Basic Tasks

Pay Approval Guide

Version
R2024.2.0
Basic Tasks

In Pay Admin Checklist, click a pay group in the Pay Groups list to view the group’s locations and payroll transmit statuses:

Pay Admin Checklist showing the Pay Groups list, Pay period details view, and a pay group calendar.

To collapse or expand the Pay Groups list, click the show () and hide () icons.

Review Pay Admin Checklist

In Pay Admin Checklist, Dayforce uses different icons to indicate the transmission status of each pay group calendar.

Pay group calendar transmission status icons
Icon Description
Gray checkmark and gray upwards arrow icons. Payroll transmit isn’t approved or committed.
Gray checkmark and green upwards arrow icons. Payroll transmit is committed but not approved.
Green checkmark and gray upwards arrow icons. Payroll transmit is approved but not committed.
Green checkmark and green upwards arrow icons. Payroll transmit is approved and committed.
Icon of a red circle containing a red x. There are problems with time entries.
Blue stamp icon. There are unauthorized records.

To learn more about the selected period, such as its commit date and last transmitted date, click the information icon (). The Pay Period Details dialog box opens.

If you have unsaved changes, Dayforce shows the unsaved changes icon () in the applicable rows. In the following screenshot, the icon shows three pay group calendars with unsaved changes for the USA - Weekly pay group:

Pay period details view with three unsaved changes.

The unsaved changes icon also appears in the Pay Groups list.

Select Locations in the Pay Period Details View

After you select the necessary pay periods, you can select locations using the Select drop-down list or select a single location by selecting its checkbox:

Pay Admin Checklist showing one selected location.

Important: If Dayforce splits your pay group calendar records across multiple pages, you can’t select all of the records. You can select only the records that are available on the loaded page. See Navigate Between Pages.

Filter Pay Admin Checklist

To filter the pay groups in the Pay Groups list, click the filter icon (). You can use the following settings to filter and sort pay groups:

  • Date Range: The date range to view pay groups for. The filter will return all of the pay groups with a pay period due date within that range.
  • Pay Group Transmit Status: The pay statuses to view.
  • Pay Group: The pay groups you want to view.
  • Sort By: Sort results by date or by pay group.

To filter the pay group calendars on the right side of Pay Admin Checklist, click the Filter button. You can use the following settings to filter pay group calendars:

  • Manager
  • Organization
  • Exceptions
  • Status 
    • Unapproved Pay Periods
    • Pay Approval Required
    • Pay Approved
    • Locked Pay Periods

Note: If you have pay group calendar records across multiple pages, the filter applies to all pay group calendars in the pay group. This includes pay group calendar records that aren’t loaded on the page that you’re viewing.