# Close the month, pay salaries and declare

> In Weplanify, closing locks the payroll month, publishes payslips to employees and prepares the next month; the step then helps you pay and declare.

- Product: Weplanify (https://weplanify.io)
- Section: Payroll
- Web page: https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.cloture?lang=en
- Other language: https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.cloture.md
- Last updated: 2026-09-29

In Weplanify, the **Closing and payment** step is the last of the month: it sums up what is left, locks payroll, then prepares transfers and declarations.

![The Closing and payment step: before closing, pay salaries, declare and send](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fpaie%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fpa-cloture-etape-81390472.webp?alt=media&token=39e68167-d6a1-44fa-bb30-d7d95181e789)

## Steps

1. Read **Before closing**: approved payslips, open control points, time and elements ready.
2. Click **Close month**, type the month's name to confirm, then validate.
3. In **Pay the salaries**, download the **Transfer file** for the bank and the **Cash slip** for employees paid in cash.
4. In **Declare and send**, find the deductions (contributions, taxes) and employer charges to pay over, the payroll ledger and the [accounting entry](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.ecriture-comptable?lang=en).

![The closing confirmation: type the month's name to confirm](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fpaie%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fpa-cloture-51034ee2.webp?alt=media&token=557012a7-93a7-47ee-9ca0-e32033dfdac3)

## Good to know

- Closing locks time, elements and payslips, confirms advance and loan instalments and publishes payslips in the [mobile app](https://weplanify.io/docs/application-mobile.documents?lang=en).
- It is final: an error found later is corrected on the next month's payslip, with a back-pay or a deduction in the [variable elements](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.variables?lang=en).
- Payment deadlines depend on your country's rule.
- The month's figures feed the [payroll statements](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.etats?lang=en) and the [annual statement](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.etat-annuel?lang=en).

## Related guides

- [Export the payroll accounting entry](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.ecriture-comptable?lang=en) — In Weplanify, download a month's payroll accounting entry in Excel or CSV, balanced, with an account per employee and the analytical section per site.
- [Documents and payslips on mobile](https://weplanify.io/docs/application-mobile.documents?lang=en) — Upload the documents HR requests from the Weplanify app, follow their review and find your payslips.
- [Check the month's variable elements](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.variables?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Variable elements step sums up the bonuses, benefits in kind, advance deductions and expense claims that will be on the month's payslips.
- [Produce a payroll statement](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.etats?lang=en) — In Weplanify, payroll statements sum up the month's payslips for the bank, social bodies, the tax office and your archives, with an Excel export.
- [Prepare the annual salary statement](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.etat-annuel?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the annual statement gives each employee's totals for the year, taken from approved payslips, ready for the year-end declaration.
- [Payroll in Weplanify](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the monthly payroll is prepared in five steps, from time, absences and variable elements up to the payslips, the payment and the closing.
- [Correct or cancel an expense](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.contre-ecriture?lang=en) — In Weplanify, edit an expense while its payroll is open, or cancel it in full or in part: it stays in the history and in the entries, offset.
- [Follow the monthly payroll step by step](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.cycle-mensuel?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Monthly payroll page shows where payroll stands: the next step, what is left to settle, the provisional figures and the five steps.
- [Check, approve and print payslips](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.bulletins?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Payslips step shows the month's payslips: totals, each person's gross and net, preview, recompute, approval and printing in one PDF.
- [Grant an advance or a loan](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.avances-prets?lang=en) — In Weplanify, grant a salary advance or a loan repaid every month by a deduction on the payslip, and see its effect on the employee's pay right away.
- [Set safeguards on payroll amounts](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.configuration.alertes?lang=en) — In Weplanify, get an alert when a computed amount falls outside a set range, and block the payroll closing until it is corrected, if you need to.
- [The dashboard Costs card](https://weplanify.io/docs/tableau-de-bord.couts?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the dashboard Costs card gives the payroll's employer cost, the change from the previous period, what explains it and the cost of each site.
- [Follow the monthly payroll from the dashboard](https://weplanify.io/docs/tableau-de-bord.paie?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the dashboard Payroll card shows where the month's payroll stands, step by step, what blocks the payslips and the time left before closing.