This topic contains an overview of the client payroll properties that you can set in the Payroll section of the Properties tab in System Admin > Client Properties. This topic addresses each of the fields and options available to you in the Payroll section and how they work together.
For basic instructions on how to configure client payroll properties, see Configure Client Payroll Properties.
Allow Canada Customer Banking
Note: This property shows only for users who log in to Dayforce using a Service role. For more information, contact Dayforce Support. Once this setting is turned on, it cannot be turned off or cleared.
Enables Canadian organizations to configure a bank account to fund payroll. This bank account can be configured to pay employees directly via direct deposits.
Allow Provincial Health Tax Deferral
Select to enable the Enable Tax Payment Deferral setting for specific Canadian provincial taxes in the Tax Authorities tab in Org Setup > Org Payroll Setup > Legal Entity. Dayforce supports the tax deferral programs for the following provincial taxes:
- Ontario Employer Health Tax (EHT)
Allow duplicate BN (Canada Only - Restricted)
Allows Canadian organizations to configure more than one legal entity record with the same business number. This feature is used to support a legal entity that has more than one employer health tax (EHT) or Revenu Quebec "RS" identification number.
Before you turn on this setting, the legal entities must meet the following requirements:
- The legal entities that share the same business number must have different names in Dayforce.
- Each legal entity can have the same or different account IDs for employer health taxes or RS identification numbers.
- To ensure accurate reporting, each legal entity must use different funding accounts to pay their employees. See Customer Funding Identifiers for Canadian Legal Entities.
Allow imports to add terminated employee to the pay run
Select to allow the import process to automatically add prior period terminated employees to the pay run when you run a Quick Entry Import or a Pay Entry Import. As well, a warning message is displayed in the Problems panel to let you know that a terminated employee was automatically added when you recalculate payroll after the import.
Allow pay date to fall on holiday/weekend for off-cycle runs (North America)
Enables employers in the United States and Canada to create an off-cycle pay run with a pay date on Saturday, Sunday, or a public holiday.
Tax Locator Behavior
Before You Begin: The Tax Locator Behavior client property is available only to users with the System role.
Select an option to determine how the tax locator calculates updates to employee locations when they’re made using HR Import or the Employee API:
- Default: The tax locator processes changes caused by HR imports or Employee API updates immediately.
- Defer (HR Import 2 and RESTful API Only): The tax locator processes changes caused by HR imports or Employee API updates after they are completed.
- Disable: The tax locator doesn’t process any changes caused by HR imports or Employee API updates.
Allow Resident Taxation Based on Business Date in Check Template
For US employers, select to show the option Enable Resident Taxation Based on Business Date in Payroll Setup > Check Templates. See Check Templates Screen Overview.
Calculate Canada Provincial and Health Tax for Virtual EE's using Work Location Only
Select to calculate provincial and health taxes based on work location for Canadian employees who work remotely. This option only applies to employees who are configured as virtual employees in their HR profile in People. See Virtual Checkbox for Canadian Employees.
When you configure the employee's HR profile with a work location override, the provincial and health taxes are calculated based on the override location.
For example, a virtual employee resides in Winnipeg. Their employer in Ontario has the Calculate Canada Provincial and Health Tax for Virtual EE's using Work Location Only checkbox selected in Dayforce.
- If this employee doesn't have a work location override, their pay is subject to the Ontario provincial and health taxes.
- If this employee has a work location override configured for Vancouver, British Columbia, their pay is subject to the BC provincial and health taxes.
Client Name
Enter the legal name of the client or organization. Dayforce prints this name on a variety of reports.
Allow ESS Earning Statement Preview
Select to allow employees to preview earning statements in Earnings for pay periods that haven’t been committed yet. By default, this option is disabled, and employee earning statements are available on or after the pay date.
ConnectedPay Enabled
Select to allow payroll administrators to import future-dated pay data using the Pay Run History Import file. The organization must be configured as an international ConnectedPay operating location before you select this option.
Global Country Administration Enabled
Activates the Global Properties feature so you can access and view country-specific fields that are associated with the country that your employees are in. Some fields are required to process a compliant payroll in your country and are marked as Enabled and cannot be deactivated. Other fields might be optional and can be activated or deactivated. This feature functionality replaces the need to use scripts to add relevant employee properties for a country, and you can use country-specific fields in your instance.
Integrated Countries
In this drop-down list, you select the integrated countries to associate with the Global Properties feature in Dayforce. The countries selected in the drop-down list are shown in HR Admin > Global Properties.
