You may need to make changes to completed pay runs covering more than one pay period.

For example, you may have forgotten to pay a commission in one month. You also may need to record an absence in another month for the same employee.

This article explains how to make these corrections and the impact on your future pay runs.

 NOTE: You may have missed a new employee from the pay run. Read our article Add an employee to a completed pay run. 

The process to correct each completed pay run is the same.

See the steps you need to take to correct completed pay runs. Read the article Correct a completed pay run.

Impact on your next pay run

When you correct more than one pay runs, the impact on your next pay run is:

• The P32 report for the next pay period includes the total correction amount. Read the article The P32 Employer Payment Record

You may make multiple corrections. Your choices depend on what has happened to each pay run in Sage Payroll and what has happened in reality.

You can choose whether you want to show the difference in net pay in the next pay run:

• Do you want to pay the difference next pay run? Choose Show difference in the next pay run. A correction line for the total of the changes will appear in the next active pay run
• Do you want to pay the difference now? Choose Do not show difference in the next pay run. No correction line will appear in the next active pay run

• Correct a completed pay run
• Remove unwanted corrections