Payroll: How to approve payroll

Ensuring accurate payroll is important for your employees and your business.

In Remote, employer users (company owners, admins, and people managers with the right permissions) can see a list of upcoming payroll runs for their company entities. 

Certain items that affect payroll such as time off, incentives, and expense requests need to be approved or declined for the correct calculations to be processed.

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How To Approve Payroll

1. Remote will calculate your initial payroll numbers after the agreed cutoff date. 

2. You will receive a notification in your dashboard and an email for each payroll, allowing you to review and approve them by your selected approval date. 

3. Log into Remote and navigate to the Payroll page. 
   

4. Click on Approve to go to the next page.
   You will see the Approve or  Request changes buttons. Here, you will be able to see an estimation of the costs, including salaries, benefits, incentives, expenses, and other pay elements - available as a summary, and on a per-employee basis.
   If you’re satisfied, you can click the blue Approve button at the top right. Remote will then generate your final payroll numbers and upload your payroll package with relevant payslips, documents, and payment bank files.
   
   

5. Before the cutoff date, you can still make changes to expenses and time off requests, and add any incentive, starter, leaver, or job changes.

   If you clickRequest changes, a chat window will pop up where you can type in request details. Our team will work on the changes. 

   
   
   • The payroll cutoff date is based on the payroll calendar that was agreed upon during the Global Payroll implementation. The payroll cutoff is the deadline by which Remote must receive notifications about changes to be reflected in an employee's salary for that month. This relates to onboarding new hires, paying out incentives approved expenses, and overtime compensation.
   • The payday date is when your employees will be paid.
6. See also: 
   Approving/Declining time off requests,  How do I review employees' expenses?, How do I pay an incentive to an employee?
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