Payroll Maintenance - Pays tab
Use the Pays tab to view:
- key values of past and current pays
- details and pay methods of pays
- preview or email payslips.
By displaying key values, you can quickly review a variety of information. Just scroll:
- down to the pays for a particular period (using the Date field)
- across to the columns (fields) to be viewed.
Payroll Maintenance - Pays tab key fields and buttons
Fields
Field | Description |
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Past Pays Only | Select to display past pays. |
Current Pays Only | Select to display current pays only. |
Grid area fields
Field | Description |
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Date | The date the pay was processed. |
Number | The posting number of the pay. |
Arch? | Selected if the pay was archived. See Archive Path field in Synergetic Financial Configuration - Payroll tab in the Finance manual. |
Income Stream | ATO defined income stream type. |
Country | Country code of the selected payroll employee. Country code only required for pay codes with the following income stream types:
Note: Income stream types are selected using the General tab of Pay Code Maintenance. See Pay Code Maintenance - General tab. |
Gross | The gross amount paid to the staff member. |
Sal Sac (non-super) | The amount of non-superannuation salary sacrifice. |
Sal Sac (Super) | The amount of superannuation salary sacrifice. |
Total A/D | Combined tax allowance and deductions. |
Tax | The amount of tax withheld from the pay. |
Nett | The nett pay received by the staff member. |
Emp'er Super | The superannuation contribution from the employer. |
Termination | Any termination pay included. Note: Termination pay is included in the Earnings not liable for levy section of the IRD Report. See Preparing IRD monthly schedules. |
Freq | The frequency of the pay. For example, Monthly, Fortnightly. |
Periods | The number of pay periods this pay includes. This affects the tax calculation for the pay. For example, a pay that would normally fall during the payroll administrator's Christmas break is added to the preceding pay. This preceding pay incorporates two pay periods, so employees are taxed at the usual rate instead of a higher tax bracket. |
Normal | The amount received classified as 'normal' pay. |
Tax Allow | The amount of before-tax allowance. |
Non Tax Allow | The amount added to the employee's nett pay. |
Deductions | Any tax deductions. |
Emp'ee Super | The amount withheld for voluntary superannuation contributions. |
STP Status | Status of the Single Touch Payroll file submitted to the Australian Tax Office. This field can be set to either:
Note: For more information about the STP Status options, see Payroll Maintenance - Declarations tab. |
Payday Status (NZ) | Status of the Payday Filing Export submitted to the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. This field can be set to either:
Note: For more information about the export options, see Payroll Maintenance - Declarations tab. |
HELP | The amount withheld for HECS-HELP repayments. |
Super Tax | Tax paid on superannuation contributions. |
Other Pay Gross | The gross amount of other pay paid to the staff member. |
Other Pay Withhold | The amount of other pay withheld by the staff member. |
Comment | Any comment on the pay. |
Buttons
Button | Description |
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Refresh the data shown after changing the Year. | |
This shows details of the highlighted pay. For example: You can click:
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This shows the payment methods for the highlighted pay. For example: | |
Click to preview the payslip. If the payslip has been stored in the database, Synergetic retrieves it. Otherwise the report is regenerated. Note: You can force Synergetic to regenerate the payslip by pressing the Shift key when you click. | |
Synergetic emails a copy of the payslip, if it has been stored in the database. Note: Synergetic cannot email payslip copies if you have not selected to store payslips in the database. See Synergetic Financial Configuration - Payroll tab in the Finance manual. | |
Click to display the Income Stream Errors window. For information about fixing income stream errors, see Fixing income stream type errors. Note: This button is only displayed when there are pays with income stream type errors. |