Payroll
4 articles in Payroll
Daily-paid, monthly-paid and hourly-paid employees
An employee's wage period decides what their base pay means: a fixed amount each month, a rate for each day rendered, or a rate for each hour. It is set per employee and it changes how nearly…
Read article →Getting started with Payroll
Payroll turns a period of attendance into payslips, statutory deductions and a payment file. This page is the map: what the pieces are, the order they happen in, and where to go next.
Read article →How wages are calculated
Every payslip in KAMI is built from a small number of rates that are derived, not typed in. Understanding how those rates are derived is how you tell the difference between a payslip that is wrong…
Read article →The payroll dashboard
The payroll dashboard is the list of your payroll runs and the state each is in. It is where a payroll period starts and where you check, at a glance, that nothing has been left half-finished.
Read article →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 the most consequential payslip KAMI produces. It is calculated once, paid to someone who is leaving, and reviewed by people who have every reason to check it carefully. The entitlements…
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…
Read article →Reports
Monthly tax and contribution reports
Every period you owe two things to the authorities: what you withheld in tax, and what you and your employees contributed. These reports produce those figures from the payslips, so the filing matches…
Read article →Payroll reports
Payroll reports pull payslip data out of KAMI — for finance, for statutory filing, for an auditor, or to answer a question about one employee. The report you build once and reuse is worth far more…
Read article →Scheduling payroll reports
A scheduled report generates and arrives on its own, on a cadence you set. It removes the monthly ritual of remembering to run something, and it removes the risk that the person who normally runs it…
Read article →The accounting journal
The accounting journal turns a payroll run into the entries your accounting system expects. It is how payroll stops being a spreadsheet handed to finance and becomes a posting they can rely on.
Read article →Year-end payroll reports
Year-end reporting reconciles a whole year: what each employee earned, what was withheld, and whether the two agree with what was actually due. It is the point at which twelve months of small…
Read article →Running Payroll
Calculating a single payslip
Most of the time you calculate a whole batch. Calculating one payslip is for the exceptions — the employee whose record you just fixed, the late amendment, the joiner added after the run started.
Read article →Payslip tax details explained
Income tax on a KAMI payslip is not this period's pay multiplied by a rate. It is an annual tax, estimated across the year and apportioned to the period — which is why the tax line moves when nothing…
Read article →Prorated pay for joiners and leavers
Anyone employed for only part of a payroll period is paid a proportion of it. Proration is a small number of employees every cycle and a disproportionate share of payroll errors, because it is the…
Read article →Running a payroll batch cycle
A payroll run takes a period of attendance and turns it into payslips you can check, approve and pay. This is the process end to end, and the points in it that are hard to undo.
Read article →Viewing and validating payslips
The Payslips tab is where a payroll run is actually checked. Validating well is the difference between catching a wrong figure now and explaining it to an employee after payday.
Read article →Settings
Batch cycles
A batch cycle is the recurring definition of a payroll: who is paid, how often, for which period, and who approves it. Every payroll run is an instance of one. Setting them up correctly is the single…
Read article →Contribution types
A contribution type defines a statutory or company deduction — how it is calculated, what it is calculated on, and where it stops. These are the settings that make statutory deductions correct, and…
Read article →Custom payroll policies
A custom payroll policy turns an attendance pattern into money — a punctuality bonus, a tardiness deduction, a seniority allowance, a distance-based payment. They are how company-specific pay rules…
Read article →Employee payroll settings
An employee's payroll settings decide how their pay is calculated: what they are paid, how often that figure is expressed, how it converts to a daily rate, and which tax and contribution rules apply…
Read article →Income tax types
An income tax type is the complete definition of how tax is worked out for the employees assigned to it: the rate tables, which contributions are deductible, how the year is estimated, and how…
Read article →Non-taxable groups
A non-taxable group is a named ceiling for pay that is exempt from tax up to a limit. It is how statutory exemptions — the kind with a fixed annual or monthly threshold — get applied consistently…
Read article →Number precision
Number precision sets how many decimal places payslip figures are held and shown to. It sounds cosmetic and is not: rounding decisions accumulate across hundreds of employees and twelve months, and…
Read article →Other payment types and groups
This is where you define the allowances, bonuses and deductions your company actually uses, and how each behaves. Getting it right once means everyone entering payments afterwards makes correct…
Read article →Payment settings
Payment settings are the company-wide payroll rules: what overtime is priced from, which payments count toward which wage bases, how contributions are based, and a handful of behaviours that apply to…
Read article →Payroll automation rules
A payroll automation rule sets an employee's payroll fields automatically, based on who they are, instead of someone remembering to configure each new joiner by hand. It is how payroll settings stay…
Read article →Payroll user rights
Payroll rights are deliberately separate from the rest of KAMI's permissions, and more granular. Payroll is the module where access controls both privacy — everyone's salary — and money leaving the…
Read article →Payroll validation rules
Validation rules are checks KAMI runs against every payslip when it is calculated, so that a suspicious figure is flagged before anyone is paid rather than after. They are how you encode "that can't…
Read article →Termination settings
Termination settings decide what final pay contains: which components are due for which reason for leaving, on what wage basis, and at what multiplier. They are configured once against your legal…
Read article →Updating statutory contribution rates
Statutory contribution rates change — usually annually, sometimes mid-year. Updating them in KAMI is a small task with a large blast radius: it affects every employee's payslip and every remittance…
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