Checklist Before Running Payroll

Before you run payroll in FuseOffice, confirm these setup items are complete. Missing any of them will compromise accuracy.

1. Configure Your Payroll Settings

• Go to Payroll > Settings > General Settings.

• Set up workdays, salary advances, reimbursables, loans, and document templates to match your business rules.

2. Add All Allowances and Deductions

• Open Payroll > Settings > Taxes & Benefits.

• Add every allowance (Transport, Housing, Lunch, etc.) and every deduction. Mandatory statutory deductions like Taxes, Napsa e.t.c are already added by default 

3. Set Up a Pay Schedule

• Navigate to Payroll > Settings > Payroll schedules.

• Define payroll frequency (Monthly, Bi-weekly, Weekly) and assign the appropriate processing dates.

• Enroll employees to the payroll schedule (you can have multiple schedule, and different employees/groups can be paid on a diffent schedule)

4. Add Employees and Assign Their Pay Schedules

• Enter each employee’s full details in the system Navigate to Human Resource > Employees > Add Employee

• Ensure employees have Basic pay (or Hourly or Daily rate depending on pay time) setup

• Ensure the Contract start date (and/or end date) added

• Ensure employee is linked to a Payroll schedule

5. Ensure all joiners are added and Leavers have a contract end date

• Navigate to Payroll > Settings > Payroll Scheule

• On the payroll schedule, under Employees, on last column before actions icon, click on the number to view and confirm all employees assigned to that payroll schedule.