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A payroll journal records a month's salaries, taxes and pension in your books. Create it from your employees, check it, and post it.

Create a payroll journal

  1. Go to Payroll → Employees, tick the employees you're paying, and click Run payroll. Or go to Payroll → Payroll Journals and click Create Payroll Journals → Create manually.

  2. Under Payroll details, enter a Title, e.g. October 2026 Payroll.

  3. Set the Date to a day in the month you're paying for, not today. For example, on 9 November pick a date in October when paying October salaries.

  4. Check each employee's line: Basic, Housing, Transport, Other benefits, PAYE, Employee pension, Employer pension, Housing fund, Employee compensation and Net pay.

  5. Review the totals: Gross pay, Net pay and Total employer cost.

  6. Check the Accounts & classification. Tyms fills in the payroll expense and payable accounts for you.

  7. Click Save. The journal is saved as a Draft.

    Create payroll journal

Post it to your books

Open the payroll journal and click Actions → Post payroll, then confirm. This records the payroll in your books: salaries, PAYE and pension become amounts you owe.

You can move a posted payroll back to a draft if nobody has been paid yet. This undoes the amounts recorded.

Payroll journal

The payroll journals list

Payroll → Payroll Journals shows each run's Date, Status, Gross Payment, PAYE, Pension, Net Payment and Balance (what's still to be paid).

Payroll journals

Next step

Pay the salaries. See Pay salaries with Tyms Pay.

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