Introduction

This playbook covers the steps to configure Advance Pay for employees in Ireland.

The Advance Pay functionality provides a simple and efficient way to pay employees in advance for holidays or other eligible events, reducing manual effort for the payroll team.

This feature ensures that the advance payment is calculated accurately, suppresses regular pay for the leave period to maintain a net pay of zero regardless of other payments or deductions, and automatically applies any necessary adjustments in the following pay period(s).

While primarily intended for weekly and fortnightly paid employees, Advance Pay is also available for other pay frequencies.

To further streamline the process, consider defining an Individual Compensation Plan (ICP), to allow managers or employees (with workflow approvals in place) to initiate advance payments through self-service.

Here are some important considerations when using Advance Pay:

• Advance Pay does not replace Holiday Pay and is not integrated with other modules such as Absence Management or Time and Labor.
• Retroactive processing is not enabled for this feature.
• Both contractual and non-contractual earnings are treated the same for Advance Pay.
• Before setting up Advance Pay, ensure that the processing priorities of all earnings and deductions are set prior to Advance Pay (that is, priority < 9000).