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  • 1 Let's Get Started
    • Setup Tasks to Administer Payroll
    • Responsive User Experience Setup
      • Deep Links
      • Search Logic Profile Options for Client List of Values
      • Use Transaction Design Studio to Configure Field Displays
    • Payroll Concepts to Understand
      • Date Effectivity
      • How You Delete Physical Records from Date-Effective Objects
    • Application Tools
      • Payroll Flows
  • 2 Assemble and Maintain Payrolls
    • Personal Payroll Entries
    • Payroll Relationships
      • Overview of Administering Payroll Relationships
      • Payroll Relationships
      • Continuous Period of Service Payroll Relationship Rule
      • Payroll Relationship and Termination Dates
      • Payroll Relationship and Rehires
      • Payroll Relationship and Time Card Required
      • Payroll Relationship and Overtime Period
      • FAQs for Payroll Relationships
        • How can I create a payroll relationship?
        • How can I end a payroll relationship?
        • What happens if I don't use Cloud Payroll, do I need a payroll relationship?
    • Organization Payment Methods
      • Organization Payment Methods
      • Set Up BACS Payment Process
    • Personal Payment Methods
      • Bank Info for Personal Payment Methods
      • FAQs for Personal Payment Methods
        • Why can't I create a personal payment method?
        • Why can't I delete, end date, or change the processing order of a personal payment method?
        • Why does an inactive bank account still shows as active?
        • Why can't I add or edit banks and branches for personal payment methods?
        • Why can't I find my organization payment method when creating other payroll objects?
        • How can I change my bank details for direct deposit payments?
    • Add and Transfer Payrolls
      • How You Assign and Transfer Payroll
      • Add a Payroll to a Person
      • Transfer a Payroll
      • Payroll Transfer Dates
      • Define Payroll Level Information
      • FAQs for Add and Transfer Payroll
        • How can I prorate elements when a person transfers payrolls?
        • What happens when I add a payroll to a person, does the application create a new payroll relationship?
    • Transfer Tax Reporting Units
      • Tax Reporting Units
      • Update TRU for a Worker
    • Terminations
      • How to Set End Dates for Terminations
      • How Terminations Affect Payroll Processing
      • FAQ for Personal Payroll Entries
        • How can I correct a hire date for an employee?
  • 3 Calculation Entries
    • Element Entries
      • Element Entry Methods
      • How Element Setup Affects Entries and Their Values
      • Default Values for Element Entries
      • Set Up Balances for Percentage Elements
      • Enable Automatic, Multiple, or Additional Element Entries
      • How Payroll Elements Hold Information for Multiple Features
      • Set Up Element Proration
      • How Prorated Earnings and Deductions are Calculated
      • FAQs for Element Entries
        • What happens if I manually enter a value in an element entry value that has a runtime default value?
        • Why doesn't my element entry input value display on the Manage Person Details page?
        • How can I override an element entry for a limited period?
    • Time
      • Time Card Required Option
      • Process Time Entries in Payroll
      • Import Time Card Entries to Payroll
      • Time Definitions
      • Example of Loading Time Definitions
      • Create a Time Definition and Assign It to Elements
      • Example of Element Allocation Formula
      • FAQs for Time
        • What happens if a time card is transferred after the payroll run starts?
        • What happens if time is reported beyond an employment termination date?
        • Can I correct a time entry in payroll?
    • Balances
      • Balance Exceptions
      • Examples of Balance Exceptions
      • Severity Level for Balance Exceptions
      • Balance Exception Formula Type
    • Adjust Individual Balances
      • Overview
      • FAQs for Adjust Individual Balances
        • How can I backdate a balance adjustment?
        • Can I update a balance adjustment?
    • Absences
      • Rates Used to Calculate Absences in Payroll
      • Import Absence Entries to Payroll
    • Calculation Cards
      • Personal Calculation Cards: How Their Entries Fit Together
      • Calculation Cards for Deductions at Different Levels
      • Automatic Calculation Card Creation
      • Statutory Deduction Components and Component Groups
      • How the Statutory Deductions Calculation Card Components Work Together
      • Create a Statutory Deductions Calculation Card Manually
      • Examples to Create Statutory Deductions Calculation Cards Manually
      • Define Associations for Statutory Deductions Calculation Card
      • Create PAYE Component Details
        • Associate a PAYE Component to Earnings or a Set of Earnings
        • Associate NI Details to Earnings or a Set of Earnings
      • Convert Employee Record to Pensioner Record
      • How Terminations Affect Earnings and NI Calculations
      • Changing to a Different PAYE Reference
      • PAYE Information While Migrating Terminated Employees from Legacy Application
      • PAYE Information While Migrating Existing Employees from Legacy Application
      • Edit a Statutory Deductions Calculation Card
      • Process Type for National Insurance Additional Info
      • Remove End Date for Calculation Card Components
      • Legislative Repository for Calculation Information
      • National Insurance Calculations and Deductions
      • Tax Calculations and Tax Deductions
      • Payroll Process Configuration Groups
      • How to Exclude Employees from Apprenticeship Levy Calculation
      • Enterable Values on Calculation Cards
      • Review and Update Calculation Value Definitions for the Deduction
      • FAQs for Calculation Cards
        • How do I manage calculation cards for tax reporting units and payroll statutory units?
