Creating Delivered Elements

All of the elements delivered as part of your country extension were created using the core application—the same application you'll use both to create additional elements and (in many cases) to configure existing elements that are delivered as part of your PeopleSoft Global Payroll system. Because the tools needed to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application product documentation, we don't reproduce this information here. Instead, we briefly review the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools you need to define your own elements) and the country extensions (which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft).

The core application has the following characteristics:

• It consists of a payroll rules engine—a flexible tool that enables users to define the rules of their payroll system and execute payroll and absence calculations.

  Global Payroll does not embed payroll-specific logic or computations in application code. Instead, it specifies all business application logic, such as earnings, deductions, absences, and accumulators, in terms of payroll rules. Global Payroll enables users to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enables users to work in their preferred language or currency.

• It provides a payroll processing framework—a flexible way to define and execute payroll and absence processing flows, such as calendars, run types, pay periods, and process lists.

Country extensions have the following characteristics:

• They are built using the core application.

• They consist of statutory and customary objects (country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications).