Summary

Use the Open Standard Pay command to open a pay period. Opening a pay forces PayGlobal to set the accumulators. You can then enter employee transactions into the open pay.

For more information about what happens when you open a pay, see Open Standard Pay.

Procedure

You are on the main PayGlobal window.

1. Navigate to Payroll | Open Standard Pay.
2. Double-click Open Standard Pay.

   The Select Periods window appears.

3. Double-click the Pay Period Code that you require.

   The Standard Pays to Open for Pay Period window appears.

4. Click the check box for the Standard Pay that you want to open.
5. Click OK.

   View the audit log and check that Standard pay opening was successful.

6. Click the Pay Status icon to confirm the status of your pay periods.

   The Standard pay that you opened should appear on the PR Seq tab page with a red cross beside it. The red cross indicates that this pay period is open and unprocessed.

Purging Pays

Every time you open a new pay period you should run Purge Closed Pays and purge previous pay periods to prevent users from:

• Creating a Direct Credit Schedule for a previous pay
• Creating payslips for an old pay period.

If you have different types of pay period, such as fortnightly and monthly, then you should purge only fortnightly pays when you open a fortnightly pay, and purge only monthly pays when you open a monthly pay.

Pay Status

Use the Pay Status icon to check that the pay period was successfully opened.

• A red cross indicates that the pay is open and unprocessed.
• A green tick indicates that the pay is open and processed.
• A hard-drive icon indicates that the pay was successfully closed.

See also

Opening a Pay Process

Purging Pays