        • Can I associate a Statutory Deductions calculation card with more than one TRU
        • How to Configure a Personal Calculation Card
        • How do I process NI deductions for directors' fees, irregular payments, and multiple payments in a period?
        • Why can't I create an NI component with the category or pension basis I want to use?
        • How do I create a notification of pension starting?
        • How to Configure a Personal Calculation Card
        • Why can't I create calculation components or component details for a personal calculation card?
        • Why can't I delete a calculation card, component, or component details?
        • How do I set the end date for a calculation component?
        • How do I suspend a calculation component?
        • How Entries of Personal Calculation Cards Fit Together
        • How to Create an Expatriate Notification
    • Voluntary Deductions
      • Voluntary Deductions
      • How You Define Voluntary and Pre-statutory Deductions
      • Create Elements for Pension Deductions
      • Considerations to Enter Calculation Values for Pensions
      • Important Considerations for Calculation Value Definitions in Benefits and Pensions
    • Pensions Automatic Enrolment
      • Set Up Pensions Automatic Enrolment
        • Set Up Elements for Qualifying Pension Schemes
        • Define Eligibility for Pension Elements
        • Identify Assessable and Pensionable Earnings
        • Level for Pension Element
      • Define Organization-Level Setup Values for Pensions
        • Migrating Automatic Re-Enrolment Date
        • Align Pay Reference Period
        • Postponements for Pensions Automatic Enrolment
        • Rules to Include or Exclude Employees from the Assessment Process
        • Fast Formulas for Postponement Types in Pensions Automatic Enrolment
        • Postponement Rules
        • Set Up Pension Letters Notification Information
        • Define Contractual Enrolment
      • Pensions Automatic Enrolment Calculation Card
        • Automatic Creation of Pensions Automatic Enrolment Calculation Card
        • Default Values for Pensions Automatic Enrolment Card
          • Employee Classifications for Pensions Automatic Enrolment
        • Default Associations for Pensions Automatic Enrolment Card
        • Automatically Created Element Entries for Pensions Card
        • Associations for Pensions Automatic Enrolment
        • Payroll for Pay Reference Period
      • Pensions Automatic Enrolment Assessment Multiple Updates Process
        • Element Group for Pensions Automatic Enrolment
        • Pensions Automatic Enrolment Audit Reports
        • Handling Errors in Pensions Automatic Enrolment Assessment Multiple Updates Process
        • Pensions Notification Letters
        • Pensions Automatic Enrolment Archive Process
      • Payroll Assessment Run
        • Payroll Assessment Run
        • Deriving the Pay Reference Period
        • Examples of Pay Reference Period for Pensions Automatic Enrolment for the UK
        • Earnings Assessment for Pensions Automatic Enrolment for the UK
        • First-Time Assessment Outcomes
        • Re-Enrolment
        • Process Outstanding Actions from a Previous PRP
      • Pensions Assessor Multiple Updates
        • Mapping of Result Values
      • Enrolment Actions
        • Automatic Enrolment
        • Manually Enrol an Employee into a Qualifying Pension Scheme
        • Contractual Opt-In
        • Opt In to a Qualifying Pension Scheme
        • Opt Out of a Qualifying Pension Scheme
        • Opt-Out Period for Qualifying Pension Schemes
        • Contractual Opt-Out
        • How Can an Employee Leave a Qualifying Pension Scheme
        • Override the Default Qualifying Scheme for an Employee
        • Transfer from Qualifying Scheme to Another Scheme
        • Backdated Transfer from Qualifying Scheme to Another Scheme
      • Sample Configuration for Salary Sacrifice
      • Configure Flow to Enable an Erroneous Flow to Continue
      • Sample Formulas
        • Sample Formula for Contractual Opt-Out
        • Sample Formula to Accurately Derive the Qualifying Scheme
        • Sample SQL to List Tax Periods
      • HCM Data Loader Attributes to Migrate Pension Data
      • Set Up Email Notifications
        • Custom Templates for Emails
        • Override Pension Email Delivery Option
      • Voluntary Deductions and Pensions Reference Output to BACS File
      • Can I set up multiple qualifying pension schemes?
