The FPS submission process includes a validation and final submission stage.
When you validate a pay run for a UK legal entity, Dayforce runs the HMRC GovTalk Submission background job to generate and transmit a file to HMRC for validation before the live submission. You can review the results in Payroll > Pay Run Management > Preview in the Employee Payments Validation tab.
When this process is complete, a message is shown in the Problems panel to confirm the status of the validation. The validation stage reduces the risk of errors when the main submission is submitted when you commit the pay run.
When you commit the pay run, Dayforce runs the HMRC GovTalk Submission background job again to generate and transmit the final FPS file for live submission to HMRC. In Payroll > Pay Run Management in the Preview > RTI FPS Validation tab, you can preview what’s included in the FPS file and define the following:
- The final FPS submission for the tax year.
- If the submission scheme ceased as of a certain date.