Odoo Partner · Australia
Odoo Partner Australia: Senior-Led ERP Built for Australian SMEs
Odoo Partner Australia for GST, BAS, Single Touch Payroll, Superannuation & Peppol Implementation
GST and BAS. Single Touch Payroll Phase 2. A Superannuation Guarantee sitting at 12%. Peppol e-invoicing. Australia's compliance stack stands apart, and it deserves an Odoo partner who builds around that reality instead of bolting it onto a US implementation as an afterthought.
Book a Senior-Led ConsultationOctura Solutions is an Odoo Ready Partner, and we deliver senior-led Odoo ERP implementations for Australian SMEs with hands-on expertise across BAS, Single Touch Payroll Phase 2, Superannuation, and Peppol e-invoicing.
The Myth: A US or UK Setup Will Translate Straight to Australia
Partners with a US or UK practice often pitch Australia as a market you can adjust in an afternoon: swap the currency, update a couple of tax codes, call it done. That undersells how distinct the Australian compliance stack actually is. Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 has to be reported to the ATO on every payday, never monthly, never quarterly. The quarterly BAS ties GST, PAYG withholding, and PAYG instalments together in one reconciliation. Since 1 July 2025, the Superannuation Guarantee sits at 12%, with clearing-house deadlines enforced every quarter. Peppol e-invoicing is already mandatory for federal government suppliers and is fast becoming the B2B norm. None of this is a tweak, it is the implementation itself.
The Reality: The ATO, Fair Work, and Peppol Live Inside the System
Running a business in Australia means your Odoo instance needs to report payroll to the ATO in real time, produce a quarterly BAS that reconciles to the general ledger line by line, calculate Superannuation correctly under both Award and EBA conditions, issue Fair Work-compliant payslips, track payroll-tax thresholds that differ from state to state, and send or receive Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 e-invoices. When it is set up well, all of that lives inside a single Odoo instance and your accountant can sign off the year-end without re-keying a thing. When it is not, you end up with an Excel layer wedged between Odoo and the ATO.
Gold Partner or Ready Partner: An Honest Look at the Australian Market
| 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 |
Designed Around How Australian Businesses Actually Operate
Switching the timezone to Sydney and shipping a US configuration is not what we do. Instead, we build Odoo for businesses that lodge BAS with the ATO, run Single Touch Payroll every payday, get Superannuation right across Award and EBA conditions, and operate inside a regulatory environment that is unlike anywhere else. Our consultants have delivered these configurations end-to-end in distribution, services, and light manufacturing.
- GST set up by tax code, taxable, GST-free, input-taxed, with the quarterly BAS pulled straight from Odoo journal entries instead of a spreadsheet
- Single Touch Payroll Phase 2, with ATO-compliant payroll events lodged every payday and year-end finalisation handled inside Odoo
- A 12% Superannuation Guarantee, OTE calculated across overtime and allowances, and clearing-house postings tracked against every quarterly deadline
- Payroll built around Fair Work: Modern Award classifications, EBA support, overtime, allowances, leave loading, and public-holiday rules that vary by state
- Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 set up against an accredited Access Point, so you can send invoices to government and B2B recipients and receive supplier invoices directly into Odoo
Why Australian SMEs Pick Octura
ATO-First Configuration
Rather than bolting compliance on at the end, we build the Odoo finance and payroll model around what the ATO expects from the outset, STP Phase 2 fields, BAS reconciliation, lock-date discipline. That means your accountant can sign off the year-end without rebuilding your books in a spreadsheet first.
Senior-Only Consultants
There is no bait-and-switch here. Whoever runs your sales call is the architect who later configures your tax codes and payroll calendar. Across our team, consultants average 8+ years of Odoo experience, including Australian work in distribution, services, and manufacturing.
Mandate-Ready Payroll
ATO and Fair Work changes flow directly into our deliverables, so we track them closely. Whether it is an SG rate increase, an STP Phase 2 expansion, or an Award rate update, your instance gets updated on a schedule rather than as a scramble the night before the change takes effect.
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.
Want Senior-Led Odoo in Australia?
Bring along your current payroll and BAS process. You will get thirty minutes with a senior Odoo architect, no sales reps, no juniors, for an honest conversation about whether Odoo actually fits, what ATO compliance really demands, and what an STP- and BAS-ready implementation would look like for your business.
