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Company settings Updated 2026-09-14

Payroll: Runs & history (admin)

Hub at /admin/payroll: Run Payroll, filter, approve, export, mark paid. After mark-paid, employees see stubs at /pay-stubs.

Route /admin/payroll Roles Company admin
Try it live: use the Acme demo (e.g. company admin) after signing in at the normal login page.

Payroll Management at /admin/payroll is where company administrators start new payroll runs, review history, filter by status or pay period, and open a run to process approvals, exports, and payment steps your build supports. Open it from Pay → Payroll runs when compensation & payroll is enabled.

Overview

The page subtitle sums it up: Manage payroll runs, view history, and process payments. Each row usually represents one payroll run tied to a pay period, with headcount amounts, gross/net totals, and status (draft through paid—or approval substeps when your company uses an approval chain).

Enabling access

Compensation & Payroll must be on for the company (see Setup wizard). The route is restricted to company admin–class accounts (not generic HR-only roles unless your tenant equates them with company admin). With the feature off, you’ll see a prompt to enable it in setup.

What’s on the page

  • Header — Payroll Management plus the subtitle above.
  • Run Payroll — primary action to open the create run screen (documented here at /admin/payroll/create).
  • Filters — Status (draft, processing, approved, paid, voided, etc.), pay period, and Filter.
  • Table — Pay period, pay date, employees, totals, status (including pending approver labels when applicable), and View to the run detail.
  • Empty state — If there are no runs yet, a short message with Run Payroll.

Typical workflow

  1. Ensure data — time worked and compensation records are ready for people in the pay group.
  2. Run payroll — use Run Payroll /admin/payroll/create for the target period and review calculated payslips.
  3. Approvals — if your company uses multi-step sign-off (set in Company settings → Payroll), complete the chain before marking paid.
  4. Distribute & record — export payslips or bank files as offered, then mark the run paid. Employees then see PDFs on Pay stubs at /pay-stubs.

Payroll: Create run (/admin/payroll/create) — working screen for a new run. Employee stubs after mark-paid: Pay stubs. Employee-level pay structures: Compensation records. New hires: Job offer wizard.

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Automated capture: full page as demo company admin with compensation & payroll enabled.

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Payroll Management: Run Payroll, filters, payroll runs table or empty state.

Payroll runs & history — /admin/payroll