If, after terminating the standard pay cycle, additional payments are required for employees before the next standard pay cycle is due, these can be achieved by running supplementary pay cycles.

Note: Supplementary pay cycles cannot be run in conjunction with advanced payments.

The procedure for running a supplementary pay cycle is similar to the standard cycle. One field you must complete differently is Run Type in the Set Current Tax Period screen. Instead of entering ‘0’ for a standard cycle, you enter a non-zero digit to indicate the number of the supplementary run. Other fields may be different, for example, Pay Date, depending on the specific circumstances.

Some of the processing carried out in a supplementary run differs to that in a standard run.

Please note the following points:

• Not all pay elements included in a standard pay cycle for an employee are included in a supplementary pay cycle. For example, if an employee is paid monthly, and each month they pay Union fees, you would not want these to be deducted again in a supplementary pay cycle, as this would mean that they were paying these fees more than once for the month.

  Whether or not a pay element is included in supplementary pay cycles is specified in the definition for each pay element (see Pay Element Definition).

• Conversely, pay elements not included in standard pay cycles may be applied in supplementary pay cycles. Again, this is specified within the definition for each pay element.
• Temporary pay elements that were applied in the standard pay cycle are not applied again in the supplementary pay cycle.