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Advance pay periods for holidays

We close down for 2 weeks during summer and Christmas and with the old Iris I could run the payroll and then advance it by a further 2 weeks, in effect paying 3 weeks wages in one pay run. This option is not available in Staffology and I now have to run 3 separate payrolls on the same day to create one pay run. This is a major oversight.

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    • Molly Davies
      Nov 4, 2025

      Somewhat painful when we discovered we can't do this. Not only for the Christmas shutdown period, but also whenever an employee takes 1 week plus off we gave them holiday pay in advance, and now we have to fiddle since changing from Earnie where it was not an issue.

    • Andy Hoose
      Oct 24, 2025

      We only learnt of this issue in our first training session yesterday - every payroll system we have used in the past could deal with advanced pay for holiday, so this is very poor. We need this is place for the Christmas 2 week shutdown. I have questioned whether we can run the first two weeks payroll (wk37/38) by selecting 'exclude all employees' giving zero pay & then processing 3 weeks pay in the week 39

    • Kath
      Jul 28, 2025

      Hopefully, this can happen before Christmas shut downs, as this feature seems to keep being moved back, and it is a major problem at holiday periods running multiple payrolls


    • Peter Hill
      Jul 25, 2025

      it needs to be ready for the Christmas pay run

      This is a major failing

    • Jennie Cook
      Jul 25, 2025

      Great news. I hope it's ready for the Christmas holiday pay run.

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      Izzy Hayhurst
      Jul 25, 2025

      The timeline for this feature has shifted, and it’s now scheduled for Q3 (November–January 2026)

    • Peter Hill
      Jul 16, 2025

      Don't forget you will also be paying IRIS for 2 extra weeks payslips


    • lou
      Dec 16, 2024

      I have the exact same issue, we close for 2 weeks for christmas this year, and need to process 3 weeks pay for everyone, i now have to calculate pay 3 x seperate times, the advance tax codes are a much needed addition asap please


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      Izzy Hayhurst
      Sep 24, 2024

      Hey - Great news! We have started the work on this feature and hope to have it delivered at the end of Q3 January 2025.

    • Pete Reddick
      Aug 2, 2024

      I totally agree with this statement, it costs more money in employer’s contributions.

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    Allow multiple Tax/NI Calculations over one pay period.

    When processing first pay run with hours owed from previous pay run, allow the tax and NI calculations to be worked out over two pay periods, taking into account the employees start date. Currently, this is not an option on Staffology and results ...
    Guest over 1 year ago in Payrun 0 Planned
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    advancing tax for holiday pay

    I would like to see the Advance tax option, for holiday pay, as previously used/featured with iris paymaster When our employees go on holiday/take time off, they ask for advancement of holiday pay as one lump sum, which we have always facilitated,...
    lou over 1 year ago in Payrun 0 Planned
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    paying two weeks wages together

    paying two weeks wages together for holiday periods
    Guest 12 months ago in MIscellaneous 0 Planned
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    Moving tax week on for Holiday Pay

    We need to be able to move tax week on for employees being paid holiday pay in advance as we can do on Earnie
    Guest 10 months ago in Payrun 0 Planned
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    Advance tax weeks or put an employee on hold

    On paye-master you were able to pay an employee their basic pay, holiday pay and advance tax weeks for the weeks they are off and then on the next pay run they would show as being on holiday and excluded from the pay run. It would also be useful i...
    Steph Donnell 7 months ago in Payrun 0 Planned