# Import payroll history at installation

> In Weplanify, import the payroll totals paid before you started using it, so that annual totals, the annual statement and allowances start out right.

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

In Weplanify, the opening history is used when you start payroll during the year: months already paid elsewhere are added to the totals.

![The opening history and the reconciliation with declared totals](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fpaie%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fpa-reprise-c82146fa.webp?alt=media&token=b7aa3f7b-c4a0-4a77-8c0f-09955c065ecc)

## Steps

1. Open **Settings → Payroll → General**, **Opening history** row, then **Open**.
2. Import the history file: one row per employee and per month, with gross, taxable and social amounts ([Excel import](https://weplanify.io/docs/demarrage.import-excel?lang=en)).
3. Check the rows, confirm them, then apply them.
4. With the **Reconciliation with declared totals**, compare the imported totals with the totals already declared.

## Good to know

- A row changed after being applied is flagged to apply again.
- Imported totals are used by the [annual statement](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.etat-annuel?lang=en) and to compute [departure allowances](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.depart?lang=en).

## Related guides

- [Import an Excel file into Weplanify](https://weplanify.io/docs/demarrage.import-excel?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the import wizard goes through four steps, file, mapping, check and import, and writes nothing into your data before the very last one.
- [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.
- [Declare a departure on leave or a final departure](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.depart?lang=en) — In Weplanify, declare a departure on leave or a final departure from the employee's record, Contracts tab, so that payroll prepares what is due to them.
- [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.