Click on payroll run menu and If there are multiple companies you will have to select the company from drop down and click on "Next".

For single company cases you will straight come to the page shown below. If payroll is pending across multiple months then multiple rows will be visible. Click on "Run" for the month you want to run payroll.

You will see a list of employees, if you want to exclude some employees from this payroll run you can click on the checkbox in the first column. To select employees of one location and then exclude them all enter the location name in the box above "Office Location" column to filter and then select all in the dropdown in the first column.

Click on "Validate Data" to check the data for completeness.

Review Points
Review points are points which are for information, they can be skipped but it is recommended that you review the data which is being presented here. If the feature to convert missing attendance to LWP is enabled in setup then you will be able to send alert to the employees for getting their attendance updated from this section as shown below.

Some to the other review points which might come up are -
1. Project Not Included in Overtime Scheme - If employees have booked overtime using the system defined head in Timesheets but the projects against which they have booked this overtime is not included in any Overtime Scheme then this warning message will come. If you do not include the project in an Overtime Scheme then overtime payment will not be done in payroll.

2. Salary crossing ESI threshold - If the salary of some employees cross the threshold value for ESI then system will give you the list of employees who are getting excluded. Similarly if there are employees who are eligible for ESI but are not included their list will also be visible. These reminders will come only when running payroll for months of October and April.
When you click on "Retain in ESI" you can select the names of employees who need to be retained. If on employee's payroll details page the parameter "Continue in ESI on crossing threshold" is set as Yes then even if his wages cross 21000 his name will not come in the exclusion list.

For more details refer "Continuing in ESI after crossing threshold wages".

3. Tracking missing attendance and sending intimation to employees to update - If the feature to automatically convert missing attendance to LWP is enabled and if there are missing attendance in the period for which payroll is being processed then you will see the notification as shown above - "There are pending attendance records ...". You can
- use the "Download Report" button to review the records of missing attendance
- use the "Send Alert" button to send out a notification to all employees - "Your attendance is missing for xx days. Please get it regularized else it will be updated as leave without pay.". You can as a practice send this alert 2-3 days before the payroll run is to be finalized.
If this feature is not activated please get in touch with your Account Manager. This feature is available only for India payroll.
The LWP data till leave cutoff date defined in setup is included. System will check all data from the first payroll month till the current payroll month for identifying missing attendance or approved LWP. Refer to the article on "LWP deductions and reversals shortfall" for more details.

4. Employees on Maternity group leaves and included in ESI - If an employee is on Maternity leave and is included in ESI then her record will not be processed in payroll. This notification will also come on this page.

Pending Tasks
If there are any pending approvals or missing data you will see a table with details of missing data as shown below.

You cannot run payroll with incomplete data, there are two option
1. you can exclude the employees for which data is incomplete, to do so select the record(s) and click on "Exclude" button
2. you can update the missing data, some updation might be with you some might need you to get in touch with the Application Administrator or other Approvers.
You can download the details in the table by clicking on "Download Data". Once you have completed the pending tasks or excluded employees for which the pending tasks cannot be completed you will need to click on Validate Date button again. Only when all the pending tasks are complete you will see the "Next" button as shown below.

YTD Data Updation
If employees YTD salary data missing then system will prompt you to complete YTD data. Refer article on "Uploading YTD data" for more details.

If you don't want to update YTD Salary data right now then you can click on "Continue" but this option will not be allowed to when you are running March payroll. In March you will have to either upload YTD Salary or use the Delete YTD option, which will assume that no YTD inputs are to be given, this action cannot be reversed.

When all inputs are given you will be able to move to the next step.