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Close a payroll period

Closing a month is called confirming it. Once confirmed, the figures are locked and cannot be changed. The month-end tasks then become available.

Confirm the payroll​

On the Payroll screen, check the rows read the way you expect, then choose Confirm payroll.

E·BIZI Pay shows you what you are about to commit to before it does anything:

  • Company totals: total gross salary, total deductions and total net pay
  • SARS totals: employee UIF, company UIF, total UIF, and SDL

This is worth reading rather than clicking past. It is the last point at which changing a figure is easy, and the net pay total is the amount that will leave your bank account.

Choose Confirm to go ahead, or Cancel to keep the month open.

What changes once you confirm​

Three things happen at once.

The month is locked. Add income and Add leave disappear from the employee rows, because the figures they would change are now fixed.

Send payslip appears. Payslips are only sendable once the month is confirmed.

A new period opens. Confirming July opens August, and the Processing dashboard says "Next run available in August 2026".

Finish the month off​

Confirming is the first of about ten month-end steps, not the last. Paying people, sending payslips, accounting entries and the SARS submissions are all still to do, and they live on the Processing dashboard.

If you confirmed too early​

Confirming a payroll period cannot be undone directly from your dashboard. If you discover an error in a locked month, please contact our support team immediately rather than trying to adjust it in the next month. A correction applied to the correct period keeps your SARS submissions perfectly consistent, whereas a manual workaround in the following month will cause compliance discrepancies.