Recording Manual Payments in Switzerland
This section provides an overview of recording manual payments and provides examples of how to use the manual payment functionality with the Swiss delivered rules.
When entering manual payments for Swiss payees, it is recommended that all calculations be mutually calculated outside the system and then entered. The following areas need to be considered when entering manual payments:
Selecting Period (Calendar) Paid and Payment Date on the Period Calendar tab of the Manual Payments page.
The selection of the period paid and the payment date need to be considered carefully. When selecting the period paid, it is recommended that you select the previous finalized calendar or the current open calendar. The selection of the payment date directly affects how elements are accumulated. For example, if you have an accumulator that accrues based on period end date, the payment date may not update the accumulator balances at the right time.
Selecting processing controls on the Manual Payments page.
The Period Begin Date and Period End Date should default after selecting the Period (Calendar) Paid. It is recommended that these dates not be changes as the delivered Swiss rules have been designed to calculate using whole periods, and may not automatically segment if a partial period is entered.
The run type defaults from the Period (Calendar) Paid and it is recommended that the defaults be used. To ensure that the payee's manual payment is processed by the system, the Allow Duplicates check box must be selected on the run type; otherwise, the payee may not be processed again if the system detects that they have already been processed in the period.
Stop Regular Resolution enables you to stop the resolution of all elements on the process list except that elements entered into the manual payment. If you decide to allow regular resolution, an analysis would need to be performed to understand the impact on your supporting elements.
If using the Limited Element Set, you need to ensure that all elements calculate independently of pre- or post-processing formulas, as these do not resolve during off-cycle processing.
Note: Manual payments are used to record monetary values only, absence accumulators will not be updated using this method.