      • Can I enrol an employee in more than one qualifying pension scheme?
      • What's the pay reference period if earnings are aggregated from multiple assignments with different payrolls?
      • How do I manually exempt a worker from pensions automatic enrolment?
      • What happens if workers' incomes change after they have been automatically enrolled in a qualifying pension scheme?
      • How can I set exceptions for Directors and limited liability partnerships for pensions automatic enrolment?
      • Can I apply an eligible jobholder postponement immediately after a worker postponement?
      • Can I apply multiple eligible jobholder postponements?
      • When should I run the Pensions Automatic Enrolment Assessment Process?
    • Involuntary Deductions
      • How You Add Involuntary Deductions to a Calculation Card
      • Fee and Proration Rules for Involuntary Deductions
      • Examples of Involuntary Deduction Processing
    • Court Orders, Student Loans, and Postgraduate Loans
      • Overview of Court Orders, Student Loans, and Postgraduate Loans
      • Element Classifications for Court Orders, Student Loans, and Postgraduate Loans
      • Set Up Court Order Elements
      • Set Up Deductions for Court Orders
      • Define Court Order Adjustments and Overrides
      • Set Up Issuing Authority for Court Orders
      • Define Third Parties for Court Orders and Student Loans
      • How Multiple Court Orders Are Processed
      • Attachment of Earnings Order Fines for Northern Ireland
      • Identify Attachable Earnings for Court Orders and Student Loans: Explained
      • Create Student Loan and Postgraduate Loan Elements
      • Create Student Loan or Postgraduate Loan Deductions
      • Postgraduate Loan Deductions
      • Run Reports for Court Orders and Student Loans
      • Retrieve Data from HMRC for Student or Postgraduate Loans
      • Upload Student or Postgraduate Loan Data to HMRC
      • What should I do when an involuntary deduction is fully paid?
    • Benefits
      • Load Benefits to Payroll
    • Taxable Benefits in Kind
      • Overview of Processing Benefits-in-Kind Through Payroll and P11D Reporting
      • Taxable Benefits Calculation Card
      • Legislative Data for Taxable Benefits in Kind
      • Elements for Taxable Benefits in Kind
      • Balance Feeds for Benefits in Kind
      • Recording Employee Benefits at Organization Level
      • Taxable Benefits Calculation Component
      • Taxable Benefits Calculation Component Rules
      • Basic Benefit Information Common Attributes
      • Assets Transferred
      • Payments Made on Behalf of Employee
      • Mileage Allowance Balances and Rates
      • Car and Car Fuel
      • Van and Van Fuel
      • Qualifying Relocation Expenses and Benefits
      • Assets at Employee Disposal
      • Other Items
      • Interest Free Loans
      • Expenses Payments Made on Behalf of Employee
      • Processing Benefits in Kind for Tax and NI
      • Benefits and Calendar Year: Example
      • Leaver with Benefits: Example
      • How to Change Payrolling of Benefits to P11D
      • OpRa Rules
      • Taxable Benefits Elements and Input Values
      • End of Year Benefit Statement
      • P11D and P46(Car) Reporting for the UK
      • Proration of Car or Van Fuel Benefit
  • 4 Global Transfers
    • Overview
    • Element Entries Transfer
      • What Happens to Element Entries During Person Transfers
      • Examples of Copying Element Entries During an Employee Transfer
    • Payment Methods Transfer
    • Person Costing Transfer
    • Calculation Cards Transfer
      • Payroll Details During Global Transfer
      • Student and Postgraduate Loan Data During Global Transfer
    • Balances Transfer
      • Overview of Copying Balances
      • Example to Carry Forward Total Owed Deductions
      • Effective Dates for Balance Fetch and Adjustment
      • Adjust Balance Differences
    • Mass Legal Employer Change for Payroll
    • Copy Future Dated Changes
    • Global Transfer Example
    • FAQs for Global Transfers
      • Why did the data copy fail for an employee who was global transferred temporarily?
      • How can I exclude element entries during employee transfers?
      • Why weren’t any element entries copied during my employee transfer?
      • How the Local and Global Transfer Process Handles Copy Failures
      • What happens to future-dated changes during employee transfers?
      • Does default value apply to the copied element entry in the new assignment?
      • Can I perform an employee transfer with HCM Data Loader?
      • Why shouldn't I use balance initialization to carry forward balances during global transfer?
