Once you have entered the pay details for each employee you can then process the pays. The Process Pays window is used to select which pay period to pay, and enter the pay dates. You can also restrict the pay to a single department or employee.
1 Prepare the pay on the Pays Summary window. Pay preparation includes selecting which employees are to be included in the payroll, and making any modifications to the employee's standard pay details. Also on the Pays Summary window, you must enter any adjustments, commissions, bonuses, or sundry items.
2 Click Activities>Process Pays. The Process Pays window is displayed.
3 On the Standard tab, click on each pay period that you wish to pay. The employees will only be paid if their pay period has been selected. If you don't use a particular pay period the checkbox for that pay period won't be available.
For example, if you don't have any fortnightly employees, the fortnightly checkbox will be disabled.
4 On the Pay Dates tab, make sure that the Pay Date and Date Paid dates are correct. Elite Payroll automatically advances the Pay Date and Date Paid when you process a payroll. For example, when you process a weekly payroll, the Pay Date for Weekly will be advanced by 7 days when you process the next pay. Refer to Pay Dates for further information.
Pay Date – is the pay period ending date. If necessary, change the Pay Dates to reflect the last day of the pay period that you are currently paying.
Date Paid – is the date that the payroll is process and employees are paid. Typically this will be the same as the pay date. If necessary, change the Date Paid to the date that the employees were actually paid.
Preserve Employee Pay Dates – Selecting this allows individual employees to have different pay dates. The Pay Date entered will be overridden for individual employees. For example, if a weekly employee was last paid on 7 March, the employee’s next pay date will be 14 March no matter what pay date is entered on this window.
5 If you want to pay only a specific department, or a specific employee, click the Advanced tab, otherwise continue to the next step.
Department – If you wish to pay only employees in a specific department, and no other employees, click Selected, click the drop-down list arrow and then select the department you want to pay.
Employee – If you wish to pay only one specific employee, and no other employees, click Selected, click the drop-down list arrow and then select the employee you want to pay.
6 Click Process Pays. The pay is processed, and the Print Pay Reports window is displayed.
7 Click to select ž the report (s) you want to print, and then click Print Reports. If you want to print a report for a period other than the default period displayed, select the period from the drop-down list. If you don't want to print the reports right now, you don't have to. You can click Do not Print and then print the reports later:
Payroll Tax Report
Super Report
8 The Employees List is displayed, and shows the pay date in the Last Paid column. You can review individual pays by selecting the employee and then clicking Show Pays.
9 Now that your payroll has been processed, the final step is to make your payroll payments. No matter how you pay your employees, Elite Payroll makes it easier.
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