Integrating Employees’ Base Pay Information with Payroll
When both the Payroll and the Compensation Tracking features are enabled, compensation integration options appear on the Set Up Payroll (Setup > Payroll > Set Up Payroll) page. With these options, you can synchronize employees’ base pay information with SuitePeople U.S. Payroll. After you update an employee’s salary or wage on the Compensation Tracking Subtab of the employee record, the base wage type and amount are copied to the Payroll subtab.
To use Payroll with Compensation Tracking, make sure you do the following:
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Assign a primary payroll item to each employee who is already included in Payroll. If more than one payroll item is associated with an employee, the Compensation Tracking feature updates the primary payroll item with base compensation information. You can set the primary payroll item in the Earnings subtab of the Payroll subtab on the employee record. NOTE: When configuring the payroll items, make sure that the primary payroll item has a rate (not a multiplier), is not derived from another payroll item, and has an item type of either Earning:Salary or Earning:Wage. For more information, see Setting up Earnings for an Employee.
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Set a default salary payroll item and a default wage payroll item. Default payroll items are used for one of two reasons:
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When an employee’s pay type is changed from salary to wage or from wage to salary in Compensation Tracking
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When a wage or salary payroll item is not already associated with the employee
If default payroll items are not set up, your employees might not be paid correctly.
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The primary payroll item must have a rate (not a multiplier), cannot be derived from another payroll item, and must have an item type of either Earning:Salary or Earning:Wage.
To integrate employees’ base pay information with Payroll:
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Go to Setup > Payroll > Set Up Payroll.
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On the Compensation Integration subtab, check the Copy Compensation Tracking Data to Payroll box.
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In the Default Salary Payroll Item list, select a default salary payroll item.
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In the Default Wage Payroll Item list, select a default wage payroll item.
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Click Save.