  • 5 Process Payroll
    • Flow Patterns
      • Overview of Payroll Flows
      • Payroll Process Configuration Groups
      • Start of Year Archive Process
      • Tax Code Uplift Archive Process
      • NI Category Update Archive Process
      • Employer Payment Summary Process
        • Initialize Apprenticeship Levy and Report in EPS
      • Calculate Recovery and NIC Compensation Amounts Manually
      • Automatic Calculation of Recovery and NIC Compensation Amounts
      • HMRC Data Retrieval Process
      • Load HMRC XML File Process
      • Outgoing XML Messages Submission to HMRC
      • HMRC File Submission Process
      • HMRC File Submission and Retrieval Using a Third Party
      • Incoming XML Messages and Inbound Flow Instance Diagnostics
      • P45 Process
      • Employees Subject to Foreign Tax Credit Relief
      • NINO Verification Request Process
      • End of Year P60 Process
      • Gender Pay Gap Report
        • How to Use the Gender Pay Gap Analysis Spreadsheet
      • Full Payment Submission
        • Run Full Payment Submission Process
        • Balances Reported in the Full Payment Submission
        • Roll Back Individual Records Within an FPS Run
        • Breakdown Full Payment Submission into Smaller Files
        • Retry Full Payment Submission Process
        • FPS First Submission and Resubmission to HMRC
        • Full Payment Submission Process Updates to Employee Calculation Card
        • Submit FPS Flow to HMRC Where the Flow Didn't Complete Successfully
    • Third-Party Payment Methods
      • Third-Party Payment Methods
      • Create Third Parties Options
      • Examples of Third-Party Payments
      • Third-Party Payment Rollup
      • Employee and Third-Party Check Payments Overview
      • How to Generate Employee and Third-Party Cheque Payments
      • Third-Party Payment Date Options
    • Payroll Run
      • How Element Processing Sequence is Determined
      • How Net-to-Gross Earnings are Calculated
      • Create a Net-to-Gross Earnings Element
      • Assignment Status and Payroll Processing
      • Restrict Payroll Processing
      • Order of Processing Payroll for Employees on Multiple Payrolls
      • FAQs for Payroll Run
        • How can I remove someone from the payroll run?
        • How can I receive payroll notifications in the payroll dashboard?
    • Payroll Calculation
      • Consolidation Groups
      • Examples of Using Consolidation Groups
    • Object Groups
      • Overview of Object Groups
    • Expedited Processing
      • How Expedited Processing Works
      • Expedited Payroll Flow
    • QuickPay
      • How QuickPay Is Processed
      • Examples of the QuickPay Process
      • FAQ for Quick Pay
        • Can I automate a QuickPay flow using a service?
    • QuickPay Flows
      • How to Run QuickPay Flows
      • Submit a QuickPay Flow to Correct a Payroll Calculation Error
      • Examples of Using Flow Interaction for QuickPay Flows
    • QuickPay Run Results
      • QuickPay Summary
      • QuickPay Standard Entries Summary
      • QuickPay Absence Entries Summary
      • QuickPay Time Card Entries Summary
      • View the QuickPay Person Process Results
    • RetroPay
      • Overview of Retroactive Pay
      • Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes
      • How Retroactive Pay Is Calculated
      • Retroactive Pay for Late Hires
      • Add a Retroactive Event Notification Manually
      • FAQ for RetroPay
        • How can I create offset entries instead of deleting retroactive entries and notifications?
    • Event Notifications
      • Event Action Notifications
      • Drill Down from Event Action Notifications to Events
      • Events for a Person
      • Drill Down from Events to Event Action Notifications
    • Payments
      • Calculate Payroll Payment Distribution
      • Split Up Payroll Payments
      • Payroll Payments Distribution
      • View Payments
      • Generate Check/Cheque Payments and Check/Cheque Numbers
      • Verify and Troubleshoot Payments
      • Examples of Third-Party Payments
      • Employee and Third-Party Check Payments Overview
      • How to Generate Employee and Third-Party Cheque Payments
      • Employee and Third-Party Check Payments Process
      • Corrective Actions for Payments
      • Examples of Correcting Payments
      • Calculate Prepayments and Archive Periodic Payroll Results
      • How does the Hours * Rate calculation rule work for elements?
      • FAQ for Payments
        • How can I view the PDF Checks after I generate check payments?
        • Why does the payslip display payments for a later payroll period?
        • What's the International Transfer payment type?
        • Can I roll back a payment after generating it?
        • How do I generate payments to third-party payees?
        • What's the difference between rolling back and reversing a payment action?
