- Issue the payroll cut-off notice (Repository → Notices).
- Approve overtime, claims, loans and leave without pay for the month.
- Payroll → New run: choose the month. WatuHRM computes gross, PAYE, NSSF and other deductions.
- Review the exceptions report: new starters, leavers, large changes month on month.
- Send for approval; the finance approver approves.
- Lock the run. Payslips appear in self-service; export the bank file and statutory schedules.
A locked run cannot be changed — corrections go in the next month as adjustments. Check the statutory rates' effective dates before the first run of a new financial year (1 July).