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To process a pay or pay run in Lightning Payroll, click the Pays button at the top of the Lightning Payroll window.
This takes you to the current or most recent pay run. To go back to an earlier pay run, click Last Pay Run on the left. To move to future pay runs, click Next Pay Run on the right.
When processing a pay run, all pays start as Pending until they are saved or marked as complete.
To get started, click the Edit Pay/s button above the list of employees to edit the pays in order. Otherwise, click Edit Pay beside any employee's name on the right to edit that individual pay entry.
Once you have opened a pay entry for an employee, enter their hours worked for the pay period on the top left in the Hours section.
To pay leave, add it in the Leave taken in this pay section. See How Do I Pay Leave? for more detail.
Tax and super amounts are calculated automatically and shown on the right.
Once you are happy with the employee's pay entry, click Save + Next on the bottom right to save and move to the next employee, or click Save + Close to return to the pay run.
Once all the pay entries for your employees are marked as Complete, you can create the payslips and process Single Touch Payroll for this pay run.
See How Do I Print and/or Email Payslips? for creating payslips, or How Do I Process Single Touch Payroll? for processing Single Touch Payroll.
You can also watch our video tutorial on how to process a standard pay in Lightning Payroll.
