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Guides to process payroll transactions including leave, terminations and superannuation.

Payroll Processing

Change the current Period End Date to run an extra or out of cycle pay run?

Adjustment Pay Runs

Can I reverse or change the cost account from an incorrect or suspense cost account?

Costing Adjustment

Tax Adjust or Extra Tax doesn't appear in Costing Adjustment, how can I change the cost account

Costing Adjustment for Tax Adjustment

Can Manual Calculation Subtract reduce the EFT amount

Generate payment for a Subtract Manual Calculation

Enter a Payroll Tax Adjustment to move earnings to a new Payroll Tax code as it is currently the wrong one.

Payroll Tax Adjustment

Enter a transaction for an underpayment, overpayment or missing payment

Process a Manual Calculation

Correct or reverse super values due to either the Super not calculating or calculating too much

Process a Superannuation Adjustment

Process a Transaction Adjustment

Reverse, recover or fix an overpayment to an employee in the current financial year or a previous year

Recover an Overpayment

Remove or reverse an incorrect payment from a previous period

Reverse a pay from a previous period

Reverse an ETP

Employee was paid the wrong component or Tax wasn't included in the transaction and need to re-key or correct the pay after EOP

Reverse and re-enter a Transaction

Move the payment from one component to another

Reverse hours from one component and pay to another

How do I update a group of pay classes, do a bulk update of pay rates or annual salary?

Update Pay Rates Global

Processing Adjustments as part of your Payroll process

Payroll Processing - Adjustments

Addition Code for a Public Holiday Rate

Cash out Leave

Pay Annual Leave (AL) or Long Service Leave (LSL) at half pay.

Enter half pay for Leave

Initial Balance

Jury Duty

Other Leave Reason to accrue Annual, Sick and Long service leave

Public Holidays in MicrOpay

Public Holiday is not being considered when applying for leave

Public Holiday is not taken into account when an employee applies for leave

Update Leave Entitlements before producing pay advices

Update Leave Entitlements

Payroll Processing - Leave

Actual Overtime or Paid Overtime in the Employer Superannuation Calculation

Check to see if I have closed off or pay to fund has been completed for Superannuation in the month or quarter

Check if Superannuation has been processed

Can I use one file layout for multiple Super funds and append the file in Super Processing

Combine Superannuation information into one file

The salary sacrifice or voluntary contribution dropped while ticking Pay to Fund for superannuation

Employee Contribution is different on Super Report after ticking Pay to Fund

Checking if a particular addition or pay component is attracting super.

Pay components that Superannuation is calculating on

Use Superannuation Processing to produce and reconcile the Superannuation Contributions Report and generate the SAFF file to upload

Produce the Superannuation File to pay a Superannuation Fund or Clearing House and clear the Contributions Due

When balancing super values in superannuation processing, superannuation clearing or express super, the value entered via manual calculation is not included

Superannuation entered in manual calculation is missing from superannuation report or file

Super file is higher or double compared to the Super Report and does not balance or it includes values from the previous month

Superannuation File is more than the Superannuation Contributions Report

Superannuation Fund fails validation in Super Clearing or errors at the Super Clearing House

Superannuation fund rejected or failed validation

Super is too high or has been calculated for an employee over the maximum or SGL Contribution Cap in the quarter

Superannuation has exceeded the SGL Contribution Cap

An employee has switched or changed super fund, reverse values in the old fund and add them to the new fund

Transfer Superannuation Contributions from Old Fund to New Fund

Why is super not calculating for a termination payment?
Super hasn't calculated for my under 18 year old, and they have worked 30 hours?

Why didn't superannuation calculate?

Superannuation payroll processing guides.

Payroll Processing - Superannuation

Can I create a different termination or cessation reason?

Add another Termination Reason

Enter or increase an employment termination payment using manual calculation, e.g. ex-gratia, in lieu of notice, etc

Enter ETP via Manual Calculation

In Lieu of Notice included in the Genuine Redundancy

Why is the leave in the termination higher than the Employee record? Employee leave record didn't update after processing a term pay.

Leave Accruals and Terminations

Long Service Leave appear in a Termination Transaction

Process a Permanent Disability/Invalidity Termination

Enter or key termination payments, including termination with zero entitlements

Process a Termination Transaction

Can I add a salary sacrifice for superannuation or a deduction before tax in a termination transaction

Salary Sacrifice a Termination

Tax calculated for Leave components in a Termination

Tax calculations for Termination Leave

Terminate or finish up an employee where there is no payment due e.g. Casual Employee or when you transfer an employee to another company

Terminate an employee without a Termination Transaction

Show or stop terminated employees appearing in transaction entry.

Terminated employees in transactions

Termination transaction due to Death

Remove the Termination Date for an employee terminated in error or used the wrong termination date, and correct the employee record and STP Reporting

Undo an incorrect termination

Impact of Whole of Income when processing an ETP and why the ETP Tax is higher than 32%

Whole of Income

Termination transaction payroll processing.

Payroll Processing - Terminations

Process or bulk upload bonus payments for multiple employees

Calculation Worksheet

Payroll processing during the holiday season

Calendar year end

Avoid bank splits in the transaction for one employee, so their pay goes to their main bank account or change the amount going to a bank account for one pay

Change Bank Splits for one pay

In transactions or the general ledger, show the additions and deductions using either code or description

Change the addition and deduction look up

In transactions or reports, show or search for employees using surname, first name or code

Change the Employee look up from Code to Surname

Delete a transaction to change the aba or EFT file before it's submitted to the bank

Delete a transaction

How to run end of pay or close off the pay period

End of pay process

Can I process a Backpay and then import Transactions that will apply the new rate?

Enter Back Pay and then import Transactions

Create or export a bank file and specify what date to use

Generate an EFT file

Process or create an EFT file to pay in advance and process the End of Pay (EOP)

Generate an EFT file and not do End of Pay

Generate autopay transactions

Stop the system loading the next employee automatically or too quickly in a transaction.

In Extended Timesheet don't load the next employee

Enter a transaction that pays a day as Public Holiday (taken) instead of Normal hours

Include Public Holiday in a Transaction

Job Codes

Leave Planning

Order for updating pay classes and entering backpays

Make an extra or additional payment to a terminated employee through Timesheet or Manual Calculation

Pay a Terminated Employee

Pay an employee additional or extra hours

Pay an employee overtime

Enter two or multiple pays at the same time and correctly calculate tax for Christmas process or leave in advance

Pay in Advance

Process a Backpay

Process a bonus or commission on a yearly or quarterly basis and use the Bonus Tax Calculator

Process a Bonus Payment

Enter transactions through Express Transaction and use Shortcut keys

Process an Express Timesheet

Follow a checklist for the steps involved in processing pays

Process a Payrun

Pay leave, additions or hours using MET (Multi Employee Timesheet) for a number of employees

Process hours using Multi Employee Timesheet

Process an LSPE backpay transaction and report via STP

Process Lump Sum E values to report through STP

Rate Factors

Changing an employee's costing while processing their pay

Split costing at transaction level

Tax hasn't calculated in a termination or backpay

Tax hasn't calculated

The STSL (Student Training and Support Loans) value is too high when compared to the total tax amount

The STSL value is greater than Tax (Incl Adjust)

Leave, Normal, Overtime or Additions have been included twice in the same transaction or period

Transactions doubled or appear multiple times in the same period

Guides on entering transactions as part of your Payroll Processing

Payroll Processing - Transactions

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