Payroll Background Process: Enhancements

The payroll background process is an ESS process that runs continuously in the background to improve the performance of payroll features. The payroll application includes safeguards to ensure the process is running continuously, and if required it’s automatically restarted if it stops for some reason. For example, the process may stop when a customer experiences server connection issues.

The payroll background process can be used to process event notifications when entries such as compensation, time, and absence entries are loaded for an employee. The application checks the background process is running continuously when information is loaded using any of these flows:

• Load Time Card Batches
• Load Absence Batches
• Generate HCM Rates

The process is also checked and if necessary restarted, when HCM Data Loader (HDL) files are loaded to payroll for the following business objects:

• Payroll Time Card
• Payroll Absence Record
• Element Entry
• Element Entry with Costing (HDL)

The payroll background process runs continuously when entries such as compensation and time are loaded for an employee, and when processes such as Generate HCM Rates are submitted. The payroll application includes safeguards to ensure the process is running continuously, and if required it’s automatically restarted if it stops for some reason.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.