Wage Type Category
What kind of pay a wage type is, and the one category the payroll run recognises as basic salary.
Wage Type Group
A heading you file wage types under so a long list stays findable.
Wage Type
Every line that can appear on a payslip, and the four fields that decide whether it is paid, deducted, taxed or only printed.
Pay Scale
A grade label carried on a salary record so payroll can be run for one band of staff at a time.
Pay Rate
How a monthly salary becomes a value for one day and one hour, which is what absence and overtime are priced with.
Salary Structure
The recipe that turns one gross salary figure into the wage type lines a man is actually paid.
Pay Area
A location label carried on a salary record so payroll can be run for one site at a time.
Payroll Cycle
How often the client pays, and the calendar of pay periods that follows from it.
Payroll Period
The named pay periods of a cycle, and the record the rest of the system looks a period up in.
Payroll Group
A short grouping list kept for reference, read by no calculation.
Payroll Setting
Where you make a field on a payroll screen compulsory, read only or hidden for this company only.
Payroll Tax Group
A named bundle of tax slabs, kept for reference. It is not how a slab reaches an employee.
Payroll Tax Slab
The income tax table, band by band, and how the payroll run reads one band to work out a month of tax.
Contribution Scheme
EOBI, social security, provident fund and any other scheme where both the employee and the company pay in.
Gratuity Policy
How many days of pay a leaver is owed for each year of service, as one flat rate or as bands that improve with length of service.
Loan Type
The rules of one kind of staff loan, who may ask for it, how much, over how many instalments and what proof it needs.
Over Time Category
A kind of overtime and the payslip line it is paid through.
Overtime Policy Setup
Which extra minutes count as overtime on each day of the week, the daily cap, and every rounding the overtime amount passes through.
Employee Bank Details
The bank and account number held against one employee, kept as a record of where his money goes.
Employee Payment Method
The full banking instruction for one employee - method, bank, IBAN, SWIFT, branch and currency.
Recurring Payments and Deductions
One employee's standing salary - every wage type he is paid or has deducted every period, with the dates it applies between.
Employee Additional Payment Or Deduction
A one-off payment or deduction for named employees, applied to one pay period only.
Employee Overtime
Overtime hours typed against named employees for one pay period, priced on save and sent to pay.
Process Overtime
Collects a period's overtime for a whole group of employees and raises the overtime documents in one run.
Employee Loan Request
An employee asking for a loan or advance, checked against the loan type rules and turned into a loan record on approval.
Employee Payroll Loan
Collects the loan installments falling due in a pay period and turns them into deductions on that period's pay.
Employee Loan data
The loan itself - the amount, the interest, the installment schedule and the proofs held against one employee.
Loan Proof
The list of supporting documents a loan application can be asked to produce.
Request For Expense Reimbursement
An employee claiming back money he spent, line by line with the receipt numbers.
Employee Expense Reimbursement
The document that records what was actually reimbursed against an expense claim.
Request for Salary Hold
The written request to stop a man's salary from a given date, with the reason on the record.
Employee Tax Payment
Records when and where the tax deducted from a man was deposited, with the deposit reference against each period.
Tax Adjustment
Adds an opening, a correction or a rebate to a man's tax record for the year, which the next payroll run takes into account.
Payroll
The payroll run: it gathers everything a period owes each man, calculates his pay and holds the result for posting.
Post Payroll
Takes a completed payroll run to the general ledger, wage type by wage type, and can reverse it.
Final Settlement
Final Settlement: everything a leaver is owed and everything he owes, on one document, with each line traced to where it came from.