Payroll Settings

When you are logged in, you can find the Payroll Settings page here.

Under Löneinställningar, you can review and change settings for your company. You can also activate extra payroll functionality that becomes available on employees and salaries.

You find the settings under Löneinställningar in the menu.

General

Income Period Salary

Specify whether salary is paid out the same month it is earned or the previous month.

Payslips

Indicate whether you want payslips to be sent via email to your employees.

You can also download payslips as PDF files and share them yourself or print them.

Employer’s Declaration

Specify the contact person for the employer’s declaration. The information you enter here is included on the declarations you send to Skatteverket.

Temporary reduction of employer contributions

Indicate whether you wish to request temporary reduction of employer contributions in the employer’s declaration. Read more at Skatteverket.

Vacation

Vacation

Automatically add vacation pay on hourly wages

If you choose not to pay out vacation pay directly on the salary, you must yourself calculate and keep track of how much vacation pay your employees have earned, and then pay it out at a later time.

Automatically add vacation pay on monthly salaries

Use this setting for employments that do not last longer than 3 months if you want vacation pay to be added to each monthly salary and not saved in the vacation liability list.

Vacation supplement in percent

Enter vacation supplement in percent.

Accrued Vacation Pay

Calculate accrued vacation pay according to Dooer’s Standard

Description of Dooer’s standard:

1. Accrued vacation pay is calculated according to the equal pay rule.
2. Vacation supplement is calculated at 0.43% (can be changed).
3. Vacation year is standard April 1 - March 31 (can be changed).
4. Accrual year is the year before the vacation year.

Employees

Support for extra settings for employees

Here you have the opportunity to use extra payroll functionality for employees. These are settings that become available when you edit an employee.

Tax adjustment in percent

With tax adjustment, you can specify a fixed percentage to use when calculating tax for an employee.

Note that if you wish to deduct less tax than what the tax table indicates, you must first obtain a tax adjustment decision from Skatteverket before specifying a percentage.

Växa-stöd

Växa-stöd is a temporary reduction of employer contributions for sole traders who hire their first employee. Read about Växa-stöd at Skatteverket.

Research deduction

As a company, you can make deductions from employer contributions for employees who work with qualified research or development. Read more at Skatteverket.

Deduction for regional support

Employers operating within certain regions are entitled to deductions on employer contributions. If your company is entitled to this, check this box, and then the corresponding box on the profile for each employee for whom the deduction should apply. Read more at Skatteverket.

Activate editing of workplace number

Workplace numbers are assigned by Statistics Sweden (SCB) and are added to the individual tax declaration sent to Skatteverket.

Enabled editing of the workplace number on the employee’s profile.

Extra payroll functionality

Support for extra payroll functionality

The most common functionality that most companies use is activated from the start. In addition, there are additional functions that you can enable yourself based on your company’s needs.

FAQ

Can I send payslips in English?

No, currently payslips can only be created in Swedish.

How do I use tax adjustments?

Activate Stöd för skattejämkning under the Anställda tab. Then open the employee in the register and fill in Skattejämkning i procent under the section Skattetabell.

How do I use Växa-stöd?

Activate Växa-stöd under the Anställda tab. Then open the employee in the register and check to apply Växa-stöd for the employee. After this is done, Växa-stöd will be applied to the employee in the next payroll run.

How can I choose whether I want to pay out vacation pay directly or not on hourly wages?

You can choose whether you want vacation pay to be paid out directly on hourly wages or not. You can make a setting for the entire company and also choose whether individual employees should deviate from that setting.

Note that if you choose not to pay out vacation pay, you must remember to pay it out at a later time.

Can I create a report over calculated accrued vacation pay?

If you want to see calculated accrued vacation pay, you can have a report created every month by activating the function Beräkna semesterlöneskuld enligt Dooers standard under Semester in the payroll settings.

How do I set the level of employer contributions?

Employer contributions are calculated automatically when an employer’s declaration is created.