§ 45Catalog · Pillar-Wide Empty States
Set up payroll
Welcome. To run your first payroll, you'll need workers, a pay group, and a way to bring hours in. Three steps, in order.
No workers yet
Add workers one at a time, or import from a CSV. Onboarding can be thin — capture the minimum payroll fields and fill the rest later.
No pay runs yet
Once you have workers and at least one pay group, start a run. The wizard pulls hours, surfaces exceptions, and posts balanced JEs.
No tax liabilities accrued
Tax liabilities accrue automatically when a pay run posts to the ledger. Approve your first run and they appear here, sorted by deposit cadence.
Your first stub is coming
Welcome, Walker. Your first paycheck posts on Friday — a pay stub will appear here that morning, and a PDF copy is emailed to you.
No workers match this filter
Your saved filter "1099 · Memphis · 2026" matches 0 workers. Clear the filter to see all 141, or adjust the criteria.
No prevailing-wage jobs configured
Certified payroll (WH-347) generation requires at least one job flagged as cert-PW eligible. Add the flag on a job to begin tracking.
GL mapping not yet started
Before your first run can post, every earning, deduction, and tax code must map to a Financial-Graph account. We've pre-seeded the standard set — review and confirm.