Payrollbuilder
Payroll Configuration
How do I define what payroll pays and deducts — and test the formulas before they run?
A payroll schema is the rulebook for a group of employees: its income items, deduction items, and withholdings, each fixed or formula-based. A built-in calculator tests the schema against sample values before it ever touches a live run.
The definition, and what it is evaluated against
Payroll Configuration
Formula items with a test calculator
Income and deduction amounts can be formulas, evaluated against sample values in the configuration screen before saving.
Categorized income and deduction items
Items are maintained by category, keeping schemas readable as they grow.
Pay calendars, exempt and non-exempt
Payroll schedules are generated per staff class, with a preview before the calendar is saved.
Pay grades on positions
Grade structures are maintained against positions, aligning pay configuration with the org model.
Payslip template selection
The schema names the report template payslips are generated from after approval.
Ledger mapping, preview only
Items map to general-ledger accounts to build a preview for Finance — no automatic posting is claimed.
Evaluated against Payroll records
How it works
Schemas are built in tabs that mirror how payroll people think: general information, income items, withholdings, and the ledger-account mapping. Items are organized by category and can carry formulas; the calculator tab evaluates the schema against test inputs so a formula error is caught at configuration time, not on payday.
Around the schema sit the structures a run needs: pay grades maintained per position, and pay calendars generated separately for exempt and non-exempt staff so period boundaries are records rather than conventions. The schema also names the payslip report template used when a period is approved — payslip layout is a designed template, not a hard-coded form.
Each schema maps its items to general-ledger accounts, which is what allows a run to produce a ledger preview for Finance. The preview is exactly that: continON does not post payroll to the ledger automatically, and the accounting decision stays with the accounting team.
What this touches
- Tax brackets & withholding
The tax tables the schema’s calculation applies are maintained separately. - Payroll runs
Runs generate calculated lines from the schema and calendar. - Employment & contracts
Wage rates on employment assignments feed the calculation. - Report Designer
Payslip templates are designed as reports. - Finance & accounting
The ledger-account mapping targets the shared chart of accounts.
See payroll configuration running in continON.
A guided walkthrough on a sanitized demo tenant — this capability inside its module, on the shared platform.