How to import 2012 pay periods into
e-Reliever

Each year you will need to need to update your pay period file in order to receive the next year’s pay period numbers and end dates. This document describes how to update the pay periods stored in e-Reliever.

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2012 pay period file (Excel, 18.94 KB)

Instructions

1. Delete any Payperiods.xls file you may have from last year. Please ensure that your macros are enabled when importing your PayPeriods update.

2. Right click on the 2012 pay period file link and select “Save As”. Please save the file to the same location as your current E-Reliever Spreadsheet. The file name should be called PayPeriods (if you have your File Extensions showing you will need to name the file to PayPeriods.xls).

3. Once saved open your E-Reliever Spreadsheet, and click on Create Files button.

4. A new screen will appear, next click on Update File Location.

5. You want to select the location where your saved E-Reliever Spreadsheet is. Your PayPeriods file should be saved in this location. Once selected enter in SAMPLE.TXT into the File name location, and click on the Save button.

6. You should get the screen below. Click on OK.
(Your saved directory maybe different than the one showing here).

7. Now that you have ensured the correct file location is selected, you need to import the PayPeriods file. Click on the Update Employees button.

8. A new screen will appear, click on the Import/Export Files button.

9. On the screen that appears, select the Pay Periods radio button and click Okay.

10. Your screen should flash a couple of times. Once this has happened, close out of all screen in E-Reliever and close E-Reliever.

Note: It is important to close E-Reliever so the newly imported information is loaded and saved.

11. Re-open your E-Reliever spreadsheet. Click Create Files and check that the new pay periods have been loaded.