Before you can use the Payslip Modeler, you must ensure to set up the following:

1. Ensure set the profile option HR: Enable Payroll Simulation to Yes to use this module. If the profile option is set to No, you cannot use the payslip modeler.

   See: User Profiles

2. You can set the profile option HR: Enable Multiple Assignments for Payroll Simulation to Yes to select the secondary assignment when there are multiple assignments. If set to No, then you can run the payslip modeler process on the primary assignment only.

   See: User Profiles

3. You can enable or disable the payslip modeler at the Payroll level by specifying Yes in the Enable Simulation field. You cannot run a payroll run and payslip modeling simultaneously. If the Payslip Modeler is enabled, then you can set locking period, number of days prior to and after a specified date for enabling or disabling the payslip modeler. This restricts users from making updates to payroll information while modeling their payslip during a mock payroll run during the specified period.

   See: Defining Payroll

4. If you want use payslip modeler then you must select the document type as Payslip Modeler in the Self-Service Preference window at the business group level or the organization level.

   See: Entering Self Service Preference Information

5. If you want to restrict any elements from being processed in the modeler process, create an element set and include the elements you want to exclude. Specify the element set in the Modeler Exclusion Element Set in the Self-Service Preference window at the business group level or the organization level.

   This skips the elements within the element set from being processed and the elements are not available for users to select while running a modeling process.

6. Specify the Payroll Simulator Template in the Self Service Preference window at the business group level or organization level. If no template is specified, then the application uses the default template to generate the model payslip. Users can create their own templates associated with the Data Definition PAY<LEG_CODE>SIMPAYSLIP.

   See: Entering Self Service Preference Information

7. To enable an element to be available for payslip modeling, query the element and select Yes in the Enable Simulation field in the Element Extra Information window. You can enter input values for this element required for simulation in the Element Description window. Only user enterable input values are available for Payslip modeling.

   If the Multiple Entries check box is enabled for an element, then you cannot use this element for payslip modeling. Instead, create a copy of the base element, enter input values, attach the appropriate formulas and balances as the base element and then use this element for payslip modeling. Ensure that this new element is not used for payroll run.

   It is necessary to create a new element for the corresponding Multiple Entries Allowed element and setup the new element as Yes for Enable Simulation. Ensure to specify the earlier element as Original Element under Simulation Details for the new element. Enter input values, attach the appropriate formulas and balances as the new element. This is to ensure that Simulation ignores the Original element entries in Simulation run and uses only new element entry.

   Example to Understand the Restrictions on Multiple Entries Allowed Enabled Elements

   The unavailability of Yes for Multiple Entries Allowed enabled elements is an expected behavior of Paycheck Modeling.

   For example, consider an employee with an Overtime Element. This element entry is added on the days when employee works overtime. For a month, if employee does overtime for 10 days, then this element entry gets added 10 times. If the employee wants to model a paycheck and view the net take home after working overtime for 10 days or more, then it will not be practical to add 10 entries for 10 days from Paycheck Modeling page. Instead, the employee can add the total overtime hours. Therefore an element which conveys the total overtime hours for the Pay period instead of each day can be used. If there are already some Overtime entries added to the employee in the application for current period, then it is necessary to suppress these entries when the employee tries to model Overtime hours so that Paycheck Modeling/Simulation gives desired results depending on the inputs.

   To handle this scenario, the Overtime Element (the elements with Multiple Entries Allowed) is not allowed to be directly enabled for Simulation. Instead it is necessary to create a new element to support Simulation. The element created for simulation can have changes to Input Values validation. If there are any rules or validations on the maximum number of hours that can be entered, say, Overtime entries can accept maximum of 5 hours per day, these can be relaxed in new element to suit the requirement of simulation so that users can add 50 hours for complete month in single entry.

   For the new element, it is necessary to specify the existing Overtime element as Original Element under Simulation Details. This will ensure that whenever employee tries to model Overtime hours using new element, any existing Overtime element entries are ignored during Paycheck Modeling/Simulation.

   See: Defining Elements

   Note: Please note that there is a restriction for Predefined elements being used for payslip modeling. For predefined elements, if you setup the details for a predefined element in one business group, then these details will be accessible to other business groups. For example, for predefined element Regular Salary element, if you want to enable Input Value A for one Business Group and Input Value B for other Business group, then this is not possible. This limitation occurs for predefined elements applicable to all Localizations. Therefore if there are multiple business groups, then you must define a single structure for the predefined elements.

   If there are custom elements, then the custom elements are accessible only for that business group.