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Record that your people were paid

E·BIZI Pay cannot see your bank account. Once the salaries have actually gone out, you tell it so, and that one step is what releases the rest of the month.

Mark it complete​

Go to Processing, pick the month, and choose Mark complete on Process Bank Payments.

Nothing else happens. No file, no dialog, no email. E·BIZI Pay records that you said the payment went through, and the card turns complete.

Do it after the money has moved​

The step is a statement of fact, so make it a true one. Import the bank file, authorise the batch at your bank, and come back to E·BIZI Pay afterwards. See generate a bank file.

Marking it early is not caught by anything, and it is the one step in the month with no evidence behind it, so it is worth being strict with yourself about the order.

It unblocks the whole rest of the month​

This is the hinge. Four steps sit directly behind Process Bank Payments and stay blocked until it is done: Send Payslips, Generate Accounting Entries, and through those, the EMP201 chain and the UIF declaration.

So a month that has stalled with everything after the bank file showing blocked is almost always this step, unmarked.

You cannot undo it​

Process Bank Payments has no Re-execute. Once complete, it stays complete for that month.

That is deliberate: the steps that produce something can be redone, and the steps where you are recording that something happened cannot. See the Processing dashboard.

If you paid people without a bank file​

Plenty of small employers pay nine salaries by hand on the banking app. E·BIZI Pay still wants the bank file generated first, because Generate Bank File is what unblocks this step.

Generate it anyway and leave it in your downloads. It takes a few seconds, it costs nothing, and it keeps the month moving.

If you paid some people and not others​

There is one card for the whole run, so there is no way to record a partial payment.

Mark it complete once everyone has been paid. If someone is going to be paid late, the cleaner answer is usually to take them off the month before you confirm it rather than to leave the month half-recorded. See end an employee's employment, which is also how you remove someone for a single run.