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Add your first employee

Until you add someone, the payroll screen has nothing to show. It says so, with an Add an employee button.

Start​

From the empty payroll screen, choose Add an employee. Later on, once you have staff, the same form is behind Add employee on the Employees screen.

What the form asks for​

It is one long form in sections, and most of it is optional. The fields marked with an asterisk are the ones you cannot save without:

  • First name and last name
  • Preferred contact channel
  • Bank name, account type, account holder name and account number
  • Job title

That is genuinely all. Everything else, including the tax number, can wait.

A tax number is worth adding now if you have it, because E·BIZI Pay needs it before it can generate an EMP201. If you leave it out, E·BIZI Pay reminds you later. See tax numbers.

Save​

Save adds the person and takes you back to the payroll, where they now appear as a row with their gross, deductions and net pay already worked out.

Save & Add Another keeps the form open, which is what you want when you are putting your whole team in.

What you should see​

Straight after saving, the payroll row shows the salary you entered as the gross, the PAYE and UIF worked out underneath, and the net pay. If those numbers look wrong, the usual cause is the salary being entered as monthly when you meant annual, or the other way round.

Next​

Employee details explained goes through the sections one at a time.