Pay Details
Form ID: (MPPP2310)
The Pay Details form displays all information relating to an employee's pay.
Form Toolbar
The form toolbar includes standard and form-specific buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Form Toolbar and More Menu. The form-specific buttons are listed below.
Button | Description |
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Recalculate | Recalculates the employee's Standard Pay to take into account any changes that have
been made to the pay items. Note: Employees'
Standard Pays can be recalculated in bulk on the Recalculate Standard Pays (MPPP2320)
form. |
Employees | Moves to the Employees (EP203000) form, showing information for the employee who was selected on the Pay Details form. |
Reports | Provides easy access to taxation reports for the employee.
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Apply Employee Profile | Opens the Apply Employee Profile window. In this window, select an employee profile. This changes an employee's payroll settings to match the profile's settings. |
Summary Area
This area displays basic information about the employee.
Element | Description |
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Employee ID | The employee whose pay is being edited. |
Employee Name | The employee's full name. |
Status | Whether the employee account is currently active or inactive. |
Onboarding Status | This field is visible for employees who were added who were added through MYOB Acumatica Employee Onboarding or by synchronising with MYOB Acumatica Workforce Management. When the employee is first added, this field is set to "Onboarding". Once a payroll administrator has reviewed the new employee record and taken any actions necessary (as shown on the Onboarding Actions tab), they can change the status to "Onboarded". The employee's Status cannot be set to "Active" until their Onboarding Status is "Onboarded". |
Standard Pay Tab
This tab contains the employee's Standard Pay, which specifies the default pay items that need to be added to each of their pay groups when they are added to a pay.Element | Description |
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Pay Item | The description of the pay item. |
Amount($) | The amount that the pay item represents over a specified period. If this period is greater than a single pay, the actual amount paid will be proportional to For example, if the pay item specifies an amount per year, then in a monthly pay the actual amount paid will be one twelfth of this amount. |
per | The period that the pay item amount applies to. |
Quantity | The quantity of units that the pay item represents. |
Units | The units that the pay item's quantity applies to, e.g. Hours, Days, Pieces. |
Effective Date | An optional date for when the pay item becomes effective for the employee. The item will not be included in pays before this date. This allows you to add an item to an employee's Standard Pay in advance of them actually becoming eligible for it. |
Expiry Date | An optional date for when the pay item is no longer effective for the employee. The item will not be included in pays after this date. This allows you to add an item to an employee's pay that applies for a set period. |
Taxation | How the pay item should be taxed. |
Type | The type of pay item that this item represents, e.g. income or superannuation deduction. |
Ent. | This field displays "Yes" or "No" depending on whether or not the pay item relates to an entitlement, as determined by its pay item type. |
Deduction Details | NZ companies only. This column displays displays "Child Support" or "Attachment Order" to indicate the kind of deduction in each line. (For pay items that are neither of these, this column is blank.) |
Payment Reference | Enter reference information to appear on payments to or from the employee. |
Rate Multiplier | A value to multiply employees' units by, e.g. for overtime pay where employees earn 1.5x their normal rate, this will display 1.5. |
Item Value ($) | The dollar value of the item each pay. |
Item Units | The number of units for the item each pay. |
Active | This column indicates whether or not the pay item is currently active. |
RDP Definition | NZ companies only. Clicking the link in this column opens the RDP Definition window, which shows how the income item is interpreted when calculating the Relevant Daily Pay (RDP) rate for a leave day taken. The link is only available for items that have the Liable for RDP option ticked on the Pay Item Liabilities (MPPP1025) screen. |
Element | Description |
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Payslip Label | The description of the pay item that appears on employees' pay slips. This defaults to the payslip label on the pay item, but it can be edited if necessary. |
Fund Name | This field is available for superannuation pay items. Select the Superannuation Fund that the pay item will make contributions to. Funds are created on the Superannuation Funds (NZ) (MPPP2151) form. |
Member ID | This field is available for superannuation pay items. Enter the employee's membership ID for the selected fund. |
Reducing Balance | This field indicates that the selected pay item is a reducing balance deduction—see "Reducing Balance Deductions". |
Amount to Recover | For reducing balance deductions, enter the total amount to be recovered. (The amount to recover each pay is entered as the pay item's Amount in the main table). |
Recovered to Date | For reducing balance deductions, this field display the total amount recovered to date (based on the Business Date). |
Payroll Tax Liable | Australian companies only. This field indicates whether or not the pay item is liable for Payroll Tax. |
