Payroll
Approve & lock
Finalising a payroll run; locks the period and makes the figures immutable.
Approving a payroll run finalises it and locks the pay period. Locked figures can't be changed, and disbursement and statutory remittances only happen after approval. Re-opening a locked period is a rare, audited exception.
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Help & how-to
See it in practice
The payroll run lifecycle, explained
Run, review, approve and lock, pay, remit, then roll over. The same flow every month.
Read the variance report
Compare this run to last period and catch a silently-wrong payroll before you approve.
Set up salary structures & pay elements
Define what people earn once, assign it in bulk, and override per employee where needed.
See it applied to real payroll
Vintage People applies these statutory rules on every run, with a full audit trail.