Processing Advance Payments 
Processing Advance Payments
Purpose
Every employee is eligible to get a certain percentage of their basic pay as an advance from their employer during a selected number of festivals in the year. The festivals for which the employee is eligible depends on various factors like their religion for religious festivals and so on. Any such advances paid to the employees have to be paid outside the normal payroll run and shall be later deducted from the regular payroll run over a period of time.
Prerequisites
Wage types for which advance payments are possible must be eligible for entry in the infotypes Additional Payments (0015) and Additional Payments Off-Cycle (0267), otherwise they cannot be stored in these infotypes.
You can make the necessary settings in the Implementation Guide of the Payroll Singapore component. Choose Advance Payments
Process Flow
To control the eligibility for advance payments at employee level, you define which types of advances an employee may receive.
You make this assignment in the infotype General Eligibility (0374).
To calculate an advance payment for an employee, you run a program that carries out the necessary calculations and creates the advance payment and the respective recovery deductions as special wage types.
These must be stored in the infotypes Additional Payments (0015) and Additional Payments Off-Cycle (0267), depending on whether payment is to be effected in a regular or an off-cycle payroll run.
In order to import the advance payment wage types into the infotypes mentioned above, a batch input folder is created. You must complete this before payroll processing for the relevant payroll periods is done.
After the amount of the advance payment has been determined, payment is made depending on which infotype the results are stored in.
The recovery of an advance payment is carried out in regular payroll runs as well.
Recovery in multiple periods is also possible.