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How to Manage Payroll Off-Cycles

Learn how to create and process payroll outside of your regular payroll cycle for ad-hoc employee payments

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Written by Sameer B.
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Payroll Off-Cycles gives you flexibility to process payroll for employees within specific time periods, outside of the regular monthly cycle.

💡 Example: You want to pay a bonus on September 5th instead of waiting until the regular payroll date, September 25th. Off-cycles allow you to do this quickly and easily.

Off-Cycle Payroll Page

You’ll find a new Off-Cycle Periods tab inside your Global Payroll page.

  • Regular Cycles: Shows your standard monthly payrolls.

  • Off-Cycle Periods: Shows any payroll runs processed outside of the regular monthly cycle.

Each off-cycle follows the same steps as your regular payroll: setup, validation, reporting, and payout - Learn more.

🏢 Step 1: Create an Off-Cycle Payroll

  1. Navigate to Global Payroll

  2. Click Create Off-Cycle.

  3. Fill out:

    • Start and End Date of the payroll period

    • Payment Date (must fall within the selected period)

    • (Optional) Add employee payments directly in the creation flow

  4. Review details

👉 You can always add employee payments later from the payroll details page or from each employee’s payments page.

📆 Step 2: Add Employee Payments

  • Choose the employees and payment items (e.g., bonuses, commissions, allowances) that should be included.

  • Payments can be added during the off-cycle period creation or afterwards.

  • Each included employee will receive a separate off-cycle payslip once payroll is processed.

👉 Off-cycle payrolls are fully separated from your regular monthly payroll, giving you maximum flexibility while keeping reporting and compliance simple.

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