{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/run-pay-event/","title":"Run a pay event","description":"Run payroll in Exacc: create a pay event for a pay cycle, check each employee's pay, approve it, pay by ABA file, send payslips and lodge STP.","category":"Payroll","summary":"Open **Payroll › + New Pay Event**, choose the **Group**, **Period** and **Payment Date** and click **Create Pay Event**. Check each employee, fix any **Warnings**, click **Approve and Pay**, then download the **ABA file**, **Send Payslips** and lodge **Single Touch Payroll (STP)**.","lastVerified":"2026-10-09","apps":["app"],"processIds":["new_pay_event","manage_payroll"],"start":{"label":"Start a pay event","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/payroll/new-pay-event"},"menuPath":["Payroll","+ New Pay Event"],"before":["Employees with employment records, tax details, super and bank accounts (see **Add an employee**).","Approved timesheets, for employees paid from timesheets."],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Create the pay event","body":["Open **Payroll › + New Pay Event**. Choose the **Group** (a pay cycle, or All) and **Period**, and check the **Payment Date**, **Start Date** and **End Date**. Click **Create Pay Event**.","Exacc adds every active employee in the group, takes hours from timesheets for employees paid that way, and works out tax, super and leave."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/payroll/new-pay-event","image":"https://exacc.au/help/run-pay-event/step-1.png"},{"step":2,"title":"Check the draft","body":["**Payroll Event Summary - Draft** shows a **Trial Balance** and the **Details** per employee. Click an employee to see **Gross Payments**, **Super and Accruals**, **Taxes and Deductions** and **Other Items**; **+ Add** adds an item, **Recalculate** redoes tax and super, **Payslip** previews it.","**See Warnings** lists problems: errors must be fixed before approval. **Add Employee**, **Change Dates**, **Timesheet** and a **Note for all Payslips** are there too."]},{"step":3,"title":"Approve","body":["Click **Approve and Pay**. It is approved straight away if there are no errors; the pay event then shows in your accounts."]},{"step":4,"title":"Pay, send payslips, lodge STP","body":["On **Payroll Event Summary - Finalised**: **Payment + ABA** › **ABA file** downloads the bank file to pay everyone. **Send Payslips** emails each employee their payslip PDF. **Single Touch Payroll (STP)** lodges the pay event with the ATO (see **Lodge STP**). **PayDay Super** pays their super for this pay event."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"Changing or deleting a pay event","body":["**Reopen Pay Event** takes it back to a draft so you can change it; approve and lodge STP again afterwards. **Delete** is only possible before STP is lodged. **Change Dates** does not recalculate: if you move the pay date into another financial year, recalculate each employee."]},{"heading":"Locked periods","body":["A pay event dated on or before the Accounts Lock cannot be created, approved, reopened or deleted."]}],"related":["https://exacc.au/help/lodge-stp/","https://exacc.au/help/pay-super/","https://exacc.au/help/add-employee/","https://exacc.au/help/payroll-setup/"],"linkNote":"Links containing {dbId} open that screen in the business file whose id is dbId. A person can also open this help page with ?db=<dbId> to get the same links as buttons."}