Understand The Concept

There are two broad groups of payroll processing procedures

Things you do every pay period.
Things not related to a specific pay period.

Every Pay Period

Every pay period you perform the functions circled in yellow, in the order shown.
Each item is ticked, and the time and date it was done is noted.
The last item, File Regular Pay, confirms the regular pay run and advances the pay date to the next pay period.

Maintenance

The maintenance options are those shown below circled in yellow.
Use these options for maintenance functions that are not related to a regular pay run.
Clicking any of these options provides a selection of related methods.
For example, use Employee to add new employees, pay an employee outside of a regular pay run, etc.
Click Reports to produce your IRD returns and all sorts of other reports.
Click each of the options, and note the various methods provided.

Read Our Getting Started Guide

Getting Started Guide

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to use Ace Payroll!
The Getting Started Guide contains 16 pages of easy to read step by step instructions showing how to set up your staff on Ace Payroll and process your first pays.
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Understand The Concept
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Using The F1 Help Manual
The F1 Help Manual contains hundreds of pages of written documentation, all carefully grouped, linked and indexed more..

Function Keys in Ace Payroll
The function keys in Ace Payroll can be used from anywhere in the program, at any time more..

Password Entry
There is a facility within the program to set a password. If set, a dialog is shown at program startup and requires the correct password to continue more..

Registration
Program registration in 2 easy steps more..

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

Front Screen Resizing & Positioning
The front screen is easily dragged and resized to suit your desktop more..

Front Screen Colour Settings
The colour of the front screen, as well as the colour of all forms, is user definable more..

Front Screen Font Settings
The font name and size in which all help messages and reports are shown is definable more..

Alphabetical Index
The Ace Payroll alphabetical index provides links to all documentation more..

Ace Payroll FAQ Contents
All the most common Ace Payroll questions grouped by categories in a short table of key words more..

Ace Payroll Frequently Asked Questions
All the most common questions we are asked at Ace Payroll listed in a question format and grouped by category more..