Payroll first-run onboarding

Practical workflows for the tools you use every day.

Prepare the right people and permissions

Purchase/activate Payroll and confirm active HR for the selected company. Ask Admin to review the approved staff appointment, MFA and exact setup/preparation/review/approval/finalization/release grants. An Owner title alone does not authorize confidential Payroll.
Choose the group duty policy and independent authorized approver before creating a real run. A different tab does not make the same person a different approver.
CedraStack applies the rules configured by your company. Country-specific tax, social-security, filing and legal-compliance calculations are not provided. Your company reviews its rates, obligations and filings.

Choose currencies; publish effective Compensation; define one Base and approved earnings, deductions, employer and informational components. Fixed, percentage, rate × quantity and manual methods use bounded explicit dependencies, not arbitrary executable formulas.
Create a compatible versioned structure, then a group with one currency, frequency, IANA time zone, proration and duty policy. Assign Employees to their actual employment episodes without overlapping regular assignments.
Prepare the company or group Payslip template and review its fictional preview. Custom EN/FR labels and permitted visibility are optional; protected identity, period, currency and totals remain. A preview being available does not prove a person reviewed it.

Create the period, review its exclusive end/pay date and draft run. Add explicit approved one-time or time inputs. Resolve source, dependency, currency and rate warnings before calculation. Review every Employee result and totals separately by currency.
Review the retained calculation, obtain the independent approval required by policy with fresh MFA, then separately finalize and release with fresh codes. Finalization freezes the source/template; release makes only the approved projection available to an eligible linked Employee.
Practice example: EUR 1,000 base + 100 transport + 50 bonus minus 25 and 10 configured deductions gives gross 1,150, deductions 35 and net 1,115. Employer cost 30 is separate. These are fictional configured amounts, not statutory rates.
Keep optional Accounting off unless both modules and exact mappings are approved. Learn linked adjustments/reversals and bounded exports before using real data. Payroll does not transfer funds. A new archive uses quota; status and ready-job download do not.