How to choose salary packaging software
Salary packaging software administers employee benefits through payroll: a benefit catalogue with the right tax treatment, per-pay deductions, claims and reimbursement, cap governance and year-end reporting. For administrators running many employers, these are the questions that decide whether the platform scales with you.
What Catch-e provides against each evaluation criterion
| Capability | Catch-e |
|---|---|
| Salary packaging administrationBenefit catalogues, FBT caps and payroll-aligned deductions, not just vehicles. | YesBenefit catalogue, cap governance, claims, cards, year-end reporting |
| Australian FBT complianceStatutory and operating-cost methods, ECM, the $15,900 and $30,000 grossed-up caps, PBI and rebatable treatment. | YesBoth methods, ECM to nil, cap categories, employee declarations, year-end reporting |
| Multi-employer administrationRunning many employers, each with their own packaging rules and payroll, from one system. | YesPer-employer rules, payroll configs and reporting |
| ISO/IEC 27001 certificationAn independently audited information security management system. | YesISO/IEC 27001:2022, certificate 1833-I-1, held over ten years, audited three times a year |
| Australian data residency | YesData stored in Australian data centres |
| Implementation modelWho does the work, and how long before the program is live. | YesDirect, by the Catch-e team; existing book migrated in |
Who each option suits
Start with cap categories
The $15,900 and $30,000 grossed-up caps, meal entertainment, and the difference between exempt and rebatable employers are where packaging goes wrong at scale. Ask to see an employer switch cap category and watch what happens to existing packages.
Follow one deduction end to end
From the benefit an employee selects, to the per-pay amount, to the payroll file, to the money arriving, to the ledger entry. Ask a vendor to trace that path in the product. If any step is manual, it will be manual forever.
Ask how a claim gets paid
Funds checking, approval, then payment to an employee or a supplier by BECS, ABA or BPAY, posted automatically. Claims volume is what makes packaging administration expensive, so this is where headcount is won or lost.
Check the employee experience
Most support tickets are employees asking what is in their package and where a claim is up to. An employee portal with live balances and claim history removes a large share of them before they arrive.
Frequently asked questions
Catch-e supports a wide range of packaging benefit types including vehicles (novated leasing), meal entertainment, remote area benefits, portable electronic devices and other employer-approved benefit categories. Benefit item configuration is flexible and employer-specific.
Catch-e records each employer's cap categories and reports benefit usage against them, including end-of-FBT-year reporting outputs per employer. Cap categories are recorded per employer to reflect each employer's applicable limits.
Catch-e generates structured payroll export files compatible with a wide range of payroll platforms. The platform supports scheduled delivery of pay run outputs aligned to each employer's pay cycle. Specific payroll system compatibility can be confirmed during a demo.
Yes. Catch-e is designed for multi-entity salary packaging operations. Each employer is configured independently with their own benefit rules, packaging limits, payroll settings and reporting requirements, all managed within a single platform by the packaging administrator.
Yes. Catch-e is registered with the Australian Taxation Office as an approved software provider. The platform's reporting outputs and FBT governance are designed to meet ATO requirements for salary packaging administrators.
Catch-e provides end-of-FBT-year reporting outputs, employer-level packaging reports, benefit utilisation summaries and audit-ready transaction records. Reports are available per employer and can be exported for use in payroll, finance and compliance processes.
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