Prepare managing-director payroll

The Payroll (GF-Gehalt) workspace is for managing-director salary profiles, payroll calculations and Lohnsteuer-Anmeldungen. It is not a promise of a complete employee HR, social-insurance reporting or payroll-payment service.

Direct payroll submission is currently restricted in production. You can prepare calculations and test previews, then use the assisted-submission contact shown in the app. Do not assume a successful preview has filed the return.

1. Set up a salary profile

1. Open Payroll from Accounting → Setup or directly.
2. Choose Add salary.
3. Enter the director's personal details, tax ID, address and the profile's valid-from date.
4. Enter monthly gross salary, tax class and the requested insurance, church-tax and allowance information.
5. Save and check whether the profile is active for the intended period.

Use confirmed payroll data. Do not infer social-insurance status just from the person's managing-director title, or change it merely to fit an available option.

2. Calculate and review a period

1. Select the year and appropriate reporting period.
2. Choose Compute.
3. Open the calculated run and check the included months and directors, gross salary, wage tax, solidarity surcharge and church tax.
4. If a draft is incomplete, correct the profile and calculate the period again.
5. Generate ELSTER test preview and review any validation errors.

An empty run can mean that no salary profile is active for the selected period. Do not submit an empty result without understanding why.

3. Documents and filing

Use Documents for the available payslip and annual wage-account PDFs. Compare them with the run and your actual salary payments.

Follow the assisted-submission notice for the next filing step. Confirm who will transmit the return and obtain the submission result before treating it as filed. A payroll calculation or downloaded payslip does not itself pay the director or settle a tax bill.

Next: check the payroll postings in the Ledger.