The payroll run lifecycle, explained
Run → Review → Approve & lock → Disbursement → Remittances → Rollover. The same flow every month.
Every month follows the same controlled path. You **Run payroll** to compute everyone's pay, **review** the draft (payslips, variance, reconciliation), then **Approve & lock** — which finalises the figures and locks the period.
From the approved run you **Create payment batch** (to pay people) and **Generate remittances** (to track PAYE, pension and NHF owed). At month-end you run **Periods & rollover** to close the period and open the next.
Nothing is paid or remitted until the run is approved, and once a period is locked its figures are immutable — re-opening it is a rare, audited action.
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