Payroll Tax Category | Australian companies only. This field displays the Payroll Tax category that the item falls under - all items have a category, whether they are liable for Payroll Tax or not. |
Payment Summary Category | Australian companies only. This field displays the Payment Summary category that the item falls under. |
Supplier | For deductions, select the supplier that the deduction should be paid to. |
Location | For deductions, select the location for the deduction payment. |
Payment Method | For deductions, select the payment method for the deduction payment. |
Cash Account | For deductions, select the cash account for the deduction payment. |
Payment Reference | This field contains the same data as the Payment Reference column of the main table; changing one changes the other.) |
Code | NZ companies only. This field is used to enter the Code for an attachment order payment. You should be informed of the code to enter when you receive notice of the attachment order. |
Particulars | NZ companies only. This field is used to enter the Particulars for an attachment order payment. You should be informed of the particulars to enter when you receive notice of the attachment order. |
Pay Groups Tab
This tab lets you maintain the groups that employees are paid in. Each pay run applies to a single pay group, and therefore all employees who are members of that group. A single employee can belong to multiple pay groups, however.
Element | Description |
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Default Pay Group | Tick this box to set the pay group as the employee’s default group. This is the pay group that will be associated with any leave requests the employee makes through the Self Service module. Only one pay group can be set as the default. |
Pay Group ID | The ID code of the pay group. |
Description | The detailed description of the pay group. |
Effective Date | the date on which the employee was added to the group. |
Expiry Date | The date when the employee was/will be removed from the group. |
Calendar ID | The calendar that describes the work hours of the employee and the time zone the employee works from. |
Hours Per Day | The number of hours employees in this group would normally work in a day. |
Hours Per Pay | The number of hours employees in this group would normally work in one pay period. This will depend on the pay frequency, e.g. for a weekly pay group, this value will be the hours per day value multiplied by five. |
Hours Per Year | The number of hours employees in this group would normally work in a year. |
Days Per Pay | The number of days employees in this group would normally work in a year. |
Annual Salary | The annual salary paid to the employee as part of this group. |
Frequency Amount | The dollar value for each pay run. |
Standard Rate | The amount an employee earns per hour. |
Daily Rate | The amount an employee earns for each day of work. |
Rate 1 / Rate 2 / Rate 3 etc. | You can add custom rate names for extra rate columns on the Pay Rate Labels form (MP.PP.21.20). |
Taxation Tab
This tab contains settings for determining how the employee's pay will be taxed. The contents of this tab differ depending on jurisdiction.
Element | Description |
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Tax Declaration Summary | This section contains a read-only summary of the employee's Tax File Number (TFN) declaration details, based on the information entered and the options selected in the Tax File Number and Withholding Declaration section. The Tax Treatment Code field helps the ATO identify how the employee's monetary tax values have been calculated. |
Tax File Number and Withholding Declaration | This section contains all information regarding an employee's Tax File Number
declaration. The fields in this section are laid out in a similar configuration to the
printed TFN form. See the ATO website for information on filling in the TFN
declaration. This section includes settings added for STP Phase 2:
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Medicare Levy Variation Declaration | This section lets you report an employee's Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) tier. |
Element | Description |
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IRD Number | The employee's unique IRD number, as assigned by the Inland Revenue Department. |
IRD ND End Date | If an employee hasn't provided their IRD number, they'll need to be assigned a tax code of ND after this date. |
Tax Code | Select the employee's tax code. See "Employee Tax Codes (NZ)" for more information. |
Tax @ (%) | If the STC or WT tax codes are selected, enter the percentage rate that the employee will be taxed at. |
Standard Student Loan | This section appears if any SL tax code is selected. The student loan repayment Weekly Threshold and Repayment Rate are displayed. These values are calculated automatically - you can tick Override legislated rates to enter new values. |
SLCIR | Tick this box if the employee is required by the IRD to make extra student loan repayments under the SLCIR tax code. Enter the details of the compulsory payments into the fields in this section. |
SLBOR | Tick this box if the employee has chosen to make extra student loan repayments under the SLBOR tax code. Enter the details of the voluntary payments into the fields in this section. |
Employer Super Contribution | Specify the following taxation details of the employer superannuation contributions
made for this employee:
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Employment Tab
This tab contains settings that determine the employee's time of employment.
