Sprout Payroll: The Refresh Button

Have you ever encountered a scenario where you made some changes in an employee's information but it didn't reflect in payroll run being processed? This is an issue most people experience and we all know how painstakingly annoying creating a new payroll could be. The answer? The Refresh button.

 

 

With this nifty feature, you will be able to apply the updates done to employee's information without having to create new payroll runs! This applies to changes made in recurring adjustments and salary details such as basic salary (Why Is the Update in Salary Not Reflecting upon Processing Payroll?), de minimis, OT computation table, and government contributions. 

 

For example, you created a normal payroll run and as you are editing the set-up, you decided to change their OT computation table. Since the original computation table would still reflect in the payroll run, you would need to hit refresh for these changes to reflect. This can be done by selecting the employees and clicking the Refresh button at the upper right corner of the table.

 

 

Once done, you may process the payroll as you normally would. Though, keep in mind that when you refresh the employees, all one-time adjustments and attendance will be deleted in the selected employees. So the best tip would be to refresh first before adding the one-time adjustments.