Analysis types help you analyse your payroll in more detail. For example, you can use them to monitor your employer costs by department or cost centre.
There are 3 transaction analysis types created for you by default; Department, Cost Centre, and Project. These are for use in Sage Accounting and Sage Payroll.
You can then assign analysis types to your employees and run reports on them.
NOTE: If you also use Sage Accounting, there are 3 group analysis types; Customer, Supplier, and Product. These are for use in Sage Accounting only.
To view your analysis types, select Settings, then within the Personalisation section select Analysis Types:
By default, each analysis type is disabled.
You can edit an analysis type to enable it, change the name, where it will be available, and add or change the categories.
For the analysis type you want to change, select Edit. To save your changes, select Save changes.
NOTE: You cannot delete a category once you've used the analysis type in a pay run. If you no longer want to use a category, you need to clear the Active checkbox.
You can assign an analysis type to an employee individually in their record, or to multiple employees as a bulk action. You can also change your employees' analysis type categories when you process a pay run.
To assign an analysis type to an employee record
From the Employees tab, select Bulk Actions.
Select the checkbox for each employee you require, then Assign analysis types.
Select each analysis type and category you want to assign, then Save, and OK.
You can filter your employee list to only show employees who have a particular analysis type assigned to them.
You can also customise your columns in the employee list to show, hide, or reorder the analysis types.
There are 2 reports you can run for analysis types, Employee Net Pay and Employer Costs.