BrightPay Online Documentation

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2025 BrightPay - System Requirements Bright ID

2025 Budget - Employer Summary 2025 BrightPay - Availability Introduction to BrightPay Starting the New Tax Year

Ordering for the new tax year How do I start processing 2025 payroll?Will my ROS digital certificate import over to 2025 BrightPay?Revenue Payroll Notifications - Transition to the new tax year Why are my employees on Emergency Basis at the start of the 2025 tax year?

Importing from the Previous Tax Year

Importing from BrightPay 2024

Installing BrightPay

Installing the software on to your PC Setting Up BrightPay for Multiple Users Download a Sample Employer File

Moving from Thesaurus Payroll Manager to BrightPay

Importing from Thesaurus Payroll Manager - start of year Importing from Thesaurus Payroll Manager to BrightPay - mid tax year

Moving to BrightPay from another payroll software

Importing from Thesaurus Payroll Manager

Importing - Start of Year Importing - Mid tax Year

Importing from MicroPay Importing from PayBack Payroll Importing from Quantum Payroll Importing from Pay Doc Payroll Importing from XPay Payroll Setting up Employees using the RPN Setting up Employees using CSV File Updating Existing Employee Details from a CSV File Importing Multiple Employers from CSV File

Moving BrightPay to a new PC Bureau Enhancements - Additional Functionality

BrightPay Start Up Window Client Details Importing Multiple Employers from CSV File Bureau Statistics Report Importing Saved Reports from another BrightPay Data File Updating Existing Employee Details from a CSV File

Employer Setup

Adding a New Company (using the New Company wizard)Adding Employees using a Revenue Payroll Notification (RPN)Additional Employer Information Adding/ Amending Departments Setting up Initial Rates of Pay Adding/ Amending Hourly Rates Adding/ Amending Daily Rates Adding/ Amending Piece Rates Adding/ Amending Addition Types Adding/ Amending Deduction Types Adding/ Amending Pension Schemes Adding/ Amending Savings Schemes Adding/ Amending Bank Accounts Employer Calendar

Digital Certificates

Why do I need to add my Revenue Digital Certificate?Adding a Revenue Digital Certificate - Employers Adding a Revenue Digital Certificate - Agents Saving a ROS Digital Certificate on to your computer Transferring a ROS Digital Certificate from one computer to another

Employee Setup

Personal Employment Revenue Details Payment HR CSO Setting up Employees using the RPN Updating Existing Employee Details from a CSV File Re-hiring an Employee Generating Employee Works Numbers Employee Count Report Employee Address Labels

Revenue Payroll Notifications (RPNs)

What is a Revenue Payroll Notification (RPN)?Employment Identifier RPN Number Retrieving your Employee RPNs each pay period Setting up Employees using the RPN

Payroll Calendar Processing Payroll

Processing Weekly Payroll Processing Fortnightly Payroll Processing Monthly Payroll Processing 4-Weekly Payroll Net to Gross Payments Allocating an Employee's Pay across Departments Additions and Deductions Entering Pension Deductions Setting a Pension AVC to repeat Pre-paying an Employee Cycle to Work Scheme Zeroising Payslips (Batch Operation)Setting pay items to auto-zeroise Finalising Payslips Week 53

Importing Pay Data from a CSV File

Importing Periodic Payments using CSV file Importing Daily Payments using CSV file Importing Hourly Payments using CSV file Importing Additions using CSV file Importing Deductions using CSV file Importing Notes using CSV file Importing Payments, Additions & Deductions in a single CSV File

Payroll Deductions

PAYE PRSI Local Property Tax (LPT)USC

Universal Social Charge (USC) - General Information Universal Social Charge - Calculations USC Exempt Status v USC Exempt Income

Additional Superannuation Contribution (ASC)

Payroll Submission Requests (PSRs)

What is a Payroll Submission Request (PSR)?Submitting your periodic pay data to Revenue Correction PSRs

Distributing Payslips

Printing Payslips Emailing Payslips Exporting Payslips Customising Payslips

Paying Employees

Paying Employees using Modulr Paying Employees by Cash Paying Employees by Cheque Paying Employees by Credit Transfer & Creating a Bank File

SEPA format - Banks catered for in BrightPay Making Corrections to Payroll

Correction PSRs Re-opening the last pay period for one or more employees Re-opening more than one pay period for one or more employees

Revenue Payments

Remittance to Revenue - Overview Viewing/Accepting your Monthly Statement in ROS Payment Due Dates Making Payment to Revenue - Payment Options

Making a payment through the Statement of Account utility in ROS Making a payment through the Payments & Refunds utility in ROS Payment by Direct Debit

Revenue Payments - Finalised totals Revenue Payments - Revenue Reconciliation

Revenue - Contact Telephone Numbers Analysis

Saved Reports Creating a New Report Viewing Reports Editing Reports Saving Reports Printing/Emailing Reports Exporting Reports Importing Saved Reports from another BrightPay Data File

