The Pre-Start employment status is a system status that is typically used with the Onboarding module. With the Onboarding module, you can add new employees to the system with Pre-Start user roles, which provides them access to certain features before their actual hire date.
When you add an employee to your organization with a hire date in the future, Dayforce automatically assigns the employee the Pre-Start employment status. When the actual hire date is reached, Dayforce assigns the employee the status configured in the new hire form (for example, Active or Inactive). See the Onboarding Guide.
Pre-Start Employees and Payroll Processing
If an employee has the Pre-Start employment status for the entire pay period, Dayforce ignores them during payroll processing, and any checks, adjustments, quick entries, or import time data that you add for the employee aren’t included. When you calculate payroll, Dayforce generates a warning to indicate that all entries or time data for the employee will be ignored.
However, in an off-cycle pay run for On-Demand Pay (ODP), a pre-start employee with ODP payments is processed during payroll.