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Indigo Payroll & Leave

All the Payroll & Leave articles in one place

All About Indigo's HomepageNavigating Indigo | Main screen, menus, and modules explained
Indigo's Modules and their SubsectionsAn overview of the various features within Indigo
Payslip - OverviewPayslip Explanation
Setting Up Payroll

Configuring Indigo's Payroll process

Print sorting options for your payslipsYou can sort the order at which your payslips will be printed.
Inserting pay variable into your payrollsLearn how to use the pay variable insert pop-up for calculating pay items, overtime, and basic hours in your payrolls.
Hide basic hours details from employees' payslipsLearn how to remove the details of basic hours from being shown on employees' payslips
How to set up a director's fee pay itemYou can tag a pay item for director's fees in Indigo, which will include all emoluments with the pay item in FSS forms.
How Pro-Rata Statutory Government Bonus is CalculatedAn information process of how bonus is being paid for irregular hours and how to troubleshoot messages from the system
Set up Restricted DaysSet Leave Restricted Days for multiple Departments, Cost Centres or Occupations in one take, to prevent ⛔ leave requests in 'hot' periods 🔥
Set up New Leave TypesLearn how to set up Leave Types and how they interact 🤝 with other elements in Indigo.
Set up New Leave Entitlement ProfilesConfigure & Aggregate Leave & Holidays into Assignable Profiles
Set up a Pay Item Taxation ProfileLearn about this support file which links tax rates to your pay items
Set up New Fringe Benefit CategoriesCreate Fringe Benefit Categories
Set up New Pay ItemsAllocate/Deduct Payments to an Employee's Gross Pay
Set up New Pay Item GroupsGroup Pay Items together to Configure Fringe Benefits
Set up New Pay Item AnalysisGroup a Number of Pay Items Together for Reporting Purposes
Set up New Social Security CategoriesDeduct Appropriate Social Security Contributions from Relevant Payrolls
Set up New Statutory BonusesCreate Statutory Bonuses Prescribed by the State
Set up Reallocation profilesReallocation profiles allow you to split employee costs between cost centres, either by percentage or by a set value.
Set up New Tax ProfilesSet Tax Components that Affect how Taxes are Deducted from Taxable Income
Share Option SchemeTaxation on the Share Option Fringe Benefit Scheme
Payroll FAQ

FAQ specifically about Indigo Payroll

How do I Delete a Calculation for a Single Employee?Delete an Employee's Calculation
How do I Enter an Adjustment to be Included in an Employee's Calculation, AFTER I Finalised Calculation?Adjust / Modify an Employee's Calculation after Finalisation / Calculation
How do I Change the Number of Social Security Contributions of one Employee for a Particular Calculation?Modify / Change Number of SSC Contributions of an Employee
How to Reverse a Leave Pay-offReversing a leave pay-off generated by global or individual pay-off utility
How to pay using Direct CreditsPaying an employee via the Direct Credits feature
Creating a Direct Credit test fileHow to create a direct credit test file for your bank
Bulk Import of Overtime EntriesImporting your overtime entries using Excel for a particular Payroll
Delete an FS5 for a Specific MonthDelete an FS5 to Generate it again correctly
What is the difference between Date From/To and Post From/To when creating a Payroll?Why should Date From and Date To be Consecutive in a Payroll?
How can I pay an employee twice a year, instead of monthly?Pay Employees at Larger Intervals
How can I see if a Pay Item in a calculation is recurring or has been manually inputted?View the Source of a Pay Item
How do I Refresh an Employee's Calculation?Refresh an Employee's Calculation
How does the system calculate the hours of a new / terminated employee?Calculating Pay on Employment and Termination
I've completed a payroll but I forgot to save the employee payslips. How can I get them without unfinalising and recalculating?Accessing a Completed Payroll's Payslips
I Updated the Employee's Basic Pay AFTER Calculation, how do I Refresh his Calculations?Refresh an Employee's Calculation after Calculating and Updating the Basic Pay
I cannot finalise a payroll because there are terminated employees on the roll. How do I fix this?The system will prevent you from finalising a payroll with terminated employees with pending pay items on the roll
Leave FAQ

FAQ about Indigo Leave only

Update your Calendar with Approved LeaveGenerate ICS File to Update your Calendar
Bulk Import of Leave RecordsBulk Import Leave Entries using Excel
How can I check the used and remaining leave balance of an employee?Leave Balance Reporting
How can I Remove Pro-Rata Leave Pay-Off Calculation for a Leave type?Remove Pro-Rata Leave Pay-Off Calculation for a Leave Type
How can I Update Leave Taken by an Employee?Update an Employee's Leave
How do I pay off a select number of leave hours for an employee?Learn how to pay off all or a select number of leave hours to an individual employee before calculating and finalising your payroll.
How do I print payslips with details of overtime ungrouped?
How do I submit leave taken to all employees at once?Using the Global Leave Update Utility
How does Night Shift Leave work?Leave Calculation for Abnormal Hours Spanning over Multiple Days
Searching for Leave and Out of Office RecordsSearch for Leave records and Sick Leave using various criteria in Out of Office widget.
Staff Reporting to me Leave Balances WidgetLook 👀 for the remaining leave balances for the staff reporting to you on the Employee Portal.
What happens if an employee applies for leave and it's not approved in time for the payroll?Late Leave Approvals
Why can't a user Apply for Half an Hour of Leave?Applying for Half-Hour Leave
Why is Leave Type not showing when applying for Leave from the Employee Portal?Including Leave Type in the Leave Entitlement Profile