Employees & payroll

Running, approving and paying the payroll

Prepare → review → approve → pay: four steps every month.

Running the payroll

Silent — on-screen captions in Arabic

The payroll run is the official monthly salary sheet. Prepare it once attendance and leave are complete. Payslips are not visible and advance instalments are not deducted until it is approved, and salary is not paid until the payment is recorded.

  1. Open “Payroll” and choose the “Month”.

    Payroll before preparing the month
  2. If it is not prepared, press “Prepare … payroll for all employees” (automatic for everyone), or “Open empty payroll” and add employees one by one.

  3. Review the table and tiles: employees, total earnings, total deductions, net salaries.

    The prepared payroll run
  4. To adjust an employee press the gear icon on their row, change additions, deductions or working days, then “Save & recalculate” — or remove them from the payroll.

  5. After any change in attendance, leave, penalties or employee files press “Recalculate”; manual items are kept.

  6. Print with “Print payroll” or export to Excel for review.

  7. The dashboard manager approves with “Approve payroll” (optionally emailing each employee their payslip).

    Recording salary payment after approval
  8. After the bank transfer record the payment under “Record payment”: select employees (none = everyone), payment date and transfer reference, then record.

Column / itemMeaning
DaysPaid working days out of 30.
GOSIThe employee share is deducted automatically for everyone “Registered in GOSI”, on basic + housing capped at SAR 45,000, at the rate of their scheme — see GOSI under the new Social Insurance Law (from 3 July 2024).
AdvancesInstalments due this month; deducted from the advance balance on approval.
Late / absence, penalties / leaveFrom attendance, penalties and unpaid leave, based on the daily wage.
Company GOSI shareShown under the table and not deducted from the employee.
Important An approved run is locked; any change needs “Return to draft for editing” by the dashboard manager and a new approval. Runs and payments post to accounting automatically, so record the real payment date.
Note The run includes every employee with a basic salary above zero who was active in the month. To pay only part of the salaries see صرف الرواتب جزئيًا وعلى دفعات; for the wage protection file see ملف حماية الأجور (مُدد).

Screenshots come from a demo copy with sample data.

Frequently asked questions

When does an employee see the payslip?

Only after the payroll is approved; drafts are not shown to employees.

Why was GOSI deducted from an unregistered employee?

Because “Registered in GOSI” is ticked in their file. Untick it under “Edit details”, then “Recalculate”.

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