Running payroll

ByteBill runs basic payroll for small businesses and books the result to your accounts automatically.

Employees

Keep a record per employee. Each inherits the default income-tax percentage for your country, which you can then change per person.

For Norwegian employers, the employee record also holds the details the A-melding legally needs to identify the income recipient and describe the employment relationship. Filling these in as you go means the A-melding assembles cleanly later — see Statutory returns.

Country rules

Your country is derived from your organisation; you never choose it. Each country pack knows which components exist and which accounts they post to.

Norway

• Feriepenger (holiday pay)
• Arbeidsgiveravgift (employer's national insurance)
• OTP (mandatory occupational pension)

United Arab Emirates

• End-of-service gratuity

Tax reference rates

The rates that drive those calculations are seeded from the country pack and are editable. When a rate changes, you update it in one place rather than waiting for an app release.

Running a salary period

1. Open payroll and start a run for the period.
2. Check each employee's payslip — salary lines, the automatic components, and the tax deduction.
3. Adjust anything that needs adjusting; the run recomputes.
4. Post the run.

What posting does

The run aggregates every payslip into one balanced payroll voucher in your ledger, with each component on the account its country pack specifies.

A payslip PDF is generated for each employee and archived.

What payroll doesn't do

• It doesn't move money. Paying your employees is a bank transfer you make, recorded as a separate payment.
• It doesn't file the A-melding for you — it prepares the file and you submit it.
• It doesn't do progressive year-end tax settlement.