Basics to Best Practice Masterclass #9 - Running and Troubleshooting Payroll

 

Sarah Kelsey runs through how to understand, run, and troubleshoot your payroll runs to compile your carers' gross pay, focussing on:

  • Understanding the prerequisites you must perform beforehand to ensure your payroll runs successfully
  • Differentiating between incomplete and unconfirmed bookings
  • Understanding why bookings become incomplete and unconfirmed
  • Finding and confirming incomplete bookings in bulk before running payroll
  • Finding and confirming unconfirmed bookings in bulk before running payroll
  • Running a payroll run from scratch and understanding the default options
  • Choosing a suitable name and date range for payroll runs
  • Choosing when to create separate payslips for each team and filter by carer contract type
  • Understanding the anatomy and layout of the payroll run screen
  • Understanding the difference between drafted and locked payroll runs
  • Locking payroll runs to issue the payslip numbers
  • Removing individual payslips from payroll runs
  • Understanding the anatomy and layout of each payslip's screen
  • Analysing individual lines on payslips to understand why they appear in a certain way
  • Checking your bookings and rates to ensure they pulled into the payslip correctly
  • Unlocking bookings to make changes after the start time of the booking
  • Using the change payment settings option to switch the contract assigned to a booking
  • Recalculating payslips after making external changes
  • Delivering payroll runs in bulk via email and print
  • Running the payroll export (which can be sent off to an accountant or payroll organisation)
  • Making manual adjustments to payslips, only after finishing your recalculations
  • Adding custom line items, additional bookings, and additional transactions to your payslips
  • Understanding the sheets in the payroll export, once opened in Excel
  • Running the Sage 50cloud Payroll (UK) export from a payroll run
  • Utilising and optimising the rates inside the carer contract types, ready for payroll
  • Understanding the leave pay and leave accrual features