Employee & pay setup
Guidance for creating employee records and configuring the settings, pay structures, and codes used to calculate employee pays.
10 articles
- Creating employee recordsCreate a new employee record and complete the fundamental information required before processing the employee's pay.
- Salaries & Waged employeesUnderstand how to configure waged and salaried employees in SmoothPay, and when to use the available Wage type options.
- Piece workersSet up and process New Zealand piece workers, including production payments, paid rest breaks, Total Hours Worked, and automatic minimum-wage top-ups.
- Independent contractorsSet up and pay independent contractors in SmoothPay, including GST-registered contractors and the settings required for GST calculations.
- Setting up payments/recurring deductionsSet up recurring employee deductions from beginning to end, including the Agency, employee deduction settings, reducing balances, and payment through the Payrun.
- Creating Work codesCreate Work codes for different types of paid work and configure how their rate, multiplier, and payroll treatment should behave.
- Creating Allowance codesCreate Allowance codes for additional earnings and configure how SmoothPay calculates and treats those payments.
- Automatic overtimeConfigure SmoothPay to automatically convert qualifying Timesheet hours above an employee’s ordinary-time threshold into overtime.
- Automatic TOIL/RDOConfigure SmoothPay to automatically bank qualifying Timesheet hours as Time Off in Lieu (TOIL) or Rostered Days Off (RDO).
- Manual TOIL/RDOManually bank worked hours as Time Off in Lieu (TOIL) or Rostered Days Off (RDO) through the Payrun.