Check your small employers' relief status

Before you process SPP, you should check if you're a normal or small employer, and if applicable, set up your software so that it automatically calculates the small employers' relief for you.

Calculate the amount of SPP due

For ordinary paternity pay, to calculate what your employee is due to receive each pay period, you can use the calculator available at www.gov.uk/maternity-paternity-calculator

For additional paternity pay, to help you manually calculate what the employee is due to receive, use the information available from www.gov.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-manually-calculate-your-employees-payments

Prepare an employee record for manual SPP

1. Double-click the relevant employee, then click the Absence tab.
2. Click S.P.P, then select the Manual Statutory Paternity Pay calculations check box.
3. To enter the employee's partner's details, click Yes.
4. Enter the required details, then click OK.
5. Click OK, then click Save.
6. Click Close.

Process manual SPP

1. Select the required employee, then click Payroll.
2. Click Enter Payments, then click the Summary tab.
3. For Statutory Paternity Pay, under Current, click the finder button.
4. Select SPP, then click OK.
5. In the Ordinary SPP box or the Additional SPP box as required, enter the value of SPP you want to pay your employee.
6. Click OK.