Implementation processes

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Business units, jobs and grades (216kB)

This document describes how to configure Business units, Grades and Jobs within ADP Freedom to match the structure of your organisation.

Company setup (567kB)

This document provides information on how to set up Company details within ADP Freedom, including the following:

  • Companies

  • Company addresses

  • Company bank accounts

  • Pay frequencies

  • Company pay groups

  • Company pay rate types.

Digital Certificates and Encryption (50kB)

This document provides an overview of Digital Certificates and Encryption.

Earnings and deductions (340kB)

All company earnings and deductions are firstly defined, and then assigned to pay groups and employees.

This document provides information and instructions for setting up and assigning all company earnings and deductions.

Entering information (256kB)

Generally, bulk information would be imported into ADP Freedom via the import process.

However, Information may have to be entered manually if the relevant information is not already held electronically, for instance, when taking on a new employee.

This document describes both manual input and input via import.

Parallel payrolls (51kB)

When ADP Freedom is first installed, there is a period of time when both the company’s existing payroll system and ADP Freedom are running in parallel, that is the same data is entered into both systems and duplicate payruns are processed. This method of working ensures that ADP Freedom has the correct data and results can be validated.

This document describes the checks that should be made during the parallel payroll phase.

Implementing pension payrolls

This document describes how to implement a pension payroll. It covers how to set up a pension pay group and add individuals to this group for payment.

Preparing for live payroll processing (118kB)

Once a number of payruns have been run and verified in parallel, then it is time to go live. This document describes how to setup a pay group for live processing.

The Freedom data model (67kB)

This document describes the ADP Freedom data model and explains how the information in the database is organised. The data model shows all categories of data and the relationships between them.

User roles (76kB)

A user role provides access to a specific set of menu options within ADP Freedom. User roles are assigned to users who perform specific job responsibilities.  For example, the Pay Admin user role allows access to all payroll-related menu options and should be assigned to the user who will perform these tasks. This document describes how to configure and allocate User Roles.

User security (225kB)

This document describes how to setup a user and assign or change their security access levels.

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