Payroll
Payroll run
The process of calculating and approving pay for a period.
A payroll run is the end-to-end process of computing every employee's gross pay, deductions and net pay for a pay period, validating it, approving it and generating payslips and bank schedules. A well-run process includes pre-flight validation and a variance check before approval.
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Help & how-to
See it in practice
The payroll run lifecycle, explained
Run, review, approve and lock, pay, remit, then roll over. The same flow every month.
Read the variance report
Compare this run to last period and catch a silently-wrong payroll before you approve.
Set up salary structures & pay elements
Define what people earn once, assign it in bulk, and override per employee where needed.
See it applied to real payroll
Vintage People applies these statutory rules on every run, with a full audit trail.