Prepare a pay run

Go to Money Out, then choose Payroll. The overview shows a Status card, your Year-to-date totals, a History of the year's runs, and your Employees.

Start the month's run

1. Choose the prepare button, top right. It names the next tax month, for example Prepare Month 1 Payroll.
2. Kontala creates a draft run with a payslip for every active employee and opens it for review.

Pay runs go strictly in order: you can prepare Month 2 only after Month 1 is completed, and there is only ever one draft at a time. If a draft already exists, the button reads Continue Month 1 Payroll instead, and the run carries a Draft badge in History.

The payment date is set automatically to the last day of the tax month (the 5th) and is shown on the run.

Review the payslips

The draft lists each employee with their Total Pay, Tax, Employee NI, Net Pay, and Employer NI, plus totals for the run.

• Choose View to read a payslip in full - see Payslips.
• Choose Edit Payslip to change this month's figures - see Complete or edit a pay run.

Pay carries forward from each employee's previous payslip, or from their profile on their first run.

Refresh or delete a draft

• Refresh pay run rebuilds the draft's payslips: profile settings are pulled in again and pay carries forward afresh. It discards any manual edits made to this draft's payslips, and Kontala asks you to confirm first.
• Delete Payroll removes the draft run and its payslips. This cannot be undone.

When the figures look right, complete the run with Run & Report - see Complete or edit a pay run.