Configuring the due date for a variance response using an existing pay group

Pay Group

Specify a name for the pay group.

Description

Provide a description of the pay group.

Pay Group Type

Defines the length and frequency of the group's pay period. Click the database lookup and select the group's pay period from the list.

Payroll Administrators

Select who can access the group during close processing. Click the database lookup and select the payroll administration from the list.

Export Type

Link the export configuration to the pay group. Click the database lookup and select the export type from the list.

Hands Off Date

Work records cannot be changed on or before the selected hands off date. Specify a date or click the calendar icon and select a date.

Automatically advance Hands Off date on payroll close

Select the check box.

Start of Year / Day

Click the calendar icon and select a date.

Adjustments to be created for this group

Select the check box to create an adjustment related to the payroll of the selected pay group.

Adjustment Offset (days)

Specify the number of days after the pay period end that adjustments can be created.

Export of unauthorized records

Select a permission type for how unauthorized records will be exported.

Number of days to create pay periods into the future

Specify the number of days in advance that the pay periods are generated. The number 365 is specified by default.

Reporting Currency

Specify the pay group's reporting currency.

Currency Conversion Group

Specify the pay group's currency conversion group.

Extended Advance Term Payout

Clear the check box. This check box is for advanced payments, like bonuses or loans, that can be paid out and repaid over a longer period of time, based on set terms.

Future payroll export control

Select a control type for exporting on-cycle payrolls with pay periods extending beyond the current date. Select one of these options:

• Warning - Users can export the pay group but a soft warning is displayed when they click Next in the Payroll Close Wizard. This option is selected by default for new installations.
• Restrict - When users export a pay group in the Payroll Close Wizard and the current pay period used in the pay group is in the future, a hard stop validation is displayed and prevents export. Users are restricted from exporting those pay groups.
• None - No warning message is displayed during export.

Start Date

The first day of the current pay or first pay.

End Date

The last day of the current pay or first pay.

Lock Down Date

Only authorized users can modify the timesheets for the specified lock down date.

Automatically advance lockdown date on payroll close

Select this check box. When this check box is selected, a lock down date is automatically set for the next pay period. Only authorized users can modify an old timesheet when this check box is selected.

Timesheet Lockout

The date when the lockdown date is moved to locked out unauthorized users.

Time

The time when the lockdown date is moved to locked out unauthorized users.

Automatically advance timesheet lockout on payroll close

Select or clear this check box. When this check box is selected, the timesheet lock down date is automatically set for the next pay period. Only authorized users can modify an old timesheet when this check box is selected.