. The result is payslips that comply with Fair Work's payslip rules without your payroll officer hand-calculating overtime.
05What about Peppol e-invoicing?
Australia has adopted Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 as its e-invoicing framework, mandatory for federal government suppliers and increasingly expected in B2B. We configure Odoo to send and receive Peppol invoices through an accredited Access Point — Odoo issues the structured invoice, the Access Point delivers it, and inbound supplier Peppol invoices land directly in your supplier-bills inbox without manual re-keying. We pick the Access Point that fits your transaction volume and supplier base.
06How do you handle state-based payroll tax?
Payroll tax is a state-level liability with different thresholds and rates in each state and territory. We configure Odoo to track the wage base by state, apply the correct threshold (which varies considerably — NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT all differ), generate the monthly or annual returns required, and flag group-employer aggregation rules for businesses with related entities. For interstate employers, the system tracks where employees actually work, not just where they were hired.
07Do you have Australian references we can speak to?
Yes — on request and after mutual NDA, we connect you with Australian clients running Odoo in distribution, light manufacturing, and B2B services. References are warm introductions, not curated testimonials, and you will get honest feedback on what worked and what they would do differently. Australian clients tend to call out the BAS reconciliation and STP Phase 2 setup specifically — those are the moments where most partners stumble.
08How does the time-zone work with a North-American team?
We work overlapping hours during Australian implementations — your morning is our evening, but we run kickoffs, design sessions, and weekly stand-ups in your business hours, not ours. The 4-hour response SLA applies to your clock. Where useful, we use the time-zone gap deliberately: a critical issue logged at end-of-day Sydney often has progress overnight because part of our team is still working. We do not ask Australian clients to take 11pm calls — that pattern is the offshore-delivery model we deliberately avoid.
09What about year-end and ATO documentation?
Every configuration decision — GST tax codes, BAS label mappings, STP Phase 2 fields, Award classifications, Super contribution rates, lock-date schedule, and audit-trail policy — is documented so when the ATO, your accountant, or an auditor asks, you hand over a single folder instead of digging through screenshots. We configure Odoo's lock-date framework, user-access matrix, and journal-entry audit trail so there is zero ambiguity about who did what and when. Clients who have been through ATO reviews tell us the documentation alone paid for the project.