Before doing anything else, you need to get your company settings right, recording the information your business needs for payroll.

So to get started:

1. Click on Settings
2. Enter your Chart of Accounts (or import them from Xero).
3. Modify your Company's Settings, including contact info, default accounts and bank details.
4. Enter the Payroll Calendars your company uses to process pays (for example, weekly, fortnightly or monthly)
5. Enter your Payslip Items, basically everything that appears in your employees payslips (earnings rates, deductions, reimbursements and leave types)
6. Include all the Superannuation funds your company uses.
7. Enter Tracking Categories, either Employee Groups of Timesheet Categories (or import them from Xero).
8. Add Users you'd like to access Paycycle.

Once you've entered all your company's information, now it’s time to start adding employees.
1. Click on Payroll
2. Click on Employees
3. Click on Add Employee

1. Enter the employee's details
2. Add all the information pertinent to its employment, including ordinary earnings rate and payroll calendar assignment
3. Enter the employee's tax declaration
4. Add leave applications
5. Enter the employee's bank accounts
6. Set the employee's pay template, meaning the standard pay he or she usually gets paid every payrun.
7. Finally, if you are moving to Paycycle in the middle of the financial year, enter all opening balances.

Once your business and employee details are in place, you can start scheduling and posting payruns.
1. Click Payroll
2. Click Pay Runs

1. Click Add Pay Run
2. Select a Pay Period (a payroll calendar)