Understanding Payment Processing

After you process the pre-payroll step and verify that the information is correct, you can print payments for employees. Payments are the forms, such as checks and automatic deposit advice slips, that employees receive when they get paid.

After the pre-payroll step has been completed, the next three steps of the payroll cycle can be completed in any order that you prefer.

This diagram illustrates the location of the payments step in the payroll cycle:

You can set up employees to receive either of these types of payments:

Payment Type	Description
Check	A written order to a bank to pay the employee a sum from the company's account.
Automatic deposit advice slip	A nonnegotiable form that shows the net pay amount that was deposited into an employee's bank account. The system prints this form for employees who are set up for automatic deposit.