Setting Up Payslip Information and Generating Payslips

You need to identify any additional information you want to appear on your payslips using payslip balances and elements. Once you have identified the information to archive and display, run your regular payment and archive processes and generate your payslip for printing or viewing online.

arrow icon   To set up your payslip:

  1. Select the payslip balances and elements to be included in your payslips.

    See: Entering Payslip Information

    For UK, Netherlands, and South Africa: Enter the information balances and elements through the following:

    See: Identifying Balances for the Payslip and Identifying Elements for the Payslip

    For Ireland: Enter the balances and elements information in the SOE Balances and SOE Elements windows.

    See: Selecting SOE Balances and Selecting SOE Elements

  2. For online payslips, enter self-service preference information to indicate how you want to view them. You can specify these settings at the organization, location, and person levels.

    See: Entering Self-Service Preference Information, Location Extra Information Types, and Person Extra Information Types

  3. Configure your online payslip to view through Oracle Self-Service.

    See: Online Payslip

    US, Canada, Mexico, and UAE only: Oracle Payroll uses an RTF template to produce the online payslip through XML Publisher. You can use the default template or create your own.

    See: Oracle XML Publisher Administration and Developer's Guide and Oracle XML Publisher Report Designer's Guide.

    For Ireland: To include the regular payment date of the payroll period in your online payslip, set the Visible property of the Regular Payment Date field to Yes.

  4. US, Canada, Mexico, and UAE only: Oracle Payroll provides the ability to customize the content of your employee payslips to suit your business needs. Prior to making any changes, however, you should review the default content to best determine what changes you require. See: Payslip Region Information

    To change balances or include additional balances on the payslip:

    1. From the Total Compensation menu, select Basic and then Balance.

    2. Query for the element whose balance you want to add, and click Attribute.

    3. Click on a new row under Attribute, and choose the attribute you want to display from the list of values. This represents where the current balance will appear on the payslip.

    4. Choose a dimension from the list of values.

    5. To delete an entry, select the row and click Delete.

    6. Save your changes.

    Note: These changes do not take effect on the payslip until you rerun the Payroll Archiver Process for the affected payroll period.

Generating the Payslip

You must have completed the payroll runs, prepayments, and payment processes prior to generating the payslip.

  1. Run the archive process to gather the latest payroll information.

    See: Extracting Information to Appear on the Payslip

  2. You can view the payslip online through Self-Service.

  3. Print your payslips in the usual way. Users in the Netherlands and China, run the payslip report to produce a formatted report ready for printing and sending out to your employees.

    See: Printing the Payslip

  4. US and Canada only: Oracle Payroll provides the flexibility to choose the way annual salary is calculated and reported on the Online Payslip (both HTML and PDF). This flexibility is available through the HR: Base Annual Salary Display on Standard Work Conditions profile option.

    See: Defining the Profile Option for Pay Annualization