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Storing historical data

Your software can be set up so that each time you pay your employees a record is kept of their salary details. We refer to this as historical data. This is useful should you need to check information from a previous pay period.

Access to the Historical Data feature can be restricted using your security account. Find out more about security.

You can:

Keep a history from the previous seven years of processing.
Produce reports and payslips produced on a certain date, or covered by a range of dates.
Select the employees you want and specify the data used on your reports. For example, the data covered by a department or cost centre.

Getting started

Task	How?
Set your software to keep the payment history for the required years, up to a maximum of seven years.	Recording company details and settings.
Select the employees you want and specify the data used on your historical reports. For example, the data that was processed on a certain date.	Choosing the employees and data used in historical reporting.

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