In Dayforce, you can review, process, lock, and commit payroll in Payroll > Pay Run Management for one pay group and an associated pay period at a time. A pay group defines the frequency that employees are paid. A pay period is the date range that employees are paid.
This can differ from Payroll > Data Entry, where you can process entries for more than one pay group or pay run at a time, but where you cannot commit pay runs
Depending on how Dayforce was configured, there can be several pay groups to review, each with pay periods of different durations. For example, a pay group whose employees are paid on a biweekly basis have a pay period that runs from Sunday June 3 to Sunday June 17, but a semi-monthly pay group's pay period runs from June 1 to June 15.
After you have reviewed payroll audits, checked the payroll preview, and entered any quick entries, you can process and commit the pay run.
Processing payroll involves committing WFM, closing WFM, locking the pay period in Payroll to perform a final review, and validating payroll before committing the pay run. Often, it can also involve adding, editing, or deleting adjustments, checks, or quick entries, before validating payroll and committing the pay run.
When you lock the payroll, you prevent other users from making any changes to the pay run, which allows you to perform a final review of the payroll preview, audits, and analysis. After you have completed these tasks, you can commit pay to approve the payroll run and complete the process.
The following topics describe the general flow for processing and committing payroll in Dayforce: