Overview
If you pay employees from multiple Company Registration Numbers, you can use the Additional Employing Entities feature to set up separate details and even separate pay slip logos for each entity. This way, the pay slips will display the relevant entity information rather than the main business details.
Getting started
- Go to your payroll account.
- From the Business side category, navigate to Payroll Settings.
- Click on Additional Employing Entities.
- Click the Add button.
- Next, enter the following details:
- Entity Name
- Company Registration Number
- Address
- International Address - if the business does not have an address in Malaysia, this option can be used. When entering an international address, Address Line 1 is required. The Postcode field should only be used for the postcode and the Address Line 2 or 3 should be used for the suburb/state.
- Lookup Address - Block/house number field is required, likewise the street name. Entering data into the 'lookup address' field will auto-display a list of addresses that you can select, and then the other required address fields will pre-populate.
- Contact Name
- Contact Phone Number
- Contact Email Address
Important
The phone number format for landlines is 8 to 10 digits, area code included (xx xxxxxxxx), and for mobiles, the format is 9 to 10 digits (xxxxxxxxxx).
You can add a different email address to the one listed on the pay slips page in the 'Pay Slip Notification from Email Address' field so that this email will be used as the Sender email address for pay slip notifications for employees assigned to this entity. If no email is entered here, the platform will use the email listed on the pay slips page.
Warning
Due to the sensitive nature of payroll information that will potentially be sent from these email addresses and the likelihood of the emails being treated as spam, we have placed restrictions on the email domains we will allow and therefore what emails can be entered in this field. More information can be found here.
You are also able to upload a logo that will be used for this entity.
Users can enter statutory details for each employing entity if they are different from the main business' statutory details. To do this, please find instructions here.
You can assign an employing entity to an employee in one of two ways. Firstly, you can assign individuals to an entity, or you can bulk' assign for a quicker process.
Here is how you assign individual employees to an employing entity:
- Open the employee file and click on the 'Statutory Requirements' page.
- The first field on the screen offers you the option to change 'Employing Entity'.
- You are then able to choose to make the change effective from 'Today, 'Employee's Start Date', or 'Custom Date'.
Here is how you bulk assign employees to an employing entity:
- Payroll Settings > Additional Employing Entities page;
- Reassign Employing Entities tab;
- You can select individual employees by typing their names into the 'Employees' field and selecting them from the drop-down list that appears; or
- You can select to bulk reassign All Employees in the business; or
- You can select to bulk reassign All Employees (including terminated employees);
- Once you have determined the employees you wish to change, you will then need to choose the new entity the selected employees will be changed to from the New Employing Entity drop-down list. If you only have one other employing entity, this will show as a default option;
- You are then able to choose to make the change effective from 'today', 'employee's start date', or 'custom date';
- Click Change Employing Entities to save.
Delete
An employing entity can only be deleted if an employee assigned to that entity has never been paid in a Pay Run.
Warning
We do not allow users to delete an employing entity once it has been in use so that historical records and payroll reports are not affected.
To delete:
- Go to Business Settings.
- Navigate to Payroll Settings.
- Click on Additional Employing Entities.
- Select which entity you want to delete. Hover your mouse over the employing entity and you will see a red "x" icon.
- Clicking on the "x" icon will trigger a delete confirmation dialog.
- Click 'OK' to confirm deletion of the employing entity.
Warning
If the icon is disabled (i.e. displays in a grey colour) you will not be able to delete the employing entity for the reasons specified above.
Helpful Hint
- If you have additional employing entities in your business file, most (but not all) reports will allow you to filter by employing entity.
- You cannot be employed by two different entities within the same pay period. time.
- Whilst you can process a single Pay Run with employees from multiple entities, the Pay Run will still only produce one Pay Run journal. i.e.: a separate journal will not be produced for each employing entity. To achieve that, you will need to split the pay runs and process separate pay runs for each employing entity.
- Also note that with payday filings, only employees pertaining to that employing entity should be included in that Pay Run.
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It should also note that you can only have one bank account in each file, and one external integration (e.g. Xero).
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