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When paying employees early, you should report the payment to HMRC with the normal pay date reported on the FPS.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are paying weekly pays that for example are due to be paid on Friday 27th December but you want to pay it on Friday 20th, you should report it as paid on the 27th to HMRC.I<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f you are paying monthly pays that for example are due to be paid on Friday 3rd Jan but you want to pay it on Tuesday 31st December, you should report it as paid on the 3rd to HMRC.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You need to ensure that the date paid of each pay run is their normal pay date on the FPS due to universal credits.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paying-a-bonus-to-multiple-employees\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paying a bonus to multiple employees<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2e4d359643c3c233bc71b2c66ef2cd73\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To pay your employees a bonus in bulk you would need to create a pay category called \u201cbonus\u201d. This article will help you to do this: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.yourpayroll.com.au\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/5015209192335-Pay-Categories-Creating-Managing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;Pay Categories &#8211; Creating &amp; Managing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to upload bonus payments in bulk via a pay run import, you will need to follow these steps:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create a pay run and pay the first employee a bonus.&nbsp;In the pay run actions menu you should &#8220;export pay run&#8221; in the drop down.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open the spreadsheet and identify the employee with the bonus, this will then let you see the pay category ID you need to use. You should then copy the bonus Pay Category ID and paste it into that column for anyone you want to pay the bonus to.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should then fill in the units and the rates including:<br><strong>EmployeeName,<br>EmployeeId,<br>LocationId,<br>PayCategoryId,<br>Units,<br>Rate,<br>Notes,<br>ExternalId.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200bIf you then save the spreadsheet you can then import the spreadsheet into the pay run (under &#8216;Pay Run Actions&#8217; -&gt; &#8216;Import Pay Run&#8217;).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will need to make sure you amend the spreadsheet for the employee that was originally paid the bonus or this will end up in the pay run twice. Alternatively you can go into the pay run and delete\/amend the earnings line.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paying-a-bonus-to-an-individual-employee\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paying a bonus to an individual employee<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6247072784181e6732af39e18cf36354\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To pay your employee a bonus you would need to create a pay category called \u201cbonus\u201d. This article will help you to do this: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.yourpayroll.com.au\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/5015209192335-Pay-Categories-Creating-Managing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;Pay Categories &#8211; Creating &amp; Managing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-60eebed1100b6022097eedd724e5bcdb\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you&#8217;ve done this you can then go into the employees details within the pay run. Then go to Actions &gt; Add Earnings Line.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b582ea49240b2b481c34c6051c2cad76\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will produce an extra earnings line. 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