Adding an Employer Manually

Step 2 is to Create or Import your Employer into BrightPay.

To manually create an employer in BrightPay select Add New Employer.

You can manually enter in the name of your employer. This is the name you have registered with Revenue and will appear on the payslips for your employees. Select 'Next'.

A new employer has to be assigned to an organisation. Select the organisation you wish to add your employer to.

If you wish you can mark an employer as available to admin members of the organisation only. This means that only the owner and administrator members of the Organisation will be able to see this employer when they access BrightPay.

Select 'Next'

You’ll be asked how would you like to use BrightPay – three options are available:

1. Start at the beginning of the tax year - select this option if you are running payroll from the start of the tax year

2. Start Partway in the tax year – you should select this option if you are starting payroll partway in the tax year with no previous payroll records in the same tax year

3. Continue Partway in the tax year – you should select this option if you have already have payroll records for the tax year up to this point and wish to continue from where you have left off. Selecting this option will allow you to enter in year-to-date figures for each employee.

Select the option you require and Select 'Next'

Enter in your PAYE reference and your employer address – click 'Next'

Employees can be organised into departments which can be used in payroll processing and analysis. Enter in the names of each department you require in the fields provided. 

Additional departments can be added by selecting add. More departments can be added in the future if required. Click 'Next'

This section allows the user to create settings that will be used as the default when adding a new employee record.

These settings are for the typical pay frequency, pay basis, pay method, annual leave year starts, annual leave calculation method, annual leave entitlement, typical annual leave carry over and typical working days.

Select the settings you require and Select 'Next'

For the Employee Self Service Portal, allow access to all employees is selected by default. This can be unselected if required.
Select the date and time settings you wish employees to access payslips on their Employee Self Service portal.

Select 'Next'

Select Create Employer in order to create the employer.

The employer was successfully created and will now be listed on the employer homescreen. 

You will be prompted then for Step 3 to open your payroll to start processing your first payroll.