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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Steps: Set Up Payment Elections

Steps: Set Up Payment Elections

You can define rules and set options for your payroll payment elections. Based on your defined payment elections and rules, you and people who are eligible for self-service payment elections can select from the enabled payment types, countries, and currencies.
  1. Define choices for employees receiving payments.
  2. (Optional) Access the
    Edit Tenant Setup - Global
    task.
    To pay workers in more than 1 country and currency, enable countries for self-service payment elections.
    In the
    Other
    section, select the countries you want to enable from the
    Self Service Payment Election Countries
    prompt.
    See: Reference: Edit Tenant Setup - Global Reference: Edit Tenant Setup - Global
    Security:
    Set Up: Tenant Setup - Global
    domain in the System functional area.
  3. (Optional)
    Access the Edit Tenant Setup - Financials
    task to enable
    Bank Account Verification
    , which adds an extra layer of security for payment elections.
  4. Set up the
    Payment Election Enrollment Event
    business process.
    (Optional) To include prenote verification for bank accounts, you can:
    • Add a service step before the completion step, and
    • Specify
      Prenote of Worker Bank Accounts if New or Changed
      .
  5. Configure security on the
    Manage Payment Elections
    initiating action step.
    Add these security groups:
    • Employee as Self
    • Pre-Employee as Self
  6. Activate Pending Security Policy Changes
  7. (Optional) On the
    Onboarding
    business process, add
    Manage Payment Elections
    as an action step.
  8. (Optional) On the
    Hire
    business process, add
    Manage Payment Elections
    as an action step.
    To add a payment elections subprocess to
    Hire
    , you must opt in to the redesign of the
    Hire Details
    page of the
    Hire Employee
    task:
    • Access the
      Maintain Feature Opt-Ins
      report.
    • Opt in to the
      Hire Employee Redesign & Consolidated Experience
      . You must opt in to this feature to add the
      Manage Payment Elections
      step, even when you don't plan to configure a consolidated template for
      Hire
      .
    To ensure you can add payment elections that you can use in payroll, add the
    Manage Payment Elections
    step after the
    Assign Pay Group
    and
    Completion
    steps on the business process definition. See Steps: Set Up Hire.
    • You can create a unique message that displays when a user is locked out. For example, you can include contact information for your security or payroll department in the help text.
  9. (Optional) Access the
    Maintain Custom Help
    task to create a unique help text that displays for various payment election tasks and screens:
    • You can also customize payment election help text for the lockout screen when you enable
      Bank Account Verification
      .