Element | Description |
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Employee Start Date | The date when the employee's employment in this organisation commenced. |
Employee End Date | The date when the employee's employment in this organisation ended. If the employee is currently employed, this field will be blank. |
Entitled to Leave Loading | Australian companies only. Tick this box if the employee is eligible for leave loading
pay items. Note: The pay items must be added to Standard or Current pays
manually. |
Exclude employee when creating a new Pay Run | If you select this checkbox, the employee won't be automatically added to any new pay
run you create. You can still add them to a pay run after it's been created. For example, if your company has lots of casual employees, you might want to select this checkbox for them. That way, you could add only the employees with timesheets to a pay run. |
Leave does not reduce income | If you select this checkbox, the employee's income won't be reduced when you process
leave payments. This can be useful if your company has both waged and salaried employees. For example, if you select this checkbox for your waged employees, you might want to use the same leave pay items for both waged and salaried employees. |
Previous Payroll ID | Australian companies only. This field was added for STP Phase 2. |
Reporting Company | If an employee works for one company but is paid by another, select the company that
pays them in this field. If the employee works for the same company that pays them, leave this field blank. For more information, see Reporting Companies. |
Element | Description |
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Exclude from Showing Annual Salary | Excludes the employee from having an annual salary displayed on their payslip (e.g. a casual employee). |
Display Annual leave balances in Hours on the Payslip (Based on'DOW' Employee's weekly hours) |
Only for New Zealand companies. If selected, the employee's payslip shows their annual leave balances in hours as well as
in weeks, as well as notes explaining how the hours were calculated.
Note: If the employee's
DOW changes, the hours printed on the payslip might not be the same as the hours balance
when they request leave. If the employee’s DOW changes frequently, you shouldn't select
this checkbox for them. |
Element | Description |
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Entitlement ID | The entitlement's ID code. |
Entitlement Description | The entitlement's descriptive name. |
Trigger Date Rule | How the entitlement's trigger date is determined. This is based on the Trigger
Date on the Entitlements (MPPP3300) screen, and will be one of:
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Override | If the Trigger Date Rule is set to "Employee Specific", you can tick this box to enter a new Trigger Date. |
Trigger Date | The date when the employee begins accruing the entitlement. If the Trigger Date Rule is set to "Employee Specific", this date defaults to the employee's start date, but you can enter a different date by ticking Override. |
Element | Description |
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Work Pattern Source | Specify the default work pattern source for the employee. Choose from:
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FBAPS Rate | The default rate method used to value FBAPS (Family Violence, Bereavement, Alternative, Public Holiday, Sick) leave. The method and rate applied to leave taken in a pay can be evaluated and changed, if required, using the Employee Leave Summary (NZ) (MPPP4045) screen. |
FBAPS Agreed Daily Rate | If the FBAPS Rate is set to "Agreed Rate", enter the agreed upon rate for this employee. |
For Public holidays worked, use RDP 'Standard Rate' | If the FBAPS Rate is set to "Average Daily Pay" or "Agreed Rate", you should select this checkbox. |
RDP Source | If the FBAPS Rate is set to "Relevant Daily Pay", choose whether the RDP should
be based on the employee's Standard Rate or Standard Pay:
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Ordinary Weekly Pay Rate | The default Ordinary Weekly Pay (OWP) rate method used when valuing Annual Leave. This
rate is compared to the employee's Average Weekly Earnings (AWE), and the greater of the two
is paid out. The following options are available:
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OWP Special Rate ($) | If the Ordinary Weekly Pay Rate is set to "OWP (Special Agreement)", enter the fixed value rate that should be used to value leave here. |
Untick working day if no timesheets in import |
Note: This checkbox is only available if your
company has enabled MYOB Acumatica — Workforce Management or timesheet improvements.
