Holding Salary Payout for an Employee

Created by Product Content Team, Modified on Thu, 22 Feb at 3:49 PM by Product Content Team


In a scenario when you want to go ahead and process the salary for an employee but hold the salary payout, the Hold Salary Payout feature comes in handy. In such situations, the salary for the chosen employee is processed but the payment is held and details of the employee does not appear on the bank transfer statement involving the salary payment. However statutory deductions such as PF and PT, remain unaffected


Holding the salary payment for an employee comes as an advance option. You need to perform the following steps, to hold the salary payment for an employee:

  1. Go to the Payroll tab and then click the Advance link appearing at the bottom of the left menu.
  2. Navigate to Payout > Hold Salary Payout. The Hold Salary Payout - <Payroll month> page
  3. Click the Hold Salary Payout
  4. Search for the employee in the Employee field.
  5. In the Hold Reason field, choose the appropriate reason from the drop-down menu.
  6. Type Remarks, if any.
  7. Click 
  8. Click Confirm.

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FAQs- To read more FAQs about the Hold Salary Payout, click here.

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Product Update- To read about the product update, click here.

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