Employee pay elements - payments

This guide will show you how to set up an employee-specific pay element (payment) on their record.

These are components of an employee's pay that are recorded to track payments. Examples of payments are bonus, car allowance and childcare vouchers. Payments are amounts given to an employee and are typically recorded on payslips.

• Go to Employees on the left hand menu and select the relevant person
• Click on the Pay tab across the top  
• Go to the bottom and you will see Pay elements and Create payment and Create deduction
• Select Create payment

• Select the payment type from the dropdown that you wish to create, eg Holiday or Sick Pay.

• Enter the amount due for the payment
• The effective from and to dates 
• In the advanced settings you can add a cost code. This is the code that would link to your Journal and allocate to the nominal code

• Once you have set up the payment, click save and it will appear at the bottom on the "pay" section as below