Answer
When creating pays for several employees at once with the Create Pays wizard, you can add a single pay item to every selected employee in the same step, instead of opening each pay individually.
Where To Find It
In the desktop app: on the Pays screen, click Create Pays Wizard. Under Advanced (bulk item across selected employees), tick Bulk Add Item?, choose the Item Type, then click Configure... to set the details.
In the online (web/mobile) app: go to Pays >> Create Pays, tick Bulk add one item to every selected employee?, then choose the Item type.
What You Can Add
- Bonus — the same amount for every selected employee. New Zealand bonuses include the usual extra pay taxation options.
- Leave — the same leave type and hours for everyone; the dollar value is worked out per employee from their own pay rate, so it can differ between employees.
- Super (extra contribution) — an identical extra super amount for everyone (RESC in Australia; a KiwiSaver employer contribution in New Zealand).
- Back payment (Australia only) — either a flat amount for everyone, or calculated per employee from a percentage increase or an old-to-new hourly rate over a chosen period. In the online app, click Calculate amounts (preview) to see each employee's calculated amount before the pays are created.
One item is added to each selected employee's pay, and the pays are then created as normal.
To add these items to a single pay instead, see Where Do I Enter a Back Payment? and Where Can I Enter a Bonus or Other Irregular Gross Payment?
