Billing method (Period Start Day)

Allocation Group contains the ‘Period start day’ field in the ‘Billing method’ section.

In this field you can control which time period should be taken into account in the current pay process. This means that document date is checked in the report journal during pay process and only data records corresponding to the Period start day setting are posted.

By default, the field is empty. Customers that create a down-payment and a definitive pay process do not have to take these settings into account, since time recording and wage period always match 1:1. This procedure is also recommended in the context of SwissSalary EasyRapport.

If, for example, ‘1’ is entered in the field, all data records from the previous month are processed.

It is also possible to process data records across months.

Example:

The definitive pay process is created on the 20th of the month. Hourly bookings from the 18th of the previous month to the 17th of the current month are taken into account from time recording. Therefore, ‘18’ must be entered in the ‘Period start day’ field.

As soon as a data record is entered in the ‘Period start day’, the ‘Down-payment and a definitive pay process’ procedure is no longer possible.

It is also important that the balance display on the payslip controlled with this input.

‘Monthly reporting’ (movements of the time in the month) and ‘Balancing’ can be displayed on the payslip at the end of the document. Monthly reporting display is managed in time types and that of balancing in payroll area.

Important: Monthly reporting display is always related to payroll period. If, for example, the vacation taken is booked in May, it will be shown on the May payslip. If deferred billing is applied now, the vacation taken in May will not be shown on the June payslip.