Payroll Journals

Payroll Journals - Overview AccountsIQ (API)Quickbooks

Quickbooks (Desktop version) - CSV upload Quickbooks Online - using API

Sage

Sage Accounts - CSV upload Sage Business Cloud Accounting - using API

Bright Books (formerly Surf Accounts)Xero

Xero - CSV upload Xero - Submitting your journal using API Xero - API FAQs

Processing Starters

Setting up a new employee mid-year

Processing Leavers

Processing a Leaver Processing a Post-cessation Payment

Benefit in Kind

Benefit in Kind - General Information Company Cars & Vans Preferential Loans Accommodation Medical Insurance - Annual Medical Insurance - One-Off Share Based Remuneration Annual Benefits One-Off Benefits

Illness Benefit

Illness Benefit - Employer Responsibilities Employer does not pay employee while out sick Employer pays employee while out sick but employee retains the illness benefit Employer pays employee while out sick and receives the illness benefit

Parenting Benefits

Maternity Leave & Benefit Adoptive Leave & Pay Paternity Leave and Benefit Parent's Leave & Benefit

Pensions

Adding/Amending Pension Schemes Entering Normal Pension Deductions Normal Pensions Report CWPS

Entering a CWPS Pension CWPS Report CWPS - rate change 18th September 2023

NECI

Entering a NECI Pension NECI Report

Switching an Employee's Pay Frequency Backing Up & Restoring Data Files

Backing Up Your Payroll Data Restoring a Payroll Data File

Year End

Year End - Frequently Asked Questions Employment Details Summary (P60 Replacement)Do I need to file a P35 annual return?Do I have a Week 53?Year End Summary Report Making an Advance Payment in 2024 for 2025 Where a Credit Transfer Payment will fall on 1st January 2025 How do I start processing 2025 payroll?When will 2025 BrightPay be available?Will my ROS digital certificate import over to 2025 BrightPay?Revenue Payroll Notifications - Transition to the new tax year Why are my employees on Emergency Basis at the start of the 2025 tax year?

Leave Reporting & Employee Calendar

Recording Employee Leave on the Calendar Batch Processing of Employee Leave on the Calendar Defining and Setting Custom Leave Types on Employee Calendar Adding Notes to Calendar Entries Viewing/Printing Employees' Annual Leave Entitlement Calendar Report

Annual Leave

Processing Holiday Pay - Current Pay Period Processing Holiday Pay - Pre-paying in Advance Recording an Employee's Annual Leave Batch Processing of Employee Annual Leave on the Calendar Holiday Entitlements - Useful Information Accrual of Annual Leave Whilst on Sick Leave

Leave Entitlements

Holiday Entitlements Maternity Leave Paternity Leave Parental Leave Adoptive Leave Carers Leave Parent's Leave

Employment Law

Employment - General Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 Minimum Wage Minimum Notice, Dismissals etc.Children & Young Persons Sample HR templates and forms Workplace Relations Commission

CSO

CSO EHECS (Earnings, Hours & Employment Costs Survey)

Glossary of Terms (Pre 2019) - Foreign Language Help Sheets

Cantonese Czech English Hungarian Latvian Lithuanian Mandarin Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian

BrightPay Connect

Registering for BrightPay Connect Connecting an Employer to BrightPay Connect Customising your BrightPay Connect Account Assigning a New User in BrightPay Connect Editing/Deleting a User from BrightPay Connect Enabling Employee Access to Self Service Configuring Employee Self Service Options Disabling/Editing Employee Access to Self Service Inviting Employees to use Self Service Backing Up to BrightPay Connect Restoring from a BrightPay Connect Backup Uploading Previous Year Data to BrightPay Connect Deleting a Company in BrightPay Connect Two Factor Authentication

Enabling Two Factor Authentication Signing In Two Factor Authentication - Enabling for Employees Employee Self Service App - Security

Employer Self Service Portal

Employer Portal - Dashboard Employer Portal - Employees Employer Portal - Reports Employer Portal - Calendar Employer Portal - Revenue Employer Portal - Documents Employer Portal - Settings Employer Portal - Processing Leave Requests Employer Portal - Processing Leave Request Cancellations

Employee Self Service Portal

Employee Portal - Dashboard Employee Portal - Documents Employee Portal - Calendar Employee Portal - My Details Employee Portal - Requesting Leave Employee Portal - Cancelling Leave

Connect for Bureaus

Payroll Approval Request - Bureau Guidance Payroll Approval Request - Employer Guidance Payroll Entry Requests - Bureau Guidance Payroll Entry Requests - Employer Guidance

Connect MultiUser Enhancements

MultiUser Enhancement Details

BrightPay Connect - Terms of Service

GDPR

Frequently Asked Questions GDPR and Thesaurus Software GDPR and the Payroll Bureau Data Processing Addendum

Bright Terms and Conditions and BrightPay End User Licence Agreement Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)

ERR Overview ERR Categories Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR) FAQs

BrightExpenses

Creating your Bright ID BrightPay to BrightExpenses Tutorial

TPM v BP - Employee records TPM v BP - Running the payroll BP v TPM

What are the differences - a guide Add/Amend Employee Section RPN Running Payroll Finalising Payslips & Submitting PSR Printing/Emailing Payslips Paying Employees Journals & Reporting

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