How do I correct a Positive Values error when exporting a SIF file?

To complete the payroll process and pay employee salaries for a payroll cycle through WPS, you must upload payroll data of the employees included in the pay run as a Salary Information File (SIF) file, which contains the data in the required format.

Yomly Payroll enables you to export pay runs as SIF files.

If you try to export a pay run that has invalid or missing employee details or pay information as a SIF file, then before completing the export, the built-in data validation process displays the summary of errors. See the following example:

If the summary of errors indicates errors in the Positive Values column (as illustrated in this example) for any employee, it means that the sum total of the employee's variable pay amounts is a negative value.

Although the total pay calculated for the employee might be correct, SIF files do not permit negative totals for any pay type. You would therefore need to correct these errors before completing the SIF export.

To correct Positive Values errors in SIF exports, do the following:

1. In the Export pay run dialogue, click Cancel.

2. Reopen the pay run.

   Depending on whether a pipeline is configured for the payroll group associated with the pay run, you can do this in one of the following ways:

   • If no pipeline is configured, in the upper-right corner of the pay run, click Reopen pay run and in the confirmation message, click Yes.

     See the following example:

     

   • If a pipeline is configured, in the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the pay run, select the appropriate option, if available.

     See the following example:

     

3. Go to the payroll profile of the employee for whom the Positive Values error was displayed. To do this, find the employee in the pay run, and in the Action column, click View.

   

   The employee's payroll profile is displayed.

   

4. In the payroll profile, go to the Variable tab.

5. Find the pay category causing the issue and in the Action column, click the (Convert) icon.

   

6. In the confirmation message, click Yes.

   

   The pay component is converted from variable to fixed.

   

7. Complete the pay run and try exporting it again.

   For the detailed procedure to perform these actions, see the following articles:

   • Completing pay runs

   • Exporting bank files from pay runs