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Pay Control

Pay Control is used to maintain current pay settings. The following are managed under pay control:

  1. Active Period
  2. Rounding Setup
  3. Duplicate Pay Setup
  4. Government Levy Setup

1. Active Period

Active period is the current period in which pay and leave is processed.

The period start and end dates are matched with Pay Calendar . The period and year is automatically updated when a Pay Calendar record is closed.

Users will not be able to generate pays if the active period does not match the pay date.

  Field Description
 Period This is the current payroll month
 Year  This is the current payroll year 

2. Rounding Setup

Pay Rounding allows users to configure the cash rounding depending on the legislative law of the country.

Rounding is used for employees who are paid cash where employee's pay is rounded down or up to the nearest cents or dollar.

  FieldDescription
 Use RoundingSpecify whether Pay Rounding is applicable
Rounding Method Choose the "Rounding Method" to use. The options are "5 Cents", "50 Cents" or "1 Dollar"Employee's that are paid cash will have their net pay adjusted to the nearest "Rounding Method" selected
Rounding Paycode Specify the rounding paycode to use. By default this is set to "APROU"

3. Duplicate Pay Setup

Indicates if the system can process duplicate pay within the same pay period.

FieldDescription
Allow Duplicate Pay

If Allow Duplicate Pay check box is active then the Organisation can accommodate more than one pay process for the same date. This is usually done to make adjustments.

If Allow Duplicate Pay check box is not active then the organization can not process pay twice for the same pay date. This is a security functionality which the organisation has option of activating to prevent fraud by employees who are processing payroll.

4. Government Levy Setup

FieldDescription
Pay Control Configuration -> GovernmentLevy

Government Levy Percent. This levy is used to deduct a percentage of payroll cost.
AP Invoice and GL Journal is sent through LinkSOFT integration.

Paycode "HGOLV" is used in AP Invoice and GL Journal

Figure 1: Pay Control