  • 6 Payroll Results
    • Payroll Run Results
      • How Payroll Run Results Are Calculated
      • View and Verify Payroll Run Results
      • How to View the Statement of Earnings
      • Troubleshoot Missing Elements in Payroll Run Results
      • Mark for Retry, Retry, and Roll Back Payroll Results
      • FAQs for View Payroll Results
        • How can I identify the payroll flow that includes a specific element for an employee?
        • What's the difference between retrying a payroll process and retrying a payroll calculation?
        • When does a balance display on the Statement of Earnings?
        • How can I access a log file for a payroll flow, extract, or report?
        • Why is the same person listed multiple times in search results?
  • 7 Payroll Reconciliation
    • Reports
      • Payroll Reports and Analytics
      • Payroll Calculation and Balancing Reports
        • Summary of Payroll Calculation and Balancing Reports
        • Deduction Report
        • Element Results Register
        • Payroll Register Reports
        • Statutory Deduction Register Reports
        • Gross-to-Net Report
        • Consolidation Group Support for the Gross-to-Net Report
        • Dynamic Payroll Relationship Group Support for the Payroll Activity Report
        • Payroll Activity Reports
        • Payroll Messages Report
      • Payroll Balance Report
        • Configure Information Balances in the Payroll Balance Report
        • Payroll Balance Report
        • Employee Active Payroll Balance Report
      • Payroll Payment and Cost Distribution Reports
        • Summary of Payroll Payment and Cost Distribution Reports
        • Payment Register
        • Third-Party Payment Register
        • Payment Statuses
        • Payroll Costing Results Report
      • Payslips
        • Overview of Online Payslip
        • Generate Payslips
        • Add Text to Payslips and Cheques
        • Examples of Input Values for Payslip and Cheque Text
        • Payslip Regions and Details
        • Configure Payslip template to Display Hours for Employees
        • Generate Payslips in the Worker's Correspondence Language
        • View My Payslip and Bank Details
        • Payslip Reprinting Report
      • Data Validation and Audit Reports
        • Summary of Data Validation and Audit Reports
        • View Originating Pay Periods for Retroactive Earnings
      • Payroll Data Validation
        • Overview of Payroll Data Validation Report
        • Validation Rules for Data Validation Report
        • Payroll Validation Archive Report
        • Worked Example to Add Rules to Data Validation Reports
        • Set Up a Lookup Code to Control the Rules for Data Validation Reports
        • Add Rules to Data Validation Reports
        • Payroll Data Validation Report
        • Data Security in Payroll Data Validation Reports
      • Balance Exception Reports
        • How to Create a Balance Exception Report
        • Balance Exception Report
      • Verify Real-Time Information for HMRC
        • Verify Full Payment Submission
        • Verify End of Year P60
  • 8 Reconciling Payments
    • Payment Reconciliation Setup
    • Reconcile Payroll Payments
    • Reconcile Retroactive Payroll Payments
    • Retroactive Notification Report
    • Retroactive Entries Report
  • 9 Auditing and Reporting
    • Common Report Features
      • Delivery Options for Extract-Based Payroll Reports
      • Default Action Parameters for Payroll Extracts
      • Display All Hours in Payroll Reports
      • Report Days and Units in Payroll Reports
      • Set Job Priority for Payroll Reports
      • Year-to-Date Balances in Reports
      • Examples of Viewing YTD Balances in Reports
      • Report Payment and Nonpayment Balances
      • Latest Process Year-to-Date and Periodic Balances Reporting
      • XML Data Chunking
      • Employer Taxes in Payroll Reports
    • Account Number Masking in Payroll Reports
      • Account Number Masking in Payroll Reports
    • FAQs for Reports
      • Why don't I see the new delivery option when I redeliver the report?
      • How can I display employee work location and department on their payslip or check?
      • How can I view transient data in extract-based payroll reports?
    • Archive
      • Overview of Payroll Archive
      • Archive Periodic Payroll Results
      • View and Edit Archive Results
      • FAQ for Archive
        • When should I archive payroll data?
  • 10 Load Payroll Data Using Transformation Formula
    • Data Loader
      • Overview of Loading Objects with HCM Data Loader
    • Payroll Transformation Formula for HCM Data Loader
      • Overview
      • How You Transform Data
      • How To Create A Program for Automation
      • Submit the Load Data From File Flow
      • Transformation Formula Input Variables
      • Payroll Transformation Formula Operations
      • Return Values for Payroll Transformation Formula for HCM Data Loader
      • Sample Payroll Transformation Formula
      • Sample Payroll Transformation Formula for Multiple Business Objects
    • Payroll Transformation Formula for HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader
      • Overview
      • Sample Payroll Transformation Formula