ANTE User Manual

Plan Overrides (Skip or Change One Cutoff)

Sometimes accounting has to change one cutoff for one employee: skip a loan instalment, reduce a canteen deduction because the net pay would go negative, or hold an allowance. Plan overrides do that for a single cutoff only. The plan itself stays exactly as it is, and the difference is added to the next cutoff automatically, so the employee's total over the two cutoffs does not change.

Opening the Plan Overrides Screen

  1. Open the employee's payslip breakdown

    Go to Payroll Center, open the cutoff, click Summary and then the employee. The negative net pay warning also links straight here.

  2. Click Plan overrides

    The list shows every deduction and allowance plan in force for that cutoff, what the plan would take, what was actually taken, and its status. You need the Payroll Center permission.

Skipping or Changing One Plan

  1. Click Override on the plan
    What should happen this cutoff
    Skip it (or Hold it for an allowance) takes or pays nothing. Use a different amount takes or pays exactly the amount you type.
    Amount / Principal
    The amount for this cutoff. On a loan this is the principal. A negative amount on a loan is a refund to the employee (a renewed loan or an over-payment).
    Interest
    Loans only: this cutoff's interest. The deduction taken is principal plus interest.
    Next cutoff
    Whether the difference is added to the next cutoff as a catch-up. Fixed deductions and allowances catch up by default. A loan defaults to extending the loan; choose the catch-up to double the next instalment.
    Reason*
    Always required. It is shown on the payslip, the payroll register and the audit log.
  2. Save

    The employee's cutoff is recomputed at once and the payslip shows the override with its reason.

Worked examples
Canteen plan per cutoff500.00
Skip in cutoff Nreason: net pay too low0.00
Cutoff N+1plan amount plus the labelled catch-up=500.00 + 500.00 = 1,000.00
SWC allowance per cutoff500.00
Set to 300.00 in cutoff Nthe other 200.00 carries forward300.00
Cutoff N+1=500.00 + 200.00 = 700.00
A skipped loan instalment does not double the next one. The loan balance is unchanged and the loan simply runs one instalment longer, unless you pick the catch-up.

Cancelling

Cancel override puts the plan back to its normal amount for that cutoff. Cancel catch-up removes the extra amount from the next cutoff while keeping the override. Both need a reason and are recorded in the audit log; the records are kept, never deleted.

Posted payroll is final
Once a cutoff is posted, overrides can only be viewed. A catch-up that has already been collected in a posted payroll cannot be cancelled. Return the cutoff to an earlier stage first if a correction is needed.
Tip
Banded and attendance-gated allowances already true-up against what earlier cutoffs paid, so they never carry a separate catch-up.

How It Connects

Set up first

  • Salary Detail — the employee payslip breakdown where the override screen opens.

Gets its data from

Feeds into

  • Payslip Center — the payslip prints the override and the catch-up with their reasons.
  • Payroll Register — notes each override and catch-up next to the employee.
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