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UN/EDIFACT
DRAFT RECOMMENDATION

PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS ADVICE MESSAGE

This message is available for formal trial in the present version for a period of at least twelve months from the date of approval by the UN/ECE/TRADE/WP.4.

Organisations are invited to trial this message and are requested to notify their Rapporteur Team Secretariat of their intention. Comments on the results from the trial should also be forwarded to the Secretariat as soon as they are available. Based on the results of the trials, a UNSM will be issued.

It should be noted that this material is contained in a Trial Directory; however, it may differ from that in the UN Directories (UNTDID) having the same identfying tags. Any differences will be reconciled prior to the message becoming a UNSM.


Message Type:PAYDUC
Version:D
Release:93A
Contr. Agency:UN
Status:2
Date:93-09
SOURCE:

CONTENTS
PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS ADVICE MESSAGE MESSAGE
  1. Introduction
  2. Scope
    1. Functional Definition
    2. Field of Application
    3. Principles
  3. References
  4. Message Definition
  5. Message Definition
    1. Data Segment Clarification
    2. Message structure
      1. Branching Diagram
      2. Segment Table
    3. Data Segment Index (Alphabetic Sequence)

For general information on UN standard message types see UN Trade Data Interchange Directory, UNTDID, Part 4, Section 2.5, UN/ECE UNSM General Introduction.


This message also occurs in the following versions of this standard:
D93A, D94A, D94B, D95A, D95B, D96A, D96B, D97A, D97B, D98A, D98B, D99A, D99B, D00A, D00B, D01A, D01B, D01C, D02A, D02B, D03A, D03B, D04A, D04B

0. Introduction

This specification provides the definition of the Payroll Deductions Advice Message (PAYDUC) to be used in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between partners involved in administration, commerce and transport.


1. Scope


1.1. Functional Definition

The Payroll Deductions Advice is sent by a party (usually an employer or its representative) to a service providing organisation, to detail payments by payroll deductions, on behalf of employees, made to the service providing organisation.


1.2. Field of Application

This message may be applied for both national and international payment advices where payment is through payroll deductions. It is based on general commercial practice and is not dependent on the type of business or industry.


1.3. Principles

  • a Payroll Deductions Advice gives detailed information about
  • a payment.

  • the payment is on behalf of one or more employees.
  • the payment may be for multiple services.
  • the payment may refer to multiple dates.
  • commission amounts may be deducted from gross payments.
  • a Payroll Deductions Advice is based on agreements between
  • the parties.

  • the message allows for the transmission in the details section
  • of either complete information of individual employee payments, or only the information regarding changes from nominated regular payments.


2. References

See UNTDID, Part 4 Section 2.5 UN/ECE UNSM - General Introduction, Section 1.


3. Terms and Definitions

See UNTDID, Part 4, Section 2.5 UN/ECE UNSM - General Introduction, Section 2.


4. Message Definition


4.1. Data Segment Clarification

This section should be read in conjunction with the Branching Diagram and the Segment Table which indicate mandatory, conditional and repeating requirements.

0010 UNH, Message header

A service segment starting and uniquely identifying a message.

Note: Payroll Deductions Advice messages conforming to this document must contain the following data in segment UNH, composite S009:

Data element0065PAYDUC
0052D
005493A
0051UN

0020 BGM, Beginning of message

A segment for unique identification of the Payroll Deductions Advice message, the type of Payroll Deductions Advice and its function.

0030 PAI, Payment instructions

A segment specifying the payment means (e.g. cheque or direct bank transfer) and, if required, the payment channel for the Payroll Deductions Advice. The payment conditions may also be specified.

0040 FII, Financial institution information

A segment identifying the financial institution (e.g. bank) and account number of the issuing party, and, where required, the receiving party.

0050 DTM, Date/time/period

A segment specifying the date, and if required the time, that the payment associated with this Payroll Deductions Advice message has been sent. If needed, repeating segments may include the message date, the date and time associated with any validation keys and other dates relevant to the whole of the message.

0060 CUX, Currencies

A segment giving the currency and the associated exchange rate of the total amount paid to the service organisation in relation to this advice.

0070 FTX, Free text

A segment for free text information in coded or clear form, to give further clarification when required to the Payroll Deductions Advice message. It should be noted that the use of clear text may require special processing of this segment.

0080 Segment Group 1: RFF-DTM

A group of segments specifying references and issue dates of payment instruments associated with this message. Examples are check payments or bank transfers.

0090 RFF, Reference

A segment for referencing payment instruments, e.g. a reference to a check payment or bank transfer.

0100 DTM, Date/time/period

A segment specifying the issue date of a payment instrument associated with this message, e.g. the date of a cheque.

0110 Segment Group 2: NAD-SG3

A group of segments identifying names and addresses relevant to the Payroll Deductions Advice.

0120 NAD, Name and address

A segment identifying the name and address of the parties associated with the Payroll Deductions Advice and their functions. Examples are: the employer, the recipient system and the name and address of the payer's financial institution if required.

0130 Segment Group 3: CTA-COM

A group of segments identifying contact persons or department and their communication number.

0140 CTA, Contact information

A segment giving additional contact information of a person or department specified in the NAD segment and to whom communication should be directed.