Book a Senior-Led ConsultationFrequently Asked Questions
01
Can Odoo manage GST and BAS for an Australian business?
Yes. Every product, customer, and supplier gets a GST tax code, taxable, GST-free, input-taxed, exports, so transactions are coded automatically at the line level. From there, Odoo generates the quarterly BAS itself, populating G1, G2, G3, 1A, 1B, W1, W2, T1 and the rest of the labels directly from the underlying journal entries. Any BAS field can be drilled into down to the contributing transactions, which is precisely what a bookkeeper or external accountant needs at quarter-end, and exactly what the ATO asks for during a review.
02
Does Odoo's payroll meet Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 requirements?
Yes. Odoo's Australian payroll lodges STP Phase 2 events with the ATO on every single payday. We handle the configuration of the fields STP Phase 2 introduced, employment basis, country code for foreign employees, cessation reason, disaggregation of gross, child support, and so on, connect Odoo to your SBR-enabled lodgement endpoint, and set up year-end finalisation. If you are onboarding mid-year from another system, a YTD update event preserves your history rather than losing it in the switch.
03
How does Octura handle Superannuation Guarantee?
Each pay run calculates Superannuation on Ordinary Time Earnings at the current SG rate, 12% from 1 July 2025, with explicit rules for overtime, allowances, leave-loading, and salary-sacrifice arrangements. From there, the contribution posts to a Super liability account, gets paid through a clearing house (we integrate with the major providers), and the quarterly deadlines, 28 October, 28 January, 28 April, 28 July, are tracked with alerts ahead of any SG charge. Choice-of-fund stapling is honoured right from onboarding.
04
Does payroll support Modern Awards and EBAs?
Yes. Modern Award classifications, ordinary hours, overtime multipliers, weekend and public-holiday loadings, allowances such as meal, travel, and tool money, annual-leave loading where it applies, and shift-work patterns are all part of the configuration. Where an EBA is more generous than the Award, employees covered by it get an override layer that reflects that. The upshot is payslips that meet Fair Work's rules without your payroll officer hand-calculating overtime.
05
How does Peppol e-invoicing fit in?
Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 is Australia's adopted e-invoicing framework, already mandatory for federal government suppliers and increasingly the norm in B2B. Odoo gets configured to send and receive Peppol invoices through an accredited Access Point: Odoo issues the structured invoice, the Access Point delivers it, and any inbound supplier Peppol invoice lands directly in your supplier-bills inbox with no manual re-keying involved. Which Access Point we pick depends on your transaction volume and supplier base.
06
How is state-based payroll tax handled?
Payroll tax sits at the state level, and thresholds and rates differ across every state and territory. We set Odoo up to track the wage base by state, apply the right threshold (and these vary considerably, NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, and NT are all different), generate the required monthly or annual returns, and flag the group-employer aggregation rules that apply to businesses with related entities. For employers operating across state lines, the system tracks where employees actually perform their work, not simply where they were hired.
07
Can we talk to any of your Australian clients?
Yes. Once there is a mutual NDA in place, we will connect you directly with Australian clients running Odoo in distribution, light manufacturing, and B2B services. These are warm introductions rather than curated testimonials, so expect honest feedback, including what they would do differently next time. BAS reconciliation and the STP Phase 2 setup come up often in those conversations, which happen to be the two spots where most partners trip up.
08
What happens with time zones when the team is based in North America?
During an Australian implementation, your morning lines up with our evening, so we schedule kickoffs, design sessions, and weekly stand-ups around your business hours rather than ours. Our 4-hour response SLA runs on your clock, not ours. There is also an upside to the gap: a critical issue logged at the end of the Sydney day can see overnight progress simply because part of our team is still online. What we will not do is ask Australian clients to jump on 11pm calls, that offshore-delivery pattern is one we deliberately avoid.
09
How is year-end and ATO documentation handled?
Every configuration decision gets documented, GST tax codes, BAS label mappings, STP Phase 2 fields, Award classifications, Super contribution rates, the lock-date schedule, and audit-trail policy, so that when the ATO, your accountant, or an auditor comes asking, you can hand over a single folder rather than hunting through screenshots. Odoo's lock-date framework, user-access matrix, and journal-entry audit trail are all configured so there is no ambiguity about who did what and when. More than one client who has been through an ATO review has told us the documentation alone justified the project's cost.