Off-Cycle Activities

In this section of the Implementation Guide (IMG), you configure the technical procedure and the corresponding business reasons for the following off-cycle payroll runs:

These enable you to run payroll twice per payroll period (for example, on the 15th and 30th of each month). The system processes the first half of the payroll period as an advance payment. You can define whether statutory deductions are deducted progressively, that is, from the advance payment and then the final payment of the period, or whether they are deducted from the final payment only.
These enable you to run payroll for ad-hoc payments to individual employees (for example, bonuses and commissions).

In addition, you define the parameters that are necessary to print cheques, and you must maintain the activity group for off-cycle activities in the IMG step Maintain Authorizations.

Unlike a regular payroll run, which is normally run on a specific day in each payroll period, off-cycle payroll can be performed on any day. Tax is reconciled on a monthly basis regardless of payroll frequency. Tax calculations are based on all income received in the payroll period regardless of the number of payroll runs performed.