Payments & Adjustments
10 articles in Payments & Adjustments
13th month pay
KAMI handles 13th month pay in two separate places, and confusing them causes most of the questions: an accrual that builds up on every payslip through the year, and a bonus run that actually pays it.
Read article →Bulk bonuses and bonus tax
Bulk bonus creates a bonus for many employees at once, calculated from a wage basis rather than typed in per person. It is how 13th month, performance bonuses and any company-wide payment get made…
Read article →Final pay on termination
Final pay is what a leaver is owed on the way out: their last regular pay, plus separation pay such as severance, unused leave and a pro-rated bonus, with income tax settled for the whole year. In…
Read article →Gross-up and nett tax
Most employees are paid a gross salary and bear their own tax. Where you have agreed a take-home figure instead, the employer absorbs the tax — and KAMI has to work backwards from the net to the…
Read article →Importing historical payslips
When you move to KAMI part-way through a year, the payslips already paid elsewhere still matter. Importing them gives KAMI the year-to-date figures it needs so that tax, contributions and year-end…
Read article →Manual tax adjustments
A tax adjustment overrides KAMI's calculated tax for one employee, by an amount you specify. It is the escape hatch for cases the engine cannot know about — and, used carelessly, the fastest way to…
Read article →Other payments: allowances, bonuses and deductions
Anything on a payslip that is not derived from attendance is an other payment — allowances, commissions, bonuses, loan repayments, encashment, deductions. Choosing the right type matters more than it…
Read article →Payroll bulk imports
Several payroll things are set per employee and are impractical to enter one at a time: contributions, recurring other payments, previous-employer income, tax adjustments. Each has a bulk import, and…
Read article →Payroll payment and disbursement
Paying is the last step of a run and the one with the least room for error: the figures are settled, the approvals are done, and what remains is getting money to the right accounts. Most failures…
Read article →Retroactive payments
Sometimes work is approved after the payslip that should have paid it has gone. Retroactive payments are how that work gets paid on a later payslip, on the record, instead of by a manual adjustment…
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