Overview of Combining Payroll Flows

Use flow pattern connectors, consolidation groups, and link flow options to consolidate the results of more than one payroll or QuickPay into a single flow. You combine flows to consolidate payroll results for your business activities, such as reporting.

Recollect that you can use flows for monitoring and managing payroll tasks, such as calculating payrolls, running reconciliation reports, and for making payroll payments.

Let's consider this scenario where the Payroll Manager wants to consolidate some of their payroll flows. Each payroll period, Vision Corp completes all payroll tasks within the regular weekly payroll cycle. And the payroll flow ensures that all weekly paid employees receive their payments on the payment date. Every day, the Payroll Manager runs multiple off-cycle payroll runs to handle exceptions, such as late payments or final payments for terminated employees. The manager might decide to make these types of off-cycle payments on any day within the same payroll period.

Note: Segregate the regular and off-cycle payroll run results even when payment dates fall on the same day.

As shown in this table, you can use these options to combine both your regular and off-cycle payroll flows.

Task and Option	Page Where You Can Configure the Option	Used To
Flow Pattern Connectors	Payroll Flow Patterns	Segregate and combine flows using the connector rules that you define on the flow patterns page. For example, segregate QuickPay results from calculate payroll results in your daily payroll reporting flows, and combine QuickPay results and calculate payroll results in your weekly transfer to subledger accounting flow. Note: When defining flow pattern connector rules, use the same consolidation group for all calculations within the payroll cycle, such as all regular and on-cycle flows.
Consolidation Groups	Consolidation Groups Note: Assign the consolidation group to a payroll definition.	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.
Linked Flows	Flow Submission	Link a flow to another completed flow.