Payroll Module Role Features

Payroll Administrator Guide

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R2025.2.1
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2025-12-01
Payroll Module Role Features

Two main areas, or features, are available to you in Dayforce for processing regular and off-cycle pay runs, or processing payroll for year end: the Payroll feature and the Year End feature.

Important: Information about the Payroll role features is available in the topic “Payroll” in the Appendix: Role Feature Library section of the Dayforce Implementation Guide. Information about processing year end payroll in Year End is available in The Year End Feature.

This guide discusses the Payroll feature. The Payroll feature is used to load, monitor, and manage individual pay runs by pay group and by pay period, to audit, update and correct pay run information, as well as to manage end of quarter activities in preparation for year end payroll processing.

Configurations Necessary for Payroll Administration

As a payroll administrator, you might need to make some additional configurations to suit the needs of your organization. These can involve configurations for the organization such as creating new pay categories, or pay groups and pay periods, or creating new pay codes. It could also mean creating new work assignments. Other configurations might involve employee changes, such as the need to update employee direct deposit information or set up payroll cards. It could also entail needing to enter garnishments, or to change deductions or earnings or to add new taxes to employees.

The other feature areas of Dayforce that you might use as a payroll administrator are:

  • People: Used to perform a number of tasks for updating employee information, such as updating direct deposit information, taxes, garnishments, and so forth.
  • Org Setup: Used to set up and configure legal entities, jobs and job assignments to associate with employees, dockets to be used for entries in the general ledger, and so forth.
  • Payroll Setup: Used to set up check templates, earnings and deductions, bank accounts, general ledger information, payroll policies, and related details about how to pay employees.
  • Pay Setup: Used to create and maintain pay categories, pay groups and pay periods, pay codes, and other details related to the organization of groups of employees to be paid.

See Payroll Administration: Additional Configurations.