PREFACE
SDWorx-Pay provides a complete payroll service by enabling its user to apply payroll data through User Interface solutions delivered via the Internet or via software on your IT systems.
The information offered in these web pages of guidance assume that those reading the information are experienced payroll practitioners who are familiar with Payroll concepts and terminology.
The SD Worx pay service utilise a number of interface solutions which allow the entry and management of payroll, HR and other data as required by an employer. These interface solutions offered by SD Worx within the United Kingdom use the power and calculation capability of a payroll engine. This guide relates to data items on that payroll engine.
The payroll engine solution ‘Active Payroll’ offer flexible and automatic processes using SDWorx-Pay engine technologies.
SD Worx offers options for those wanting to gain more experience and detailed training which is available by Web delivery, training of groups or training the trainer (which enables you to lead your teams in learning more about payroll and the SDWorx-Pay solutions).
STRUCTURE OF THE INFORMATION GUIDANCE
This reference information is not intended to be read from beginning to end. The topics are structured along with links and buttons to find guidance information easily:
- Apprenticeship Levy
- Attachment or Earnings Orders (AEOs) / Earnings Arrestments (EAs)
- Local Authority Reference Codes: for use with Council Tax and Community Charge AEO, and Scottish Earnings Arrestments.
- Allowances
- Company and Employee payslip messages
- Deductions
- Employee
- Electronic Exchange / Real Time Information
- *Ex-Pats – inbound and outbound
- Holidays
- *IR35 – off-payroll workers – deemed employees
- *Living Wage and the London Living Wage
- National Insurance
- Freeports
- Mariners
- Veterans
- *National Minimum Wage & National Living Wage
- *Payrolling Benefits in Kind
- Pensions
- Pension Auto-Enrolment
- Personnel / Xtra Data
- Rates
- Shared Parental Pay (ShPP)
- Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP)
- Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP)
- Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP)
- Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP)
- Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) – Adoption
- Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) – Birth
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
- Student & Postgraduate Loans
- Tax
- Worked Hours
- Xtra Data / Personnel data
The guide also provides the following appendices:
- Payroll Items: this is a summary of all payroll items by name and associated data code, grouped alphabetically by payroll topic.
- Report Messages: this is a list of the messages that SDWorx-Pay may print on reports, together with the reason for the message and any appropriate recovery action.
- SDWorx-Pay Processing Order: a description of the order in which SDWorx-Pay processes payroll items and data.
- Totalling Successive Amounts: a list of payroll items for which successive amounts entered in the same payrun are totalled.
And there are some specific guides for the following fiscal authorities and nations:
- Guernsey
- Isle of Man
- Jersey
- Republic of Ireland
A glossary of SDWorx-Pay terminology and definitions is also provided.
Last updated 9/5/2025 (PSP)