Once your company is approved, you’ll be able to run payroll in Salary from the next payroll period. However, to ensure a smooth experience, a few key steps need to be completed first.
1. Register as an Employer on virk.dk
1. Register as an Employer on virk.dk
If you haven’t paid salaries before, you must register as an employer on virk.dk and indicate that you need to report A-tax, AM contribution, and ATP for your employees. This must be done before approving payroll to avoid reporting issues with Skat.
2. Add Your Employees
2. Add Your Employees
Once we have approved your company, you can start adding employees in Salary. We will then prepare your first payroll and retrieve tax cards for your employees.
3. Enter Opening Balances
3. Enter Opening Balances
If you have previously processed payroll in another system, ensure that any opening balances (such as accrued vacation) are transferred. You can find these details on your employees’ last payslips and enter them under "Opening Balances" in Salary.
4. Enable Automatic Payroll Transfers
4. Enable Automatic Payroll Transfers
If you want Salary to handle payroll payments and transfers for A-tax, ATP, pension, and holiday pay, you need to sign up for Overførselsservice. This process can take a few days, so complete it well in advance of payroll approval. A NemID employee signature is required.
If you approve payroll without an Overførselsservice agreement, you must manually transfer salaries and related payments.
5. Enable Automatic Accounting
5. Enable Automatic Accounting
For Salary to automatically bookkeep payroll transactions in your accounting system, you must be a paying customer. If you already have an account, connect Salary with your accounting software under Integrations.
Even without automatic bookkeeping, Salary provides full documentation for payroll transactions.
If you don’t have an accounting system yet, Salary Basic and Premium customers can access discounts on bookkeeping software through our Benefits Club (under Company > Benefits Club).
Read more about Salary bookkeeping here.
Also, check out our guides for setting up integrations. Please note that not all integrations have a separate guide available at the moment.
Guides for setting up integrations:
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6. Approve Payroll
6. Approve Payroll
Once employees are added, tax cards retrieved, and working hours registered, you can approve payroll for the month.
⚠️ Important: Approve payroll only after all employees are set up, as Salary processes only one payroll run per month. Ensure all necessary details are included before approval.
Additionally, you can always find more articles and guides in our help center: help.salary.dk.