Pay Run Inclusions comprise of additional pay items that are set up against an employee and then automatically included in the pay run. The specific items include:
- Deductions
- Employer Liabilities
- Expenses
- HMRC adjustments
- Tax Adjustments
These can be set up to include a specific start date and end date (otherwise it can repeat indefinitely). To set up a Pay Run Inclusion for an employee, choose the relevant employee from the employee list and then select 'Pay Run Inclusions' from the left side menu.
From there, refer to the following instructions below depending on what item you want to set up.
Setting up a recurring pension adjustment:
- Click on 'Add'.
- Select the appropriate contribution type from the drop down list.
- Enter the adjustment amount to be applied per pay run. It can be a fixed amount, a percentage of gross earnings, percentage of pensionable earnings, percentage of taxable earnings or percentage of NIable Earnings.
- Enter any notes if you want the employee to see them on their pay slip.
- Enter the date this inclusion is to commence.
- Choose when this inclusion should cease (a specific end date, never or once a particular amount has been reached).
- Click on 'Save'.
An example of a HMRC Adjustment is as follows:
Setting up a recurring Deduction:
- Go to the employee record for the employee that you want to create the recurring deduction for and under the 'Pay Run Settings' section click 'Pay Run Inclusions'.
- Click on 'Add' on the right side of 'Deductions' and complete the following details:
- Select the appropriate deduction category from the drop down list.
- Enter the deduction amount to be applied per pay run. It can be a 'Fixed amount', a 'Percentage of Gross' a 'Percentage of NET' or 'Varied based on earnings amount'.
- You should set the priority if there is more than one inclusion.
- Student loans need to be taken into account and the correct setting should be selected here.
- Select whether the deduction should be paid manually or bank account.
- Select if the preserved earnings should be used from the drop down menu.
- Apply a note if you would like this deduction to have a note attached on the employee's pay slip.
- Please state when you want this inclusion to start and when it should expire.
- Click save.
Setting up a recurring Expense:
An example scenario of when to use this would be when an agreement has been reached with an employee that the company will reimburse mobile phone expenses and will not form part of their gross wage.
To add a new recurring employee expense, click the 'Add' button on the right of Expenses and complete the following details:
- Select the appropriate expense category from the drop down list.
- Select the location the expense should be costed against. This will default to the employee's default location however you can change this to another location that the employee is attached to.
- Assign a tax code to expense categories to cater for sales taxes that may be applied to expense claims i.e., VAT. If you are attached to a cloud accounting system such as QuickBooks, Xero or Saasu, you’ll be able to select the tax code from your accounting system to be pre-populated when your employees submit an expense claim.
- Enter the expense reimbursement amount to be applied per pay run.
- Enter any notes if you want the employee to see them on their pay slip.
- Enter the date this inclusion is to commence.
- Choose when this inclusion should cease (a specific end date, never or once a particular amount has been reached).
- Click on 'Save'.
Additional Notes:
To edit an existing Pay Run Inclusion, simply click on the name and the settings will appear. Make the relevant changes and click on 'Save'.
To delete an existing Pay Run Inclusion, hover your mouse over the inclusion so that the 'x' appears. Click on this icon and then click on 'OK'.
4. In order to set up recurring employee deductions, employer liabilities and expenses, the categories initially need to be created in Payroll Settings. Click on the relevant Inclusions below to find out more information on how to set these up:
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