Changing Component Pay Packet Priority

Instances where employees have multiple direct credits, along with additional deductions (i.e social club or union fees) which all have the same version number, a priority can be set to ensure that all other deductions are paid prior to the direct credits, or for some deductions to take priority over others in case there is not enough earnings in a pay packet to cover all of the deductions.

In the example below, the employee has two direct credits, along with deductions (which has not been taken). As the employee requested to split the pay between two bank accounts, one of the direct credits have been setup as deduction component.

As seen in the above pay packet, the Direct Credit deduction has been made first in priority, which resulted in reduced deduction amount in "NZEI > $1419.19" from $500 down to $146.67.

To setup the priority for the deduction component so that "NZEI > $1419.19" is deducted prior to Direct Credit deduction component, follow the steps below.

Select the employee from the Employee tab > Pay components setup screen. Right-click on the component which needs to be prioritised, then click 'Properties'. In the pop up screen, enter the integer from 1 to 100 in the 'Priority'. Deductions will be taken in order of lowest priority (i.e 0 will be deducted prior to 1).

Please note that some components have a fixed higher priority which cannot be modified by following the above screen, as it has been set up accordance to the legislation. (e.g. Child Support)

Once complete, the pay packet will be updated to deduct NZEI > 1419.19 component prior to the Direct Credit component.