Payroll Earning Codes (Asia Pacific)

Activate User's Guide

Version
2025.1
Payroll Earning Codes (Asia Pacific)

Important: This wizard is for use only by customers with Pay Groups in Australia, New Zealand, or Asia. See the Prerequisites section (below).

Customers with Pay Groups in c can use the Payroll Earning Codes (Asia Pacific) wizard to create and install new payroll earning codes.

This wizard uses a template that includes the most common configuration options for earning codes. The template also includes the settings required for single-touch payroll reporting in Australia and IR8A reporting in Singapore. You can also use this wizard to add one or more Pay Groups to some of the new earning codes. Because employee payroll election and year-to-date information aren’t required, this wizard reduces the time and effort needed to gather the data and work through the wizard. This wizard significantly reduces the need to update settings on earning codes after the data load. The Payroll Earning Codes (Asia Pacific) wizard simplifies implementations, reduces manual interventions by human resources and payroll teams, and improves data integrity.

Important notes

  • Customers with pay groups in Australia, New Zealand, or Asia can use this wizard to install earning code information in Dayforce. The other option is to use the standard Payroll Earning Codes wizard, which requires employee payroll elections and year-to-date data.
  • Pay Groups, Custom Earning Groupings, and Payout Balances aren’t created as part of this wizard.

Prerequisites

To use this wizard, you must have Pay Groups in at least one of the following countries:

  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Asia (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, The British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, The Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Korea, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, State of Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, The Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Yemen)

The pay groups, custom earning groups, and payout balances must already be set up and installed in Dayforce. See Pay Group Editor.

Errors, warnings, and messages

The rules set up in Dayforce generate any Error or Warning indicators shown above the grid's column headings.

  • Errors prevent you from continuing with the Wizard.
  • Warnings are informational and indicate potential problems that you need to be aware of.
  • Messages are informational and identify a deviation from the rules.

To refer to the errors, warnings, and messages while you correct the data, click Download Errors File.

To correct the errors, messages, or warnings, do one of the following:

  • Update the information directly in the grid.
  • Click Download Errors File to download the list and then upload an Excel file containing the corresponding corrections.

Whether you edit the data directly in the grid or upload the file, Activate shows validation warnings or errors to indicate problems with the data. To review and correct any warnings or errors that display, either edit the records in the grid or upload the corrected information in a template again.

Tasks

Results

The deduction data is installed in Dayforce on the Payroll Setup > Earnings and Deductions > Earnings page.

Payroll Earning Data template fields

All templates have the same basic structure:

  • Instructions tab: Helps you understand the purpose of the data and complete the fields in the template.
  • Data tab: Contains headers for the data to be included in the template. The headers remain the same, but you can change the column order. If you add more columns, Activate ignores them.

All number ranges in the templates include the numbers at both ends of the range.