The Vanilla PeopleSoft System

Everyone in the team should be familiar with how Payroll for North America works, because the next step is to try to duplicate your company's payroll with the vanilla Payroll for North America system.

Build Real Earnings/Benefit/Deduction Table Entries

Start configuring your Earnings table, Benefits tables, and Deduction table by creating entries tailored exactly to support your company's payroll operations. As you do this, you will, of necessity, start making some real decisions on how to define the actual earnings, deductions, and benefits that you need, according to the PeopleSoft vanilla style.

Set Up Realistic Test Cases

Set up some realistic employee test data; then use all parts of the system. Hire employees through the normal PeopleSoft HCM paths; set them up with realistic earnings, general deductions, and benefits; enable them to be paid; then go ahead and pay them.

Keep the Demonstration System Available

Be sure to keep the original Payroll for North America demonstration system data available, so that as you're going through and modifying earnings, deductions, employees, and other data, you can always refer back to some of our test cases to see how they were set up. Many of the demonstration employees are paid, for example, with fairly complex benefit setups. And if you purge all the PeopleSoft demonstration data, you won't know how they were originally set up. By keeping the demonstration system available, you always have a reference point as you continue to build tables for your own company's real-life needs.