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Define Date Modifiers

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.

Example

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

Requirements

You have decided whether you want to define different payment dates for payroll areas for which you run payroll with the same periodicity.

Standard Settings

The standard system contains the entry 00 (Standard modifier).

Recommendation

Define as few date modifiers as possible. Do not delete the standard modifier. You can, if necessary, change the text of the standard modifier.

Activities

For each date modifier that you want to define, make the following settings:

1. In the Date modifier field, enter a two-character numerical key of your choice.
2. In the Description field, enter a text for the data modifier.
3. Save your entries.

Further Notes

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.