Alternatively, pay items can be added to an employee's 'standard pay' and when a new 'normal' pay is created, all the employee's standard pay items will form the basis of the employee's pay in the new pay period. The advantage of standard pay items is that both the standard pay item's number of units and cash are used as the basis of the new pay period's pay.
After employee basic details have been entered, employee's pay calculations can be created. Click the Calculate Pay button on the Pay Period Options form, or select Calculate Pay from the Activities main menu. This displays the Pay Calculation screen.
Click on the New button to create a new payslip. You can then select an employee name from the first drop down list, and then click on New within the Pay Items area to add the first payment to the employee's payslip.
If your employee's hours vary a lot from week to week, you may prefer to prepare employee's hours in an external system, such as a Time and Attendance system or spreadsheet, and the import the results directly into the payroll. You can create a Template that describes the format of a file that contains the data and then import the attendance data into the payroll.
If you use a Time and Attendance or Time Clock system, consult that system's documentation on how to prepare an export file of employee hours. If you use a spreadsheet to prepare the employee's hours, you just export the spreadsheet to a comma or tab delimited text file.