Calculate, Validate, and Balance Payroll

After you have verified your payroll readiness, it's time to run payroll.

Start the US Simplified Payroll Cycle flow from Payroll in My Client Groups, or start a flow you have configured yourself.

Calculate Payroll

After you start your payroll flow, use the Task Details page to monitor its progress. When some payroll tasks complete, they automatically initiate the next one in the flow. However for others, you must manually start the next one. This is because those tasks often require intervention or validation on your part before the flow can continue.

For example, several tasks generate audit reports. When they complete, the flow stops and waits for your confirmation. Before you mark the task as complete and start the next one in the flow:

Review the report.
Resolve any issues it detects.

Here's a list of the tasks in US Simplified Payroll Cycle flow that require your intervention and what you should do before starting the next one.

When this task is complete	This is what you should do	Check here in the Help Center
Verify Payroll Validation Report	Check for employees with missing or noncompliant payroll data.	Payroll Data Validation Report for the US
Verify Retroactive Notification Report	Verify you ran report before running the flow.	Retroactive Notification Report for the US
Verify Retroactive Report	Verify you checked the results of the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process.	Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes for the US
Verify Report	Check the results of the Gross-to-Net Report, and take any appropriate actions.	Gross-to-Net Report for the US
Verify Prepayments	Verify the prepayments calculated for your workers.	Calculate Prepayments for the US
Verify Payslips	Verify the payments for your workers.	View Payments
Review Final Journal Entries	Run the Payroll Costing Results Report to generate and review the draft journal entries, and post the final entries to Oracle Fusion General Ledger.	Distribute Payroll Accounting for the US Payroll Costing Results Report

For further info, see Verify and Troubleshoot Payments for the US in the Help Center.

Each task in your flow should complete successfully without errors or warnings. If you encounter any, you must resolve the issue and rerun the payroll.

Validate Payroll

After you run the Calculate Payroll process, you validate its results. Each of the steps in the flow must have completed successfully. Make any necessary corrections and try again.

Tip: If you need to, you can remove employees from the main payroll flow to handle them separately using QuickPay. You can then merge their records into the main payroll flow before calculating payments.

As you're progressing through the payroll flow, be sure to check your run results. For further info, see View and Verify Payroll Run Results in the Help Center.

Balance Payroll

Use the payroll calculation reports to view balances and run results before proceeding to calculate and validate your payment distributions.

Use these reports to help you.

Report name	For more info, check here in the Help Center
Balance Exception Report	Balance Exception Report for the US
Employee Active Payroll Balance Report	Employee Active Payroll Balance Report for the US
Gross-to-Net Report	Gross-to-Net Report for the US
Payment Register Report	Payment Register Report for the US
Periodic Payroll Activity Report	Periodic Payroll Activity Report for the US
Payroll Balance Report	Payroll Balance Report for the US
Payroll Data Validation Report	Payroll Data Validation Report for the US
Periodic Payroll Register Report	Periodic Payroll Register Report for the US
Periodic Statutory Deduction Register	Periodic Statutory Deduction Register for the US

For further info, see Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for United States: Payroll Reconciliation (2086251.1) on My Oracle Support.

What You Do Next

After completing the run, you're ready to validate and distribute your payments. For further info, see Calculate and Validate Payroll Payment Distributions for the US in the Help Center.