AccountRight Plus and Premier, Australia only

Every time you process an employee’s pay, the amounts from that payment are recorded in the employee’s pay history.

The Pay History section of an employee’s card is used to:

• enter an employee’s pay history when you are setting up payroll part-way through the year, and
• review a history of what the employee has been paid for a specified period.

Looking for info on entitlement balances? See Viewing an employee's entitlement balances.

Don't tamper with history

If you've made a mistake in a pay, don't try to fix it by changing the Pay History in an employee's card. Instead, fix it by adjusting the employee's next pay. See Changing a recorded pay for all the details.

Changing the Pay History in an employee's card will cause a few headaches, including:

• it won't fix an incorrect pay
• the amounts won't be posted to your payroll accounts
• payroll calculations, such as superannuation, will be affected
• the change will only be reflected on the Payroll Register report, not the Payroll Activity report (this report is based on what's happened been entered through Process Payroll). So if your payroll register and payroll activity reports don't match, it usually means an employee's Pay History has been changed.