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Pay Period Schedules

Pay period schedules define how pay periods are automatically created. Set up a schedule once, and Plantrunner generates new pay periods on the configured cadence.

Creating a schedule​

  1. Navigate to Company Settings
  2. Select the Payroll tab
  3. Configure:
    • Period type -- Weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly
    • Start date -- When the first period begins
    • Auto-close after days -- Days after period end to auto-close (optional)
  4. Save your settings

When you save, initial pay periods are generated from the start date up to today.

Period types​

Weekly​

A new 7-day period starts every week on the configured day.

Bi-weekly​

A new 14-day period starts every other week on the configured day.

Semi-monthly​

Two periods per month:

  • 1st through 15th
  • 16th through end of month

Monthly​

One period per calendar month, from the 1st through the last day.

Schedule status​

A schedule can be active or retired. Only active schedules generate new pay periods automatically. You can retire a schedule and create a new one if your payroll cadence changes.

Modifying a schedule​

Changing a schedule affects only future pay periods. Existing pay periods are not retroactively modified.

warning

Changing a pay period schedule does not retroactively update existing periods. Only future auto-generated periods will use the new settings.