Payroll Payments

Closing a Payroll period posts the Payroll expense — but the salaries are not yet paid. A Payroll payment records the actual cash disbursement against a closed period and posts the Accounting entry for it, so your books show both sides: the obligation and the payment.

Where to find it

• Payroll > Payments — the list of all payments, with their period, bank account, amount, and posting state.
• Payroll > Periods > (open a closed period) — the Pay button, the fastest way to record a payment.

Paying a period

1. Open a closed Payroll period and click Pay.
2. In the dialog, choose:

3. The amount is the period's total net pay — it is calculated by the server and cannot be edited.
4. Click Pay. CifraHQ creates the payment and posts the journal entry in one step:

Debit   Wages Payable        (clears the liability from the period close)
Credit  Bank account         (the cash out)

The period's Accounting section now links both Journal Entries — the close entry and the payment entry — and the Periods list shows a checkmark in the Paid column linking to the payment.

Rules

• Only closed periods can be paid, and each period can be paid once.
• A period with a posted payment cannot be reopened. Reverse or delete the payment first.
• Payments are visible and auditable on Payroll > Payments; each payment links its period and journal entry.

Tips

• Pay from the period screen. The Pay button pre-selects the period and computes the amount — there is nothing to type but the bank account and date.
• The décimo posts its own entry. Partida payments are posted from the Décimo screen, not here.

Related: Payroll Periods and Runs · Décimo Tercer Mes · Audit Trail