Add an employee

Go to Employees and choose Add employee.

The minimum

Nine fields are required. First name, last name, preferred contact channel, bank name, bank account type, account holder name, account number, and job title.

Note what is on that list: the banking details. E·BIZI Pay treats them as required because the bank file is built from them, and a payroll you cannot pay is not much use.

Note also what is not on it: the tax number, the ID number, the address, the salary. All optional at this point.

Choosing a contact channel

Whichever channel you pick becomes required. Choose Email and an email address is required; choose a phone channel and the number is.

This is also how payslips reach people, so pick the one you would actually use.

Salary

Enter the gross amount, which is the figure before any tax. E·BIZI Pay works out PAYE and UIF from it.

If you pay someone hourly rather than a fixed monthly amount, that is what the salary type is for.

Save and check

Use Save & Add Another while you are working through a list of people, and Save on the last one.

Then look at the payroll screen. Each person should show a sensible gross, deductions and net. It is much quicker to catch a salary typed with an extra zero here than after you have confirmed the month.

Adding someone partway through a month

You can. Their pay is worked out from their start date rather than the full month.