Error adding Employee in Earnings and Deductions in Payroll - Must Find Employee Before Adding Pays



Description of Issue

I am trying to add an employee in Earnings and Deductions and I am receiving an error message when adding their base pay

Must Find Employee Before Adding Pays



Context
  • Enterprise ERP 

  • Payroll Start and Status

  • Payroll Earnings and Deductions

  • Employee Deductions



Cause

The employee's deductions had a start date after the Payroll Period of the active payroll



Resolution

Update the Start Date of the Deduction in Employee Deduction to on or Before the Start date of the Payroll Period.

  1. Navigate to Employee Deductions: Payroll>Employee Maintenance>Employee Deductions

  2. Search for the Employee number

  3. Click Update 

  4. Change the start date to be on or before the Payroll Period

  5. Click Accept



Additional Information

The employee pay will not pull into payroll without active deductions, once the deductions are within the payroll period you will be able to add the employee's pay