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Chapters
Generating reports
Saving your favourite reports
Checking your payroll
Setting up your 'Check payroll' reports
Available reports

Reporting guide

Smartly has a wide range of reports designed to make tracking and reporting on payroll super simple, from things like employee pay summaries to all the necessary reports for IRD. It’s also super easy to export files too. If there’s something to do with payroll that you want to drill down on, you can. 

Contents of this guide

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1. Generating reports

2. Saving your favourite reports

3. Checking your payroll

4. Setting up your 'Check payroll' reports

5. Report descriptions 

Generating reports

1. Go to Reports and select Report Generator.

2. Select a report category, or click Expand all to view all available reports. 

3. Choose a report. Once you've selected a category and report, the available filter options will show.

4. Select your criteria in the different filters. You can also search by typing into the search field the report you're looking for, and you'll instantly be shown the results.

5. Choose a period end date OR date range. If entering a date range, please type it as DD/MM/YYYY - DD/MM/YYYY.

6. Choose to display a PDF or download a CSV file. The file types available will depend on the report you've selected.

Saving your favourite reports

You can save your commonly used reports as your favourites, so that you do not have to re-enter your filters every time. 

1. Go to Reports and select Report Generator.

2. Select a report category, or click Expand all to view all available reports. 

3. Choose a report. 

4. You can either add filters at 'Step 2. Filter and generate' and then click Save as favourite, or click Save as favourite directly. 

5. After clicking the Save as favourite button on the top right, enter the filters as required and click 'Save' (You can customise the report name).

For more information on saving, editing, re-ordering or deleting a favourite report, please refer to our Report generator - How to save a favourite report article. 

Saving a favourite report

Checking your payroll

Before finalising a pay run, it's always good to check it over.

On the Run a pay screen, you can select 'Check payroll' to automatically bring up a Pay Run Report as well as the Direct Credit Schedule, Payroll Register and Company Controls reports.

You can choose what reports you'd like to view instead and opt to automatically email these to someone – perfect if you need approval to close off the pay. You can also choose what reports you want to produce once the pay has been processed. Simply follow the instructions below.

Setting up your 'Check payroll' reports

Here's how to customise which reports are displayed when you use the Check payroll option in the Run a pay area.

1. Go to Reports and select Pay run reports setup.

2. Choose to set up your options for either 'Open pay runs' or 'Closed pay runs'.

3. Select the reports you would like to display at that stage of the payroll.

4. If you want to email the report(s) to someone, enter an email address. You can also enter a password if you want to protect access.

5. Select Save.

Note: Open pay run reports can be accessed through Run a pay > Check payroll.

Closed pay run reports can be accessed through Pay run options > Reports (or Reports & bank file) > Choose the pay group and pay period you'd like to view > Click Generate Reports.

Available reports

For a full break down of what information each report contains, please see our Reports available article.

Employee reports

  • Average hours
  • Employee card
  • Employee pay
  • Employee pay (detailed)
  • Standard hours vs actual hours

Inland Revenue reports

  • ACC premium
  • IR348
  • KiwiSaver
  • Pay day filing
  • PAYE IR345
  • Reversal reconciliation

Leave reports

  • 63 day holiday
  • Leave balances
  • Leave history
  • Leave tracking

Organisation reports

  • Company controls
  • Employement survey

Payroll reports

  • Admin notes
  • Allowances
  • Benefits
  • Costings
  • Costings (Detailed)
  • Deductions
  • Direct credit schedule
  • Leave requests
  • Pay runs
  • Payroll comparison
  • Payroll register
  • Timesheets
  • Warnings and changes
  • YTD earnings
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