Not to be confused with Person groups, Payment groups collect people who should be paid something (e.g. salary, wage, bonus, etc) on the same schedule. A persons' membership to a group, indicates they should be compensated according to its payment periods.
This information can be used to filter personnel for reporting, integrations, and payroll.
Management
Overview
Payment groups are created and managed from Employees > Payment groups. The Payment groups menu option is only visible to administrators.
A list of all Payment groups is shown, with the option to add new payment groups1 or view the details of a group by clicking the view icon2.
Creating a new payment group
To create a new payment group, provide a code, name and description. Then configure payment periods.
Code: a unique code for a payment group. Two payment groups cannot have same code.
Name: payment group name. Name is also unique and two payment groups cannot have same name.
Description: a detailed description for a payment group.
Payment Periods
Payment periods represent information about when salary or other type of compensation should be paid, and for what dates a given salary or compensation is for. Payment periods can be added individually or generated many at a time. Any existing payment group can be freely edited. Below is a breakdown of the salary payment fields:
- Payment period dates - The payment beginning and end dates represent the range from which salary is calculated for the related payment date.
- Payment date - The date upon which salary should be paid. This field automatically avoids non-banking days by moving the payment date to the first earlier banking day.
- Accounting value date (Bookkeeping date) - (Optional) The date on which payments are considered in bookkeeping. It should be filled when payroll data is entered or exported to bookkeeping.
The 'Add multiple payment periods' button, facilitates generating multiple payment periods at once.
Please note: This tool automatically avoids payment dates falling on non-banking days. The following generation options are available.
- Monthly - Generates a payment period for each month for the chosen period/months.
- Twice a month - Generates two payment periods for each month for the chosen period/month.
- Bi-weekly - Generates two-week-long payment periods from the start date to the repeat until date.
Payment periods can also be added one by one when needed. For example, in an exceptional payment situation for the whole payment group, or where a payment group does not follow a regular payment repetition.
Membership
When a person is added to a payment group, it indicates that their salary or other compensation should be paid according to its' payment dates.
Membership can be set from a persons' information (Employees > Persons > Person Info). Membership can be defined with a start date using the validity controls. This allows the configuration of a person to join and/or switch payment groups in advance of the required change date.
Uses
Nepton Payroll
The Nepton Payroll product utilises the payment group information to ensure that all peoples' worktime events for a payment period have been approved, all necessary information is available for payment period, and that salaries can be paid on time.
Worktime integration rulesets
Rules for collecting and sending salary data to other systems can use the payment group(s) as a filter so that only the data for the desired people is included. Please see the Ruleset documentation for more details and examples.
Person filtering
Many features around Nepton include the option to filter and/or select people. The Payment group can be used as a filter so that only people from the desired payment group(s) are included/shown.
This can be very useful for reporting purposes. For example, you can report upon the absences of your monthly paid workers, from a specific payment group, in only a few clicks.
Planned improvements
In the future, Payment groups will be used to make approval recommendations in Nepton more intelligent and to provide proactive notifications when a supervisor should perform approvals to avoid payroll delays.