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Available in🇮🇳 India
With Payroll, you can make one-time payments to your employees outside the monthly payroll process.

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Use Cases

One-time payments are beneficial when your employee is:
  • Remunerated for an ad hoc project.
  • Receives a performance incentive or other bonuses like a retention/joining bonus.
Watch Out!You must NOT use one-time payments for the following:
  • Not for salary payouts: Do not make salary payouts such as the following using one-time payments:
    • Run payroll for just one employee.
    • Disburse your employee’s last salary.
    • Pay employee’s skipped salary.
    • Clear any outstanding salary arrears.
If any salary component is yet to be paid to your employee, add it to the immediate next payroll cycle.
  • Not for compliance payments: PF, TDS, PT and other compliance components are a part of the payroll process, and you must process them in Run Payroll.
  • Not for paying Advance Salary: The amount paid to employees using one-time payments gets added to their next gross pay and causes double entries and errors.

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Make One-time Payments

To make one-time payments:
  1. Log in to the Payroll Dashboard.
  2. Select the employee from the drop-down menu under Who do you want to make the payment to?
  3. Select Component:
    • Half Yearly Bonus: Prorated Tax deduction
    • Incentive: Instant tax deduction
    • Yearly: Instant tax deduction
one time payment component
Watch Out!
  • Prorated Tax Deduction: Tax is spread across remaining months of the financial year, reducing immediate tax impact on employees.
  • Instant Tax Deduction: Full applicable tax is deducted immediately in the same payment cycle.
  1. Add the amount payable in the Total Amount field.
  • You can view the status of the one-time payment on the queue bar displayed on the screen or in the bottom right under the Queued One-time payments section.
  • To check the history of all one-time payments, click on the Ledger section on the page.
  • The one-time payment will reflect in the upcoming month’s payslip for the employee. Tax is deducted as applicable if you have selected to deduct tax in the future payroll.