Setup Approach

Use the Payroll Flow Patterns quick action under Payroll in My Client Groups on the Home page to search and use a delivered flow or create your own flow.

For example, to ensure that your payroll cycles are accurate, you can design a flow that includes manual tasks that request validation at each step in the process. In this way, your Financial Director can verify the payroll costing results before the flow transfers the payroll costs to the general ledger.

This table lists the features you can use to create a flow that best meets your requirements.

Payroll Flow Pattern Features

Option	Usage Description
Predefined flow patterns	Automatically available for you to submit all types of payroll processes and reports, such as, the Calculate Payroll flow or the Expedited Payroll Flow, or the various ready-to-use payroll reports, such as the Run Payroll Activity report.
Predefined flow tasks	All predefined payroll processes and reports have a corresponding predefined flow task which you can include in a flow pattern. Predefined tasks are also delivered to support manual steps within your flow, such as the verification of a report.
Task Iterations	The task iterator automates repetitive tasks with a single flow submission. For example, use the task iterator option to generate a report for multiple payroll statutory units within your organization.
Flow Connectors	Use flow connectors to isolate and review off-cycle and on-cycle payroll runs and subsequently combine the run results for downstream processing.
Value Sets as a parameter	Use value sets as a parameter and control and validate the data you use in payroll flow patterns. A value set provides a dynamic list of values for an entry value.
Link Flows	Link a flow to one or more completed flows from the Linked Flows section of the flow submission page. For example, you can link the Payroll Activity Report to the Calculate Payroll flow to verify and validate the run results, before processing the payments.
Consolidation Groups	Use a consolidation group to segregate or combine the results of multiple payroll runs. For example, limit the payroll results included in the payroll costing report by entering a consolidation group parameter when submitting the report.
Add a BI Publisher Report to a Flow	Create a BI Publisher report and run the report using a flow.
Outbound API Notifications	Configure an outbound notification with the payroll flows so that once a task in a flow completes, it sends an automatic completion notification to an external downstream server. It then triggers downstream non-payroll processes.