Start a pay run

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Ready to pay your employees? Use the Process Payroll assistant to work through your employee payments.

1. Go to the Payroll command centre and click Process Payroll. The Process Payroll window appears.

   

2. Select the employees to be included in the pay run.

   • If you are processing pays for all employees, click Process all employees paid and select the pay frequency in the adjacent field. You can process pays for all employees assigned a pay frequency, such as, weekly or monthly, or process pay for an individual employee. If you want to record pays for more than one pay frequency on the same day—for example, when your weekly and monthly pay dates coincide—you need to process a separate pay run for each frequency.

     Bonus or commission payments

     If you are processing pays for bonuses or commissions outside your normal pay period, select the Bonus/Commission pay frequency. When you select this frequency, standard pay details will not be included in processing. Also note that you need to manually calculate and enter tax for these amounts.

   • If you want to filter the list of employees paid at this frequency, click Advanced Filters. In the window that appears, select additional filters based on employment basis, status, classification, custom lists or identifiers, then click OK.  For example, if you employ seasonal workers and full-time employees, select only full-time employees in the Advanced Employee Filter window, or, if you want to exclude contractors from the pay run, only select employees with an Employment Basis of Individual.

   • If you are processing a pay for an individual employee, click Process individual employee and select the employee in the adjacent field. The pay frequency assigned to the employee’s card is used in the pay run.

3. Choose the pay dates.

   • Payment Date - This is typically the date on which you process the pays, and it defaults to today's date. Even though this is the date you process the payment, it's not necessarily the date your employees receive their pay. For example, banks can take a few days to process electronic payments.

     The Payment Date also determines which payroll year a pay belongs to. For example, a payment date of June 30 might include pay dates from June and July.

   • Pay period start - Enter the start date of the pay period. By default, the date shown here is based on the pay frequency and today's date. For example, for a weekly pay frequency, the pay period start date will be one week before today.

   • Pay period end - Enter the last date of the pay period. By default, the date shown here will be today's date.

4. Review your employee timesheets (if you use them) or click Next to review your employee pays.

5. If you see an alert that says Looks like some of your payroll information doesn't meet ATO requirements, click Update details to see what needs fixing. Learn more about fixing payroll information.

   
   Continuing the pay run without updating your payroll details can lead to your information being rejected by the ATO.

If you need to make changes to employees, like adding payroll categories or changing the hours worked, see Review employee pays before recording them.

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