Enable Statement Email Notification
Select to add the ability to enable email statement notifications at the pay group level by going to Pay Setup > Pay Group, selecting a pay group, and clicking the Payroll Properties tab. See Configure Pay Group Payroll Properties.
Payroll Decimal Rounding Precision
Enter a number to set the number of decimal places that Dayforce uses to round results when calculating amounts for generated earnings, deduction amounts, or deductions subtracted from gross pay.
GL Decimal Rounding Precision
Enter a number to set the number of decimal places that the Dayforce GL engine uses when calculating any split logic, including allocation, week split, and accrual calculation.
Payroll Can Affect Accruals
Sets access to the Balance sub-tab for earning definitions, which you can then configure by going to the Earnings tab in Payroll Setup > Earnings and Deductions and selecting an earning definition. The Balance sub-tab allows you to configure earnings so that they increment or decrement balances as they are created as quick entries. See Link Earnings to Balances.
Tax Form Print ESS Offset (Days)
Sets the number of days that Dayforce waits from the date that tax forms are generated in Year End to when employees can see them in Earnings.
Enable Tax Form Email Notification
Adds the ability to enable email tax form notifications at the pay group level by going to Pay Setup > Pay Group, selecting a pay group, and clicking the Payroll Properties tab. See Configure Pay Group Payroll Properties.
SSN Display on 1099R
(US only)
SSN Display on 1099M
(US only)
SSN Display on W2
(US only)
Number of pre-note days
(US only)
Apply rounding adjustment for WFM mapping
Select to round the gross pay amounts mapped from WFM to the same precision as specified in the Payroll Decimal Rounding Precision field. This applies to earnings that are configured with payroll mappings linking them to time and gross pay recorded in the WFM functionality of Dayforce.
Enable tax locator warnings from payroll engine
Select to display warning messages in Payroll if there are problems with residential or business addresses that might cause incorrect payroll tax calculations (for example, a missing county name in a jurisdiction that requires that information).
Default disbursement method for onsite check
Select to set the default payment method for onsite checks: Check or Payroll Card.
Tax Calculation Message Logging Level
Select an option to return an error in Payroll based on the selection you make. Your selection determines the error levels that must occur for Dayforce to send you error messages. No selection defaults to the logging level 3 - Failure Messages (3000-4999) in the drop-down list.
Show check-specific messages recorded in My Pay on earning statements
Select to set the option to print or display messages under Messages on printed and online earning statements, when a payroll administrator enters something in the Messages field in checks or quick entries.
Disable Canada Garnishment Arrears Calculation
(Canada only)
This setting also impacts the Garnishments History Report. If this checkbox is cleared, the Garnishment History Report includes the message "Disable Arrears Calculation" with the indicator "N", and arrears amounts are included in the report output. If the checkbox is selected, the Garnishment History Report includes the message "Disable Arrears Calculation" with the indicator "Y", and arrears amounts are excluded from the report output.
Important: After you commit a pay run for a Canadian pay group, you cannot change this option back to calculate arrears.
Garnishment Administration Fee
Field for the allowable fee that the employer can charge for the administration of garnishments.
ESS Earning Statement Offset Override (Days)
Enter a number (positive or negative) in the field to set an offset (in days) before a check is displayed to employees in Employee Self Service. The value 0 makes statements available at 12:00 on the pay date, -1 makes statements available one day before the pay date, and 1 makes statements available one day after the pay date.
Exclude Employee Profile From ESS Earning Statement Offset
When selected, all committed earning statements are immediately available in People, independent of the Employee Self-Service offset value. If this checkbox is cleared, the earning statements in People and in Employee Self-Service respects the offset value for when committed earning statements are available.
Show 'Void After XXX Days' message on the On Site check
Select to add a void message to onsite checks. For example, "Void after 180 Days." Selecting this checkbox requires you to enter a number in the field immediately below.
Number of Days for 'Void after XXX Days'
Specifies the number of days to insert into the "Void After XXX Days" message that is on printed onsite checks to indicate how long after printing the check becomes void.
Onsite Check Stock Type
Select an option to configure whether onsite checks are printed using check stock that is pre-printed with magnetic ink, or on check stock that isn’t pre-printed and will require magnetic ink to print the bottom MICR information line; options are No Pre-Printed Bank Information and Pre-Printed Bank Information.
