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How to Add Notes to Payroll

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How to Add Notes to Payroll

You can add notes for each individual employee included in your payroll ran. These notes can be added to an employee's pay statement or can be viewed only by payroll admins in your payroll history.


Adding Notes to Payroll

Note: You must be a Payroll Admin in order to run payroll and add payroll notes to a run.

  1. Go to Pay > Payroll and begin running your payroll (regular or off cycle).
  2. At the Hours & Time Off tab, click Add under the Notes column for the employee you want to create the note for.
  3. Toggle on if you want to show this note to your employee on their pay statement.
  4. Write your Note in the provided field.
  5. Click Save to add the Note to the payroll.
  6. You can edit the Note by click Edit under the Note column where you initially added the note for the first time.

How Managers Can View Payroll Notes

  1. Go to the Pay tab and scroll down to Payroll Runs.
  2. Click the Payroll Run you added the note to, then the internal Payments tab.
  3. Find the note next to the employee who is was added for.

How Team Members Can View Payroll Notes

Note: Team members will only be able to see Payroll Notes if Show this in [employees name]'s pay statement was toggled on by the manager who added the note during the payroll run.

The Payroll Note will show above the Earnings section of the employee's Pay Statement.

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How to Add Notes to Payroll