# Set up the company's payroll

> In Weplanify, payroll settings are in Settings → Payroll: installation, leave, contributions, control bounds and the accounts used by the accounting export.

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

In Weplanify, payroll settings are gathered in **Settings**, **Payroll** part. By default, everything follows the base of the branch's country; a closed payroll never changes.

![Settings → Payroll → General: payroll installation and leave](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fpaie%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fpa-conf-general-e94f592a.webp?alt=media&token=b05f6a76-2d09-40db-816c-e9b6d987747f)

## The pages

- **General**: branches and payroll countries ([branches](https://weplanify.io/docs/configuration.branches?lang=en)), the [opening history](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.reprise-historique?lang=en) and the [leave treatment](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.configuration.conges?lang=en).
- **Contributions**: the [rates applied](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.taux?lang=en), and yours where your company departs from the country.
- **Pay elements**: the items and the [control bounds](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.configuration.alertes?lang=en).
- **Accounting export**: the [accounting accounts](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.comptes-comptables?lang=en) of the [payroll entry](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.ecriture-comptable?lang=en).

## Good to know

- Settings apply to the next payroll computed.
- The settings search bar finds a setting by its name.
- Overview of the settings: [the Payroll part](https://weplanify.io/docs/configuration.paie?lang=en).

## Related guides

- [The contribution and tax rates applied](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.taux?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Contributions page shows your country's rates applied on payslips, and those your company may change from a given month onwards.
- [Branches: agencies and payroll countries](https://weplanify.io/docs/configuration.branches?lang=en) — In Weplanify, a branch is an agency of the company: its country decides the payroll rules applied to its employees; create one for each country.
- [Import payroll history at installation](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.reprise-historique?lang=en) — In Weplanify, import the payroll totals paid before you started using it, so that annual totals, the annual statement and allowances start out right.
- [Choose how leave is handled in payroll](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.configuration.conges?lang=en) — In Weplanify, choose how a departure on leave is paid: salary maintained, allowance on departure, or deduction then add-back on the payslips.
- [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.
- [Set up payroll accounting accounts](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.comptes-comptables?lang=en) — In Weplanify, choose the accounting account of each payroll line to produce a balanced payroll entry, ready to import into your accounting software.
- [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 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.
- [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.