Note: If you set the No Bank Info Pre-Printed option in a non-production environment instance of Dayforce, the Void watermark will appear on checks for security purposes.
Allow AZ Tax Credit
(US only)
Enable Org Picker on Payroll
Adds the Org Picker in Payroll for users whose restricted access is varied across different org units.
Participate in Reciprocal Tax Calculation
Available to Support and Implementation roles only. Selected by default, ensuring that reciprocity is enabled at a tax authority code level and company level. It’s never recommended to disable this option.
Track Res Taxable Wages For EEs (No Certificate on File), From Tax Year
(US only)
Pay preview load batch size
Sets the number of pay records to load for each batch load thread, to make processing large pay groups easier. Enter 500 to limit the load to batches of 500 records at a time.
Enable Convenience of Employee (COE) Taxation (US Only)
Select this checkbox to allow employees residing in a state that is different from where the employer is located so that they are subject to taxation in both states.
If selected, Dayforce shows the COE Project checkbox in Projects > Management. This option enables taxation for states with COE regulations (for example, NY, CT, NE). Employees primarily assigned to work in these COE states have taxable wages for both the project location and the COE state.
Pay preview load thread number
Sets the number of times to load pay preview load batches, in the Pay preview load thread number field for large pay groups.
Available Employee Properties for printed statement sorting
Add one or more custom sorting options for courier delivery packages based on the employee properties configured in HR Admin > Employee Properties. See Employee Property Setup.
My Pay employee calculation batch size
Enter a number to limit how many employee records are calculated at one time. For large pay groups, setting this can improve performance when calculating checks, adjustments, and quick entries. For example, if you specify a batch size of 50 here, and later you want to create 75 quick entries in Payroll, Dayforce calculates the first 50 entries as a batch, and then continues to calculate the remaining 25.
Enable Concurrent Calculate
Select to allow one pay run to load while Dayforce is calculating another pay run.
See Concurrent Commit Controls for Employees in Multiple Pay Groups.
Max Problem Pane Message Number
Sets a specific number of error messages in the Problems panel in the Payroll feature. The default is 50 messages, but you can specify a larger number to display more message, or a smaller number to display fewer messages.
When the limit is exceeded, Dayforce displays a message in the Problems panel instructing users to view the remaining messages by generating an export file from the Problems panel.
Enable Alternate Funding
Sets the ability for you to configure alternate funding identifiers for US legal entities for normal off-cycle pay runs. Go to Org Setup > Org Payroll Setup > Legal Entity, select a legal entity, click the Customer Funding Identifiers tab, and if there are two or more entries in the Bank Account Setting list, you can set alternate funding identifiers in the Alternate Payroll Check and Check Deposit tab. See Bank Accounts.
Enforce matched pairing of Work Assignment and Legal Entity
The Enforce matched pairing of Work Assignment and Legal Entity checkbox configures overrides for work assignment and legal entity pairings in the Non-Primary Legal Entity section of Work > Work Assignments. To prevent the removal of enforced match pairing and enabled the override of work assignments' associated legal entities, this checkbox is set to on and is grayed out and disabled by default for new client organizations.
Regenerated Tax Forms include (US Only)
Select All Changes to include minor changes such as employer address, employee address, or employee middle initial, or select Major Changes Only to include changes to surname, SSN, or SIN.
Auto Generate Year End Forms and Reports overnight after commit?
Configures Dayforce to automatically generate year end forms and reports overnight when pay runs are committed.
Auto Generate Year End Forms and Reports after commit starting from
If the option to auto-generate year end forms and reports overnight after commit is selected, select the month to start generating the year end forms automatically.
Electronic Year-End Form Delivery for Terminated Employees(US Only)
Configures Dayforce to deliver electronic, rather than printed, year-end forms to terminated employees.
Perform Wage and Tax Validation During Payroll Calculation (UK Only)
(UK only)
Show Dayforce Wallet Promotion
Enables the Dayforce Wallet banner, which lets users register for a Dayforce Wallet Card without having to download the Dayforce Wallet mobile app, and encourages users to get their pay check deposited to their Dayforce Wallet Card. See "Dayforce Wallet Banner Overview" in the Dayforce Wallet Administrator Guide.
Ceridian Print Location
If your organization is configured for Dayforce Print, Support users can configure the US print location city in the Ceridian Print Location drop-down list.
Display Print Date on Onsite Checks
Sets the option to include the print date, in addition to the pay date, on onsite checks.
