No. You must run Prepare for Payroll before you move a pay cycle to the next pay period. See Preparing for Payroll and Moving a Pay Cycle Overview for more information.

You should complete the following steps to prepare your employees' data for payroll and move a pay cycle to the next pay period:

1. Create timecard and payroll reports — Before you begin, create a Timecard Exception Report and Payroll Detail Report. You will use these reports to verify your payroll data.

2. Prepare employee data for payroll — When the end date of a pay period is reached, you must run the Prepare for Payroll process for the associated pay cycle. During this process, ezLaborManager checks the pay cycle for errors such as missing time pairs, supervisor approvals, payroll reconciliation errors, and other items. If any errors are found, on-screen instructions are provided to help you correct the errors. The Prepare for Payroll process also prompts you to create a payroll export file.

3. Import the payroll export file  — For ADP Freedom users, after you have corrected all errors in the pay cycle and created and saved a payroll export file you should exit ezLaborManager, import the payroll export file and process your payroll.

4. Verify payroll data — When you receive your payslips from ADP, verify that all information is accurate.

5. Move the pay cycle to the next pay period — After you have received and verified your payroll, you must move the pay cycle to the next pay period in ezLaborManager. The "current pay period" then becomes the "previous pay period" and can no longer be edited. The pay period that was formerly considered the "next pay period" becomes the "current pay period."

See Preparing Your Employee Data for Payroll to begin the process.