Mass accumulator payout

Tip: This feature is available with Powerpay Plus.

Use the Mass Accumulator Payout page.Closed From the Payroll menu, select Mass Edit Tools > Mass Accumulator Payout. to pay out vacation and/or additional accumulator amounts for multiple employees, or to remove mass accumulator payouts for multiple employees, eliminating the need to do them individually. Accumulator payouts can be made on either Regular or Second Payments.

At the end of this process, you can review the proposed changes, modify individual employees and exclude individual employees from being included. You can also save payout details in a reusable template.

This feature is available for payrolls with:

  • a least one accumulator plan setup, and/or
  • a Vacation Accumulator option (VA_ACCR_PAY). Vacation Accumulator functionality is required for both accruing vacation entitlement for employees and for paying out hours/earnings, and/or
  • an Additional Accumulator option (WA_PREV_VAC or WA_ACCR_PAY). Additional Accumulator functionality is required for paying out vacation from a previous year or for both accruing additional entitlement for employees and for paying out hours/earnings.

Tasks

Results

When you complete a mass accumulator payout, Powerpay pays out vacation and/or additional accumulator amounts for the selected employees.

Field Information

Select the pay types to include. All Employees is selected by default. All hourly employee pay types and all salary employee pay types (that do not include paying out both Vacation and Additional Accumulator together) display. Select or clear the options as applicable. At least one checkbox must be selected.

Select the Positions to include to narrow the selection of employees to update by. When a specific Position option is selected, all ID fields associated with the position display in the ‘Filter Criteria’ section as read-only. Only the ID fields not associated with the position remain editable.

The Position filter is available when the Compensation feature is enabled and set up for the payroll.

Select the distributions to include. Only the distributions set up for your payroll display. Only employees with the distributions are included.

Select the province of employment for the employees to update. Only employees in the selected province are included.

This section appears after you click Preview. The Employee List displays all of the employees in the open pay period that meet the filter criteria. Clear the check box next to the name of any employees you do not want to include in the update. Change the values in editable fields for individual employees, if required.

Values entered on the employee timesheet (regular and/or second payment) display highlighted. Changes can be made to these selections prior to applying changes.