Apply Pay Group Admin Access Restriction to User Setup
Sets the option to restrict access to pay groups. Pay group access is set by explicitly adding entries in System Admin > User for a specific user in the Pay Group Admin Access tab. See User Account Settings.
Allow Pay Entry Import to Auto-Generate Non-Primary Employee Work Assignments
Configures the ability to add employees to multiple jobs and departments using pay entry imports. See Assignment of Employees to Multiple Jobs and Departments Using Pay Entry Imports.
Allow Pay Entry Import to respect Business Date for setting Pay Rate
Enables the Pay Entry Import to observe business date and effective date for salary changes when assigning rates during the import process. When the checkbox is selected, Dayforce pays employees based on the rate that was effective on the business date associated with each of the hours included in the import. If hours in the import don’t have an associated business date, Dayforce assigns them the rate as of the pay period end date. When this checkbox is cleared, Dayforce always uses the employee's rate that was effective on the pay period end date of a pay run.
For example, say that an employee's current pay period runs from Feb 4 to Feb 17. On Feb 12, the employee's pay increases from $10 to $11 hourly. Select this checkbox and the imported hours worked from Feb 4 to Feb 11 are paid at $10 hourly, and the imported hours worked from Feb 12 to Feb 17 are paid at $11 hourly.
Allow payroll to assign historic primary work assignment based on business date
The Pay Entry XML import file can populate a historical primary work assignment that was effective for an employee on the prior-period business date that is indicated in the file when a valid OrgUnitXrefCode and DeptJobXrefCode isn’t provided for the entry in the file. If a primary work assignment for the business date isn’t found, the import will populate the current primary work assignment. This feature is useful if you have Payroll imports that have business dates in the past and that are no longer effective in the current pay period.
Duplicate Bank Account Validation Threshold
Sets the threshold for the number employees who can have the same bank account. If the threshold is met, you can’t commit the pay run and an error message shows in the Problems panel.
Allow Shared Pay Run Lock for Pay Run Admin
Sets the option for more than one administrator to lock or unlock pay runs. If the option is cleared, only the administrator who locked a pay run can unlock that pay run.
Display Default Earning Statement Layout
Sets the option to use the default earning statement layout for WFM-only users that import employee earning statements.
Block Fixed Garnishments on Non-Normal Check Templates
Sets Dayforce to withhold only fixed amount garnishments from earnings that are assigned to the system Normal check template. See Block Fixed Garnishments on Non-Normal Check Templates.
Arrestment Admin Fee
Field for the allowable fee that the employer can charge for the administration of arrestments.
Hide Dayforce Logo on Online Statements
Note: This property is displayed only for users who log in to Dayforce using a Service role. For more information, contact Dayforce Support.
Authorized users can select this property to set the application to hide the Dayforce logo that appears at the bottom left of each page of new or existing online earning statements in employee self-service, the earning statement preview of the Payroll module, the HR profile, and the Earning Statement Report.
Use Onsite Earning Statement Template For US Earning Statements
Note: This property is only displayed for users who log in to Dayforce using a Service role. For more information, contact Dayforce Support.
Authorized users can select this property to set online earning statements for US employees to use the same layout as onsite check earning statements, instead of the standard online earning statement layout. See Use Onsite Earning Statement Template for US Earning Statements.
Work Location Overrides on non-primary Employee Work Assignments
If this checkbox is selected, the Work Assignment UI exposes the WLO field regardless of whether the Primary flag is selected.
Note: Service role only. This field is only for use with Microsoft Integration customers.
Allow negative AutoPay generation to offset reduction earnings
Service role users only. Selecting this checkbox configures Dayforce to generate a negative auto pay earning to offset the amount of the auto pay reducing earning if the legal entity doesn’t have any autopay earnings, but does have an autopay-reducing earning.
Suppress Display of Voided and Original Checks in ESS
Select this checkbox for Dayforce to suppress the display of earning statements for voided payments, and the original payment that was voided, in employee self service features (for example, the Earnings feature). However, they will still be displayed in the People feature so that administrators can view all statements. This functionality is useful if you don’t want voided checks for corrections or other updates to appear in employee self service. See Suppress Display of Voided and Original Checks in ESS.
Use Verification Services APIs instead of Equifax Payroll Export File
Service role users only. This client payroll property controls whether employment and income data for US employees is sent to a vendor as a file transmitted by Dayforce Link or returned as an API response from call that a vendor made. The APIs are:
- GET Employee Verification of Employment (VOE)
- GET Employee Verification of Income (VOI)
Information about these APIs is available on the Dayforce Developers Network, https://developers.dayforce.com, in the API Explorer under Payroll > Employee Verification.
