Payroll settings and pay periods
Payroll in E·BIZI runs strictly month by month, and that timeline is not configurable. This is what a pay period is, how the monthly cycle rolls over, and where the few payroll settings that do exist live.
E·BIZI Pay runs one month at a time
There is one open period, always, and it is a calendar month. Everything you do on the Payroll screen belongs to it: the salaries, the extra income, the leave you capture.
You cannot run a weekly or fortnightly payroll, and you cannot have two periods open at once.
Find the period you are in
Go to Payroll. The open period is named at the top, under Current payroll.
That heading is the answer to most "why does this figure look wrong" questions, because the screen only ever shows one month and it is easy to be looking at a different one from the one you meant. See my payroll totals look wrong.
How the next period opens
Confirming a month is what opens the next one. There is no separate "start new period" action, and no date on which the period rolls over by itself.
The new period starts the day after the old one ended, so confirming July gives you August. The Processing dashboard says so directly, with "Next run available in August 2026" next to the Payroll Confirmed banner. See close a payroll period.
The tax year and run numbers
The South African tax year runs from 1 March to the last day of February, and payroll follows it. March is period 1 of the year, February is period 12.
On the Processing dashboard, Select tax year and Select run move you between months. The tax year reads as a pair of years, 2026/2027 for the year starting March 2026. Runs are numbered in the order they ran, starting at Run 1 for your first month on E·BIZI Pay, and they keep counting up across tax years rather than restarting at each March.
Where the settings are
There is no settings page inside E·BIZI Pay. Everything the payroll needs to know about your business comes from your company profile in E·BIZI Works: your SARS payroll registrations, the bank account salaries are paid from, the bank file format, your industry, and the logo and theme that go onto payslips.
E·BIZI Pay links you there itself. When something is missing, the warning above the payroll rows carries an Update company details link that opens the profile. See company details and payslip branding.
Per-employee settings are on the employee, not on the payroll: salary, annual leave days, banking, tax number. See employee details explained.
What you cannot change
The pay frequency is monthly and there is no setting for it.
A confirmed month cannot be reopened. There is no undo, and no reopen action anywhere in E·BIZI Pay, so the check before you confirm is the real one.
Your pay date is not a fixed setting either. You choose it when you generate the bank file, per month, as the Payment date. See generate a bank file.