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Regular Payroll Procedures
  • The seven operations performed each pay period are listed in the order performed.

  • They are automatically ticked and the time noted when done.


Calculate Pays
  • Use this method to calculate the pays of all employees for the specified frequency.


Management Report
  • Once the pays are calculated, you may want to view a summary of them on this report.

  • You may also want to refer the printout of this report to another person if the job of pay calculation has been shared or delegated.


Printout Payslips
  • Once you are sure that all your pays are calculated correctly, use this method to print out the payslips.


Coin Split
  • If you pay any of your wages in cash use this procedure to produce and print out a coin split for the bank to supply the actual cash, and another for the person that will be assembling the pays.


Direct Credits
  • Use this method if any of your wages are paid by direct credit.

  • You can produce a printed summary to give to the bank, a disk file for electronic transfer, or have Ace Payroll put the direct credit information on a diskette to give to your bank.


Backup Data Files
  • It is important to backup your data files regularly.

  • This item serves as a reminder to do that.


File Regular Pay
  • Once all the above tasks have been correctly performed, you file your regular pay run.

  • This writes the current periods wages to the file of wages that have been paid, and resets all employee’s wage data to their default values.

  • You cannot unfile a regular pay run.

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I have just done my payroll. I am worried about filing because the green tick that normally appears next to Calculate Pays is not there. Is anything wrong?
  • The green ticks appear so you can monitor the payroll process.

  • A green tick is placed next to Calculate Pays when it thinks you have done your pays. The way it "decides" this is to check whether any data is changed, such as an employee's hours.

  • If no data is changed, the program assumes you have not done your pays. However, for some people, it is possible to complete a pay without changing anything. For example, if all staff are salaried, you will usually change nothing - just check in Calculate Pays, then exit without making a change. In this circumstance Ace Payroll assumes you have not done your pays, and therefore, the tick does not appear.

  • If the above is the case for you, go ahead and file your pays anyway.

More on Pay Calculation

  Pay Rate Structure   Cash rounding activation
  Regular payroll procedures   Must pay cash if employee insists
  Child support variation codes   Extra emoluments
  Overwriting PAYE deductions   Recording daily hours worked
  Allowing alternative holidays   Pay rate change mid period
  Checking previous period is filed   Minimum wage
  One off payments  
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More on Pay Frequencies

  Bi monthly date calculation   Changing all employee pay frequencies
  Period end or actual payment dates   Pay dates and multiple pay frequencies
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Updated: 31st March 2010
Published: 13th May 2006
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