In this step, you define, if required, date modifiers for your payroll areas. You need various date modifiers if, in your enterprise, you want to define several different payment dates for various payroll areas to which you assign the same period parameters (for example, the parameter monthly).
If you use the same payment date for all your payroll areas, you do not need to make any settings in this step.
In your enterprise, payroll is run monthly. You want the payment date for pensioners to be the first day of the month, for industrial workers the 15th, and for salaried employees the 25th. You specify the following date modifiers:
| Date modifier | Description |
|---|---|
| 01 | Payment date on 1st day of the month |
| 02 | Payment date on 15th day of the month |
| 03 | Payment date on 25th day of the month |
You have decided whether you want to define different payment dates for payroll areas for which you run payroll with the same periodicity.
The standard system contains the entry 00 (Standard modifier).
Define as few date modifiers as possible. Do not delete the standard modifier. You can, if necessary, change the text of the standard modifier.
For each date modifier that you want to define, make the following settings:
The data modifier is only a means of
differentiation allowing you to define different payment dates for various
employee groups. You define the payment date itself in the step
Generate Payroll Periods , which is also in this section of the
Implementation Guide (IMG). In that step, you generate the payroll periods
with payment dates separately for each combination of period parameter and
date modifier that you have assigned to a payroll area.