My employee settled the outstanding balance on a Garnishee item outside of payroll. How do I indicate this on SimplePay so that I can remove the Garnishee item?

The steps below can be followed to record a garnishee payment that happened outside of payroll and get a zero balance on the Garnishee item so that it can be removed from the payslip.

1. Go to Employees > Select the employee > Garnishee (under Payslip Inputs).
2. Enter a negative value in the Increase balance field to reduce the balance. For example, if there was R500 left on the Garnishee and the employee paid it in cash, you would enter -500 in the Increase balance field. This tells the system that the Garnishee balance is now zero, and that no further Garnishee Deduction should be made on the payslip.
3. Click Save.
4. Finalise the payslip. You can now remove the Garnishee item from the next regular payslip, by going to Regular Inputs.

Please note: You are indicating to the system that this payment happened outside of payroll; as a result, it will not be reflected in SimplePay’s Accounting Info (report) as it has no impact on Nett Pay. Therefore, even if you have set up accounting integration with Xero or QuickBooks Online, you would need to manually account for the payment in your accounting system.