Setting up your pay schedule and paydays

This is where you tell Enmantle when payday is. You set your cadence and a few rules, and Enmantle lays out the paydays on the Payroll Calendar for the whole team to see.

One thing to be clear about up front: this builds your pay calendar. It does not run payroll, calculate wages, or move money. It's the schedule of dates — everything else happens in your payroll system.

Set your pay cadence

1. Go to Payroll Settings and open the General tab.
2. Choose your Pay Cadence:

- Bi-weekly — every two weeks. - Semi-monthly — twice a month. - Monthly — once a month. - Custom — you set the interval.

1. Set the anchor date — a known payday Enmantle counts from to place all the others.

Handle weekends and holidays

When a payday lands on a weekend or a holiday, you decide what happens with two rules:

• Weekend Shift Rule
• Holiday Shift Rule

Each offers the same three choices: Previous Business Day, Next Business Day, or No Shift (leave the date as-is). Set these to match what your payroll provider actually does.

Generate the schedule

Once cadence and rules are set, use Generate Schedule to build a fresh 12-month run of pay periods and paydays in one step.

Heads up: Generate Schedule deletes and replaces any existing pay periods before building the new ones. Use it for a clean start or a cadence change — not for a small tweak to a single date.

Add or edit a single period

For one-off changes, skip the generator and edit periods by hand on the Pay Periods page. It lists Period Start, Period End, Payday, Days Until, and Notes.

1. Click Add Period.
2. Fill in Period Start, Period End, Pay Date, and any Notes.
3. Save. The new period shows on the calendar right away.

Add your COD holidays

Open the Holidays tab to manage COD Holidays. Add each one as one-time or recurring, and it appears in purple on the calendar. Your Holiday Shift Rule uses this list to decide whether a nearby payday moves.

Share and export

• ICS Feed tab — publish a Feed URL so staff can subscribe to paydays in their own calendars. See The payroll calendar and subscribing to paydays.
• Export CSV on the Pay Periods page — download the full schedule as a spreadsheet.

Once your dates are set, the next step is getting real pay stubs in front of staff — see Importing pay stubs from your payroll system.