Payroll Items
The building blocks of pay. Every earning, relief and deduction is a payroll item: name, type, application mode (fixed amount or percentage), amount, taxable flag, status — and, for remitted items, the institution it is paid to.
Where: Payroll → Payroll Items
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Item name / description | How it appears on payslips and reports |
| Pay item type | What it is (allowance, deduction, pension tiers, loans…) — drives where it lands in the computation |
| Application mode | Fixed amount or percentage (of basic) |
| Amount | The default; per-employee overrides happen at assignment |
| Taxable | Whether it enters taxable income |
| Institutional item + institution | For remittances (pensions, unions, loans) — enables per-institution schedules and email dispatch from the pay run |
Definitions (Pay Item Definitions) let one item carry coded variants (e.g. loan products) with their own labels and amounts.
System-managed items (e.g. Tier 2 pension) are created automatically and shouldn't be repurposed.