If selected, when you import timesheets to a pay run, any days without timesheets won't be set as working days for the employee. This is useful for employees whose leave and worked time comes from timesheets. |
Settings Tab
This tab contains a table of settings relating to how payroll documentation should be sent to the employee.
Element | Description |
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Setting | The kind of document that the settings apply to. The following document types are
available:
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Tick this option if documents for this employee will be printed so that they can be sent to the employee physically. | |
Email Attachment | Tick this option if documents for this employee will be emailed to them. |
Use default email address | If the Email Attachment option is selected, you must specify the email address to send this employee's documents to; either tick this option to use the address specified for the employee on the Employees (EP203000) form, or untick it and enter a different address into the Attachment recipient field. |
Use Personal Email | Tick this option to add the employee's personal email to the Attachment recipient list. |
Attachment recipient | If emails are to be sent to the employee's default address, this field will be read-only, and will display the default address. If the Use default email address option is unticked, you can use this field to select and email address to send documents to |
Email (Portal link) | Tick this option if this employee will be emailed a link to the MYOB Acumatica Customer Portal, where they can download a copy of their document. |
Use default email address | If the Email (Portal link) option is selected, you must specify the email address to send this employee's portal notification emails to; either tick this option to use the address specified for the employee on the (EP203000) form, or untick it and enter a different address into the Portal link recipient field. |
Use Personal Email (Portal Link) | Tick this option for this employee to be emailed a link to the MYOB Acumatica Customer Portal to their personal email, where they can download a copy of their document. |
Portal link recipient | If portal notification emails are to be sent to the employee's default address, this field will be read-only, and will display the default address. If the Use default email address option is unticked, you can use this field to select and email address to send notifications to. |
Employee Defaults Tab
This tab contains default payroll settings for the employee.
Element | Description |
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WorkCover Code | This field is available in Australian jurisdictions only. Select the WorkCover Rate code that applies to the employee. |
ACC Code | This field is available in NZ jurisdictions only. Select the ACC Rate code that applies to the employee. |
Rate | This read-only field displays the rate associated with the selected WorkCover/ACC Code. |
Element | Description |
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Payroll Posting Class | Select a Posting Class for the employee. Posting Classes are created on the Posting Classes (MPPP1030) form, and determine the General Ledger accounts that journals related to this employee will be posted to. A default Posting Class can be specified on the Employee Classes (EP202000) form. |
Entitlement Balances Tab
Element | Description |
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Entitlement ID | This ID code of the entitlement. Entitlements are created on the Entitlements (MPPP3300) form. |
Name | The name of the entitlement. |
Units | The units that the entitlement is accrued in, e.g. Days or Hours. |
Accrued | The amount of entitlement accrued in the current entitlement period. For example, if the employee accrues a set amount per year, this column shows how much they have earned in the current year. |
Earned | The total outstanding balance of the entitlement, including any balance remaining from previous entitlement periods. |
Closing Balance | The total of the Accrued and Earned balances. |
History | Click the View History link in this column to view the Entitlement History (MPPP4400) form for the employee. |
Payroll Tax Tab
This tab is available in Australian jurisdictions only. It contains settings that relate to how state payroll tax is calculated for the employee.
