Overview

Objectives

Use this guide to understand concepts and tasks you need to know before you begin implementing payroll:

Application Tips
Prerequisite Tasks
Concepts
- Legislation
- Geographies and Addresses
- Data Roles
- Security Profiles
- Data Loader
Tools and Components
- Fast Formulas
- Calculations
- Auditing
- Data Validation
- Reporting

For more in-depth information about related tasks, you can use the resources mentioned in the Other Documents section below.

Audience

This provides practical end-to-end guidance for Payroll implementation teams. When implementing, it's assumed that you have working knowledge of the basic principles of payroll and you're familiar with the customary payroll terminology. It's also assumed that you have consulted these guides:

Using Functional Setup Manager guide to have a detailed understanding of the implementation tasks associated with the Functional Setup Manager (FSM), an integrated, end-to-end process to manage the application implementation and maintenance
Understanding Enterprise Structures guide to have a detailed understanding of enterprise structures for payroll implementation
Implementing Global Human Resources guide to complete the related prerequisite tasks required for payroll implementation

Before you start implementing Global Payroll, it's imperative that:

You have the Payroll license
You have completed the initial application setup
You have completed implementing Global Human Resources and the HR tasks required for payroll implementation and processing. For example, setting up requisite jurisdictions for tax reporting

While this guide is primarily intended for the implementation team, it's helpful if you run payroll processes after implementation.

Organization and Format

Step-by-step information to help you understand payroll concepts, setup tasks, and implementation task order necessary for you to implement global payroll. Specific information regarding the requisite tasks can be found in relevant sections of this document. At the end of each topic are links to related topics to help you find additional information.