Prevent Negative Payments

Do these steps in the Participant Assignments work area to prevent negative payment amounts in payment batches.

1. Create a payment plan with a minimum payment amount of 0.00.

   To recover any adjustments made to offset a negative balance in a payment batch, also make this plan recoverable.

2. Assign the minimum zero plan to participants to prevent a negative payment amount for them in the payment batch.

Tip: This solution might not prevent a negative payment amount on an off-cycle payment batch, because the payment process applies the plan minimum against the participant's period earnings, not payment batch earnings. Prevent a negative payment for off-cycle payment batches with either of these methods:

Paysheet Examples

This table provides two paysheet scenarios that show how the total period earnings determine whether the payment plan sets the paysheet amount to zero. All amounts are in USD.

Scenario	Results
The monetary value of batch 1 is 1,000. The monetary value of batch 2 is -200 USD.	The zero minimum payment plan doesn't set the payment batch 2 amount to 0.00 for any associated participant because the period earnings, 800, are greater than zero.
The monetary value of batch 1 is 1,000. The monetary value of batch 2 is -1,200.	The zero minimum payment plan sets the payment batch 2 amount to 0.00 for associated participants because the period earnings, -200, are less than zero.