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Superannuation for Venues

Super Compliance Made Simple for Venues

HG Super Pay automates super compliance without taking over your payment flow. Your money stays in your bank account until you authorise the payment, and super is paid directly to each performer's fund via a licensed clearing house.

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What Venues Need to Know

When your venue books and pays individual performers, you may be responsible for their super. Under Section 12(8) of the SG Act, many performers are treated as employees for super purposes, even if they invoice you with an ABN.

From 1 July 2026, Payday Super generally requires super contributions to reach the performer's fund within seven business days of payment. For venues booking multiple performers each week, this creates a significant operational challenge.

The Problem with Some Platform-Controlled Models

Some platforms have responded by inserting themselves into the payment chain. You pay the platform instead of the artist directly, and the platform distributes everything: the performance fee to the artist and super to the fund. This means you lose visibility of where your money goes, you lose direct financial relationships with your artists, and you become dependent on a third party handling your money.

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Your Money. Your Control.

HG Super Pay was built so venues never have to give up financial control to stay compliant.

Direct Payment

You pay your artists directly. Super is paid from your bank account to each performer's fund. No platform sits in the middle of the payment chain.

Auto-Calculated

When you book a sole trader performer, Hot Giggity uses their profile to calculate SG on the booking sheet. No manual calculations, no spreadsheets.

Clear Compliance

Super is debited from your nominated bank account and paid directly to each performer's fund through SuperChoice's licensed clearing house service. You can see every payment, every fund, every amount.

Entity Check

Hot Giggity uses the performer's profile to identify whether they are set up as a sole trader, company, partnership, or trust. Super is only calculated where it is needed. No guesswork.

Not All Super Solutions Are Equal

	HG Super Pay	Platform-Controlled
Who pays the artist?	You (directly)	The platform
Who pays super?	You (from your bank account)	The platform
Financial visibility	Full transparency	Obscured by platform
Super payment record	Shows who made the contribution	May be harder to follow
Clearing house	Licensed clearing house	Often undisclosed
Artist relationships	Direct (you pay them)	Mediated by platform

How HG Super Pay Works for Venues

Super Auto-Calculated

When you book a sole trader artist, the platform detects their entity type and auto-calculates the SG on the booking sheet. The super amount appears on every invoice automatically.

Invoices Auto-Generated

The platform auto-generates the artist's invoice to you with super amounts clearly shown. Invoices can sync to your accounting package automatically.

Register as an Employer

One-time setup: register in HG Super Pay, nominate your bank account, and sync your sole trader artists. Their super fund details are pulled automatically from their Hot Giggity profiles.

Pay Super Each Cycle

Trigger super payments from the platform each pay cycle. Amounts are debited from your bank account and paid to each artist's super fund via the licensed clearing house. The Super Ledger tracks everything.

HG Super Pay Pricing

$1.50 (ex GST) per artist payment

One payment may cover multiple gigs depending on your pay cycle. For example, if you pay fortnightly and an artist had 4 gigs that fortnight, that is one payment of $1.50.

HG Super Pay is available on all plans:

Free	$0/month (up to 8 bookings)
Essentials	$159/month (or $15/gig)
Pro	$199/month (or $19/gig)

Multi-Player Super Sorted

Multi-player acts create the biggest super headache for venues. Under a traditional single-invoice model, you pay one fee to the act owner. The entire SG goes to the act owner's super fund, even though the fee is being split between players.

Hot Giggity solves this. When an act owner enables Act Player Invoices Paid by Venue, the platform generates an individual invoice from each player directly to you. Each player's fee and super are calculated individually, and you pay super directly to each player's fund.

No act owner carries the burden of other players' super obligations. Each eligible player can have super calculated and paid to their own fund, with a clear audit trail showing who engaged and paid them.

Read the full breakdown of how multi-player act super works

Works With Your Existing Accounting

Hot Giggity can work with your accounting setup to keep your books in sync:

Super payments are tracked for easier reconciliation
Artist invoices sync as supplier bills
Sole trader performers can be mapped to employees for super pay runs
Invoice PDFs can be emailed directly to your accounting system on a schedule

There are two ways to pay super on Hot Giggity:

HG Super Pay	Pay super directly from the platform. Amounts are debited from your bank account and paid to each artist's fund through SuperChoice's licensed clearing house service. $1.50 per payment.
Accounting Pay Run	Sync your sole trader artists to your accounting package as employees and run super through your existing pay run workflow.

Both options are fully supported. Choose whichever works best for your volume and workflow.

Hot Giggity Finance Integrations - Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks

Common Questions from Venues

Am I the employer for SG purposes?

When you engage and pay individual or sole trader performers, you may be responsible for SG under Section 12(8) of the SG Act. A key question is who engaged the performer and who pays them. If you book and pay the performer directly, you are typically the party responsible for SG. Hot Giggity's booking flow makes this clear automatically.

Does HG Super Pay take over my payments?

No. Your money stays in your bank account until you authorise the payment. You pay artists directly and you pay super directly to their fund via a licensed clearing house. Hot Giggity automates and tracks everything but never holds your money.

How does super work when I book a band?

You or the act owner can enable Act Player Invoices Paid by Venue, the platform automatically generates an invoice from each player to you. Each player's fee and super are calculated individually. You pay super directly to each player's fund. No act owner carries the burden of other players' super.

What about artists who operate through a company?

If a performer operates through a company, partnership, or trust, the SG obligation does not apply to your payments to that entity. The Section 12(8) performer rule applies to individuals, not payments to companies, partnerships or trusts. Hot Giggity detects each performer's legal entity type and only calculates super where it is needed.

What if I already use Xero for payroll?

Hot Giggity integrates with Xero. You can sync super payments to a Xero pay run instead of using HG Super Pay. Both options work. The calculation is which is cheaper and more efficient for your volume.

Is the clearing house licensed?

Yes. HG Super Pay processes super payments through SuperChoice's licensed clearing house service.

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