Setting up payroll
Learn how to easily manage employee salaries with Wafeq Payroll.
How does Payroll work in Wafeq?
The Payroll feature allows you to:
- List all your employees and their salaries.
- Create payslips and send them to your employees.
- Break down the types of payroll expenses (e.g. Housing, Basic Salary, Transporation, GOSI, etc.)
- Reimburse employee expense claims during the payroll cycle.
Step-by-step instructions
Set up payroll
- Go to Payrollin the lef-side menu
- On the Payroll sheet, list your employees, their pay items (e.g. Basic Salary, Housing) and the amounts of each pay item.
- In the Include in pay run, chooseYes
Payroll is now ready and will serve to generate payslips for each payroll period.

Run payroll
Whenever you'd like to run payroll:
- Go to Payrollin the lef-side menu.
- Make sure Include in pay runis set toYesfor employees you'd like to include in this pay run.
- Click Create pay run.
- Draft payslips will be created for each employee.
- Set the Period startdate, which is the date you'd like the salaries to be expenses.
- Change the status to POSTEDtoo book the salaries as expenses. Once you do that, your Profit & Loss statement will be updated.
Pay payroll
When you pay your employees:
- Go to the Pay runsin the lef-side menu.
- For each payslip, click the +button under thePaymentscolumn.
- Record a payment
Send payslips
To send payslips to your employees:
- Make sure each employee has an email address by going to the Employeespage on the left-side menu.
- Go to the Pay runspage on the left-side menu
- Check the boxes next to each payslip you'd like to send
- Click Send payslipsin the top right corner
- You will get a preview of the payslips to be sent
- Click Sendto send the payslips.
Draft payslips
You cannot send payslips in DRAFT status. You can only send payslips that are in status POSTED or PAID.


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