What's new to Payroll

You can use the redesigned General tab of Payroll Maintenance to more easily find the payroll configuration options you need. The new tab is split into two sub-tabs.

• Page 1 sub-tab containing general, payslip and government submission details 
• Page 2 sub-tab containing option flags and discrepancy checks

You can use the new Leave by Hours Worked Project Average Pay Count field on the Page 1 sub-tab of the General tab of the Payroll Configuration window to configure the number of pays used to calculated leave entitlements for employees working irregular hours (i.e. hours worked leave calculation method and the Units and Amount fields blank on the Pay Details tab).

You can use the Automatically Import Leave Details from Applications for Current Pays field to configure whether leave transactions are created automatically when new pays are created.

You can click on the following tabs to link a leave transaction to one or more leave applications:

• Leave tab of Payroll Maintenance
• Leave tab of Current Pay Maintenance.

When this button is clicked, the Assign Leave Taken to Application window is displayed to allow you to select the leave application.

Once the leave application is linked, you can click to view the details of the application and remove the link, if necessary.

Previously, we added the Auto Adjust Pay When Leave Entered field on the Payroll tab of Synergetic Financial Configuration window to allow you to determine whether normal pay lines automatically adjust based on the amount of leave taken. See Synergetic Financial Configuration - Payroll tab.

When this field is selected and there are multiple normal pay lines, you can now move leave pay lines up or down the grid to change the normal pay line adjusted based on the amount of leave. In the example below, the second line of normal pay (NTEACH) is modified by the line of annual leave.

The following warning is displayed when you add a payroll employee on the Details tab of Current Pay Maintenance that has leave with no units assigned that was taken and approved prior to the start of the current pay period.

Synergetic may encounter potential anomalies when leave transactions are processed. If anomalies are detected for a current pay, the Leave Requires Attention area is displayed above the grid area on the Detail tab of Current Pay Maintenance.

The Payroll Officer must check the Reason field to determine the reason(s), manually update the pay to resolve the potential leave anomaly, and then click the Accept button to acknowledge that leave has been correctly entered. 

Tip: You can select the Only Employees where leave needs attention field in the Current Pay Selector to only display current pays with potential anomalies. This field is only displayed if potential anomalies exist.

You can now deselect the Single Touch Payroll Enabled field on the Change Payroll Summary Details window at any stage prior to STP processing to choose not to submit current payroll details to the Australian Tax Office.

This is useful when you realise mid-finalisation that changes need to be made to your data before it can be submitted to the ATO.