Regular Pay

Select to process a regular pay for a payroll group. The Regular Pay area fields are made active and the Special Pay area fields are made inactive.

Special Pay

Select to process a special pay, selecting individuals to pay. The Special Pay area fields are made active and the Regular Pay area fields are made inactive.

Payroll Group

Payroll group to select for the pay run. If you do not select a payroll group then the pay is processed for all employees.

For example, you may have a monthly pay run for salaried employees and a weekly pay run for wages employees.

See Payroll Configuration - Pay Groups tab in the System maintenance manual for more details on creating and defining pay groups.

Include Casual Employees

Select to include casual employees in the pay run. Casual employees are not automatically selected into a pay run.

Employees for Special Pay

If processing a Special Pay, use the buttons to add and delete employees to the pay run.

Leave blank to create an empty pay run.

Last Pay Date

Date of the last pay.

Note: This field is not editable.

Pay (Posting) Date

Posting date. Override if required.

You should be mindful of the Last Pay Date when nominating the Pay Date, to ensure that regular periods are specified.

Payment Available

The date the pay will be available to staff.

Same as Pay Date

Select to make the Payment Available date the same as the Pay Date.

Start of Pay Period

Synergetic automatically calculates the start of the pay period from the End of Pay Period and Payroll Group. Override if required.

Calculate from Payroll Group

Select to calculate the Start of Pay Period field using the Posting Date and the selected Payroll Group.

End of Pay Period

End of the pay period.

Same As Pay Date

Select to make the End of Pay Period date the same as the Pay Date.

Expected Super Payment

The date that superannuation payments are expected to be made on behalf of the staff member.

Note: This field will become mandatory for Australian users from the 1st of July, 2013.

Same as Pay Date

Select to make the Expected Super Payment date the same as the Pay Date.

Bank Account

Bank account the employees are paid from.

Description

Description of the pay run used to search for past pay runs.

This helps you to identify the pay at a later stage. It does default to a meaningful description, based on the pay group.

Name

Name of the staff member.

Field

Name of the field that has a discrepancy.

HR

Value of the field in the Human resources system.

Payroll

Value of the field in the Payroll system.

Comment

Comment indicating further issues or discrepancies.

ID

Synergetic ID of the staff member.

Add employees to the special pay run, using the Get Payroll ID window. You can select multiple employees by:

• holding down Shift when clicking to select a block of employees
• holding down Ctrl when clicking to select several employees individually.

Delete the highlighted employee from the special pay run.