Payroll seeding determines which payroll number will be assigned to a new employee/new appointment, with that payroll name allocated.
You may wish to change the payroll seeding number if this is overlapping existing payroll numbers or if you no longer wish for the system to assign payroll numbers automatically.
To change the payroll seed for a payroll, follow the steps below.
Under Employees, click Lookups.
Click Pay, then click Payrolls.
Open the relevant payroll record.
Change Number seeding to the required value, then click Save.
📌 Note: To permanently prevent the system from assigning a payroll number for this payroll, set this value to 0.
This will allow you to manually enter a payroll number when you create a new appointment record.
If the payroll seed number is set to 0, but a payroll is still generating a payroll number automatically, then it could be that the Default Number Seed in the Administrator Tool has been set. To check this, follow the steps below.
In the Admin Tool, click Configuration Options.
Double click HR.
Review the Default Payroll Seed value, and adjust if required.
Click OK.