Integrating Bonuses with Payroll
If you use SuitePeople U.S. Payroll, you can pay bonuses to employees when you create payroll batches. To ensure that bonuses that you track with the Compensation Tracking feature are included in payroll batches, you need to:
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Create bonus payroll items
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Assign the payroll items to employees
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Create bonus types and associate bonus payroll items with bonus types
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Include bonuses in payroll batches
Throughout these steps, you also need to update payroll information.
To integrate bonuses with payroll:
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Create a bonus payroll item using the payroll item type Earning:Addition. For more information, see Payroll Item Types and Creating Payroll Items.
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Create a bonus type that you associate with the bonus payroll item. For more information, see Creating Bonus Types.
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To commit your updates to the Payroll server, update payroll information. For more information, see Updating Payroll Information.
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Assign the bonus payroll item to the appropriate employees.
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Go to Lists > Employees > Payroll Items.
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In the list, beside the bonus payroll item that you created, click Edit.
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In the Employees table, beside each employee who should have the payroll item, check the Apply box.
Note:Each of these employees must be included in Payroll. For more information, see Including an Employee in Payroll.
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Enter an Effective Date and an Expiration Date for each applicable employee.
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Leave the Rate fields blank.
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Click Save.
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To commit your updates to the Payroll server, update payroll information again. For more information, see Updating Payroll Information.
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To make sure that Bonuses are included in payroll batches, on a payroll batch, check the Pay Bonuses box. For more information, see Selecting Payment Options for a Payroll Batch.
Tip:You can set a preference so that the Pay Bonuses box is checked by default on payroll batches. Go to Setup > Payroll > Set Up Payroll. On the Preferences tab, check the Default “Pay Bonuses” on Paychecks box.