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Create prior pay periods

If an employee is set up in AgriSmart after they have started working, their initial pay periods may not have been created. Follow these steps to add the missing periods and pull through their pay data.

  1. Hover over Payroll and click Pay Periods.
  2. In the Team Member filter, select the employee who needs the missing pay periods created, then click GO.
  3. At the top right of the screen, click Add Pay Periods.
  4. In the pop-up window, find the employee’s row. In Go back until (end date), select the date you want the pay periods to go back to. Alternatively, click Start in this field to automatically select the employee’s start date. Make this selection in the employee’s row, not the top row.
  5. The Pay Amount and Days Paid values will populate from the employee’s setup.
  6. Click Save, then close the pop-up window.
  7. Update the From filter to include the earliest pay period you just created, then click GO.
  8. Scroll to the bottom of the table to find the earliest pay period. If there are multiple pages, go to the last page, or click All and scroll to the bottom.
  9. On the far right of the pay period’s row, click the pencil inside a box icon to open Edit Pay Period. Newly created periods will have an asterisk beside this icon, indicating that they need to be reset.
  10. Scroll to the bottom of the Edit Pay Period screen, click Reset, then click OK. This pulls through the timesheet data entered for that period.
  11. Repeat steps 9 and 10 for each pay period you created.
Updated on 07/10/2026

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