# Set up payroll accounting accounts

> In Weplanify, choose the accounting account of each payroll line to produce a balanced payroll entry, ready to import into your accounting software.

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

In Weplanify, each payslip line is filed in an accounting account. Weplanify looks for that account in this order: the line's rule, then the advance or expense type that created it, then the default account of its family.

![Settings → Payroll → Accounting export: the default accounts of each family](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fpaie%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fpa-conf-comptes-db48f030.webp?alt=media&token=6eac1dfb-e7e7-4d30-83f8-2f0536e312b8)

## Steps

1. Open **Settings → Payroll → Accounting export**.
2. In **Family accounts**, give each family (Subject, Contributions, Deductions, Not subject, Net) a default debit and credit account, then save.
3. In **Rule accounts**, set an account for the items that must leave their family (for example bonuses on a bonus account).
4. For [advances and loans](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.avances-prets?lang=en), enter the account of each type in **Settings → Advance types**; for [expense claims](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.notes-de-frais?lang=en), the expense account of each [expense type](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.types?lang=en).

## Good to know

- Your accounts belong to your company; use your own chart of accounts (for example SYSCOHADA in the OHADA area).
- Only the items of your branches' countries are listed; calculation lines are never posted.
- Check the result with a month's [accounting entry](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.ecriture-comptable?lang=en): it flags amounts left without an account.

## Related guides

- [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.
- [Repay an expense claim on the payslip](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.notes-de-frais?lang=en) — In Weplanify, repay an employee, through their payslip, the money they advanced for the company: meals, taxi rides, fuel or a business trip.
- [Create an expense type](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.types?lang=en) — In Weplanify, an expense type (fuel, meals, road tolls) decides who pays, how the amount is computed, what must be attached and who approves it.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Payroll settings](https://weplanify.io/docs/configuration.paie?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Payroll group of settings gathers payroll setup, paid leave handling, contributions, pay elements and the accounting export.
- [Set up the company's payroll](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.configuration?lang=en) — In Weplanify, payroll settings are in Settings → Payroll: installation, leave, contributions, control bounds and the accounts used by the accounting export.