0150 COM, Communication contact

A segment specifying communication contact number.

0160 Segment Group 4: GIS-RFF-MOA-BUS-CUX-SG5-SG6

A group of segments identifying individual service groups, and the monetary amounts for each service group included in the total payment. If necessary, the amounts for each individual service group may be calculated in an agreed currency.

0170 GIS, General indicator

A segment relevant to the processing of segment group 6, to indicate whether all individual employee payment details, or only changes from a nominated standard payment are provided.

0180 RFF, Reference

A segment identifying each individual service group.

0190 MOA, Monetary amount

A segment giving the monetary amounts for standard payments (if applicable, both the previous and the new standard) for a service group, the commission amounts if any, and the (net) total payment amount for a service group included in the total payment. If required, other monetary amounts relevant to a service group may also be given.

0200 BUS, Business function

A segment to provide additional identification for each individual service group.

0210 CUX, Currencies

A segment identifying the currency and associated exchange rate of the monetary amounts calculated for a service group.

0220 Segment Group 5: DTM-SG6

A group of segments specifying dates when payments were deducted from the payroll.

0230 DTM, Date/time/period

A segment specifying the date when a payment was deducted from the payroll.

0240 Segment Group 6: NAD-RFF-MOA-AJT-PAT-FTX

A group of segments providing the details of individual pay deductions made on behalf of each employee (service group member) for payment to a service group. Either complete details, or only changes from a standard amount may be specified. For changes, either the actual amount remitted for an employee or the variation from the previous standard may be provided. Variations may be of a temporary or permanent type.

0250 NAD, Name and address

A segment identifying the name of the employee (service group member) for whom payments are made by pay deduction.

0260 RFF, Reference

A repeating segment providing the reference identification of the employee as referred to by the originating party (e.g. the employer) and by the service group (these references may differ).

0270 MOA, Monetary amount

A segment giving the monetary amount deducted for an employee to pay the service group. When changes only are specified in the GIS segment of segment group 4, the previous standard amount needs to be stated together with either the actual payment included in the total remittance, or the variation from the standard amount. The status data element needs to be used to indicate a permanent or temporary variation.If required, the current standard amount may also be given.

0280 AJT, Adjustment details

A segment indicating the reason for an adjustment to the standard payment amount.

0290 FTX, Free text

A segment for free text information in coded or clear form, to give further information at the employee level if required. This may be used, for example, to further specify the reason for a variation from the standard monetary amount. It should be noted that the use of clear text may require special processing of the FTX segment information.

UNS, Section control A service segment placed after the last user segment in the detail section to indicate the end of that section.

0300 MOA, Monetary amount

A segment giving the total amount paid to the service organisation in relation to this advice.

0310 CNT, Control total

A segment to provide message control totals as required. It should be noted that a balancing monetary total is always provided by the total amount paid to the service organisation.

0320 AUT, Authentication result

A segment to specify the results of the application of an authentication procedure, enabling to check the authenticity of the sender and the integrity of the data.

0330 UNT, Message trailer

A service segment ending a message, giving the total number of segments in the message and the Control Reference Number of the message.


4.2. Message Structure


4.2.1. Branching Diagram


4.2.2. Segment Table

├─UNH Message header ×1 (M)
├─BGM Beginning of message ×1 (M)
├─PAI Payment instructions ×1 (M)
├─FII Financial institution information ×2 (M)
├─DTM Date/time/period ×4 (M)
├─CUX Currencies ×1 (C)
├─FTX Free text ×5 (C)
├─Segment Group 1 ×99 (C)
├─RFF Reference ×1 (M)
└─DTM Date/time/period ×1 (C)
├─Segment Group 2 ×6 (C)
├─NAD Name and address ×1 (M)
└─Segment Group 3 ×5 (C)
──├─CTA Contact information ×1 (M)
──└─COM Communication contact ×1 (C)
├─Segment Group 4 ×9 (M)
├─GIS General indicator ×1 (M)
├─RFF Reference ×1 (M)
├─MOA Monetary amount ×9 (M)
├─BUS Business function ×1 (C)
├─CUX Currencies ×1 (C)
└─Segment Group 5 ×99 (M)
──├─DTM Date/time/period ×1 (M)
──└─Segment Group 6 ×999999 (C)
────├─NAD Name and address ×1 (M)
────├─RFF Reference ×2 (M)
────├─MOA Monetary amount ×2 (M)
────├─AJT Adjustment details ×1 (C)
────└─FTX Free text ×3 (C)
├─UNS Section control ×1 (M)
├─MOA Monetary amount ×1 (M)
├─CNT Control total ×9 (C)
├─AUT Authentication result ×1 (C)
└─UNT Message trailer ×1 (M)

4.3. Data Segment Index (Alphabetic Sequence)

AJT Adjustment details
AUT Authentication result
BGM Beginning of message
BUS Business function
CNT Control total
COM Communication contact
CTA Contact information
CUX Currencies
DTM Date/time/period
FII Financial institution information
FTX Free text
GIS General indicator
MOA Monetary amount
NAD Name and address
PAI Payment instructions
RFF Reference
UNH Message header
UNS Section control
UNT Message trailer

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