Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited
Available for the following Payroll plans: Standard, Premium, Core Payroll, Unlimited+Payroll

Opening balances allows you to transfer your employee entitlement information, from your previous payroll platform over to EH Payroll classic. Thereby creating a seamless transfer of your employee entitlement data when migrating over to our payroll platform.

The Opening Balances feature allows to import in bulk your employee's opening balances and export this information if needed as well. You can also use this feature to configure your organisations initial financial year to suit your business needs.

Getting started

The below premise will walk you through how to add your organisation's initial financial year.

Add initial financial year

Click the Business Settings menu.
Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
Click the Opening Balances button.
Select the Initial Financial Year from the Financial Year drop-down box.
Click the Save button.

Maintain

The below will walk you through how to import and export your organisation's opening balances.

Export opening balances

Click the Business Settings menu.
Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
Click the Opening Balances button.
Click the Export button.
Choose from the following data type customisations:
- Template with employee data.
- Template with employee data (Including terminated employees).
- Empty template.
Select from the following file formats:
- XLSX.
- CSV.
Click the Download button.

Import opening balances

Click the Business Settings menu.
Click the Payroll Settings submenu.
Click the Opening Balances button.
Click the Import button.
Click the Select File button.
Click the Confirm Upload button.

Helpful Hint

After the importing process finishes, a summary appears on your screen outlining what data successfully uploaded and what errors occurred.

Watch the training video

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Payroll platform opening balances: Employee earnings This feature allows you to select an employee file and enter their existing Year to Date (YTD earning amounts.