You can calculate pay in Pay Admin Checklist using the Calculate Pay button. When you select locations for the pay group and then click Calculate Pay, Dayforce runs the Pay Summary Recalc For Pay Checklist background job for these locations and for the loaded pay period. This background job is an alternative version of the Pay Summary Recalc background job and performs the same calculation. After the job completes, you’ll receive a notification in Message Center about the job’s scope. You can also view details about the job in its job log in System Admin > Background Jobs in the Job Logs tab if you have access. See Pay Summary Recalc and The Job Logs Tab in the Dayforce Implementation Guide.
After you calculate pay and review the details of a pay group and managers approve the time and attendance records for the pay period, the location’s payroll is ready to transmit to your organization’s payroll application. To mark that a pay is ready, you “pay approve” the location. You can approve pay for specific locations.
If you load a pay group that contains many locations, Dayforce might split the locations across multiple pages. If a location isn’t on the current page, you might have to load a different one. However, when Dayforce splits location records across multiple pages, you can calculate pay for each location in the loaded pay group, even those that aren’t available on the loaded page. To do this, click Select > Select All and use the mass action option. See Navigate Between Pages and Edit Multiple Records (Mass Action).
To approve pay periods:
- Go to Pay Admin Checklist.
- Do one of the following:
- In the Approved column, select the checkbox in the row of the location that you want to approve.
- Select the locations that you want to approve and then click Approve.
- Click Save.