Select this checkbox to configure the client instance to return employment and income data for US employees as an API response to a call that a vendor makes.
Data isn’t sent to a vendor using both methods for the same namespace. For a namespace with US employees, data is only be sent to Equifax using the export file by Dayforce Link, or as a result of an API call. This property determines which method is used. If the checkbox is:
- Cleared (not selected), any API calls made for US employees in this namespace fail and display an error that API isn’t available.
- Selected, any export files that configured aren’t generated. Dayforce includes a warning message in the payroll data export background job to indicate that the export didn’t generate because the client is configured for API calls instead.
Show On-Demand Pay Disbursed Amount in Earning Statement List
Select this checkbox to include the Disbursed column in the earning statement list (in Profile and employee self-service). This allows users to distinguish between the disbursement amount on an ODP earning statement and the net pay amount on a regular earning statement: the net pay amount represents the entire net pay for the pay period.
Enable Estimated Annual Salary Canadian Bonus tax calculation
(Canada only)
Turn off population of RL1 Box G1 for Taxable Benefits only
(Canada only)
Display Employer Taxes on Earning Statement
(UK and Ireland only)
Enable Bank File Transmission
(Ireland only)
Populate Payroll General Ledger Reporting Data Tables
Available only to Support and Implementation roles. This client property supports the add-in option for pulling data from the PRGLResult data table. This option must be selected for the background job Populate Payroll General Ledger Reporting Data Tables to run successfully.
Add New Hire Export to Report Archive
Select this checkbox to add the New Hire Export to Payroll > Archived Reports. When payroll is committed, Dayforce adds the New Hire Export (as a .dat file) to the list of archived reports in Payroll > Archived Reports.
Require recalculation after committing pay runs with mutual employees
Select this checkbox to set concurrent commit controls to force the recalculation of crossover employees between commits. This checkbox is selected by default. See Concurrent Commit Controls for Employees in Multiple Pay Groups.
Enable multi-pay run commit of pay runs with mutual employees
Loads when you select the Require recalculation after committing pay runs with multiple employees checkbox. Select this checkbox to configure automatic recalculation after the lock without the need to review before committing. This allows sequential pay runs to be committed seamlessly.
Delivery Package Assignment by Primary Org Only
Select this checkbox to assign delivery packages based strictly on primary org assignment only. This applies to US and Canadian print file delivery package assignments.
Calculate Canadian WCB based on Primary Work Location Only
(Canada only)
Use Employee Full Legal Name (First M Last Suffix) as name on check (US only)
(US only)
Use Employee Full Legal Name (First M Last Suffix) on Canadian Earning Statements and Checks
(Canada only)
Note: When this client property is selected and saved, the legal name feature is turned on permanently.
Use Work Assignment instead of Project Address for Local Taxes
Select this checkbox to assign local wages and taxes to be based on the employee's primary work assignment or primary resident location and not be based on the default labor project codes used for trailing taxation. If selected, you must apply earnings to the local taxes in the Apply Taxes Rule. See Payroll Policy Rule Types.
Display WFM-Generated Rates on Non Primary Legal Entity Statements (US only)
(US only)
Superannuation Default Contribution Rate (%)
(Australia only)
Enable STP Phase 2
(Australia only)
Single ABA file for multiple legal entities (AUS)
(Australia only)
Generate SAFF File Sex Code based on (AUS)
(Australia only) Drop-down list to control how Dayforce determines which code to use to report on employee gender in the SAFF file. Options are:
- Assigned Sex and then Gender Identity
- Assigned Sex only
- Gender Identity and then Assigned Sex
- Gender Identity only
Provide HSBC BPP payment set (separate with comma if more than one)
(New Zealand only)
A valid payment set is a three digit alphanumeric string. For example, HS1. Some businesses may anticipate generating more than one bank file on a single pay run commit. For example, when employees working for legal entity A and legal entity B are paid in the same pay run, and both legal entities are linked with a bank account that uses the HSBC NZ BPP format, enter the payment set for each legal entity in the same field, separated by commas. This step ensures that the bank files for legal entity A and legal entity B picks up different payment sets, such as HS1, HS2.
Note:
Bank file transmission to SFTP (ANZ)
(Australia and New Zealand only)