Spike - Business Systems

A Spike update has been released.

A major enhancement is a feature to automatically exchange data with the Canberra CCMS systems at times that coincide with their processing schedules. You will still be able to manually "process CCMS" but this will generally not be necessary. The new feature simplifies your work and will reduce load on their servers and ours during peak times.

Emailed tax invoices will now come with a cover text describing the attachment and who authorised sending it. This enables compliance with the CCMS signing requirements for CCB statements.

There has been much concern and confusion over the requirement to issue a "4 weekly CCB Statement".

Spike's weekly "Tax Invoice" contains CCMS details intended to meet CCMS Statement reporting obligations on a weekly basis.

Over the past few months we have been negotiating with DEEWR to clarify whether they will accept this as meeting your reporting obligation or whether you must also produce a separate statement.

Following recent confirmation by DEEWR that the Spike weekly Tax Invoice satisfies CCB Statement obligations, and that emails can be electronically signed, we have been pressing for the acceptance of electronic signatures on printouts as well.

DEEWR have now clarified they will accept the name and position of the person actually issuing the statement in text at the end of the statement as an electronic signature.