Finalise (close) a pay run

Before you begin

You may want to change the date on your payslips. Do this before you continue.

Once you are happy with all of the amounts shown for each payslip A statement provided by an employer to an employee, detailing their wages, deductions, and net pay for a specific pay period.This is a legal requirement under the employment rights act and should be received on or before the pay date., you can finalise the pay run.

  1. Select Finalise All Payslips.

    A screen pops up to confirm the payment dates. This information is sent to HMRC His Majesty's Revenue and Customs is a non-ministerial department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of state support, the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers. so make sure they are correct.

    A notification displays if any of your employees are not going to receive their payslips by email.

    You can ignore this if you were expecting it, or you can close the window and go to the relevant employees to add an email address.

Viewing final pay run details

A list of the various items created show, for instance: the FPS Full Payment Submission is an RTI online submission to be sent on or before each payday. This informs HMRC about the payments and deductions for each employee., Bank Payment File, Pension Contributions, and the links to Payslips.

final payrun details screen

Depending on how you work, some of these may not be relevant.

  1. You can easily hide anything you don’t want to see – hover over the row and select the X that appears.

    Viewing final pay run with red X for hiding a row indicatedThe line is now hidden. You can show it again by choosing it from the hidden row option.

    Viewing final pay run details, with hidden row indicated in the bottom right hand corner