Entering pay history prior to using MYOB Essentials
If you're in Australia
If you've started using MYOB Essentials part way through the payroll year, you can enter employee pay history by recording pays for each month that's already passed in the payroll year. For example, if you've started using MYOB Essentials in December, you can record monthly pays for each employee for July - November.
To enter these pays, you'll need to know the pay details (wages and other earnings, tax and super) for each employee for each month you're entering, then manually enter these values into the pay.
When you start a new pay run:
- Change the How often field to Monthly.
- Enter the start and end of the month in the From and To fields.
- Enter the last day of that month in the Pay on field.
Here's the date selection for an historical pay for July:
Continue processing the pay and entering the values to be recorded for that month. Repeat for each historical month to be entered.
If you're in New Zealand
If you want to keep a record of the employee’s pay history before you started using MYOB Essentials for leave management purposes, you can enter this information manually.
- On the Pay history tab, click Enter pay history prior to using MYOB Essentials.
- In the fields at the bottom of this screen, choose the employee’s pay frequency.
- Enter the pay period dates, gross earnings (not including non-taxable allowances) and hours worked during the pay period.
- Click Add.
- Repeat from step 2 for each pay period you want to record in MYOB Essentials.
Note that the pay history you enter in this way is for reference only and will not be included in reports or other MYOB Essentials transactions.