Element | Description |
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Employee is exempt from Payroll Tax | Tick this box to the employee exempt from state payroll tax. Pay amounts for the employee will not be included in payroll tax calculations. |
State Jurisdiction | Specify the state that the employee works in. Choose from:
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Definition of Week Tab
This tab is available for NZ companies only. These values will be used when converting leave balances and entitlements between weeks and days/hours.
Element | Description |
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Start Date | The date from which the Definition of a Week is effective. |
End Date | The date to which the Definition of a Week is effective. |
Method | The method used to determine the employee's Definition of a Week. The following
options are available:
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Hours Per Week | This column is editable when the Method is set to "Fixed Hours/Days". Enter the number of hours worked per week for the employee. |
Days Per Week | This column is editable when the Method is set to "Fixed Hours/Days". Enter the number of day worked per week for the employee. |
Weeks | This column is editable when the Method is set to "Average over N Weeks". Enter the number of weeks to average hours over. |
KiwiSaver Tab
Element | Description |
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Date of Change | The date when the change to the employee's KiwiSaver status changed. This defaults to the business date. |
KiwiSaver Eligibility | The employee's eligibility for KiwiSaver. Choose from:
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KiwiSaver Status | The employee's current KiwiSaver status. This field is only available if KiwiSaver
Eligibility is set to "New Employee". Choose from:
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Opted out of KiwiSaver | Tick this box if the employee has opted out of KiwiSaver |
Date Opted out | If the employee has opted out of KiwiSaver, enter the date when they opted out. This defaults to the business date. |
Late Opt-out Reason | Employees can opt out of KiwiSaver between the ends of the second and eighth weeks of
their employment (i.e. between days 14 and 56). To opt out after the end of this period, a
reason for the late-opt out must be accepted by the IRD Commissioner before the opt-out is
effected. Choose from one of the following reasons:
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'Other' Description | If "Other explanation" is selected for the Late Opt-out Reason, enter the reason for the late opt-out here. |
Income Exempt from KiwiSaver | If the employee's pay includes any income that is exempt from KiwiSaver, select the
reason for the exemption here. If more than one reason applies, select the reason that
accounts for the greater part of the employee's pay. Choose from:
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Pay Distribution Tab
This tab lets you specify how an employee's pay will be distributed, i.e. which bank account or set of bank accounts their pay will be credited to. You can specify how the employee's pay will be divided up and specify separate bank account details for each portion of their pay.
Element | Description |
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Payment Method | Select the payment method that specifies the bank that the employee's pay will be paid from. A default payment method can be specified on the Employees (EP.20.30.00) form. |
Cash Account | Select the cash acccount that the employee's pay will be paid from. A default payment method can be specified on the Employees (EP203000) form. |
Branch | The branch the employee belongs to. |
Element | Description |
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Account Number | Enter the bank account number that the line will be paid to. |
BSB | Enter the Bank State Branch (BSB) number that identifies the branch of the bank that the line will be paid to. This column is only available when the Payment Method specifies an Australian bank. |
Name On Account | Enter the name on the bank account that the line will be paid to. |
Type | Specifies the type of distribution. This will be one of:
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Fixed Amount | For "Amount" rows, enter the amount to be paid. |
Percent | For "Percent" rows, enter the percentage of the remaining balance to be paid. |
Reference | Enter optional Reference text to appear on the bank transaction for the row. |
Code | Enter optional Code text to appear on the bank transaction for the row. |
Particulars | Enter optional Particulars text to appear on the bank transaction for the row. |
Onboarding Actions Tab
This tab is available for employees who were added through MYOB Acumatica Employee Onboarding or by synchronising with MYOB Acumatica Workforce Management. It displays any actions that a payroll administrator may need to take before activating the employee record, e.g. reviewing settings or adding missing information.
Element | Description |
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Section | The section of the employee's details where action is required, e.g. their Standard Pay, superannuation details or taxation details. |
Description | The details of the action that is required. This may be adding missing information, or reviewing non-standard details. |