The SAP standard system contains period parameters for all the common payroll periods for different countries. However, if you need an individual period parameter for your system, specify this in Customizing for Payroll under Environment ® Payroll Organization ® Define Period Parameters .

In Customizing for Payroll under Environment ® Payroll Organization ® Check Payroll Area you assign a period parameter to every payroll area in your system. In this way you determine how frequently regular payroll should be run for this payroll area. You can assign the same period parameter to all payroll areas, if the payroll periods are the same for all employees in your enterprise.

In your system, you must use Report RPUCTP00 (Generation of Payroll Periods) to generate the payroll periods for every period parameter that you have assigned to a payroll area. In this way you determine the concrete start and end date for each period, as well the payday . You generate the payroll periods in Customizing for Payroll under Environment ® Payroll Organization ® Generate Payroll Periods.

When you start payroll, enter the payroll area for which you want to run payroll on the payroll driver selection screen. The system derives the payroll period from the period parameter you assigned to this payroll area.

If you want to specify different date specificat ions, for example different pay days, for a period parameter, then you also have to define a date modifier.