Process holiday pay manually
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When you process an employee's pay details, you must enter the employee's holiday pay and normal wage separately on the same timesheet. Let's take a look at how to do this.

TIP: If you're processing employee holiday pay in advance, you can process your employees' holiday pay automatically. 

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Record manual holiday pay

  1. From the menu bar click, Company/Payroll then click Payments.
  2. Click New and set up the holiday payment as follows:
    Title Enter the name of the payment.
    Type Choose one of the following options:

    • Variable amount each pay period - You should use this payment type to record holiday payments for salary-paid employees.
    • A number of hours (based on hourly rate) - You should use this payment type to record holiday payments for hourly-paid employees.
    Tax If the payment is subject to tax, select this check box.
    Universal Social Charge If the payment is subject to universal social charge (USC), select this check box.
    Include in pension calculation If the payment is included in the pension calculation, select this check box.
    PRSI Depending on whether or not the payment is subject to PRSI, choose one of the following options:

    • Apply Employee & Employer PRSI.
    • Apply Employer PRSI Only.
    • Apply Employee PRSI Only.
    • Do not apply PRSI.
    Rate If you're setting up an hourly payment, select the hourly rate you want to use to calculate this payment.
    Factor / by Factor Enter the factor value you want to use to calculate this payment.
    Multiply by the number of holiday periods Ignore this check box.
    Formula Ignore this option.
  3. Click Save then click Close.

Process manual holiday pay on an employee's timesheet

Salary-paid employees

  1. From the menu bar click Processing then click Time and Pay.
  2. Under entry mode select Random then click Continue.
  3. Find the relevant employee using the Employee finder button .
  4. Within the Pay periods section, under Hol. Periods enter the number of periods the employee is on holidays for.

    If an employee is receiving holiday pay but not actually going on holiday, don't enter anything in the Hol. Periods option. Otherwise, you won't be able to process a timesheet for the employee in the following pay period.

  5. From the list of pay elements, locate the holiday payment, under the Hrs/Val column enter the holiday value.
  6. Enter all other pay details as normal then click Save then click Cancel.

Hourly-paid employees

  1. From the menu bar click Processing then click Time and Pay.
  2. Under entry mode select Random then click Continue.
  3. Find the relevant employee using the Employee finder button .
  4. Within the Pay periods section, under Hol. Periods enter the number of periods the employee is on holidays for.

    If an employee is receiving holiday pay but not actually going on holiday, don't enter anything in the Hol. Periods option. Otherwise, you won't be able to process a timesheet for the employee in the following pay period.

  5. From the list of pay elements, locate the holiday payment under the Hrs/Val column enter the holiday hours.
  6. Within the Rate column enter the hourly rate, if required.
  7. Enter all other pay details as normal then click Save then click Cancel.
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