Year-to-Date Payroll Totals (AUS/NZL)

Activate User's Guide

Version
2025.1
Year-to-Date Payroll Totals (AUS/NZL)

To prepare for Go Live in Dayforce, some customers required the import of employee Year-to-Date data for the many payroll codes. Use the Year-to-Date Payroll Totals (AUS/NZL) wizard to make sure that your employees’ deductions, earnings, and taxes totals are loaded in Dayforce correctly

Completing this task ensures that the mapping is correct from legacy systems to Dayforce and that the data is correct. At Go Live, data is successfully imported in anticipation of Year-End data being filed correctly for taxation and government purposes.

Before you begin

Note the following:

  • Activate generates the Year-to-Date Import file with the ContributeToNetPay field populated based on the earning code that’s specific to the employees' respective pay group country. Shared earning definitions are differing earning types between earning codes of countries. When shared earning definitions exist between AUS and NZL in Dayforce, Activate uses the correct tax and compliance code to determine the ContributeToNetPay value.
  • You can use any of the following wizards even if any of them are currently in use by other users: Payroll Deduction Codes, Payroll Earning Codes, Year-to-Date Payroll Totals (AUS/NZL).
  • Activate shares all of your mappings across all applicable environments so you don't have to reconfigure each time you use a different environment. If the changes you make in an environment invalidate the mappings in a different environment, Activate notifies you when you use a wizard with invalid mappings that must be updated.
  • If the Allow Future Dated Import setting is enabled in Dayforce (Pay Group > Payroll Properties), you can import Year-to-Date data into an ongoing or future pay period in Activate. This step gives you more time to prepare the Go Live data loads (for example, complete mappings). Also, you don’t have to wait until the period ends to start the Year-to-Date process.

Prerequisites

A native payroll pay group for Australia and/or New Zealand with pay calendars must exist.

Key concepts

Using this wizard

You do the following in the Year-to-Date Payroll Totals (AUS/NZL) wizard:

Messages: Error, Warning, and Information

Activate sorts each generated message by severity:

Tasks

Results

Dayforce now contains the YTD Data that was imported during installation. Whichever pay period was used in the legacy system is now considered Committed data, and locks down the Taxation as well as calculation parameters on each earning and deduction code that was used in this pay period, setting these parts of the Payroll codes into unmodifiable states.

Activate generates the XML file, including the Total Taxable Wages field in the Pay Run Tax section. This value is equal to the existing Total Taxable Wages column of the TaxYTD template file.

Note: When installation completes, the Mapping Files, which are used as a basis for any future YTD load, can be downloaded by going to the User Menu (Person Icon), selecting Troubleshooting Resources, and then selecting the appropriate mapping under Customer Mapping Templates to download the file as an Excel spreadsheet.

Next steps

Review the pay period used for the YTD Load in Dayforce and validate against the legacy payroll for accuracy in mapping.

Complete the next wizard, as appropriate.

Commonly encountered issues

Before uploading the template, you must make sure that the data doesn’t have any errors. Some commonly encountered problems include:

  • Missing required field or data.
  • The Tax YTD Data tab is missing in the Excel spreadsheet.
  • Incorrect formatting.
  • If the file includes a filter, it might result in an error.

If a column has an error that you can't resolve, click the letter at the top of the column, in the menu, select Data and Text to Columns, and then click Next, Next, and Finish. This action converts the data in the column back to text. If the information was formatted incorrectly, it might resolve the problem.

Next steps

Complete the next wizard, as appropriate.

YTD 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.

Earning YTD Data template fields

Deduction YTD Data Template Fields

Tax YTD Data AUS NZL Template Fields